On this day in 1956: A riot breaks out at Fats Domino’s show in Fayetteville, N.C. Police resort to tear gas to break up the unruly crowd. Fats jumps out a window to avoid the melee; he and two other band members are slightly injured.
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Fayetteville show is a gas; Fats scats
Posted in On This Day, tagged fats domino, fayetteville nc on November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Carson McCullers to Steve Jobs: I want my iPod!
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged carson mccullers, carson mccullers talks about love, charlotte nc, fayetteville nc, reflections in a golden eye, suzanne vega, the heart is a lonely hunter on May 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Maybe [Mick Kelly] would be a great inventor. She would invent little tiny radios the size of a green pea that people could carry around and stick in their ears.” – From “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” (1940), Carson McCullers’ first novel, begun in Charlotte and completed in Fayetteville Singer-playwright Suzanne Vega recalls this [...]
In Fayetteville, no welcome mat for Colin Powell
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged colin powell, fayetteville nc, fort bragg, karen deyoung, segregated housing, soldier: the life of colin powell on April 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Their worldly possessions jammed into the back of his Volkswagen, Colin [Powell] and his pregnant wife were on their way to Fort Bragg. [In 1962] there was no on-base married housing for temporary, Vietnam-bound trainees; they planned to rent a furnished house or apartment in Fayetteville…. “After a frustrating day of house hunting, the Powells [...]
Link dump: Mind-reading from 150 years away
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged carl sandburg, clyde king, fayetteville nc, harriet jacobs, lost colony, nc civil war soldiers, nc muslims, omar ibn said on November 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
– What was his great-great-great grandfather thinking? – A play about Harriet Jacobs, a film about Carl Sandburg. – Death noted: Clyde King, whose long baseball career began with an overnight transformation from Tar Heel to Brooklyn Dodger. – Roadside marker in Fayetteville is state’s first to recognize a Muslim. – Lost Colony researcher‘s “two [...]
Seven sites win roadside recognition
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged a view form the south, anna j. cooper, blacks in congress, cherokee nc, dirt tracks, eastern band of cherokee, fairgrounds speedway, fayetteville nc, harpers ferry, indy racing, john brown, lewis leary, michael hill, nascar, nc highway historical markers, nimrod jarrett smith, omar ibn said, pea island lifesavers, raleigh, rep. george h. white, richard etheridge, st augustine's college, tarboro, us lifesaving station on June 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to Michael Hill for this list of state highway historical markers approved by the advisory committee May 25: – Pea Island Lifesavers. Only U.S. Lifesaving Station manned by black crew. Led by Richard Etheridge, 1879-1899. – George H. White, 1852-1918. Represented the state’s “Black Second” district, U.S. House, 1897-1901. Last black Southerner in Congress [...]
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