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Seeing a sheriff’s real challenges through fiction

Posted by D.G. Martin | Sep 28, 2015 | D.G. Martin

Just what does a North Carolina sheriff do these days? Retired District Court Judge Stanley Peele, writing about Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood, says that the concept of law enforcement officers has changed from...

Summer’s Final Reading Assignments

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 4, 2015 | D.G. Martin

A classic love story full of mountain music from one of North Carolina’s greatest living balladeers, a loving portrait of a North Carolina beach by a modern prophet of coastal catastrophe, a fictional look into the recent past...

Chapel Hill Library to Host Harper Lee Celebration

Posted by Staff | Jul 13, 2015 | News Around Town

Harper Lee’s new book, “Go Set a Watchman,” will be the subject of events Tuesday at the Chapel Hill Public Library. Readers remember the Atticus Finch of Harper Lee’s groundbreaking 1960 novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” as the...

Major Golsteyn and General Noriega: In Headlines and Vacation Books

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 6, 2015 | D.G. Martin

Headline news stories in recent few days reported the U.S. Army’s disciplining of Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, who was once seen as a hero for his service with the Special Forces in Afghanistan. Golsteyn was accused of killing an...

Local Authors Fox, O’Neil Take “Road Trip Carolina”

Posted by Aaron Keck | Jun 29, 2015 | Arts

“Road Trip Carolina” is the second collaboration between Elaine O’Neil and Missy Julian Fox.

Road Safety In 2014; World Book Night; Home For The Holidays

Posted by Ran Northam | Jan 1, 2014 | News Around Town

The Town of Chapel Hill is kicking off 2014 by asking you to make a resolution to drive with care and pay attention when walking or biking.

CHPL Commemorates Banned Books Week With Trading Cards

Posted by Staff | Sep 25, 2013 | Arts

Chapel Hill Public Library celebrates Banned Books Week by asking local artists to make trading cards inspired by banned writers.

Basketball and the small cracks in the wall of segregation

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 30, 2011 | D.G. Martin

The best thing about the new movie and best-selling book, “The Help,” may be something other than the compelling story and the view into the relationships between white women and their black servants. So what is this “best...

Dealing with “The Help”

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 23, 2011 | D.G. Martin

“You-all afraid if we take over we might treat y’all like you treated us. And you might be right.” It sounds like something Minny, one of the characters in “The Help” (either the book or the new movie), might say to one of the...

Fiction tells the truth about North Carolina’s changing rural landscape

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 12, 2011 | D.G. Martin

We have changed. More urban. Less rural and farming. At least that is what the latest Census is telling us. But the story is more complicated. It is more interesting, too. Out in the formerly all-rural counties of our state, new...

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