“The existence of a successful jazz club in [Thelonious] Monk’s home state in May 1970 was an anomaly. Woodstock (August 1969) marked the era….Jazz clubs were closing in bigger cities across the country while Raleigh, with a population of 120,000, wrestled with integration. But Peter Ingram — a scientist from England recruited to work in […]
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Frog and Nightgown: Wrong place, wrong time, but….
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged don dixon, frog and nightgown, peter ingram, raleigh nc, robin ingram, thelonious monk on October 3, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
David Sedaris and Briggs Hardware: Not a good match
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged briggs hardware, david sedaris, raleigh nc, theft by finding on August 5, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
“September 17, 1981 “Raleigh “I’ve had it with Briggs Hardware. Again today when they asked what I was looking for, I was at a loss to tell them. ‘Something wooden,’ I’ve told them in the past. ‘Something shiny.’ “I don’t want a tool to do something with; I just want something to draw. In the […]
A breakfast break that changed face of Raleigh
Posted in On This Day, tagged fayetteville nc, nc capitol, raleigh nc on June 21, 2017 | 1 Comment »
On this day in 1831: In Raleigh, a workman who goes to breakfast in the midst of soldering leaks in the zinc roof accidentally burns down the Capitol. Backers of Fayetteville, a larger town with livelier commerce — that was just recovering from its own disastrous fire — will lobby unsuccessfully to have the capital […]
David Sedaris gets a job (and maybe an alarm clock?)
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged breakfast house, david sedaris, raleigh nc on June 9, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
“March 28, 1979 “Raleigh “I found a job. Today I’ll work, really work, for the first time since December. I’ve been hired as a waiter at a little restaurant next to the Arthur Murray Dance Studio called the Breakfast House, so I’m up at five. The last time I was up at five was because […]
At State Fairgrounds, a rival to Pantheon and Penn Station
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged dorton arena, matthew nowicki, nc architecture, raleigh nc on July 20, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
“I had first encountered [Dorton Arena] in an architecture class, where my professor waxed poetic about this dramatic modern building, noting that had its designer, Matthew Nowicki, not been killed in a plane crash, he would have become one of the outstanding avant-garde architects of the 20th century…. “Nowicki’s Raleigh pavilion bears positive comparison with […]
Making amends for soldier’s mislaid remains
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged john o dolson, oakwood cemetery, raleigh nc on May 30, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
“John O. Dolson died in a military hospital in Gettysburg, Pa., on Sept. 3, 1863, two months after the Civil War’s bloodiest battle left him with a punctured lung while engaged in a critical Union counterattack on the rock-strewn hill known as Little Round Top…. “Dolson was wounded with a Minie ball to the lung […]
Coca-Cola was the real thing…. Rheumacide wasn’t
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged baltimore, coca-cola, food and drugs act, j h bobbitt, j hal bobbitt, patent medicine, raleigh nc, rheumacide on February 1, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
“Dear Sir: “Coca-Cola has had a big run at my fountain, and is gaining in popularity all the time. “A line of soda drinks is incomplete without it. “Coca-Cola has come to stay!” — From an 1892 letter to Coca-Cola from Raleigh pharmacist J. H[al] Bobbitt Four years later, Bobbitt moved to Baltimore to manufacture […]
Welcome to the mansion, Miss Hepburn — need a light?
Posted in On This Day, tagged j. melville broughton, katharine hepburn, raleigh nc, the philadelphia story on January 30, 2015 | 4 Comments »
On this day in 1941: After appearing at Raleigh’s State Theatre in the stage version of “The Philadelphia Story,” Katharine Hepburn attends a cast party at the Executive Mansion hosted by Gov. and Mrs. J. Melville Broughton. “Miss Hepburn wore a mink coat over tan gabardine slacks and jacket, with white blouse of crepe silk […]
In China, a 50-year future for N.C. tobacco farmers?
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged business week, china national tobacco corp, lucama nc, nc tobacco farming, raleigh nc, sims nc on December 11, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“The China National Tobacco Corp. is by far the largest cigarette maker in the world. In 2013 it manufactured about 2.5 trillion cigarettes. Its next largest competitor, Philip Morris International, produced 880 billion. … “Last year, China National opened an office in suburban Raleigh to facilitate its growing purchases of American tobacco….. “A few years ago, a […]
Lexicographers stumped by ‘fade barn’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged dictionary of american regionalisms, raleigh nc, robert hendrickson, south mouth on June 4, 2014 | 1 Comment »
“Of all the major American dialects, South Mouth is the most consistently difficult to translate. “Among the most amusing examples is the expression a fade barn that the editors of the Dictionary of American Regional English tried to track down for a couple of years. The editors knew that the expression existed because field interviews […]
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