While we’re visiting the family farms around the Triangle during the sixth annual Piedmont Farm Tour this weekend, many of us will be thinking about the farmers of Ireland, the United Kingdom and Europe, who have been so tragically impacted by the epidemics of mad cow and foot-and-mouth diseases. More than a million cattle, sheep […]
Linda Burnham
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Freedom Path
The poet laureate of Chatham County was born a slave. Two hundred years after he was brought to the county by his owner, the citizens of Chatham are honoring their favorite son with the George Moses Horton Project, culminating with a Jubilee on Nov. 18 at the Pittsboro middle school bearing his name. Until recently, […]
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The Genius of Apples
There’s a hearty band of hunters ransacking the South, says Lee Calhoun, hunting for old Southern apples. They are tracking down apple trees in the front yards of old country homes that may disappear tomorrow. Time is running out for these hunters. Of the 1,400 apple varieties known to have originated in the South, only […]
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Radio history
Think radio doesn’t matter? Then you weren’t listening to NPR’s history of the Democratic Party, a two-parter by veteran newsman Robert Trout, aired on WUNC last week. It brought back a piece of history so vividly that I had to pull my car to the roadside until I could catch my breath. Trout’s report included […]
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Jelly Educational Theater
A lot of people are going to miss Carrboro’s Jelly Educational Theater–the 30,000 kids all over the Triangle who saw and loved their plays, and the parents and teachers who felt a part of their process, not to mention the theater’s cast and crew. After only four years, Jelly called it quits last April, and […]
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River voice
Who needs artists when you’re trying to save a river? The Haw River Assembly, that’s who. The Haw River Assembly (HRA) is a nonprofit grassroots organization founded in 1982. Its mission is to protect and restore the Haw River, which flows 110 miles from Forsyth County to the Cape Fear River. The Assembly has its […]
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Locally Grown
If you’re a student of sustainable agriculture or just a fan of the local growers who sell their organic produce at the farmers’ markets in Carrboro, Fearrington and Pittsboro, there’s great news this spring: The fifth annual Piedmont Farm Tour this weekend will offer twice as many farms to visit as last year. Twenty-five local […]
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The men behind the masks
Some fresh faces have surfaced in the Triangle, some fresh giant faces. Watch for them at Earth Day celebrations, the Haw River Festival, the Festival for the Eno, environmental justice demonstrations, maybe your best friend’s wedding. You can’t miss them. They bounce and swoop above the heads of the crowd: a grumpy old man, a […]
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Doing Alice proud
When she was 19 years old, Alice Waters spent a year in France, eating. Her most memorable meal took place in a little stone house in Brittany. Stairs led up to a small dining room that seated no more than a dozen people, from which one could look through the open windows to the stream […]
