Posted in From the Stacks, History, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, UNC History on November 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“….Students and townspeople, returning to work or classes after a late lunch, heard the news and flocked to radios, television sets and wire service tickers in town and on the campus. Preparations for the Beat Dook parade ground to a halt as the parade was canceled…. As the news spread over the campus and the […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, UNC History on October 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The awarding of a Nobel Prize to Peter Higgs yesterday marked the recognition of a lifetime’s effort to understand how particles acquire mass. The English theoretical physicist is the namesake for the Higgs boson, known commonly as the “God particle,” the sub-atomic particle that gives mass to other particles. Higgs did some of his early […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on August 30, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Seen this one before? Probably not. I suspect this photo never made its way to print. The image of FDR on Roanoke Island is among prints and negatives in the Albertype Company Collection of the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archive (NCCPA). We recently added a host of scans from the collection to our Digital NCCPA. […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, UNC History on August 29, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
With the much-hyped Jadeveon Clowney expected to doom UNC’s chances of beginning its football season with a win, we thought it important to remind readers that the overall record in the intrastate match-up puts UNC ahead with twice the number of wins as the other Carolina to the South. The series record is 34-17 with […]
Posted in DigitalNC, From the Stacks, History, Postcards, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on July 11, 2013 | 9 Comments »
I was searching for some information on the Remember Cliffside website several days ago when I stumbled upon a story about the Goat Man. Reno Bailey, the creator of Remember Cliffside, recalls from childhood a man who used to pass through town with a wagon pulled by goats and made money by taking photographs of […]
Posted in From the Stacks on July 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Somethings never change, but other things surely do. Real estate agents have traditionally been a newcomer’s source of information about neighborhoods, housing, and financing for home purchases. The North Carolina Collection recently received a map of Raleigh and Cary that was distributed by Merrill Lynch Realty in 1985. Along with information on roads, streets, neighborhoods, […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on July 2, 2013 | 1 Comment »
The 1903 meeting of onetime foes on the Gettysburg battlefield sparked interest among North Carolina Miscellany readers. So today’s post provides a few more details on the first encounter between Lt. Colonel John R. Lane of the 26th North Carolina Regiment and Sgt. Charles H. McConnell of the 24th Michigan Regiment of the Iron Brigade […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on July 1, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Within these woods on that fateful afternoon of the first day of July 1863, perhaps in less than an hour, the 26th North Carolina of Pettigrew’s Brigade suffered more casualties than any regiment on either side, in any battle, during the entire Civil War. But the 24th Michigan and the other regiments of Meredith’s Iron […]
Posted in From the Stacks, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on June 17, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Former Gov. James E. Holshouser Jr., the first Republican to be elected the state’s chief executive in the 20th century, died earlier today. Holshouser was 78. A native of Boone, Holshouser earned his undergraduate degree from Davidson College. After earning a law degree from UNC in 1960, he returned to Watauga County to practice there. […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, UNC History on May 31, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The Alumni Association of the University was organized on the 31st of May, 1843. The following were present, being the first members: John D. Hawkins, Franklin, Class of 1801. John Hill, Wilmington, Class of 1814. Charles Manly, Raleigh, Class of 1814. Charles Hinton, Wake County, Class of 1814. John M. Morehead, Governor, Greensboro, Class of […]
