Posted in Just A Bite, Memorabilia Moment, tagged jonathan daniels, josephus daniels, raleigh news & observer, william jennings bryan on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“At 79, famed Tarheel Editor Josephus Daniels last week staged a spry comeback on his lively, incomplete, partisan, aggressive, successful Raleigh News & Observer. After a nine-year absence (as Ambassador to Mexico) shrewd old ‘Uncle Joe’ Daniels had ‘enlisted for the war’ to replace his son Jonathan, who went to OCD [Office of Civil Defense] [...]
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged chattoka, chautauqua institution, chautauqua lake, john shellby spong, jonathan schmitz, lake junaluska, mary jo clark, nc dance theatre, nc gazetteer, patricia mcbride, tuscarora, william jennings bryan on August 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Notes from a recent week at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state: – During the late 1800s and early 1900s (before radio and the Depression) the Chautauqua Movement spread adult education across the land in a variety of forms, first with Daughter Chautauquas, later with touring tent Chautauquas. From what I could piece [...]
