Culture
We are driving up 15-501 in the pouring April rain, toward the parking snarls of the Smith Center. Though I will be told several times throughout the next four hours that I am a good father – even a “great dad” – for letting my girls experience a Chapel Hill […]
Paige Horvath and Chris Putt met as children at YMCA Camp Clearwater, began dating in high school – Chris attended East Chapel Hill High and Paige attended Chapel Hill High – and suddenly, one day together became seven years. After Paige graduated from UNC-Greensboro and Chris from UNC-Charlotte, they moved […]
A freshman year birthday party at UNC-Greensboro facilitated a fast friendship for Chapel Hill native Alicia Lanham and Ronald Sisco II of Boston and eight years later, it would result in a marriage. After their graduation, the couple moved to Chapel Hill where Alicia would attend and graduate from Watts […]
Katie Stanford and Kent Torell met at Chapel Hill High, after Kent brought Katie her homework everyday while she was out of class due to a horseback-riding accident. Eight years later, Kent popped the question over a casual sushi lunch, where the waitress interrupted the proposal – accidentally – to […]
Raised in the Philadelphia suburbs, Stacey Lange graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English literature and language. She briefly lived in Durham while her husband Brian was in graduate school at Duke before heading north again. “Then the opportunity came up to move back and we […]
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Olympian, former UNC running coach, three-time NCAA All-American at UNC and pioneer for North Carolina women’s high school cross-country … Joan Nesbit Mabe is a legend living right in our backyard. The Cedars at Bolin Forest, to be exact. Now the cross-country coach at Chapel Hill High School, Joan is […]
Even though UNC basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell was in great shape in 2013 when she started treatment for acute myeloid leukemia at UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the weeks of chemotherapy were brutal. Nevertheless, she forced herself to do something physical almost every day: lifting free weights, using resistance bands […]
Dylan Stroupe, who attended Northwood High School in Pittsboro, and Crystal Stanford, who attended Chapel Hill High School, grew up just a few miles apart. But despite that, and having both attended UNC for undergrad, Dylan and Crystal’s paths didn’t cross until Dylan was a newbie on Crystal’s recreational kickball […]
Among the abundant blossoms and greenery that adorn Chapel Hill, a few hidden messages can be found if you know where to look. Parallel to the welcoming of spring, Floraffiti returns for its fifth year of celebrating literary and ornamental beauty. This year, groups from around the community such as Boomerang, […]
