More phrase-frequency charts from Google Books Ngram Reader: — Chapel Hill vs. Raleigh and Durham — Variety Vacationland. Tourism promotion not a priority during World War II? — Billy Graham vs. Jim Bakker. No contest, even during the glory run of PTL. — North Carolina vs. South Carolina. South Carolina’s spike in the early 1700s […]
Archive for December, 2010
The rise and long, hard fall of muscadine wine
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged billy graham, chapel hill nc, durham nc, jim bakker, muscadine wine, nc tourism, ptl, raleigh nc, variety vacationland on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
North Carolina was no place for all that jazz
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged billy taylor, greenville nc, john coltrane, nc jazz musicians, thelonious monk on December 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“At the time I was making a reputation… I couldn’t go South…. “Greenville was a nice little country town… It became a university place later, but it was not a place I could take my family. That’s a terrible thing to live with… and I guess John [Coltrane] and [Thelonious] Monk experienced some of the […]
From Fort Bragg NCO club to Kennedy Center
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged fort bragg nco club, kennedy center honors, merle haggard, okie from muscogee, peter la chapelle, proud to be an okie on December 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“[In 1969] Merle Haggard…. introduced the newly penned composition to a live audience at the noncommissioned officers club in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. ‘It was a small club and the audience had been exceptionally dead,’ Haggard later told a reporter. ‘But then we sang “Okie,” and the whole place went berserk’…. “Besieged, Haggard stiffened…. Within […]
Money’s to burn when you yearn for a churn
Posted in History, Just A Bite, tagged antique butter churn, case antiques, isaac thomas, kentucky pottery, knoxville tn, mesda, museum of early southern decorative arts, robert leath, winston-salem nc on December 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C., has focused for a few years on expanding its holdings of antiques from the western edge of the Southeast. In October the museum set an auction record for Kentucky pottery: at Case Antiques in Knoxville, Tenn., it spent $55,200 on an eight-gallon butter churn [scroll […]
Jonathan Daniels: Brickbats for Boswell
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged collier's magazine, harry truman, jonathan daniels, joseph short, sam rayburn, term limits on December 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“If Harry Truman ever had a faithful Boswell, he was Jonathan Daniels, the even-voiced editor of the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer (circ. 113,277). Daniels, briefly Truman’s press secretary in 1945, was always welcomed at the White House as a friendly reporter. The President read, and edited in galley proof, large chunks of Daniels’ ‘The […]
Link dump tips its green eyeshade to copy desks
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged christmas flounder, denton nc, first rough draft of history, lower cape fear, me and my likker, popcorn sutton, winston-salem journal on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
— In Winston-Salem the first rough draft of history gets ever rougher. Cue the bagpipes. — Literary world rocked by dispute over rights to “Me and My Likker.” — Synergistic centennial in Denton: Last of furniture stores that doubled as funeral parlors? — And it wouldn’t be Christmas in the Lower Cape Fear if you […]
