What’s Your Flavor? Special Event

…Tom Stevens. In addition, the exhibit also includes illustrations by North Carolina Botanical Artists Circle members including graduates of the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Certificate Program*: Sherry Graham, Lisa Holmsen*,…

Hugo Leander Blomquist

…Gray Card Index in the hallway in dark green drawers, I had to check whether this story was wholly apocryphal, but indeed, every drawer had a fine gray powder in…

Ruby Deaton Harbison Pharr

…that culminated in weekend-long camping trips to identify the flowers of the region. In 1986 [she] received the first “Excellence in Teaching Award” from Western Piedmont Community College and [in…

Charles Edward Raynal

…live specimens to Coker and his research assistant, Alma Holland Beers, which each planted in their yards in Chapel Hill. The tree planted in Beer’s yard in the Gimghoul neighborhood…

Mary Sue Munson Brehme

…oak baskets and other items used to interpret life in the village. (8, 9) Robert Brehme died in 2016 in Belleair Bluffs, Florida, and was survived by his wife of…

Ernest Gibbes Patton

…and retired from that institution in 1987.1 Patton’s thesis advisor at UCN-Chapel Hill was J. E. Adams, and the title of his Master’s Thesis was “Influence of flax root byproducts…

Ralph Page Ashworth, Jr.

…listed twice in the 1940 census — living in Asheville with his parents and teaching public school in that city, and as a lodger in Mount Gilead, Montgomerty County, North…

James Everard Benedict, Jr.

…isotype is in the National Herbarium, but in that form the pinnae are only pinnatifid (the costal wing being relatively broad) and the segments are subentire. In f. dissectum the…

William Willard Ashe

…the rank of captain. He was for a time a railroad conductor, but in January, 1867, he was admitted to the bar in Wilmington. In 1870 he was a successful…