"Generation after generation, since the days of the American Revolution, Chapel Hill has been extremely productive of talent. As a state university, it is uniquely successful, and almost every phase of enlightenment and progress in the state, and to some extent in the South, can trace its birth to this small town."

-- John Ehle, Author, 1965

 

Source: John Ehle, The Free Men. New York: Harper & Row, 1965, pp 96-97.