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1) 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. H...Show More
2) 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 mu...Show More
3) 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 eventuall...Show More
4) 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 fi...Show More
5) 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 e...Show More
6) 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 fea...Show More
7) 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 ...Show More
8) 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 i...Show More
9) 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 Breath...Show More
10) 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 th...Show More
Episode 21: Paul Cuadros on the Cocineros of Chapel Hill’s Franklin Street
25:32 | Nov 6th, 2023