A great night. A lot of us old goofs around acting not so old.
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Obama, Clinton visit Chapel Hill
update: NBC now saying Obama/Edwards meeting was cancelled. Obama folks referring calls to Edwards folks.
Hillary Clinton paid an unscheduled, unannounced visit to Chapel Hill Thursday and
Barack Obama is reportedly in town today (Monday) for a chat with John Edwards.
This Month’s MILL
The February issue of The Citizen’s MILL, our arts, music and literature, publication is out this week. Featured stories include:
• Finding Pauli Murray;
• Written in Stone — reflections on black history
• Hidden Voices’ Because We’re Still Here — a local black history project;
• Bayard Rustin illustration and narrative by Phil Blank;
Plus arts, music, literary and theater calendars and our MILL29 look at the month’s featured events.
TJ and DJ
Composer TJ Anderson and DJ Spooky after a presentation at UNC Friday. That’s Dr. Lyneise Williams in the middle.Sorry bout the shaky camera.
Windy midweek
A front is coming through and ahead of it are some serious winds. Via the NWS:
A STRONG COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO CROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. UNSEASONABLY WARM HUMID AIR AND VERY
STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE LAYER WILL BRING A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS..SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT…
SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS ON WEDNESDAY.
And the official outlook:
This Afternoon: Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Southwest wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.
Tonight: A slight chance of showers after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. Southwest wind between 9 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Wednesday: A slight chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. Breezy, with a southwest wind between 17 and 21 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Wednesday Night: A chance of showers before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. West wind between 9 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Bayard Rustin
As promised in this week’s (print) edition of MILL, the following narrative to accompanies the artwork by Phil Blank featuring Bayard Rustin. Via Phil:
April 13, 1947. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Along with three other members of the Journey of Reconciliation, Bayard Rustin was arrested for refusing to move from the whites-only section of an interstate bus. After their release from the courthouse, two cars followed the men to the home of Rev. Charles Jones. A few minutes after arriving, the phone rang. A voice said, “Get those damn niggers out of town or we’ll burn your house down.†For his “crime,†Rustin spent twenty-two days on a Roxboro chain gang. Writing articles for the New York Post while in prison, Rustin exposed the cruel conditions there. Of an earlier encounter in which he refused to give up his seat on a bus, Bayard Rustin said “I believe all the more strongly in the nonviolent approach.†The respect and seriousness with which his struggle was met, he believed, was “because I had without fear, faced the policeman and said ‘there is no need to beat me, I offer you no resistance.’â€
From left: A. J. Muste: revolutionary pacifist, Julia Rustin, his Quaker grandmother who offered her acceptance of Bayard’s sexuality, “I suppose that’s what you need to do†To Rustin, “It was recognition so I never had guilt.†Krishnalal Shridharani, nonviolent theorist and inspiration, A Philip Randolph, tactician for economic justice and believer in the fundamental unity of peoples.
Mid week weather
Quite windy Tuesday with a pretty good chance of rain Tuesday night and Thursday.
Via NWS:
Today: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. South wind between 11 and 16 mph.
Tonight: Showers likely, mainly after 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 43. Southwest wind between 15 and 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Wednesday: Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 49. West wind between 11 and 16 mph.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 26. North wind between 5 and 7 mph.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 49. East wind between 5 and 8 mph.
Thursday Night: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Weekend weather
Via the NWS:
Today: Sunny, with a high near 37. North wind 5 to 9 mph becoming east.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. Calm wind.
Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 45. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 28. Calm wind.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 48. Calm wind becoming north between 8 and 11 mph.
Sunday Night: Clear, with a low around 26.
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 51.
Next rain possibility looks like Tuesday.
MLK events today and this week
MONDAY JAN 21
The annual community celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., a rally with speeches and song, will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Peace & Justice Plaza at the Franklin Street Post Office. At 10:30 a.m., participants will march west on Franklin Street to First Baptist Church of Chapel Hill, located at 106 N. Roberson St., for the annual service commemorating King’s life. The Rev. Curtis Gatewood, former president of the Durham Chapter of the NAACP, is the featured speaker at the 11 a.m. service.
Campus events include:
- He Was a Poem: A Gathering in the Tradition, an event that will explore Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy through music, poetry and spoken word, will being at 7 p.m. Monday The Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Musician Bradley Simmons of the Duke University Djembe Ensemble, poets Michael and Lita Simanga and spoken word artist Kim Arrington will perform.
- Candlelight Vigil at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday around the Old Well in McCorkle Place.
- The MLK Keynote Lecture: Ruby Dee and Presentation of 26th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Hall. For tickets, call the box office at 843-3333.
For information about more campus events, visit http://www.unc.edu/diversity/mlk/schedule.html.
Weather links
Why not weather links?
• Intellicast’s Big Radar
• NWS Carrboro — scroll down for current conditions at Horace Williams
• Wunderground Carrboro — scroll down for local weather reporting sites
• Durham Orange Doppler vial WRAL
Update: Snowing started around 2:10 in the p.m. Too warm to stick, but that might change. There’s a cold nose edging into our area according to the maps.
Adams Tract walk
Here on the southside, just a little rain. Things may or may not be something.
Thinking about taking that Adams Tract hike with Ken.
Via The Citizen
I relish the winter woods; there is much to see, many subtleties of interest and beauty that are masked in the summer by dense foliage. The varied terrain of bare trees and the deafening silence of the winter woods are reasons enough to bundle up and become part of that scene. I find it very warming to simply snuggle in at the base of a big tree and linger long enough to hear wind and critter sounds interrupt the silence.
Here’s Ken with the details:
This coming Saturday afternoon, January 19, rain, snow or shine, I’m going to enjoy the winter woods of the Adams Tract. Though this is not an officially sponsored walk, you are welcome to join me at 1 p.m. beginning at the trail head kiosk in the lower part of Carrboro’s Wilson Park. Don’t forget your binoculars. And above all else, if you didn’t get out for a New Year’s Day walk, it’s not too late to treat yourself to a weekly walk in the woods.

