919hiphop
A glimpse into the hiphop scene in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. Information about groups, djs and a special monthly spotlight feature
Anima Dance
Anima Dance is a modern dance company based in Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 2000 by director Rachel Brooker, the company has performed in venues across the state. Rachel Brooker also teaches dance and yoga classes in the Triangle area of NC.
Audio Activism
Audio Activism is a independently produced spoken word "radio show" and weblog with subject content focusing on media activism. Weekly mp3s are released using the podcasting medium. The main goal is to educate and encourage people about making their own media.
Broken Arrow: Goldsboro, NC
On Tuesday, 24 January 1961, at about 12:30 a.m., two hydrogen bombs fell to earth near the tiny farming village of Faro, NC. Obviously, neither bomb yielded its awful potential, or the world would today be mourning an infamous catastrophe. An on-going environmental concern centers on the portion or portions of one bomb still buried, sunk in a boggy farm field.
Carolina Soul
Discography of soul 45s from North and South Carolina.
Carolina Week
Current stories from NC week in text and video format as well as archives of past shows. Carolina Week is a once-a-week student newscast that can be viewed across the NC Triangle area..
Chapel Hill Historical Society
The name Chapel Hill Historical Society suggests a focus upon the town of Chapel Hill, but the organization actually is equally concerned with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for the two are inseparable.
Colonial Village Neighborhood Association of Durham
Website of the Colonial Village Neighborhood Association of Durham, North Carolina.
CyberSufis
CyberSufis is an attempt to offer a small digital multimedia fragrance of the many roses that open up when one walks down the path of Sufism.
Desert City Poetry Series
Primarily a list for announcing poetry readings that are part of the Desert City series held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Other poetry and related events in the North Carolina region will also be announced.
Excavating Occaneechi Town
Electronic monograph (published by UNC Press) that describes the history and archaeology of Occaneechi Town, an Indian village near present-day Hillsborough, North Carolina, that was visited by explorer John Lawson in 1702.
Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in North Carolina
This is an online version of Excavating Occaneechi Town, a CD-ROM published by UNC Press with the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at UNC - Chapel Hill. This electronic site report describes and interprets the buried remains of a small but important village of the Occaneechi tribe in North Carolina at the beginning of the eighteenth century. This online version, like the CD-ROM, contains a wealth of visual and descriptive information not usually available in an archaeological site report, including an archaeological teaching tool, called the "electronic dig" which allows student to design their own research strategies and re-excavate Occaneechi Town.
Fine Dining
Guide to Chapel Hill's best restaurants -online menus (for lunch and dinner), winelists, reviews, photos of the restaurants and the meals. Real Video interviews take you into the kitchen to meet the chefs.
Folktunes.org - The Folktunes Archive
Folktunes Archive for Teaching and Learning
As folk music is for the people and by the people anyone may contribute to this collection via wiki. There are a few types of recordings available for streaming and download: instructional, jam sessions, albums/demos, and vintage.
Wiki powered by MediaWiki.
Recordings hosted by Archive.org.
Forest Theatre Festival
wideawake - Forest Theatre Festival - outdoor summer theater festival on the UNC-CH campus. Sit under the stars and enjoy by a variety of performances by local troupes including: Paper Hand Puppet Intervention, the Open Door Theatre, First Circle Ensemble Players, and wideAwake theatre.
Fully Awake: The Black Mountain College Experience
"Fully Awake: The Black Mountain College Experience" is a documentary film project that explores Black Mountain College's history and cultural impact. The film will be made to be used in educational outreach programs in high schools throughout North Carolina and the South. The film is currently in production by UNC Alumni Cathryn Davis (Director/Producer), Kyle McCabe (Producer), and David Teague (D.P./Editor).
Gaston County Museum of Art and History
Located in a National Register of Historic Places District, the museum is housed in an elegantly simple Greek Revival building. Other museum buildings include the Old Jail (1848), Train Depot (1901) and a modern Carriage House.
At GCM, you will see period rooms and permanent exhibits, including the new Carolinas Textile Exhibit and NC's largest exhibit of horse-drawn vehicles. Changing exhibits illuminate regional history and visual arts.
Ghost Stories of North Carolina
This site allows users to learn about the history of North Carolina ghost stories, to read, see, and hear actual ghost stories, and to create a story of their own.
Haw River
Examine the Haw River, its inhabitants and its users. A Flash (require plug-in) presentation with interactive pages on pollution, sedimentation, critters, water allocation, and helping the river. Includes photo galleries and videos. Site is intended to accompany the PBS series IQ.
Hayti
Hayti, the African-American section of Durham, North Carolina, flourished from the 1880s to the 1940s. Like Memphis' Beale Street and the area around Atlanta's Sweet Auburn, Hayti was an island of African-American culture and business in a hostile society. This site provides glimpses of that vanished community.
Hollerin Contest
The semi-official web site for the National Hollerin' Contest, an annual competition held in Spivey's Corner, NC, that celebrates North Carolina Folklife.
iNSIDEoUT
iNSIDEoUT is a network of youth and gay-straight alliances working to connect and empower young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning through activism, education, fun and support.
Lower Cape Fear Photograph Collection
A growing collection of historic photographs, dating from 1850 through today, from the archives of the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society portraying the culture, architecture, people, and environment of Wilmington and its surroundings. Currently this collection contains over 1,200 photographs.
Madison County Project
A blog serving as a production diary of an independent documentary film about ballad singing in Madison County, North Carolina. It includes video edits from the development of the film, contextual materials, and media coverage. This web site is an experiment in opening up the documentary process
Molasses
This film by Sandra Jacobi documents the process and history surrounding molasses production in Union Mills, NC, which has been happening there since the 1920's. In their last year of production, the family hopes that this documentary will preserve the memory of this historical process.
Nite Grub
Chapel Hill's guide to late night eating -online menus, multimedia interviews, and reviews
Norfolk Southern Railway Historical Society
This Historical Society website is for the original Norfolk & Southern Railway that ran from Norfolk, VA to Charlotte, NC with
various branches (Aberdeen, Asheboro, Beaufort, Belhaven, Carthage, Columbia, Durham, Ellerbe, Fayetteville, Goldsboro (A&EC), Jackson Springs, Lee Creek, Oriental, Snow Hill (A&EC), Suffolk and Virginia Beach, VA).
It merged into the Southern Railway system on Jan. 1st, 1974.
North Carolina Archaeological Collection
An Interactive Online Database of Artifacts at the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
North Carolina Scholastic Media Association
The North Carolina Scholastic Media Association (NCSMA) serves scholastic journalism and works for its advancement. Member schools include junior high and high schools from across the state. A few elementary schools are also members.
North Carolina Section of the International Dark-Sky Association
The North Carolina Section of the International Dark-Sky Association represents North Carolina's first significant consolidated effort to reduce the sources of light pollution and light trespass in our local skies. We are losing our heritage of starry night skies. Terrestrial lights shining inefficiently into the night sky threaten to destroy the spectacular views the heavens offer. Even worse, this "light pollution" wastes energy and provides no benefit to society.
North Carolina State University Dance Team
The site for the North Carolina State University Dance Team.
North Carolina Treasures
A site dedicated to the rich history of the state of North Carolina. This site was created by Piedmont Community College first year DEAT Students.
North Carolina's Hurricane History
Features excerpts and photos from the book North Carolina's Hurricane History.
North Caroliniana Society
The North Caroliniana Society is dedicated to the promotion of increased knowledge and appreciation of North Carolina's heritage. Site contains information on society membership, publications, and awards.
Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
Site offers the history, layout, pictures, and detailed descriptions of the Chapel Hill Cemetery located on the UNC campus.
Orange County Arts Commission
The Arts Commission works to develop the arts in Orange County, North Carolina. This site features
a searchable database of over 1200 local
artists and organizations, a list of local arts
calendars, and a substantial
links page.
We also offer several programs
in support of local arts, including
grants, a
newsletter,
and others.
Oxford Orphanage Historical Site
The Oxford Orphanage, located in Oxford, North Carolina and now known as the Masonic Home for Children, is documented through virtual tour, photo gallery, history, and interviews.
Paul Green
Dramatist, teacher and author Paul Green is one of North Carolina's most revered writers and one of America's most distinguished. He grew up on a cotton farm in rural Harnett County, North Carolina, learning the value of hard physical labor as well as the importance and beauty of literature and music. He read books in the fields as he followed a mule-drawn plow and taught himself to play the violin, and would later compose music for his own dramas. Mr. Green pioneered in the field of outdoor historical drama. The Lost Colony, which has been remianed in production since 1937. Paul Green's first Broadway play, In Abraham's Bosom, won a Pulitzer Prize, and was followed by six more Broadway plays over his lifetime, as well as numerous other short and full-length plays, screenplays, short story collections, and books of non-fiction. Paul Green Foundation provides an extensive photo archive, a short biography by Green's daughter and annotated bibliography and index of Green's papers.
Paul Green: Dramatist and Activist
North Carolina-born Paul Green (1894-1981) was one of the South’s most revered writers, and one of America’s most distinguished. The first playwright from the South to gain national and international recognition, he was part of that remarkable generation of writers who first brought southern writing to the attention of the world. Site contains information on the Paul Green Foundation, a bibliography, a daughter's biography, photo gallery, Paul Green papers, honors, and essays.
Picturing the North Carolina Fund
Strength. Inspiration. The Picturing the North Carolina Fund online photography exhibit captures some of the most powerful images of community activism across North Carolina during the 1960s. These remarkable black and white photographs by Billy Barnes tell the story of the North Carolina Fund, a five year innovative community development initiative that sought to address racial and socioeconomic inequality throughout our state.
President Emeritus William Friday
This is the website for the office of President Emeritus of the University of North Carolina, William Friday. You will find contact information as well as links to President Friday's current work and abiding interests.
Social Movements Working Group
A Laboratory of Hope: The Social Movement Working Group at UNC-CH The SMWG is a research-action project based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We seek to understand and re-envision social movements. Many of us work within activist networks as well as across and beyond academic disciplines to challenge the divide between activism and the academy. We situate our work within broader struggles for change and social justice. Provisional Mission Statement: Our goals include: * Shifting the centre of gravity of the social sciences and humanities toward positive contributions to social change * Creating and disseminating alternative perspectives, theories and methodologies about social movements and activist work, including collaborative knowledge production and research * Fostering debate about the significance of contemporary social movements to local and global social change * Building a social movement within the academy by challenging and rethinking conventional categories and concepts and enacting horizontal practices in our work * Contributing to the understanding of, and positive engagement with diverse struggles for social justice * Reinstating utopian thinking in the academy as a tool for transforming the research and praxis
Stewards of the Land
Stewards of the Land is a multimedia documentary project that was completed in North Carolina’s Central Piedmont Region—an area known as The Triangle.
The focus of Stewards of the Land is six small-scale farmers who are profiled using photographs, audio documentary, and short pieces of writing. In addition, their work is contextualized through a series of articles examining sustainable agriculture in the area, the state of North Carolina, and the country as a whole.
The Triangle—anchored by the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill—is known for its vibrant network of organic and sustainable farms that supply the community with locally grown food nearly year-round.
Textile Heritage Museum
The Textile Heritage Museum is located in the Company Store and Office Building in the Glencoe Mill Village. The building was purchased for the museum in February 2004 and is an ongoing restoration project as well as a museum highlighting the textile history of Alamance County. It features history and machinery of the textile industry from the cottage industry to the present, the family labor system, life in the mill villages, and a company store exhibit. The currently operating textile mills of Alamance County will be featured in a special room with their history and products on display.
The Carter-Klan Documentary Project
Triangle NC IAF
Triangle NC IAF is a broad based, interfaith and ecumenical organization that uses the model of leadership development and community organizing of the IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation). Please visit the multimedia Durham CAN website - a member of Triangle NC AIF
UNC Virtual Tour
A multimedia tour of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with pictures of over 60 campus buildings and sites and history. Tour comes in three options: guided tour (with Arnie the animated tour guide), point and click map-based tour, or text-based tour.
WWI Detainees in Hot Springs, NC
From 1917 through 1918, the grounds of the Mountain Park Hotel in Hot Springs, North Carolina housed German civilians who were in the United States during World War I. These civilians were comprised of the crews of the German commercial ships which had taken cover in American ports when Great Britain declared war on Germany in 1914. Included in the group were members of a German orchestra who fled Tsingtao (Qingdao today) China, and a photographer, Adolph Thierbach. They sought refuge in New York Harbor for three years before being designated "enemy aliens" and transported to Hot Springs for internment. Very little is known about Herr Thierbach other than what can be gleaned from the photographs he took during his incarceration at the detainee camp. He chronicled the detainees' stay in the Mountain Park Hotel, the building of the actual detainee camp, and the construction of the unique German village built on the grounds by the detainees. He photographed the “Tsingtao Orchestra” before and after concerts given for local residents, cricket games played on the grounds of the hotel, the reconstruction of a bridge destroyed by flooding, and detainees who served in the local fire department. Tragically, also included are photographs of the headstones marking the graves of the forty Germans who died during a typhoid epidemic. Eventually Herr Thierbach put all of his photographs into an album and captioned them. This project is a recreation of Herr Thierbach's photographs including translations of the original German captions. Many of the buildings in these photographs no longer exist, and those left are not known locally by the names in Herr Thierbach's album. Within this digital collection we have attempted to faithfully reproduce his work as he created it. The Madison County LIbrary, located in Marshall, North Carolina, created this website through a special grant and owns the photos in this archive.
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