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New in the collection: chitterling strut poster

Posted in Memorabilia Moment, tagged , , , , , , on February 26, 2018 | Leave a Comment »

Chitterlings/chitlins, a notoriously pungent exemplar of Southern cuisine, are seldom seen (or sniffed) these days.  (None too soon, my mother would’ve said. Not my father, who took advantage of her absences to boil up a bucket of hog intestines and have his pals over to share.) One early reference to the chitterling strut, as a […]

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What? The sky wasn’t always Carolina blue?

Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Those industrious elves at Google Books Ngram Viewer must never sleep! Here are their latest offerings for North Carolinians’ provocation and speculation: — Carolina blue was adopted on campus about 1800, but the rest of the world seems to have taken a while to catch on. — Jimmie Johnson vs. Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt and […]

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