Do you remember the important North Carolina connection to “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” one of America’s most loved novels? The book was written in North Carolina. Although its author, Betty... Read More
Why would anybody want to spend months walking from the South Carolina coast, up through the Piedmont to present-day Charlotte, and then back east to the North Carolina tidewater? There are two good... Read More
North Carolina’s most important emergency is not the next federal government shutdown. Nor is it a fake national emergency on the nation’s southern border Our state’s real emergency is a real... Read More
Chapel Hill is still stunned. Folks here woke up on Tuesday last week to see the base of the Silent Sam monument gone, thanks to the surprising and decisive action of UNC-CH Chancellor Carol Folt. She... Read More
A couple of weeks ago I shared with readers a list of famous North Carolinians published in the 2019“The World Almanac and Book of Facts.” I invited readers to suggest other people they thought... Read More
While I have been traveling up and down North Carolina’s roads in search of local eateries, UNC Law School professor Gene Nichol has been traveling the same roads looking for something else. I was... Read More
What really happened to Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents born in the New World? The same Virginia Dare whom I suggested recently belonged on “The World Almanac’s” list of famous... Read More
One of my favorite things about the holiday season is the arrival of “The World Almanac and Book of Facts.” Its thousand pages of fine print are a valuable resource. But there is a problem. When I... Read More
What is a good book I can give a friend? Every year I get this question from folks who know that I try to keep up with North Carolina-related books. First of all, I have to warn people that giving... Read More
The real mystery after half a century,” Wyndham Robertson says, “is why life at the top of large American corporations still seems so overwhelmingly male.” Writing in The New York Times on... Read More
