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Category: A Thousand Words

Woody Takes a Time-Out, 1983

Posted on April 28, 2011April 28, 2011 by Susan Dickson

All things must pass, but the retirement of Woody Durham is particularly hard to take.

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Jeff’s Campus Confectionary, 1966

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Staff

As I look back on the Franklin Street of my boyhood and recall the shops on the 100 block, I see faces – faces of longtime personalities who anchored those businesses.

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Lennie and Pete on WCOM

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Susan Dickson

Two of my childhood heroes, UNC basketball legends Lennie Rosenbluth and Pete Brennan, were in town last week.

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Old Doll, 1978

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Fernlane

As a Seasoned Citizen, I’ve been thinking a lot these days about de-cluttering.

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The Biggest “Pothole”

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Susan Dickson

OK, so I got beat. Soundly too.

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Aunt Roxie, 1940

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Susan Dickson

Several years ago, when I asked my photography students to bring to class a single meaningful family snapshot, Kafi Robinson, then a senior journalism major from Oxford, turned in a photo of her great grandmother, “Aunt Roxie.”

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Dean Smith, John Lotz, Larry Brown, 1965

Posted on March 17, 2011March 24, 2011 by Susan Dickson

Looking at my early photos from The Daily Tar Heel, it’s a wonder they kept me on.

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Lillie Pratt turning 83

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Susan Dickson

A Thousand Words By Jock Lauterer Each spring, with the daffodils comes a Lillie. Lillie Mozelle Pratt, that is. It just wouldn’t be spring on Franklin Street without “the last of the flower ladies,” as Lillie calls herself. I began buying February daffodils from “Miz Pratt” back in 1966, so her claim rings true. She…

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Out walkin’ Roy Williams

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Susan Dickson

A Thousand Words By Jock Lauterer Newlyweds Stefany (who goes by “the Rock”) Picquet, left, and Emily Glover, right, shared this happy moment with one of my talented student photographers, Bess Trotter: Emily, a school counselor at Mary Scroggs Elementary School in Chapel Hill, laughs as Rock, a much-beloved barista at the Franklin Street Starbucks,…

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Atwater Farm, July 1, 1939

Posted on February 24, 2011February 28, 2011 by Susan Dickson

‘‘For me, documentary photography is less a matter of subject and more a matter of approach,” wrote Dorothea Lange.

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Valentines at CHHS, 1963

Posted on February 17, 2011February 17, 2011 by Susan Dickson

Before yr hmbl svt knew better than to nuke everything with his flash, we made this photograph of the 1963 CHHS Sweetheart Court for the school newspaper.

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Otter Patrol, 1961

Posted on February 10, 2011February 17, 2011 by Susan Dickson

In every boy’s life, there should be a moment like this.

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Rock mason James Blacknell Jr., 1984

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Staff

Every child who ever romped on the old stone walls on campus should thank this man. When I photographed 80-year-old James Blacknell Jr. in 1984, he’d been laying rock at UNC for 66 years.

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Battle-Vance-Pettigrew Dorms 1967

Posted on January 27, 2011January 27, 2011 by Staff

Surely, anyone who has been on the UNC campus recently surely has marveled at the giant expanse of protective plastic sheeting completely covering Battle-Vance-Pettigrew halls as workers renovate the roof and exterior of those administrative buildings.

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Jaws 2011

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Staff

You do not want to run over and into “JAWS”: an alignment-eating trench four feet long, two feet wide and four inches deep.

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