Category: A Thousand Words

Perhaps last’s week’s death of 98-year-old Gerald Angier Vernon of Darien, Conn., should not have surprised anyone, given his age.

This week’s photograph captures an early Carrboro sawmill tableau of stern-faced working men and a barefoot boy posing stiffly in front of stacks of neatly sawn lumber.

Chapel Hill’s pioneering woman photographer, Bayard Wootten, took to the air to make this stunning bird’s-eye view of the campus in 1939.

Down in singing Silver Creek I have spent many a happy hour building little rock dams in the clear water that runs through our mountain cabin’s holler.

Citizen reader Don Pendergraft sends in this delightful image from 1955, titled “Welcome to Elmer’s.”

Old Chapel Hill High School grads, who, like me, remember “Mother May” for the strong, yet accessible and caring principal that she was.

As longtime residents of Carrboro-Chapel Hill know, there are only two seasons in our communities.

The power of old family photographs cannot be overstated.

It wouldn’t be football season at Chapel Hill High School unless George “Cat Baby” Cannada led the team onto the field at Carrboro’s Lions Park.

Who says man can’t fly? Well, maybe not man, but certainly man-child!

Come summer I have the best gig in the world.

Last summer we featured a variation of this photo I shot in 1968, describing the scene as old Rosemary Street.

Getting to meet and interview the luminaries of our times is one of the perks of being a journalist.

When I was in China last month I received an email from my old high school journalism teacher.

For old Tar Heels of a certain vintage, this time of year is sure to conjure up memories of JUBILEE.