Frederick Gustav Meyer

…on the White House roof to protect the president.””   SOURCE: Sullivan, Patricia. 2006. Obituary: Frederick Meyer, 88. The Washington Post. November 14, 2006. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/11/14/frederick-meyer-88/5079af3c-74b9-43c8-a02f-e352f18513e1/ accessed on 13 December 2022….

Clifford R. Parks

…USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/606154048/?article=41c34f0d-53e9-433a-a53c-2eceda363e25/4f61241f-d62c-43a5-b1ea-3e18d24fd8a3&focus=0.27969596,0.84042877,0.5112509,0.96954286&xid=3398. Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2020. 9. Obituary of Kai Mei Parks, 2015. https://walkersfuneralservice.com/tribute/details/1039/Kai-Parks/obituary.html accessed 18 January 2021….

John White Chickering, Jr.

…ears, open mind: Gerald McCarthy (1858-1915): North Carolina Botanist. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 115(4): 201-212. Chickering was married to Luciana Jameson (1834-1893) and together they had two daughters, Frances…

Frances Ernestine Silliman

Frances Ernestine (1957) Chamaelirium luteum (L.) Gray: a biological study. Ph.D. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Silliman, Frances Ernestine (1955) A study of a colony of hybrid…

Enchantress along the Eno

…New Life. https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/599831473/circe-gives-the-witch-of-the-odyssey-a-new-life accessed on 30 June 2021. The Confluence Natural Area is located at 4214 Highland Farm Road, Hillsborough, NC, and is open daily from dawn to dusk. It…

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…Bush on their 50th wedding anniversary. Photo courtesy of Cathy Martin; Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53510949/benjamin-franklin-bush : accessed 06 December 2021), memorial page for Benjamin Franklin “Bf” Bush…

John Robert Raper

…of Sciences, Washington, D.C. http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/raper-john.pdf. 2. 1958 John R. Raper Dope Sheet ’33 Yackety Yack Revisited. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumni Records. 3. Williams, Dudley (1974) Memorandum…

John Marshall Grant

…of naturalists who lay the foundation for the more spectacular work of the specialist. SOURCES: 1. John Marshall Grant. Find A Grave Memorial #133856997. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin//fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=133856997 accessed on 11 January 2017….

What’s Your Flavor? Special Event

…thrilled to continue our partnership with them by offering this special event.” The cost to attend the program is $30. For further information and registration, visit www.orangehistorync.org or call 919-732-2201….

Lichen Updates: new name and new county records

…Eaglenest Mountain (4925 feet; 35.4962070 latitude, -83.0431905 longitude) and adjacent North Eaglenest Mountain (5066 feet; 35.5002672 latitude, -83.0416956 longitude) are on Eaglenest Ridge, WSW of Lake Junaluska and NW of…