
{"id":343,"date":"2007-05-30T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T22:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/05\/30\/letter-from-the-editor-i-love-a-mystery\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T09:12:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T17:12:58","slug":"letter-from-the-editor-i-love-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/05\/30\/letter-from-the-editor-i-love-a-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the editor: I love a mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Kirk Ross<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the efforts of the redoubtable Herb Bresky, I have in my hand an edition of Nyle Frank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Carrboro Centipede (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Of the Pedes, By the Pedes and for the Pedes) dated Jan 20, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Under the headline \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Carrboro Chosen as Capitol of the Invisible Kingdom,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d King Nyle I outlines an ambitious agenda for the town, saying it will one day house numerous parks, luxurious shops, ecological improvements, mammoth sports arenas, libraries, excellent railroad service, Eiful [sic] Tower, Seine River, day-care centers and theatre groups.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also, his majesty states, the town will have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153elaborate entrance signs.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Then, between parentheses, is the following in all caps: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWELCOME TO CARRBORO: THE PARIS OF THE PIEDMONT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That, as Herb points out in a note to this reporter, appears to be the earliest documented evidence of the phrase. Anyone have anything earlier? Let us know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Larry?<\/strong><br \/>\nNo word yet on the whereabouts of one Larry Hayes (he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s said to be in San Francisco), but plenty of stories have filtered in over the last week after the former owner of Broad Street Coffee Roasters is alleged to have hired three men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shelter residents to paint over the community mural at Jade Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of people shaking their heads over the story and offering up tales from past encounters. Did you hear the one about running a T-1 line across Main Street under the train tracks in the dead of night?<\/p>\n<p>While there has been a lot of shock and dismay over the incident, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also been a good number of people who want to use it as inspiration for another community-bonding event. Bully for that.<\/p>\n<p>As news of the incident got out beyond the confines of the Carrboro-Chapel Hill Metroplex, one of the downsides was in how some folks react to anything with the name of either town stamped on it. (You have to remember that outside a ten-mile radius few people can make a distinction between Carrboro and the big city next door.)<\/p>\n<p>A survey of the comments to a story about the mural on the WRAL website reveals a host of angry diatribes and the usual stereotyping we hear. According to some, we pinko\/commie types deserve whatever misery befalls us. There is, also, plenty of sympathy \u00e2\u20ac\u201d peppered liberally with derision, of course \u00e2\u20ac\u201d for the people who painted the wall.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is this comment from a truly conflicted soul: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I despise Chapel Hill and all surrounding areas, and the bleeding heart atmosphere that prevails, but I also feel anger at the evil deception that took place, even in Camelot!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nOK, then. And don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let it be forgot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corrections<\/strong><br \/>\nLast week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s issue requires a few. For starters, Matthew Fiorentino (not Florentino) is the preferred spelling of the name of one of our correspondents.<\/p>\n<p>Also, that mural was painted over on Tuesday, May 22.<\/p>\n<p>And the final two sentences of Ken Moore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Flora column should read:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In addition, the town, if it really wants to pursue \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgreen,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 will be wise to gate the driveway onto the site now and to place fencing at least as far out as the drip line of all the significant trees. Periodically, construction or other trucks are already seen parked beneath the shade of the old holly, and that means inappropriate treading on the old tree\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s root system.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kirk Ross Thanks to the efforts of the redoubtable Herb Bresky, I have in my hand an edition of Nyle Frank\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Carrboro Centipede (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Of the Pedes, By the Pedes and for the Pedes) dated Jan 20, 1971. Under the headline \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Carrboro Chosen as Capitol of the Invisible Kingdom,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d King Nyle I outlines an ambitious&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}