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When the filing period opens at noon tomorrow, I will be in Hillsborough to file for election to the  Chapel Hill Town Council . Today, I...

Yesterday many members of the community gathered to remember Rebecca Clark and to dedicate the gazebo in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery to her...

Yesterday it was my pleasure to speak at the dedication of the HOPE Gardens, a community garden on town-owned land sponsored by the Homeless...

A little-known fact: grass used to grow around the flag pole in front of the old post office on Franklin Street. That's why those red br...

Today is Tomato Day at the Carrboro Farmers Market. This essay was published in the "Tomato" issue of the Carrboro Free Press on...

Some time ago I wrote about Paul Jones the art collector (not Sally's Paul Jones (a.k.a. "The Real Paul Jones")). I wrote ab...

My Town Council colleague Bill Thorpe died on Saturday. We will miss him very much. I came to know him first in early 2004, when he was inv...

This is a question I was asked at yesterday's second annual Project Homeless Connect . It's a good question. There's probably a ...

On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, some recommended reading: the special Katrina issue of Southern Cultures , cover to cover. Am...

A couple of months ago, Al blogged about " Traces of the Trade ," a documentary made by a descendant of the DeWolf family of Rhod...

Frank Harmon's beautiful design for the North Carolina Botanical Garden's new visitor education center , slated to be the first P...

I made a very quick trip out to Asheville before school starts--been hearing a bunch about the place and, of course, it was everything I...

Earlier this week came the hard news that Ashley Osment's cancer has returned. The rare form of ovarian cancer that struck her last year...

Cute post, Al , but it's obvious I'm no Obama. I'd love to take his courses. Or teach some pale semblance of one of them again s...

They both are interested in Justice Thomas Ruffin's 1830 opinion in State v. Mann ! Sally writes about it and Obama taught it in his se...

To follow up on the post below on the contested North Carolina/Virginia line, here's a great old map. Nicholas Comberford’s 1657 ...

At right is the cover of the Chowan County grand jury indictment, in spring 1829, of John Mann for the assault and battery of the slave Lydi...

This evening I want to read Jefferson Davis' July 1852 address to the Phi Sigma and Hermean Societies of the University of Mississippi...

On Monday afternoon we visited Howard Rheingold at his Marin County home, a cottage nestled into a lush California garden. On good days, wh...

David Silver , his wife Sarah Washburn, and their friends James Jacobs and ShinJohng Yeo spent the day yesterday showing us their San Franci...