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Category: A Thousand Words

Construction buds

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Staff

Perhaps you are familiar with the pop-culture shorthand “peeps” for people.

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Mr. Joke goes to China

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Staff

Who says this newspaper doesn’t get around?

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Doc and Merle, 1983

Posted on June 7, 2012June 7, 2012 by Staff

How do you honor the guitar player who singlehandedly changed the face of American folk and roots music?

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Wolfe’s Angel

Posted on May 31, 2012May 31, 2012 by Staff

Remember the first time you read Look Homeward Angel?

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Troop 39 to Canada, 1961

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Staff

There will be a lot of old scouters in town this weekend to help Chapel Hill Boy Scout Troop 39 celebrate its 100th anniversary.

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Coaches’ Choice, 1960s

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Staff

At the mountain cabin in Rutherford County we used to have an old bed so soft and concave that we called it “the Canoe.”

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UNC Student Body, 1921

Posted on May 10, 2012May 10, 2012 by Staff

On an overcast winter’s day in 1921, the entire UNC student body gathered for a group portrait in McCorkle Place.

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Pressed flower, 1943

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Staff

I knew this day would come. Sooner or later Ken Moore’s column, “Flora,” was bound to intersect with mine.

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Friends, 1969-70

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Staff

If ever a photo evoked an era, here’s one that fairly hollers, “1969-1970!”

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Bus Hubbard, Keeper of the Noble Grove

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Staff

When old Tar Heels return to visit campus, they walk among “the noble grove” and wonder at the unchanging nature of McCorkle and Polk Place.

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Helen Peacock, CHHS librarian

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Staff

Ask any Chapel Hillian of a certain age if they remember the school’s longtime librarian and you’ll get an emphatic response.

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Skyping China

Posted on April 5, 2012April 5, 2012 by Staff

My students are still buzzing about last week’s Skype to China.

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Safe Port, Kerr Lake

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Staff

David Hughes, a retired distinguished professor at the UNC School of Business, sent in this image he shot last fall at Kerr Lake.

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Jim Chris, 1940-2012

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Staff

Just an image of three happy guys and a breakfast grill, with the big man in the middle with one arm draped affectionately around the shoulder of a younger man.

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Other people’s pictures, 1930s

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Staff

Some people collect old stamps; others collect old coins. I collect old photographs.

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