Prose, Art, or Music that relates to Chapel Hill

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John Ehle
Harper & Row, 1965 - 340 pages
"This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experiences of a handful of dedicated young students, both black and white, during the 1963-64 civil rights protests in Chapel Hill, NC. The movement began through the efforts of three young men: two white UNC-CHapel Hill students, John Dunne, a gifted Morehead Scholar, and Pat Cusick, the grandson of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, and one student from the all-black North Carolina College in Durham, Quinton Baker. First published in 1965 by Harper & Row, 'The Free Men' was controversial but won the Mayflower Award for Nonfiction. It is now back in print by Press 53 with a new Afterword by the former UNC-Chapel Hill student, 'Daily Tar Heel' editor, and Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist Wayne King"--Amazon.com
 
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John Ehle
Harper & Row, 1965 - 340 pages
"This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experiences of a handful of dedicated young students, both black and white, during the 1963-64 civil rights protests in Chapel Hill, NC. The movement began through the efforts of three young men: two white UNC-CHapel Hill students, John Dunne, a gifted Morehead Scholar, and Pat Cusick, the grandson of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, and one student from the all-black North Carolina College in Durham, Quinton Baker. First published in 1965 by Harper & Row, 'The Free Men' was controversial but won the Mayflower Award for Nonfiction. It is now back in print by Press 53 with a new Afterword by the former UNC-Chapel Hill student, 'Daily Tar Heel' editor, and Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist Wayne King"--Amazon.com
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Professors Reckford (PHIL) and Strahley (PHYS) are prominent in this account. The incidents at the Watts Grill and Colonial Drug are recounted quite well.
 
It is a good book by a fine historian.

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Communists on Campus

North Carolina's 1963 speaker ban law declared the state's public college and university campuses off-limits to "known members of the Communist Party" or to ...
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I was given "27 Views of Chapel Hill" by my daughter for Christmas. Contributors include Bland Simpson, Will Blythe Sy Safransky, Daniel Wallace, D.G. Martin,and Daphne Athas.

I plan to read it as soon as my recovery from eye surgery is complete.
 
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A Really Strange and Wonderful Time

***A FINALIST FOR THE 2025 SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE*** THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF THE THRIVING AND INFLUENTIAL ROCK SCENE IN CHAPEL HILL, WHICH GAVE THE WORLD ARTISTS...
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I finished this two days ago and I tore right through it. I arrived in Chapel Hill in the summer of 96, so this era was fully in the latter stages, but familiarity with the location, the venues, some of the bands and even some of the people really kept me hooked. I am not sure a millennial will have the same experience reading it as I did. Retroactively I regret not being into the music scene then as I am now, when i had a chance to experience it and blew it. Going to high school in Raleigh a lot of these bands were on my radar as something that was out there, but didn't quite permeate the brain space. I would hear of things like the Veldt and Queen Sarah Saturday, but if the bands didn't make it to the Ritz I generally wouldn't have seen them and i don't think I was old enough to get in the Fallout Shelter. The Chapel Hill scene was just this thing that was just out of reach to a goodie two shoes kid who worked 36 hours a week at Harris Teeter in addition to school. When I finally got to Chapel Hill, the bands just were not part of my knowledge. It also doesn't help that the pressure of being the next Seattle was really breaking the scene apart. Many of the bands mentioned in the start of this book were giving up. People were succumbing to the addictions that fed on the lives of those that were touring musicians/ restaurant workers/ overall non-sleepers which describes nearly everyone in the book.

My biggest regret was neglecting to see three cradle shows that Ben Folds Five would have played at the peak of that band, despite fully knowing who they were. I mean at this point they had blown up thanks to Brick so I am sure some would argue that i was already too late, but after watching these videos last night: I realize the tight machine I missed out on.

It was also fun looking at the lives of two people I have come to know through the Inside Carolina world. One would help form the BoB (and I don't mean Gern, this book starts as the Pressure Boys cease to be) and one I am sure will come forth here if he wishes. I want to tread the dox line carefully, but reading this book you get the sense how he was one of the most beloved men in Chapel Hill, so Kudos to you.
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I've been reading this book of late...kind of piece by piece. It is pretty interesting.

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These Old Stone Walls

by Phillips Russell. Paperback, 1972, Chapel Hill Historical Society. 154 pages.
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altmin said:
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www.hachettebookgroup.com

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time

***A FINALIST FOR THE 2025 SOUTHERN BOOK PRIZE*** THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF THE THRIVING AND INFLUENTIAL ROCK SCENE IN CHAPEL HILL, WHICH GAVE THE WORLD ARTISTS...
www.hachettebookgroup.com www.hachettebookgroup.com



I finished this two days ago and I tore right through it. I arrived in Chapel Hill in the summer of 96, so this era was fully in the latter stages, but familiarity with the location, the venues, some of the bands and even some of the people really kept me hooked. I am not sure a millennial will have the same experience reading it as I did. Retroactively I regret not being into the music scene then as I am now, when i had a chance to experience it and blew it. Going to high school in Raleigh a lot of these bands were on my radar as something that was out there, but didn't quite permeate the brain space. I would hear of things like the Veldt and Queen Sarah Saturday, but if the bands didn't make it to the Ritz I generally wouldn't have seen them and i don't think I was old enough to get in the Fallout Shelter. The Chapel Hill scene was just this thing that was just out of reach to a goodie two shoes kid who worked 36 hours a week at Harris Teeter in addition to school. When I finally got to Chapel Hill, the bands just were not part of my knowledge. It also doesn't help that the pressure of being the next Seattle was really breaking the scene apart. Many of the bands mentioned in the start of this book were giving up. People were succumbing to the addictions that fed on the lives of those that were touring musicians/ restaurant workers/ overall non-sleepers which describes nearly everyone in the book.

My biggest regret was neglecting to see three cradle shows that Ben Folds Five would have played at the peak of that band, despite fully knowing who they were. I mean at this point they had blown up thanks to Brick so I am sure some would argue that i was already too late, but after watching these videos last night: I realize the tight machine I missed out on.

It was also fun looking at the lives of two people I have come to know through the Inside Carolina world. One would help form the BoB (and I don't mean Gern, this book starts as the Pressure Boys cease to be) and one I am sure will come forth here if he wishes. I want to tread the dox line carefully, but reading this book you get the sense how he was one of the most beloved men in Chapel Hill, so Kudos to you.
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Seemed to be the place for this, though Tom Maxwell doesn't really give Metal Flake Mother this type of treatment.

 
"To celebrate the first time Metal Flake Mother has been pressed on vinyl we're releasing two videos that help shed some light on this killer lost band. These films were shot and directed by Jason Summers ('Dead Moon : Unknown Passage', 'I Should Have Been Dead Years Ago').https://schoolkidsrecords.tuneportals.com/..."In 1990 the Chapel Hill, North Carolina music scene was bubbling up into a soon-to-be-legendary froth and at its center was a mysterious band called Metal Flake Mother. As bands like Polvo and Archers of Loaf were all just forming, they all looked up to and often opened for Metal Flake Mother during the height of this cultural tipping point. While the previous sonic template of the region had been set by bands like Corrosion of Conformity, Flat Duo Jets, Metal Flake Mother were the first to reach for a kind of Beatles-esque form of indie-rock and cut a timeless record that could build a bridge out to the burgeoning national scene. But before that could happen the band tragically broke up and their lost masterpiece "Beyond the Java Sea" was never released on LP. The arrival of this new release "Metal Flake Mother, Songs 1989-1991", will mark the first time any of their tracks recorded with Boston legend Lou Giordano have ever been on vinyl. This release will be limited to only 500 copies."
 
donbosco said:
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John Ehle
Harper & Row, 1965 - 340 pages
"This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experiences of a handful of dedicated young students, both black and white, during the 1963-64 civil rights protests in Chapel Hill, NC. The movement began through the efforts of three young men: two white UNC-CHapel Hill students, John Dunne, a gifted Morehead Scholar, and Pat Cusick, the grandson of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, and one student from the all-black North Carolina College in Durham, Quinton Baker. First published in 1965 by Harper & Row, 'The Free Men' was controversial but won the Mayflower Award for Nonfiction. It is now back in print by Press 53 with a new Afterword by the former UNC-Chapel Hill student, 'Daily Tar Heel' editor, and Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist Wayne King"--Amazon.com
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I've had his "The Land Breakers" in my to-be-read pile for a while without knowing Ehle was a Heel (and married to Rosemary Harris apparently??) - I will have to shuffle it up higher and add this one as well. Funny how that pile only ever gets taller.
 
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Seemed to be the place for this, though Tom Maxwell doesn't really give Metal Flake Mother this type of treatment.

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Interesting... I will check it out later when i am not at work.

Have you ever read this piece by him? Or were you the one who brought it to my attention? My memory is going...

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We Salted Nannie: A True Southern Ghost Story — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

In 2014, Tom Maxwell rented a historic home for cheap. Nine months later, he and his family ran away as fast as they could, fleeing a parade of spirits and apparitions. Today, three centuries of bad mojo in a house called Nannie.
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Interesting... I will check it out later when i am not at work.

Have you ever read this piece by him? Or were you the one who brought it to my attention? My memory is going...

bittersoutherner.com

We Salted Nannie: A True Southern Ghost Story — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

In 2014, Tom Maxwell rented a historic home for cheap. Nine months later, he and his family ran away as fast as they could, fleeing a parade of spirits and apparitions. Today, three centuries of bad mojo in a house called Nannie.
bittersoutherner.com bittersoutherner.com
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Looks like I can listen to it -- will try it.

Illustrator for this short story is Phil Blank -- his art work belongs on this thread for sure...
 
donbosco said:
"To celebrate the first time Metal Flake Mother has been pressed on vinyl we're releasing two videos that help shed some light on this killer lost band. These films were shot and directed by Jason Summers ('Dead Moon : Unknown Passage', 'I Should Have Been Dead Years Ago').https://schoolkidsrecords.tuneportals.com/..."In 1990 the Chapel Hill, North Carolina music scene was bubbling up into a soon-to-be-legendary froth and at its center was a mysterious band called Metal Flake Mother. As bands like Polvo and Archers of Loaf were all just forming, they all looked up to and often opened for Metal Flake Mother during the height of this cultural tipping point. While the previous sonic template of the region had been set by bands like Corrosion of Conformity, Flat Duo Jets, Metal Flake Mother were the first to reach for a kind of Beatles-esque form of indie-rock and cut a timeless record that could build a bridge out to the burgeoning national scene. But before that could happen the band tragically broke up and their lost masterpiece "Beyond the Java Sea" was never released on LP. The arrival of this new release "Metal Flake Mother, Songs 1989-1991", will mark the first time any of their tracks recorded with Boston legend Lou Giordano have ever been on vinyl. This release will be limited to only 500 copies."
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Thank don bosco.

This Metal Flake Mother stuff is very cool.

Did you ever happen to know or listen to Gerald Duncan and the Accelerators? Raleigh area.
 
donbosco said:
Professors Reckford (PHIL) and Strahley (PHYS) are prominent in this account. The incidents at the Watts Grill and Colonial Drug are recounted quite well.
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Year or two or whatever you brought this book up and I bought it
Thank you again
 
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