Friday, September 19, 2014

Our State Profiles Bull City Ciderworks

"The story of this urban cidery involves two visionary North Carolina companies, Bull City Ciderworks and Perry Lowe Orchards, working together to bring hard cider to the Triangle."

—"Bull City Ciderworks," Kristen Baughman, Our State

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

BBC Profiles Hugh Mangum Photographs

"African-Americans in Mangum's home state of North Carolina were the target of serious discrimination, as they were in other parts of the South. But the town of Durham, where he was born and raised, had an "unusually prosperous black community" says Stacke, with some African-American entrepreneurs owning thriving businesses there."

—"The photographer who rejected racism in the American south," Rob Brown, BBC World Service

Monday, September 8, 2014

Boston Globe Likes Duke Lemur Center

"Imagine strolling through a pristine forest, leaves gently fluttering in the breeze, birds chirping in the trees, when out of a thicket comes a family of ruffed lemurs, casually strolling across your path on the way to forage for food...Sounds like an exotic rainforest trek in Madagascar, right? Nope, it’s a walk through the internationally-renowned Duke Lemur Center, in Durham, N.C., which has the world’s largest and most diverse collection of lemurs outside Madagascar."

— "Can’t get to Madagascar? You can still see lemurs," Karen Campbell, Boston Globe