Further Afield: Strolling Around Purgatory

…SOURCES: 1. Roznick, Betsy. 2021. Spend some time in Purgatory: Exploring the Zoo’s Purgatory Mountain. https://www.nczoo.org/blog/spend-some-time-purgatory-exploring-zoos-purgatory-mountain accessed on 19 Nov 2023. 2. Weakley, A.S., and Southeastern Flora Team. 2024. Flora…

Henrietta “Henny” Laing Chambers

…L. Chambers” on most of her professional publications. She earned her Ph.D. in 1961 at Yale University (Connecticut). The title of her doctoral thesis was “A cytotaxonomic study of the…

Philip French-Carson Greear

…we continue to catalog our holdings it is likely more will be found. Most of Greear’s specimens curated by NCU were collected for his doctoral work on the vegetation of…

Land Acknowledgement

…Historical Museum, Temporary Exhibit – Yésah: Journeys of the Occaneechi, https://www.orangehistorync.org/temporary-exhibit “Yésah is a Tutelo-Saponi word which means “the people.” The Yésah formed numerous bands, yet they were one people,…

Douglas Dwight Sharp

…al. 1976. Agricultural and forest primary productivity in North Carolina, 1972-1973. Raleigh: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. SOURCES: Obituary. Douglas Dwight Sharp. Dignity Memorial. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/east-lansing-mi/douglas-sharp-7389073 accessed on 26 July 2022….

Rassie Everton Wicker

…Katharine S. 1996. Wicker, Rassie Everton. Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 6 volumes, edited by William S. Powell. Copyright ©1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/wicker-rassie-everton accessed on…

Edward Avery McIlhenny

…Auk 56(4): 472-474. McIlhenny, E. A. 1939. An unusual migration of Broad-winged Hawks. The Auk 56(2): 182-183. McIlhenny, E. A. 1938. Whooping Crane in Louisiana. Auk 55: 670. McIlhenny, E….

Herman Harrison Braxton

…Braxton Dope Sheet. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alumni Records Office. 2. Find A Grave. Hermann Harrison Braxton. Memorial ID: 74181831. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74182831/_ accessed on 15 September 2020.  …