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Literary Calendar

McIntyre’s Fine Books
Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro
542-3030
fearrington.com/village/mcintyres.asp

April 10, 3-5pm—Lynne Rossetto Kasper discusses her cookbook The Splendid Table’s How To Eat Supper.

April 12, 11am—Virginia Ironside reads from her book No! I Don’t Want to Join a Book Club.

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Novel love

Erica Eisdorfer.
By Erica Eisdorfer

Recently, I made the mistake of giving my 11-year-old daughter a copy of The Children’s Miscellany by Matthew Morgan. Mistake? I jest. It wasn’t really a mistake: It’s just that now she’s delighted to deliver such tidbits as, “Mom, a billion seconds ago you were a child.” This, as I’m grappling with whether I can push my reading glasses for one more month before I take the bifocal plunge. A billion seconds? Tick-tock.

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April Shows & Happenings

4/2-20
Amadeus
PlayMakers Repertory
The award-winning tale of Mozart and the court composer Salieri is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, brilliant examination of a man at war with his god.

4/4
Howlin Rain
Local 506
Mellow rockers perform with Nightstick and Stratocrusier. 9pm, $10

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Miscellany

The Iron Mountain Railroad

The Whopper, circa 1900. Photo courtesy of  the North Carolina  Collection.
By Leslie Smith and Ethan Clauset

For travelers and farmers headed to market in southern Orange County for most of the nineteenth century, the only way to get there was to travel the old dirt roads from Pittsboro and Durham and the wagon road from Hillsborough. Robert F. Hoke, a former Confederate general, saw the opportunity to put in a railroad that ran from a junction later called University Station to Carrboro to link his mine to the Carolina Railroad in Greensboro. In November of 1880, Hoke was a principal shareholder and chairman of the board when the Iron Mountain Company started to mine iron ore at a site one mile north of UNC campus, near what is now the intersection of Estes and Seawell School roads. The price of iron was high, so it was profitable to mine the ore and then ship it north through Greensboro to Pennsylvania for smelting into high-quality Bessemer Steel.

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Music Spotlight: Signalfest

Signal Fest returns. The Southeast Electronic Music Festival will be held from Thursday, April 10 to Sunday, April 13 in Carrboro and Chapel Hill. In its third year, local and international performers meet to spin, mix and sample. Signalfest is growing and offering a diverse lineup of electronic artists. This year’s perfomers include Jinx, DJ Babu, DJ Rhettmatic, DJ Garth, Stasis, Phon, Electric Bird Noise, Pressler, Le Castle Vania, Kev Brown, Subscape Annex, D-Nox and many more. A full schedule, tickets and more information can be found at www.signalfest.com.

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Music Spotlight: Shakori Hills

The Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance rolls around again, this time with the Spring festival. From Thursday, April 17 to Sunday, April 20, dozens of bands perform danceable roots music at the Shakori Hills farmstead in Chatham County, about 20 miles from Chapel Hill.

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The Tipsheet

April showers of performance art bring May flowers of expanded universal consciousness and love. Far out, man.

With that said … music this month! Check out Howlin’ Rain headlining the 506 on the fourth (that’s a Friday), backed up by Nightstick and Stratocruiser.

Saturday night, Cat’s Cradle throws a free show to say goodbye to Schoolkids Records featuring tons of local bands.

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Music Calendar

The ArtsCenter

John McCutcheon (4/6)
Shelby Lynne (4/10)
Jason Collett w/ Paddy Casey (4/15)
Billy Joe Shaver w/ Larry Mangum (4/18)
Shawn Mullins (4/20)
Nick Lowe w/ Ron Sexsmith (4/23)
Ruthie Foster (4/24)

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Community

13th Annual Piedmont FARM TOUR

Stanley Hughes of Pine Knot Farm.

Where can you ride the Eggmobile or the Mulchmobile; buy fresh produce, meat and cheese; learn about sustainable farming; or see cows, fainting goats, ducks, llamas, donkeys, sheep and even UNC mascot Rameses? The answer, of course, is the 13th annual Piedmont Farm Tour, sponsored by the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, on Saturday, April 19, and Sunday, April 20.

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Community Calendar: 03/27/08

Special Events

UNC Friends of the Library Book Sale — Thu, Mar 27, 5-8pm: Friends of the Library preview; Fri, Mar 28, 9am-8pm: Public sale; Sat, Mar 29, 9am to noon: $3 per bag. American Legion Building, 1714 Legion Rd, Chapel Hill. Benefit the University Library Endowment. 962-4207 or www.lib.unc.edu/spotlight/2008/BookSale.html for more info.

Fishy Fourth Friday — March 28, downtown Pittsboro. Art, food and a free movie. Local shops and galleries stay open late. Starts at 6 pm with this month’s movie “Psycho” starting at dusk. in the Capital Bank Parking lot. Sponsored by The Pittsboro Merchants Association. 260-9725 or pittsboroshops.com for info. Outside events subject to the weather.

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Arts Calendar: 03/27/08

Carrboro

El Sur Comes South — Pedro Lash with Los Artistas & local sonideros; Center Gallery. Kardelen (Snow Drop) — Works by Pelin Yazar Canez, Orhan Alpaslan, Asuman Dogan, Atanur Dogan and Nihal Kececi to celebrate International Women’s Month. The ArtsCenter. Main St. 929-2787, artscenterlive.org

Mixed media by Chief — a tribute to the artist’s new daughter. Showing through March. The Beehive Salon. 102 E Weaver St. 932-4483, thebeehive-salon.com

Collaborative works by Tori Ralston and Community Independent School students — Showing through Apr 1. Century Center. 100 N Greensboro St. 918-7385, townofcarrboro.com/rp/cc.htm