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UNC, Chapel Hill, and Carborro History

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“Last spring, the 300-foot Coker Arbor walkway that stood alongside the garden was removed by UNC Facilities Planning and Design and the North Carolina Botanical Garden due to structural and safety issues.

The new arbor, now in its fifth rendition since 1911, will be slightly higher and will consist of several structures to allow more light in, Neal said. The stairs at the west end of the arbor will also be removed, and there will be a new elevated brick walkway to allow for increased safety and accessibility.

“It'll just be a more beautiful structure,” Neal said.

Work on the new arbor will start this spring and is set to be done by the end of the fall 2024 semester, but Neal said the timeline is tentative.”

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'Slice of heaven in the middle of campus': Coker Arboretum in full bloom

The Coker Arboretum's variety of flowers, trees and other plant life will be flowering and blooming throughout the next few weeks.
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"Have you heard the story that the Bell Tower was intentionally placed right behind Wilson Library so that, when viewed from South Building, the top of the tower looks like a dunce cap on the round dome of the library?

The dunce cap story has been one of the enduring campus legends for decades. The story originally told was that John Motley Morehead, angered that Louis Round Wilson wouldn’t let him put the tower on top of the new library building, put it right behind to make fun of Wilson. I’ve heard a slightly different version on campus recently, which attributes it to an ongoing battle between two of the university’s “founding families,” the Moreheads and the Wilsons, making them seem like UNC’s version of the Hatfields and McCoys....continued at the link."

 
The guy who painted the original sign for Tijuana Fats also painted the sign for a bar that was where the bottom floor of He's Not Here is. Anybody remember it?
 
I remember a couple of places down there - especially ‘Beefy’s Hit Dogs.’

Speaking if ‘He’s Not Here.’

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grimes70 said:
I have an older brother that practically lived there, his wife kept the books there and his baby girl grew up there say some. He considered Kitzmiller one of his closest friends and actually bought a house once that was close enough to walk home to at night
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Kitzmiller was perfect as the owner. An interesting past long before the bar business. Nice guy.
 
05C40 said:
Are you the one with a hand on the cute girl's butt?
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From ‘67 thru about ‘73 or ‘74, I’d have been one of the tow-headed urchins rampaging around the Village Green late in the afternoon many days of the week……my Dad was BY FAR the youngest faculty member in his department (hard science)…..my parents mostly socialized with grad students in those years b/c they were so much younger than the next-youngest faculty member……,Dad was younger than most grad students.

A colleague of Dad’s and a departmental grad student briefly ran a hot dog business in the Village Green in that era.
 
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From ‘67 thru about ‘73 or ‘74, I’d have been one of the tow-headed urchins rampaging around the Village Green late in the afternoon many days of the week……my Dad was BY FAR the youngest faculty member in his department (hard science)…..my parents mostly socialized with grad students in those years b/c they were so much younger than the next-youngest faculty member……,Dad was younger than most grad students.

A colleague of Dad’s and a departmental grad student briefly ran a hot dog business in the Village Green in that era.
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Was that ‘Beefy?’

Kitzmiller’s Obituary - he passed on in 2022: Obituary of David Kitzmiller | Walker's Funeral Home - Chapel Hill
 
donbosco said:
Was that ‘Beefy?’

Kitzmiller’s Obituary - he passed on in 2022: Obituary of David Kitzmiller | Walker's Funeral Home - Chapel Hill
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Let me ask…..one of the two proprietors still lives……and, as families we’re tight.

It was quintessential Chapel Hill - one with his doctorate from MIT and an as-yet-not tenured faculty position at UNC and the other either earning his Ph.D from UNC or had earned it and was seeking a faculty position, but not wanting to leave Chapel Hill……

So, for a brief time, they sold hot dogs in the Village Green (before the Village Green was He’s Not Here.
 
Zoo_View said:
Let me ask…..one of the two proprietors still lives……and, as families we’re tight.

It was quintessential Chapel Hill - one with his doctorate from MIT and an as-yet-not tenured faculty position at UNC and the other either earning his Ph.D from UNC or had earned it and was seeking a faculty position, but not wanting to leave Chapel Hill……

So, for a brief time, they sold hot dogs in the Village Green (before the Village Green was He’s Not Here.
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Man don't I know the finished the PHD but not wanting to leave Chapel Hill sense of things...managed to post-doc it for a few years (even stomached two years at dook) then 15 years commuting to GSO until I finally had to let go and head west (and north).
 
Just finished Tom Maxwell's, " A Really Strange and Wonderful Time.". Very enjoyable.

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A REALLY STRANGE AND WONDERFUL TIME: THE CHAPEL HILL MUSIC SCENE 1989-

THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF THE THRIVING AND INFLUENTIAL ROCK SCENE IN CHAPEL HILL, WHICH GAVE THE WORLD ARTISTS LIKE BEN FOLDS FIVE, SUPERCHUNK, AND SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS North Carolina has always produced extraordinary music of every description. But the indie rock boom of the late 1980s and early...
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donbosco said:
Man don't I know the finished the PHD but not wanting to leave Chapel Hill sense of things...managed to post-doc it for a few years (even stomached two years at dook) then 15 years commuting to GSO until I finally had to let go and head west (and north).
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Walker Brown is still doing roofing work in Chapel Hill (although, I doubt he’s on roofs much these days).
 
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