– Amy Sedaris says no thanks to North Carolina turkey feathers. – Before the Stevens Center was the Stevens Center…. – Discovery Channel sees a Whiteville man about a log. – Baba Ram Dass: My son, the Greensboro capitalist.
Posts Tagged ‘Winston-Salem’
Unlike Panthers, link dump works Sundays
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged amy sedaris, cypress logs, discovery channel, greensboro nc, ram dass, stevens center, whiteville nc, Winston-Salem on November 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Monday morning link dump: Patricia Neal, R.I.P.
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged a face in the crowd, andy griffith, baseball hall of fame, bright leaf, brights leaves, bulky item pickup, durham nc, gary cooper, john preston hill, junebug, patricia neal, pete hill, ross mcelwee, walter dellinger, Winston-Salem on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
– Death noted: actress Patricia Neal, who played opposite Andy Griffith in the prescient and underrated “A Face in the Crowd” and opposite Gary Cooper in “Bright Leaf,” which inspired “Bright Leaves,” Ross McElwee’s bittersweet documentary on tobacco. – A big day for challenging long-accepted Civil War numbers: the death toll for North Carolina troops [...]
Where Nixon was the one, a last hurrah
Posted in On This Day, tagged gov. jim martin, richard nixon, Winston-Salem on June 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1989: Richard Nixon, driven from office 15 years earlier by the Watergate scandal, addresses a fund-raiser for Gov. Jim Martin at Winston-Salem’s Benton Convention Center. It will be the 76-year-old Nixon’s final appearance in North Carolina, a state that twice gave him its presidential electoral votes. “When I was in Washington, [...]
3-ton statue weighs in for Meck Dec
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged captain james jack, charlotte, equestrian statues, greensboro, mecklenburg declaration of independence, nathanael greene, r.j. reynolds, Winston-Salem on May 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Whatever your opinion of the long-disputed Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, this bronze-clad sculpture of deliveryman Captain James Jack is quite a piece of advocacy art. I can think of two other examples of equestrian statues in North Carolina: Gen. Nathanael Greene in Greensboro and R. J. Reynolds in Winston-Salem. Are there more?
No charity needed for ‘Carnegie Hallbillies’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged Carnegie Hall, Dorothy Kilgallen, Patsy Cline, Winston-Salem on May 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“[In 1961 Patsy Cline] was invited to appear on the Grand Ole Opry at Carnegie Hall, the first full-fledged country production at that cultural bastion…. “Dorothy Kilgallen, who wrote the syndicated ‘Voice of Broadway’ column for the Journal-American and was featured on CBS’s ‘What’s My Line?’, took cheap shots almost daily at the coming of [...]
From Apple Street to Hollywood and Vine
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged forsythorama, kathryn grayson, Winston-Salem on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Death noted: Kathryn Grayson, who brought operatic talent to the golden age of Hollywood musicals, at age 88 in Los Angeles. From the Winston-Salem Journal (Feb. 19): “Grayson was born Zelma Kathryn Hedrick on Feb. 9, 1922, in Winston-Salem. Her family lived on Apple Street. They moved to St. Louis when she was a child, [...]
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