Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Literature, Tar Heelia, tagged look homeward angel, thomas wolfe, you can't go home again on May 21, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.” – From Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe Since being published in the first half of the twentieth century, the titles of Thomas Wolfe’s novels Look Homeward, Angel and You Can’t Go Home Again have appeared thousands of times in all things Wolfe-related. The two […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Literature, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, UNC History on May 12, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Now about the editor’s note and the ‘small southern college’—if you see anyone who has also read the note, for God’s sake make plain what I think you understand already—that I had nothing to do with it and didn’t see it until it was published. I do not deny that I may be capable of […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, NC Historic Newspapers, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, tagged Chronicling America, fishing, History, NC historic newspapers, NDNP, newspapers, north carolina, outer banks, shad on May 7, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
While browsing The Independent, an historic newspaper from Elizabeth City, I was intrigued by an advertisement for The Shad Man. Although the nickname amused me, I questioned the ad’s presence in a North Carolina newspaper. The advertisement was for a vendor at the Dock Street Fish Market in Philadelphia—some 300 miles north of Elizabeth City! […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on April 15, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Lest you need a reminder, it’s tax day. And this year marks the 101st anniversary of ratification of the Constitutional amendment giving the federal government the power to tax your income. With Delaware’s ratification on February 3, 1913, the 16th Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution. North Carolina was the 20th state to ratify […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on March 21, 2014 | 1 Comment »
We pride ourselves on quick responses in the North Carolina Collection. But in one instance (and I’d like to believe it’s just one), we failed. In April 2010, we featured this postcard of Aunt Betsy Holmes, Uncle Bill and Joe the Ox on North Carolina Miscellany. We have several different postcards of Aunt Betsy, her […]
Posted in Events & exhibits, From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Literature, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on March 18, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Sir Henry Yelverton, the king’s attorney general, was no friend to Sir Walter Ralegh. Yelverton owed his office to the influence of the Howards, the great and powerful Catholic family, secret pensioners of the king of Spain and long-time virulent enemies of Ralegh. And yet, in the attorney’s solemn address before the King’s Bench at […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, NC Historic Newspapers, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, tagged Chronicling America, finishing school, La Vallee, NC historic newspapers, NDNP, newspaper, north carolina, women's education on February 24, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Tippoo S. Brownlow, owner of the La Vallee Female Seminary, placed this advertisement recruiting students to his new school in an 1836 issue of the North Carolina Standard. The school was in operation from 1833-1850, and was located between Halifax and Warrenton, North Carolina. The La Vallee Female Seminary was run out of a small […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, UNC History on February 20, 2014 | 1 Comment »
North Carolina Miscellany‘s Charlotte bureau, a.k.a. a certain Mr. Powell, recently came across a post on the Circus Historical Society’s message board seeking information about circuses operating in North Carolina in 1942. The individual who posted the message is trying to determine the circus featured in the Charles Baskeville painting titled Circus Backlot and pictured […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, NC Historic Newspapers, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on February 12, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve seen much ink spilled in these parts on the question of whether Abraham Lincoln has North Carolina roots. In short, the most commonly-told story goes this way. Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks, arrived in North Carolina as a teenager. She lived with Abraham Enloe (also spelled Inlow) and his family in Rutherford County. At some […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, NC Historic Newspapers, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, tagged child labor, Chronicling America, History, millenial, NC historic newspapers, NDNP, newspapers, north carolina on February 5, 2014 | 1 Comment »
From the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America newspaper site, we selected an issue of the The Watauga Democrat that was published 99 years ago to see what was on the minds of North Carolinians in 1915. In addition to debates familiar to us now about “pistol-toters” and the best ways to avoid the common cold, there […]
