Posted in Just A Bite, tagged alfred sloan, boyden sparkes, dare stones, evalyn walsh mclean, gaston b. means, henri charpentier, home freezers, hope diamond, saturday evening post, walte chrysler on November 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Last year Americans ate nearly a billion pounds of commercially frozen foods. About a half-billion more pounds were stored in 5,000 cold-locker plants by some 1,500,000 U.S. families. The quick-freezing boom is growing fast. Last week magazine Writer Boyden Sparkes published a book predicting the next big move will be toward freezing and storage in [...]
Posted in New Books, tagged dare stones, david la vere, dram tree books, eleanor dare, lost colony, the lost rocks, virginia dare on April 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In the July 2009 North Carolina Historical Review, David La Vere, professor of history at UNC Wilmington, argued for taking seriously the “Dare Stone” found near the Chowan River in 1937: “Scholars have dismissed the stone as a forgery, but a closer look shows it might well be what it purports to be: a last [...]
NC Historical Review online? Um, not so fast
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged carolina comments, dare stones, david la vere, donna e kelly, north carolina historical review on August 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I was excited to see in Carolina Comments (July) that plans were being laid to take the North Carolina Historical Review online, first with a listing of all articles since 1924, later with full text. Editor in chief Donna E. Kelly provides Miscellany readers with the somewhat-less-encouraging details: “A list of Review articles has been [...]
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