{"id":4820,"date":"2011-09-29T10:44:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2011-09-29T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T14:35:58","slug":"all-eyes-on-chapel-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2011\/09\/all-eyes-on-chapel-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"All eyes on Chapel Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Vicky Dickson<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/reader.100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/reader.100.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"reader.100\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/reader.100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/reader.100-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was standing room only for the launch of Eno Publishers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 collection <em>27 Views of Chapel Hill<\/em> at Flyleaf Books last Saturday, where attendees who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d braved the afternoon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heavy rain showers were rewarded with an impressive display of local literary talent. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Host Daniel Wallace, writer of the book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s introduction and cover illustrator, opened things up by noting how sedate a group the assembled writers were, unlike those unruly authors who made a sport of insulting one another in days of yore. He quipped: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I would love to see Daphne [Athas] tackle Paul Jones, and watch \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Erica [Eisdorfer] and Mama Dip in a little fistfight.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Which didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen, of course \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but the event was plenty lively all the same.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4821\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Reader092911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Reader092911.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Reader092911\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Reader092911.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Reader092911-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Reader092911-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Reader092911-106x80.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All eyes are on Mama Dip as she reads from 27 Views of Chapel Hill at Flyleaf Books on Saturday. Pictured, back to front, are authors Daniel Wallace, Alan Shapiro, Samia Serageldin, Elisabeth Spencer, Will McInerney and Mildred Council (Mama Dip). Photo by Robert Dickson <\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAnd plenty enlightening too. First to read an excerpt was restaurateur Mildred \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mama Dip\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Council, who recounted how she opened her restaurant in 1976 with $64 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just enough to buy what she needed to cook the opening day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s breakfast, but not enough, she realized later, to have enabled her to make change if one of her first customers had handed her a $10 bill. The proceeds from breakfast bought lunch, and lunch paid for supper fixings \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 with the profits of the day coming to $135. And thus the famed Dip\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Country Kitchen was born.<\/p>\n<p>Among the afternoon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s other highlights were readings from fiction set in Chapel Hill over the decades, with Athas evoking the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life in the \u00e2\u20ac\u212240s, and Lawrence Naumoff and Elizabeth Spencer doing the same for the tumultuous times of the \u00e2\u20ac\u212260\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and \u00e2\u20ac\u212270s. <\/p>\n<p>Charles Thompson offered a sobering reminiscence of an early \u00e2\u20ac\u212260s sit-in off Franklin Street, while Paul Cuadros showed us, in his vignette about the Hispanics now working behind the counter at Sutton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Drugstore, how much things have changed since those days. <\/p>\n<p>Then there was Bill Smith and his tale of life (floral and otherwise) along the bike path that connects Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and Jock Lauterer describing the trepidation he felt after inviting the adolescent James Taylor to his house for a guitar lesson. Samia Serageldin described a Muslim woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trepidation about throwing a party less than a week after 9\/11. Linnie Greene described coming to love the Nightlight, Eisdorfer told of moving to a verminous home (with indoor plumbing!) on Justice Street and D.G. Martin brought us the sisters who for decades have shared their Gimghoul Road garden with anyone who wishes to enter. The sisters, though they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting on in years, continue to maintain that beautiful garden because, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As long as we have the garden, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never be lonely.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Poetic talent was well represented too, with Alan Shapiro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s powerful verses about a singular basketball game, Paul Jones\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 poignant lines about a used bookstore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s forgotten volumes and a riveting ending performance by Sacrificial Poet Will McInerney.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Wallace summed it up nicely: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This whole program is like being Tantalus \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you just want more, and then they stop.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>But fortunately, there is more \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all you have to do is buy <em>27 Views of Chapel Hill<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Not only will you get the full stories you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been tantalized with, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get equally fascinating views of Chapel Hill by Wells Tower, Will Blythe, Bland Simpson, Sy Safransky, William Leuchtenburg and many others. Which will leave you, in all likelihood, just wanting more from 27 (well, actually 29 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or 30, counting Wallace\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intro) fine local writers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make it to Flyleaf on Saturday will have another opportunity to meet Daniel Wallace and some of the <em>27 Views of Chapel Hill<\/em> authors, at the <strong>Regulator Bookshop<\/strong> in Durham, Oct. 11 at 7 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Those impressed  (and who wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t?) by Will McInerney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reading might want to check out Sacrificial Poets Touchstone Open Mic night at <strong>Flyleaf<\/strong>, the first Wednesday of every month from 6:30 to 8:30. <\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Hinge Literary Center<\/strong> will bring Alan Shapiro back to Flyleaf on Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. for a lecture and discussion entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why Write?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re having some trouble getting started, check out \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How to get past the first chapter and finish your novel,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which will be presented by writer James Maxey at the <strong>Orange County Main Library<\/strong> in Hillsborough on Oct. 8 at 10 a.m. Aspiring novelists should register for the free event at the library\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s information desk, by calling 245-2536 or online at the Orange County Library site, www.co.orange.nc.us\/library\/adultevents.asp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Vicky Dickson It was standing room only for the launch of Eno Publishers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 collection 27 Views of Chapel Hill at Flyleaf Books last Saturday, where attendees who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d braved the afternoon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heavy rain showers were rewarded with an impressive display of local literary talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4868,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}