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1oangeLA
I grew up in Chapel Hill from 1965 to 1980. My father taught there in the Accounting Department at UNC. I moved to NYC in 1980.
Just like Thomas Wolfe, I never went home again. Happy to see your group! For three years I worked in the Undergraduate libary under the Reference librarians. These were formative years and my love of books and libraries has continued to grow. I am currently the librarian for a Los Angeles elementary school besides having a long distance NYC art career. Hope that isn't too much bio- I would love to hear from any other townies and visitors from the hippie and post hippie generation!
Just like Thomas Wolfe, I never went home again. Happy to see your group! For three years I worked in the Undergraduate libary under the Reference librarians. These were formative years and my love of books and libraries has continued to grow. I am currently the librarian for a Los Angeles elementary school besides having a long distance NYC art career. Hope that isn't too much bio- I would love to hear from any other townies and visitors from the hippie and post hippie generation!
3sycoraxpine
Does anyone have a favorite North Carolinian author? It is such a fertile region for fiction, as for so many other things.
4sycoraxpine
By the way, oangeLA, I have been spending a lot of time in LA recently and have been surprised at how many Tar Heels there are out here. I have even been to watch a couple of Duke-Carolina games in Santa Monica, where the turnout of Heels is always really impressive.
5Katissima
I worked in the Undergrad ...as an Undergrad! *grin* I keep _trying_ to leave Chapel Hill, and I just end up coming back!
6Katissima
What are people's favorite North Carolina bookstores?
Some of my favorites:
Triangle:
Books-On-Ninth Durham, NC
The Bookshop Chapel Hill, NC
(sorry I don't have a Raleigh or Cary fav.)
Manteo Booksellers Manteo, NC
I grew up in Eastern NC in a town where there was (shock and horror!) NO BOOKSTORE. We bought books at the pharmacy and the Food Lion! So, to support my reading habit, acquired at an early age, my dad used to drive me to Manteo, and we would have lunch and go to the book store. Bliss!
There was also a book store in Rocky Mount. I'm not sure if it is still there, but I bought my first Anne McCaffrey book from that store! A seminal event in my life! It was next door to an Eckerd's that still had a lunch counter in the early 90s. You've never had such a good pancake in your life as from an Eckerd's!
There also used to be a rather good used book shop in Greenville called the Bookworm. Alas, it is gone.
Some of my favorites:
Triangle:
Books-On-Ninth Durham, NC
The Bookshop Chapel Hill, NC
(sorry I don't have a Raleigh or Cary fav.)
Manteo Booksellers Manteo, NC
I grew up in Eastern NC in a town where there was (shock and horror!) NO BOOKSTORE. We bought books at the pharmacy and the Food Lion! So, to support my reading habit, acquired at an early age, my dad used to drive me to Manteo, and we would have lunch and go to the book store. Bliss!
There was also a book store in Rocky Mount. I'm not sure if it is still there, but I bought my first Anne McCaffrey book from that store! A seminal event in my life! It was next door to an Eckerd's that still had a lunch counter in the early 90s. You've never had such a good pancake in your life as from an Eckerd's!
There also used to be a rather good used book shop in Greenville called the Bookworm. Alas, it is gone.
7TheresaWilliams
Sorry to intrude on your group (I have degrees from ECU), but I saw the question about NC authors and I just had to say I had an encounter with Doris Betts. What a kind woman. I grew up in NC and had just published my first novel, and I contacted her out of the blue asking for advice. She not only gave the advice, but sent me several of her books. I can only just imagine what it would have been like to have a class with her.
8LizzieD
Hark the Sound!
I was a special student from '68-'70 taking courses for teacher certification in English from the best! Married a Heel who (as I just wrote in another group) spent all his time in the library or playing pool in the student center or fishing in University Lake. Later I took Latin corresponden courses through UNC for certification and also went back periodically for coaching sessions with a university piano prof. Hope that secures my place here and that this group may revive.
I was a special student from '68-'70 taking courses for teacher certification in English from the best! Married a Heel who (as I just wrote in another group) spent all his time in the library or playing pool in the student center or fishing in University Lake. Later I took Latin corresponden courses through UNC for certification and also went back periodically for coaching sessions with a university piano prof. Hope that secures my place here and that this group may revive.
