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Garden and Gun on ‘Life on the Hill’

Really extensive write up of the lifestyle of Carrboro and Chapel Hill in this month’s Garden & Gun by a Wells Tower who worked with Nic Brown to try to and describe our deal here (as in ‘what’s the deal around here?’) — something I’ve always found very difficult to put into words. Nice pic of the Neals, too.
Life on The Hill

To my mind, Chapel Hill’s highest virtue is not its brittle preoccupations with sports or provincial tradition but the limberness of the place. It is a Shangri-la of indeterminacy: neither fusty Old South sanctum nor soulless New South suburb, neither metropolis nor boondocks. To live easefully in New York or New Orleans, one must strive to be a New Yorker or a New Orleanian. In Chapel Hill, a town too genial to demand much of its people, one can simply be.