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S4E4 Who Killed Rachel Crook? Episode 4: Bold as Lions
It was Day Three of the highly charged Rachel Crook murder trial. The well-liked 71-year-old had mysteriously disappeared from Crook’s Corner, her Chapel Hill fish store, in the late summer of 1951.…
S4E3 Who Killed Rachel Crook? Episode 3: Thanks for the Memories
In 1952, bulldozer operator Hobart Lee faced a jury of his peers at the highly charged murder trial of Chapel Hillian Rachel Crook. The previous August, the beloved 71-year-old woman had been found…
S4E2 Who Killed Rachel Crook? Episode 2: Getting Punked
In mid-century Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beloved 71-year-old woman was found murdered, and initial reports were that she'd been raped. Rachel Crook was a familiar figure around town. She ran a…
S4E1 Who Killed Rachel Crook? Episode 1: Citizen Crook
In mid-century Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Rachel Crook was a familiar figure around town. The 71-year-old ran a fish store called Crook's Corner. That same site, under the same name, would…
S3E26 Episode 26: Driving Deer with Novelist Craig Nova
Keeping deer out of a garden is a challenge. But at Montrose, the famous and expansive gardens in Hillsborough, North Carolina, it required an installation of tall fencing, followed by a coordinated…
S3E25 Episode 25: Eating Grape Pie with Humorist Celia Rivenbark
Writer Celia Rivenbark reaches back to her high school days to explore the humor and challenges of waiting tables at her small town’s only sit-down restaurant. It served the best food in town, and…
S3E24 Episode 24: Hal Crowther on Politics and Arboreal Dependency
Journalist Hal Crowther is a connoisseur of green places. He has a particular reverence for trees, sparing neither effort nor expense to keep the beautiful maples and hickories in his yard as healthy…
S3E23 Episode 23: Practicing Radical Hospitality with Diya Abdo
Diya Abdo has settled into life in Greensboro, North Carolina. It’s thousands of miles from Jordan, where she, the daughter of Palestinian refugees, was raised. A professor at Guilford College, Diya…
S3E22 Episode 22: Anticipating Spring with Poet Michael McFee
Poet Michael McFee talks about his anticipation of winter ending and spring beginning when he strolls through Coker Arboretum on the UNC–Chapel Hill campus. The harbinger of spring is the First…
S2E21 Episode 21: Paul Cuadros on the Cocineros of Chapel Hill’s Franklin Street
Journalist Paul Cuadros has written a lot about the Latino communities of North Carolina. He moved here more than 25 years ago to write about life in Siler City, a small town in the central part of…
S2E10 Episode 20: Allan Gurganus and the Haunting of Hillsborough
It’s that time of year when we remember Hillsborough’s favorite self-taught mortician, RWB Latta (aka writer Allan Gurganus). Now retired, he offered trick-or-treaters a coffin full of candy, and his…
S2E9 Episode 19: Hanging Out in Hillsborough with Bob Burtman
In a world of "boomburbs" and generic downtowns, Hillsborough, North Carolina, stands out. Cohesive, walkable, its streets lined with 250 years of architectural styles, the town has gone from sleepy…
S2E8 Episode 18: The Bus Ride Home With Beverly A. Scarlett
Retired judge Beverly A. Scarlett recounts her life in the small Southern town of Hillsborough, North Carolina—from Jim Crow, through the tumultuous years of school desegregation, to her successful…
S2E7 Episode 17: Unveiling Secrets with Writer Daniel Wallace
Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, young Daniel Wallace was drawn to William Nealy’s world. William was brilliant, talented, a maverick, an adrenaline junkie. He was the boyfriend of Daniel’s sister…
S2E1 Episode 16: Gardening With Poet Lenard Moore
The vegetables on the Moore family’s supper table, along with the potatoes and the fish, more often than not had been harvested and/or caught, cleaned, and cooked by the family themselves. Lenard D.…
S2E5 Episode 15: Shelling Peas With Novelist Jill McCorkle
When author Jill McCorkle reaches back to her earliest memories, she is a toddler sitting in her grandmother’s kitchen sink taking a playful bath. She remembers the smell of good things baking in the…
S2E4 Episode 14: Celebrating Mater Day With Bridgette Lacy
Bridgette Lacy knows her tomatoes. She was indoctrinated at an early age, when her grandfather would shower her family with plump tomatoes he grew in his garden. Come July, young Bridgette looked…
S2E3 Episode 13: Unravelling Mysteries With Michael Malone
When writer Michael Malone moved back to his native North Carolina, he discovered that fiction came pouring out of him, as did other creative pursuits—plays, songs, imaginative parties, and…
S2E2 Episode 12: Making a Wonderful Mess With Food Writer Nancie McDermott
The Lloyd family reunion was, and still is, a summertime ritual for chef and cookbook author Nancie McDermott. Generations have gathered for over a century in rural Orange County for an afternoon of…
S2E1 Episode 11: Picking Honeysuckle With Chef Bill Smith
Chef Bill Smith worked in the kitchen at Chapel Hill’s famous Crook’s Corner for 25 years. He talks about foraging for honeysuckle and blackberries on the local bike path, his mostly friendly…
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