What’s Your Flavor? Special Event

…of art inspired by food-related pieces in the Museum’s collection. These artists include: John Beerman, Hannah Dodson, Carlos Gonzalez Garcia, Anne Hobgood, Senora Lynch, Chieko Murasugi, Jermaine “JP” Powell, and…

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.

…15, 1950. Son: James Everard Benedict III, born March 1st, 1915, graduated from University of Alabama engineer school in 1940. Being in the R.O.T.C., he was called in the Army…

William Willard Ashe

…of “The Great Depression”, the worst in its history… Institutions as well as people were hard hit, and there was no money to be found for extras. It was during…