Long before A Southern Season was a gleam in their eyes, my college chums Michael and Stephen Barefoot were just two handsome and talented Carolina kids.
Category: A Thousand Words
Mike Mulligan Rides Again?
So Carrboro is about to embark on the long-awaited 300 East Main construction project, forever changing our beloved community’s face and its sense of place.
Physics 45
“Physics 45, Photography: A course that has been retired, and the instructors who taught it … are all retired as well, into the darkroom in their basement or into that ‘Darkroom in the Sky.’â€
Farewell to the King of Carrboro, Part 2
It’s not a particularly great photograph – but it captures a moment in time never to be seen again.
The Boys of Summer, 1954
From the 1954 bound volume of Roland Giduz’ Chapel Hill News Leader comes this image of the Boys of Summer 57 years ago.
The Ricky Jackson Batman Cake Massacre, 1990
If I asked you to go back into your childhood photo album and select a single picture that captured an unforgettable moment, what would it be?
Val Lauder Interviews Old Blue Eyes, 1948
Val Lauder, who retired this spring at 85 after teaching feature writing at the School of Journalism & Mass Communication for 31 years, had an illustrious career as a reporter and columnist for the Chicago Daily News.
Hang up and drive, 2011
So with Chapel Hill mulling a ban on DWC (Driving While Cell-phoning), we hereby present “Exhibit A†as evidence in favor of such an ordinance.
Glenwood Elementary graduation, 2011
Here of late, the papers have been full of photographs from college and high school commencement exercises – and quite rightly so.
Singin’ in the Rain, 2011
Well, we don’t know if our rain dancer is actually singing, but she sure is striking a Gene Kelly pose.
Pave Paradise, 1968
Back before there was a Bank of America building, the James Wallace Parking Deck, the BB&T branch and Bub O’Malley’s, old Rosemary Street was a quiet residential backstreet.
Mrs. Lillie turns 83
So what do you give the last of the Franklin Street Flower Ladies on her 83rd birthday?
One Photograph’s Story
Every picture tells a story.
And Baby Makes Three
Sunday’s Mother’s Day/Commencement Exercises at UNC took on a special meaning for Carrboro residents Anne and Nicholas Johnson.
Ralph Byrns’ Last Class
May – a time of great comings and goings.