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 […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, NC Historic Newspapers, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on January 31, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
It’s unclear whether Governor David S. Reid’s offer of a $300 reward resulted in the arrest of the three members of Johnson & Co’s People’s Circus charged with killing Milton Mathis. But perhaps the answer lies in a subsequent edition of William Woods Holden’s Semi-Weekly North-Carolina Standard. Consider this your invitation to search. I’m happy […]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Literature, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on January 24, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Like their Scot and sassenach ancestors almost 100 years ago, McCords, McGraws and McClellans will gather in the Port City in the coming week to mark the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns and celebrate all things Scots. The Ploughman Poet, as Burns was known, was born in the Scottish lowland town of Alloway on […]
Posted in DigitalNC, From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, UNC History on January 10, 2014 | 1 Comment »
The U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at UNC was about a year old when Cadet Ted Williams arrived in Chapel Hill in May 1943. The campus was the second stop in his year long effort to earn the wings of a Marine aviator. As Williams biographer Leigh Montville writes, Williams and his Boston Red Sox teammate […]
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 | 3 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 | 13 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, […]
