Berkeley Grimball

Berkeley Grimball started making jewelry in college with three tools and two techniques. Many tools and techniques later, he still creates at Grimball Jewelers, a 31-year-old Chapel Hill institution, on South Elliott Road.

So Long: Grimball Jewelers Shutters After the Christmas Season

Business, Out & About / December 12, 2017

“How did you get into the jewelry business?” I am often asked. “Did your father start this business?” Not a bad guess – a large number of retail jewelry stores are passed from one generation to the next, but in my case it’s because my UNC college roommate, Pablo Lancella, went to Amsterdam one summer […]

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What One Chapel Hillian Learned After a Week in a Buddhist Monastery

Culture / May 5, 2016

“Can you talk?” This question was asked by every person I told I was going to Thailand to spend a week in a Buddhist monastery and visit my friend Bob Haddad. Answer: Yes, but talking is not encouraged. The Wat Tam Wua Forest Monastery is in northern Thailand, a place of spectacular beauty – think the Great Smokies

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