Re/Collecting Chapel Hill

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Join Chapel Hill Public Library staff and community members as we uncover the untold histories of Chapel Hill. We seek to reckon with our past to figure out where we came from and why it matters for our shared future.Season one of Re/Collecting Chapel Hill was supported by grant funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the federal Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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    10: Voices - Zan Coleman, Cortland Gilliam, and CJ Suitt

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    Zan Coleman hosts Re/Collecting Chapel Hill's James CATE Scholars Edition with current poet laureate Cortland Gilliam and C.J.

    Aug 7, 2023·25m·1 clip
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    9: Voices - CJ Suitt

    Nov 25, 2020·16m
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    8: Elizabeth Cotten

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    Re/Collecting Chapel Hill examines Elizabeth Cotton’s Chapel Hill childhood, her song “Freight Train,” and the 1976 oral-history tape found by the Chapel Hill Historical Society.

    Oct 23, 2020·29m·2 clips
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    7: What Comes Next. Silent Sam part 3

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    Re/Collecting Chapel Hill’s “What Comes Next” examines the aftermath of Silent Sam’s 2018 removal through eyewitness accounts, UNC officials, historians, activists, and Chapel Hill residents.

    Dec 19, 2019·23m·1 clip
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    6: James Cates. Silent Sam part 2

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    Re/Collecting Chapel Hill examines the 1970 murder of 22-year-old James Cates on the UNC campus and its connection to Chapel Hill’s Silent Sam history.

    Nov 18, 2019·38m·2 clips
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    5: An Old Argument. Silent Sam part 1

    Re/Collecting Chapel Hill examines Silent Sam, the Confederate monument removed from UNC Chapel Hill after 105 years, through community memories rather than a conventional monument history.

    Nov 4, 2019·31m·2 clips
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    4: Mayor of Franklin Street

    Oct 21, 2019·23m
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    3: Remembering Our Dead

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    Re/Collecting Chapel Hill’s “Remembering Our Dead” examines how cemeteries record Chapel Hill history through headstones, family names, burial practices, and missing markers.

    Oct 7, 2019·31m·2 clips
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    2: Young, Gifted and Black

    Sep 23, 2019·20m
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    1: Holy Week Fast

    The episode discusses the toppling of Silent Sam and the installation of activist historical markers in Chapel Hill, exploring the fight for a moral reckoning with the past.

    Sep 9, 2019·21m