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Category: A Thousand Words

A blast from the past, 1975

Posted on November 23, 2011November 23, 2011 by Staff

In celebration of the opening of the UNC men’s basketball season, here’s a blast from the past, courtesy of Breadmen’s Restaurant on West Rosemary in Chapel Hill.

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Sunset, moonrise, Damascus Church

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Staff

Whenever I begin suffering from “nature deficit disorder,” I have only to slow down, ease off the gas pedal and observe.

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The little newspaper that could

Posted on November 10, 2011November 10, 2011 by Staff

To the folks who think all newspapers are dying, I have this response: Y’all really need to get out of town more often.

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Those Other Faces, Halloween 2011

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Staff

So often we assume we know the people we see every day. And then one day, they appear as someone else.

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Postscript to a protest, University Day redux

Posted on October 27, 2011October 27, 2011 by Staff

As a postscript to the Speaker Ban marker dedication on the UNC campus: There were so many magical moments from that University Day celebration, but here’s one “decisive moment” that will resonate with this photographer for a long time.

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Stuart Sechriest, 1963

Posted on October 20, 2011October 20, 2011 by Staff

Professor Sechriest was actually grinning when he jerked me out of News Editing class and hauled me into his office.

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Carl Sandburg in Chapel Hill

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Staff

Carl Sandburg, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, author and historian, was a Midwesterner by birth, but he chose to be a North Carolinian for the last 22 years of his prodigiously productive writing life.

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Return to the wall

Posted on October 6, 2011October 6, 2011 by Staff

March 2, 1966, a crowd of some 1,200 UNC students, faculty, staff and townspeople gather to protest the infamous Speaker Ban Law.

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Eulogy for a very old friend

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Staff

To a townie like me, every single tree in Polk and McCorkle Place is like a dear playmate with whom I have grown old.

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Manhattan 1931

Posted on September 22, 2011September 22, 2011 by Staff

We go through our daily lives seeing but failing to observe.

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Just Down the Road in Shangri-La

Posted on September 15, 2011September 15, 2011 by Staff

I have the best job in the world in the summer when I hit North Carolina’s backroads that take me to the state’s many community newspapers.

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Lest we forget

Posted on September 8, 2011September 8, 2011 by Staff

Lest we forget … there is another Ground Zero. . .

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Drop-Add, 1963

Posted on September 1, 2011September 8, 2011 by Staff

Around this time of year, if you were a UNC student back in 1963 wanting to drop a class and add another, you went to sweltering Woollen Gym.

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Rugby in the Mud-luscious Spring of 1967

Posted on August 25, 2011September 8, 2011 by Staff

So I’m sitting on the Carolina Inn lawn listening to bluegrass when a gent about my age approaches.

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About that appalling situation in Washington

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Staff

One of the reasons real-book libraries are so valuable has to do with simple serendipity.

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