We haven’t done a “Where In The Heel?” is quite some time. So… Here’s a town seal I noticed as I was shelving recently. Any guess as to what town this is?
Archive for December, 2009
Where In The Heel?, Part XX
Posted in From the Stacks, Tar Heelia on December 31, 2009 | 10 Comments »
When caricature isn’t just a laughing matter
Posted in Tar Heelia on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Death noted: David Levine, incomparable caricaturist for The New York Review of Books, at age 83 in New York. Levine was a personal hero of mine, especially for his work during the Watergate and Vietnam War eras — he may be most widely remembered for depicting LBJ pulling up his shirt to reveal a gallbladder scar […]
‘Dances with Wolves’ meets Cherokee
Posted in Just A Bite on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Christine [a student in Hofstra professor Douglas Brinkley’s experimental six-week cross-country history class] was disheartened. It wasn’t just Cherokee’s Santa Land, where in some weird equivalence Geronimo and Kris Kringle both hand out lollipops to the kids; or the collared black bear cubs in the pits behind Saunooke’s Trading Post, or the FIVE DOLLARS TO MEET A […]
New Towns uploaded in December
Posted in Postcards, Tar Heelia on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
During the month of December, we added just one new town to our North Carolina Postcards digital collection: Skyland, Buncombe County The real photo postcard above shows a hotel located at mountain spring in Buncombe County, was was photographed by Herbert W. Pelton ca. 1903. Pelton later collaborated with NC Photographer George Masa in the […]
European visitors needn’t pack alarm clocks
Posted in Just A Bite on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Until developments of the 1830s [such as the rise of the mercantile economy] elevated the importance of clock time in the South, foreign travelers … from wage-labor, industrializing regions tended to transmute, quite wrongly, Southerners’ [attachment] to nonclock time into a cultural and social quirk, which they usually labeled as lazy. “German itinerant Johann David Schoepf certainly interpreted the practices […]
Christmas Verse, 1931
Posted in From the Stacks, Tar Heelia on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Found in the Stacks: Leather-bound book, Christmas Verse, collected and printed by the Walton brothers. Contains Christmas poems, illustrations, and what appears to be several pages of hand-made papers. This slim volume was printed at the Sunnyside Press in Monroe, N.C. For more information, view the item’s catalog record.
‘Save me, Joe Louis’: MLK had it wrong
Posted in Just A Bite on December 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“One of the stock stories about Louis… is apocryphal — that a young black man on death row in North Carolina cried out, ‘Save me, Joe Louis! Save me, Joe Louis!’ as he was asphyxiated. ” ‘Not God, not government, not charitably-minded white men, but a Negro who was the world’s most expert fighter, in this […]
“Christmas” As A Keyword in the NC Collection
Posted in Tar Heelia on December 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case you have already opened all your presents and eaten all the turkey, here’s a neat link to follow: http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?Ntt=christmas&Ntk=Keyword&N=206510&Nty=1 I searched for the keyword “Christmas” in the UNC Library’s online catalog, and I narrowed the results to just those items that appear in the North Carolina Collection. We have several very interesting […]
‘….and a PlayStation 3 Blu-Ray Disc Remote….’
Posted in Memorabilia Moment, tagged christmas club on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In their heyday Christmas Clubs, a creation of the Depression, lured bank customers with a disciplined way to save for holiday shopping. They paid little or no interest, but if you were lucky you might come away with a nifty premium such as this pinback button from a now-defunct bank in Burlington. Although Christmas Clubs still exist, […]
New Hours For The NC Collection Reading Room
Posted in Tar Heelia on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Starting on January 4, 2010, all special collections reading rooms (NCC, RBC, SHC/SFC/UA) in Wilson Library will follow this schedule: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. For a list of dates that the reading rooms will be closed for University holidays, please see: […]
