When my daughter ran away from home at 15 , she followed the Dead and Phish for about 6-8 months making jewelry and whatever to live. I never wanted too many details. Things were strange for a year or so around that time.
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UNC, Chapel Hill, and Carborro History
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Knew a head who got to kmow another couple well enough that they would pay all her expenses while looking after their early teens? 2 week summer head vacation. She would sync her real world job vacation to it.
Poured me a few drinks at the El Mo.
Poured me a few drinks at the El Mo.
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Wow...El Mo.
Adjacent to what was called Old Well Apartments and is now Collins Crossing are the Carolina Apartments. The entrance is on Hwy. 54 By-pass; the entrance is directly across from the road to the Chapel Hill Tennis Club.
The road whose name you can’t remember is Hillsborough Street.
When UNC instituted the swim test, North Carolina had a ridiculous number of drowning deaths per capita. It might have been the worst in the nation.
My brother was coming down from Charlottesville to see the show, with a ticket for me. I wasn't much of a fan, but I thought it would be cool to see them live. He hit traffic, so he went straight to the show instead of picking me up. This was pre-cellphone, so I was just sitting in my apartment in Carrboro waiting for him. Bastard.#OTD in 1993…
Seriously though, I was bummed to miss the show but my brother made it up to me later, taking me to see them (with Sting opening) at RFK. Glad I got the chance to see them. I remember how overrun Chapel Hill seemed - also pretty cool.
I used to work with Jim. Chip, whose last name I'm blanking on, Jim and I did most of the trim work on DES's office when the Deandome was built.
Jim Cannon - Passed away #OTD in 2017.
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‘Capital of the Southern Mind’ (Published 1972)
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Stopped by an estate sale on Chicken Bridge and thought about you Don Bosco! It was already sold!
I know where the companion piece to that is. The same guy painted the Fat City sign which now resides on Mt. Carmel Road.
Stopped by an estate sale on Chicken Bridge and thought about you Don Bosco! It was already sold!
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Stopped by an estate sale on Chicken Bridge and thought about you Don Bosco! It was already sold!
Mitzi Darden used to live out a road on the right on the Chapel Hill side of Chicken Bridge road just before you got to the bridge. Is this where that went down by chance? Mitzi was an original wait there who became an owner along with Clark Church.
That filagreed board was also part of Fats' but I can't quite recollect where it was.
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Found the website for the Estate Sale off Chicken Bridge Road...that has to be the home of Mitzi Darden. She also had a second-hand/vintage shop for a while called 'Second Hand Rose,' which would explain all that 'stuff.'
I wonder what became of her. She'd be about 75 years old I guess. She was a tough boss.
I wonder what became of her. She'd be about 75 years old I guess. She was a tough boss.
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That's the place cool multi story home. Figured you would know who it was. Sad to say it was an estate sale by Blue Moon. It was a lot of interesting stuff and I noticed the multiple framed pictures of banditos but I was looking for a wok.
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‘THE WISCONSIN OF THE SOUTH!!!’ — North Carolina, “The Wisconsin of The South” - so went the astounded declarations of ‘outside observers’ of The Tar Heel State in the 1920s. What that meant a century ago was that the state was a leader - in the region - in thoughtful, forward-looking, policies. At UNC in particular Professor Howard Odum led a scholarly movement within the Social Sciences to get to the root causes of poverty in The South so that it could be addressed. Presidents of the UNC System, Harry Woodburn Chase and Frank Porter Graham went to bat for those programs in the face of conservative opposition. In other areas such as child welfare, education, and public health, the state also made unique regional progress. In retrospect an observer can easily damn the racism and sexism of a ruling class of white men most accurately and assuredly - after all, 100 years ago the oppressive twin demons of Jim Crow and Patriarchy stalked the “goodliest land under the cope of Heaven” to be sure - the measure employed here is one relativized by acknowledgment of historical context.
In the 1920s Wisconsin, despite only some 25 years into the future giving the nation and the world the despot after whom the blot on freedom and fairness termed McCarthyism was named, was rated a center of reformist government action. And such was North Carolina reckoned when held up against neighbors like South Carolina and Tennessee. In contrast to the rest of The South it seemed that Tar Heels were beginning to look to the future rather than to the all too prevalent treasonous glorification of The Lost Cause. The steps were of the baby variety to be sure - and could be two forward and one backward but judged against her surroundings there was reason for hope.
This week I’m reminded of this century-old comparison with chagrin as the people of Wisconsin reached into their hearts and minds to reject a regressive candidacy for that state’s Supreme Court while simultaneously North Carolina stumbled into the darkness as an Anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bill makes its way through the North Carolina General Assembly (The GOP has already ordered the UNC System Board of Governors to purge such thing from the 17 system campuses). https://www.carolinajournal.com/nc-house-bill-to-ban-dei-agenda-in-state-and-local-government/
Neither Wisconsin nor North Carolina have consistently filled out the Progressive Scorecard - the Wisconsinites gave us the aforementioned Senator McCarthy and of course NC has plagued itself and the nation over time with a Helms, a Cawthorn, and a Meadows to toss out but a trio of shameful Old North State voices. Another old nickname by which North Carolina has been known is “The Rip Van Winkle State” - mainly for its dozing off in the face of calls to duty. That one dates from before the gentle positive comparison with Wisconsin because of the slowness that typified our isolationist know-nothing/do-nothing nature - the downside of “To Be Rather Than To Seem.” Frankly, if North Carolina - or select North Carolinians better said - are going to spin backward I’d just as soon they reach all the way back for that earliest nickname and just go unconscious - far better that than to be so utterly WITHOUT a conscience. (Newspaper clipping is from the Greensboro ‘News and Record’ of February 22, 1922)
In the 1920s Wisconsin, despite only some 25 years into the future giving the nation and the world the despot after whom the blot on freedom and fairness termed McCarthyism was named, was rated a center of reformist government action. And such was North Carolina reckoned when held up against neighbors like South Carolina and Tennessee. In contrast to the rest of The South it seemed that Tar Heels were beginning to look to the future rather than to the all too prevalent treasonous glorification of The Lost Cause. The steps were of the baby variety to be sure - and could be two forward and one backward but judged against her surroundings there was reason for hope.
This week I’m reminded of this century-old comparison with chagrin as the people of Wisconsin reached into their hearts and minds to reject a regressive candidacy for that state’s Supreme Court while simultaneously North Carolina stumbled into the darkness as an Anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bill makes its way through the North Carolina General Assembly (The GOP has already ordered the UNC System Board of Governors to purge such thing from the 17 system campuses). https://www.carolinajournal.com/nc-house-bill-to-ban-dei-agenda-in-state-and-local-government/
Neither Wisconsin nor North Carolina have consistently filled out the Progressive Scorecard - the Wisconsinites gave us the aforementioned Senator McCarthy and of course NC has plagued itself and the nation over time with a Helms, a Cawthorn, and a Meadows to toss out but a trio of shameful Old North State voices. Another old nickname by which North Carolina has been known is “The Rip Van Winkle State” - mainly for its dozing off in the face of calls to duty. That one dates from before the gentle positive comparison with Wisconsin because of the slowness that typified our isolationist know-nothing/do-nothing nature - the downside of “To Be Rather Than To Seem.” Frankly, if North Carolina - or select North Carolinians better said - are going to spin backward I’d just as soon they reach all the way back for that earliest nickname and just go unconscious - far better that than to be so utterly WITHOUT a conscience. (Newspaper clipping is from the Greensboro ‘News and Record’ of February 22, 1922)