August 23, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Bill Rendleman didn't finish first, nowhere close, in Greensboro's first golf championship in 1938. The important fact is that he was there, teeing it up with the best-known pros in the world.
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July 14, 2008
The red-tailed hawk was minding his own business. Atop a telephone pole in the Audubon natural area across from the north side of Moses Cone Hospital, he likely was just chilling. Or he was using his binocularlike eyes to survey the weedy landscape below...
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June 30, 2008
Nothing seems more American than a barbershop. Red, white and blue barber poles. Endless political talk. All kinds of people waiting for a trim. Never mind that the barbershop dates to Bronze Age Egypt and became popular in Rome and Greece about 300 B.C.
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June 23, 2008
In the Pomona rail yard in west Greensboro, the truck attached to four trailers on the rails caught my eye. An Asplundh-owned truck with a sleeping compartment for the driver and trailers with rubber tires lifted and steel rail wheels lowered to the track...
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June 16, 2008
William Oden Jr., a man with controversial views, wants to celebrate the bicentennial. Grab your chairs and hold tight. He's not talking of Greensboro's 200th birthday. He wants to hail a person who wandered Greensboro a defeated man in April 1865 &mdash......
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March 15, 2008
GREENSBORO — By the time Greensboro welcomed the 20th century, it had established itself as ready to take up arms. The 20th century was no different. During World War I, Greensboro sent more than 1,500 men and women off to war. Eighty-six from the...
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March 1, 2008
Stop those cynical chuckles. We're talking highway history here. High Point Road, for all its traffic chaos, stoplights and discount stores, as well as the occasional shooting, ranks as one of North Carolina's historic thoroughfares. It's a stretch to cal...
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February 23, 2008
GREENSBORO — Scary times bring scary words. In his new book, "Once Upon a City: Greensboro, North Carolina's Second Century," Howard Covington Jr. quotes those spoken by retired businessman William Hemphill in 1999: "There are forces...
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February 16, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Race. It's often cited as an issue today, and it's been one here since the first white settlers arrived — some with slaves — to create the town in 1808. A few decades later, Greensboro had 101 slaves and 26 freed black people, co...
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February 9, 2008
Why wasn't Greensboro gasping at the sight of something so unworldly in such a small city? Judging from articles 100 years ago, residents didn't seem that excited when the largest indoor arena south of New York City opened here Oct. 9, 1908, two days bef...
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February 4, 2008
People knew Richard Love was born rich, a son of Spencer Love, who founded Burlington Industries in 1923 and built it into one of the world's largest textile companies. His pedigree perhaps explains his peculiar business ways and lifestyle. The rich can a...
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February 2, 2008
Charles H. Moore was dignified in appearance and so well-educated — the first black graduate of Amherst College in New England — he easily commanded respect among white leaders of Greensboro from the 1870s to 1930s. He had the energy and know...
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January 26, 2008
About 10 p.m. on Aug. 31, 1886, Greensboro's 9,000 residents wondered what in the world was happening. "The houses shook and trembled and the streets were filled with panic-stricken people," the weekly newspaper Greensboro North State reported S...
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January 19, 2008
GREENSBORO — The book will break your heart — and it's not a romance novel with a sad ending. It's about dreamy romantic houses that stood in Greensboro. Most no longer do. In 1904, Gravure Illustration Co. of Chicago sent or hired a local pho...
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January 12, 2008
GREENSBORO — The name Rankin extends from the present to Greensboro's start in 1808 and even before. In 1765 two Irish immigrants, brothers William and John Rankin, bought 511 acres in what's now northeast Greensboro. Eventually, enough Rankins came...
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January 5, 2008
Anyone who knew Phil Link — and thousands did know the Reidsville pharmacist, writer, painter and raconteur — were careful not to ask, "How you doing today, Phil?" He would pour out sorrows about how he was getting old, how he wasn't...
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GREENSBORO — In this first month of Greensboro's bicentennial year, if one could sit on a downtown park bench with Maj. Charles Manly Stedman, what tales they'd hear. He fought in the Civil War and lived 65 years afterward to witness the invention o...
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December 17, 2007
GREENSBORO — Runners next year will celebrate 200 years of city history by trying to survive 26 miles and 385 yards on pavement through some of the city's historic areas. The sneaker wearers will line up for the first N.C. Marathon in honor of the c...
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From 1936 to 1978 at what's now Grimsley High School, he led what was one of the best bands in the land. Herbert Hazelman , 94 , died Sunday morning, nearly 29 years after he retired as director of the Grimsley band, which under him won numerous awards, t...
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December 12, 2007
The mayor called an emergency conference with the city manager and chief of police to deal with the increasing youth violence. "I am concerned with the reports I have received of the situations," the mayor said. This was not Tuesday, when Mayor...
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December 8, 2007
He was a Greensboro celebrity in his prime, a forgotten figure in old age, but with talent to still make beautiful music despite suffering dementia. Those who grew up here in the 1950s and early 1960s recall Howard Waynick booming away at the organ. He di...
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December 1, 2007
GREENSBORO -- A student from Mount Calvary Christian School in Archdale exercised her freedom of speech guaranteed by the Bill of Rights by declaring, "They don't know how to spell." "They" being the nation's Founding Fathers. The girl...
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November 29, 2007
GREENSBORO — The tree that once seemed as good as gone will continue to stand to the delight of Fisher Park residents and to the dismay of its owner, the First Presbyterian Church.The tree wins now. Is it right?
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November 26, 2007
As Fred Preyer lowered himself down the creaky steps to a basement that extends at least halfway under South Elm Street, he couldn't resist a plug for Vicks VapoRub, although not one long-gone granddad would like. "Maybe we'll find some mummified bod...
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November 24, 2007
Making history is one thing. Re-creating it is another. In what amounts to a keen disappointment for the Greensboro Historical Museum staff, a major renovation of exhibit space, financed by $5.3 million in bond money and $1.6 million in private funds, won...
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