Rassie Everton Wicker

…collected in his native Moore County, North Carolina, but there are a few from Hoke and Lee Counties as well. In addition to NCU other herbaria which curate specimens collected…

Further Afield: Strolling Around Purgatory

…had encountered (and were puzzled by!) Horse-sugar had been at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in February 2023. Distribution of Horse-sugar (Symplocos tinctoria) in North Carolina. Courtesy of North Carolina Biodiversity…

Charles “Chuck” Lewis McCartney, Jr.

…was born April 25, 1947, in James Archer Smith Hospital, Homestead, Fla., to Charles Lewis McCartney Sr. and Katharine Orphanedes McCartney. A fourth-generation South Floridian, he attended Neva King Cooper…

Bernard Carl Mikula

(? – 2017) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 90 vascular plant specimens collected by Bernard Mikula; as we continue to catalog our collections…

Elsie Julia Gibson Whitney

…of the Naval Radio Station, habitually had Auzenia Diakanof, a native girl, at the station for immoral purposes, that her mother had complained to Hope about the matter, and he…

Peter Edward “Ed” Bostick

…investigation of Chandler Mountain, St. Clair Co., Alabama. Castanea 32(3): 133-154. SOURCES: http://www.lib.unc.edu/biology/theses.html accessed on 30 December 2010 http://www.kennesaw.edu/cetl/oralhistories/Ed%20Bostick.pdf accessed on 30 December 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw_State_University accessed on 30 December 2010…

Katherine Augusta Taylor

…of Germantown Bethel Church, adjacent to Tipahato, and her gravestone faces the house she loved.4,5 Katherine Augusta Taylor is buried in the graveyard of Germantown Bethel Church, adjacent to Tipahato;…

Abbé Auguste Barthelemy Langlois

…2012. http://www.lahistory.org/site29.php 4. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 June 2020), memorial page for Rev Fr Augustus Barthelmy Langlois (24 Apr 1832–31 Jul 1900), Find a…

Lewis Henry Lighthipe

…meetings with much regularity until the infirmities of advancing age made it necessary for him to give up the trips from his New Jersey home, and finally led him to…

Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…beloved by her husband and admired by people across North Carolina. She died on August 28 in Chapel Hill. Born on May 24, 1925 in Birmingham, Alabama to Emma and…