Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged billboard magazine, pinball on May 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“North Carolina newspapers recently carried stories about pinball machines helping win the war…. The Army Air Force Training Command discovered that the electrical switches, relays and complicated circuits in the machines are of value in testing the mechanical aptitude of trainees. “With manufacture having been banned for the duration, such equipment proved difficult to obtain [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on May 3, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Researchers from the U.S. and U.K. announced earlier today that a 16th century map of coastal Virginia and North Carolina reveals the location of a planned fort or settlement. And, they suggest, that spot, at the confluence of the Roanoke and Chowan rivers, may be where settlers from the Lost Colony headed. The lozenge shape [...]
Posted in New Books, Tar Heelia on May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Several new titles just added to “New in the North Carolina Collection.” To see the full list simply click on the link in this entry or click on the “New in the North Carolina Collection” tab at the top of the page. As always, full citations for all the new titles can be found in [...]
Posted in Recipes, Tar Heelia on May 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Outside of gelatin molds the number one recipe item I’ve seen thus far in searching through our cookbook collection is sherry. You can’t go but a few pages without finding some recipe with a dash of sherry here or a cup of sherry there. So grab your favorite bottle of sherry and try out a [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on May 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Researchers with the First Colony Foundation and the British Museum say a 16th-century map of the Carolina coast could help solve the Lost Colony mystery. Officials with both organizations plan to discuss their findings at UNC’s Wilson Library on Thursday (May 3) at 1110 a.m. Researchers have spent several years studying and conducting tests on [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia on April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On a clear evening he held forth about the so-called dangers of Chapel Hill–at that time the hub of all things liberal in the great north state. He was sure we had been told by the folks at home not to let all those radical University of North Carolina professors fill our heads with nonsense; [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday’s @ncnewspapers headline, from the Charlotte News in 1911, read “Alleged Blind Tiger Seized.” For those of you unfamiliar with Prohibition-era jargon, the story was not about a sightless jungle animal: a “blind tiger” was another name for a speakeasy, or any place where untaxed liquor (often homemade) was sold. I first ran across the [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia on April 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It was a singular spectacle, that immense column of every color and ever possible description, that drew out of camp on Wednesday, the 15th of March, and set out for Wilmington via Clinton. There were 4,500, mostly negroes, from my wing alone. Major General Oliver Otis Howard to Major L.M. Dayton, Assistant Adjutant General, Military [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged 60 minutes, charlotte douglas international airport, eastern airline flight 212, morley safer, stephen colbert on April 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“It has been said… that all good comedians have some painful experience in their lives. Any truth to that thesis, do you think?” [Morley] Safer asked. “Sure,” Colbert replied. “My father and two of my brothers died when I was 10. I think I did my best to cheer my mom up.” The three were [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia on April 25, 2012 | 3 Comments »
On this day in 1908 Edward R. Murrow was born in the Guilford County community of Polecat Creek. Named Egbert Roscoe Murrow by his parents, the CBS News broadcast legend changed his name to Edward while a college student. The Murrow family left their Guilford County farm when Murrow was six and moved to Washington [...]
