You’re invited to join us Thursday night for a look at Sir Walter Raleigh. Here’s a description. Soldier, voyager, courtier, colonizer, politician, poet, historian, possible traitor—Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) played many roles on the public stage of Elizabethan England. Historian Mark Nicholls, President and Librarian of St. John’s College, Cambridge University, will discuss a new […]
Archive for April 13th, 2011
Sir Walter Raleigh: The Man Behind the Myths and Legends
Posted in From the Stacks, History, New Books, Tar Heelia on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oops! ‘What I supposed to be solid’… wasn’t
Posted in On This Day, tagged lt. george round, nc capitol, raleigh nc on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1865: As Raleigh awaits Sherman, Union Lt. George Round is sent ahead to set up a Signal Corps flag station. Scaling the eerily empty Capitol, Round makes a crucial misstep: “I … leaped gently to what I supposed to be the solid top of the dome,” he will write later. “I […]
