Hot Dog 2: The Dog House in Durham North Carolina

 

 

 
The Dog House is a small chain of fast food hot dog restaurants in Durham North Carolina, with satellite locations in Roxboro and Hillsborough.  All of the restaurants are housed in what appears to be a dog house, (as in the above photographs, these of the location in Hillsborough).
Though more popular in the early 1970’s when The Dog House [...]

Hot Dog 1: Paul’s Place Famous Hot Dogs in Rocky Point North Carolina

 

 

 
Paul’s Place is a quick service restaurant selling mostly ”famous” hot dogs on U.S. Route 117 in Rocky Point North Carolina, just a few miles north of Wilmington.  The “Paul” of Paul’s Place is not an informal first name, but the family (last) name of the extended family who has operated a Paul’s Place in the [...]

Overhead Illumination at Cum-Park Plaza on Church Street (Hwy 70) in Burlington North Carolina

 

Permanent Roses and Impermanent Marker in a West Corbin Street Cemetary in Hillsborough North Carolina

 

May I Suggest The Alpen Acres Motel On Your Next Visit to Blowing Rock or Boone North Carolina

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
A delightful motor court in Blowing Rock North Carolina, just feet from Milepost 291 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Superlatives are many in this cozy motel.  Shuffleboard, horseshoes, volleyball, swimming and picnicking await you outside on the hilltop grounds.  Tweetsie’s whistle in the background reminds you of the motor court’s proximity to area high country [...]

Plymouth Road Runner Superbird at the Silk Hope Ruritan Old Fashioned Farmers Day in Chatham County North Carolina

 

 

 
A 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird, a street legal race car Plymouth produced for the consumer market in enough of a quantity (just over 1,900) to satisfy NASCAR’s production requirements to allow Richard Petty to race the car during the 1970 NASCAR season.  The Superbird boasted a large tailfin, a nosecone with recessed headlights, decals [...]

Layaway Now in Hillsborough North Carolina (at the site of the former The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company)

 

 
Advertising banner tacked to the wall beside a Maxway store on North Churton Street in Hillsborough North Carolina.  An aluminum-clad covered walkway protects the sign, and shoppers, from the elements.  The white wall, sign and concrete below are a soothing shade of orange and pink, compliments of the evening sun.
The sign, proclaiming what marketers term a “call to [...]

Sacred to the Memory of William Edmund Strayhorn in Hillsborough North Carolina

 

 
A black cat lounging on the prone grave of William Edmund Strayhorn in the Old Town Cemetery in Hillsborough North Carolina.
The Old Town Cemetery (“old” being a distinguishing moniker, as there is a “new” town cemetery started in the last days of the American Civil War, 6 blocks up the street) lies on the most [...]

Summer Cook Out and Birthday Party in Chapel Hill North Carolina

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
One: Pauline, and nephew, Fincastle.
Two: J.T., and his sweet son Mason.
Three: Walker and Lois with water pistols.
Four: Dennis, telling a heck of a story.
Five:  Ennis and fleur-de-lis.
Six: The host, Young.
Seven: Birthday girl, Sara, holding her son, Fincastle.
Eight: Allyson!

My Letter to the Editor of the Independent Weekly Regarding Bob Geary’s story “A State of Denial,” Profiling Rhonda Robinson and the Health Care Reform Debate

 I recently wrote a Letter to the Editor of the Independent Weekly, which is a wonderful weekly magazine with a liberal bent published and circulated in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area of North Carolina (the Triangle).  My letter was in response to the story published in the 07-15-2009 edition,  “A State of Denial,” by Bob Geary [...]