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Local Lore: Old Christmas

Posted by Victor Lewis | Dec 25, 2020 | Local Lore, Town Square

The Christmas holiday has more or less been the same for the past couple hundred years, drawing...

Local Lore: Falling Through a Thunderstorm

Posted by Victor Lewis | Mar 15, 2019 | Local Lore, Town Square

Only one person is known to have survived a fall from the top of a thunderstorm, plummeting...

Local Lore: Winter Weather Records

Posted by Victor Lewis | Jan 10, 2019 | Local Lore, Town Square

While not a reliable home for a white Christmas, North Carolina is well-known for a variety of...

Local Lore: Blackbeard and Show Boats

Posted by Victor Lewis | Oct 12, 2018 | Local Lore, Town Square

In eastern North Carolina, Beaufort County in particular, you’ll find the small town of Bath....

Local Lore: Tabitha Anne Holton

Posted by Victor Lewis | Sep 21, 2018 | Local Lore, Town Square

Tabitha Anne Holton, born in 1854 to a Methodist minister in Guilford County, was the first female...

Local Lore: The Forest Theatre

Posted by Claire Mackman | Aug 16, 2018 | Local Lore, Town Square

The Forest Theatre, located on the eastern side of UNC-Chapel Hill campus has been around for 100...

Local Lore: Putting the ‘Orange’ in ‘Orange County’

Posted by Victor Lewis | Jul 13, 2018 | Local Lore, Town Square

There are eight Orange Counties across the United States. Two of the most famous, located in...

Lore Lore: Menthol & Junk Mail

Posted by Victor Lewis | Jun 15, 2018 | Local Lore, Town Square

Vicks VapoRub is a medicine cabinet staple around the world, and Vicks has something in common with Pepsi, Texas Pete and overalls that especially endears it to hearts below the Mason-Dixon line: it was invented in North Carolina.

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