A Thousand Words
By Jock Lauterer
This weekend’s Chapel Hill Holiday House Tour of the historic Greenwood neighborhood reminds me of the kindness and generosity of its founder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright Paul Green. The creator of many outdoor dramas (symphonic dramas), including The Lost Colony, was kind enough to host our senior English class in his living room at his 610 Greenwood Road home one evening in 1963, when he talked informally about his life’s work. The Chapel Hill High schoolers in this photo (made with a 1957 twin-lens reflex Rolleicord for the school paper, the Proconian) include, left to right, Dan Tracy, Johnny Alcott, Becky Tatum, Myrt Trageser, Dale Sloan and Sandra Bell. Looking back, I realize we Chapel Hill kids took these rich cultural encounters a little too much for granted.
A THOUSAND WORDS
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