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27 Views
by Elizabeth Woodman
27 Views is the podcast dedicated to exploring the South through writers and stories. Produced in Hillsborough, North Carolina, each episode showcases a writer and his/her storytelling. Featured writers include Jill McCorkle, the late Randall Kenan, Jaki Shelton Green, Daniel Wallace, and Allan Gurganus.
Episodes
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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. Her body was discovered the next day outside of town. She had been brutally murdered, and initial...
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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 murdered, and initial reports were that she'd been raped. In Episode Three of the "Who Killed…
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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 fish store called Crook's Corner. She'd also been pursuing her doctorate in economics at UNC for 20...
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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 eventually become a celebrated restaurant. But back in the Forties and Fifties, Crook's was a modest shop,...
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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 effort to drive the lingering deer through the garden gates. There is an art to it, and novelist...
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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 featured the most elaborate salad bar east of Raleigh. It also came with a sizeable portion of...
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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 and as upright as possible. When he’s overwhelmed by politics, Hal heads outside. Back inside…
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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 is working hard to reshape the refugee experience in America. She is challenging university…
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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 of Spring, also known as Lonicera fragrantissima, or winter honeysuckle—also known as “a…
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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 the state that was experiencing a seismic demographic shift. When Paul joined the faculty of the...
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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 sales pitch promising deeply discounted and artistic funeral services, with examples galore of…
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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 to vibrant in the last 20 years. Journalist Bob Burtman lives and works there, and keeps a…
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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 judicial career. Scarlett digs deep into the town’s past and her family’s roots along the Eno…
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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 Holly. Daniel had been pegged to take over the family’s successful import/export business, a role…
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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. Moore— now a poet, a gardener, a writer, a lover of jazz—learned early the value of reaping what…
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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 oven, the carefully tended African violets that line the windowsill, the sound of her grandmother...
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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 forward to tomatoes for lunch, dinner, and even breakfast. Fast-forward to Bridgette Lacy, popular...
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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 fundraisers. He was the impresario the small, formerly quiet town of Hillsborough had been waiting for.…
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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 feasting and visiting. Nancie savors the dishes, the shared experience, and the meaningful...
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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 exchanges with other bike path regulars, and the work of keeping Crook’s Latino kitchen staff safe…
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Episode 10: The Luminous World of Georgia Carroll Kyser: Moreton Neal on Her Friendship with the 1930s Cover Girl
Georgia Carroll was a supermodel in the 1930s, a Hollywood star in the 1940s, and a Chapel Hill resident from the 1950s until her death in 2011. How did this glamorous young woman end up in Tarheel country? Cookbook author and designer Moreton Neal remembers the late Georgia Carroll Kyser, her...
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Episode 9: Baking Stories into Pies with Steven Petrow
Pecan pie is serious business to Steven Petrow. It’s not just a cherished and delicious family tradition, but also a memory bank of shared gifts, goofs, and changes. Over the years, he has come to appreciate the value of mixing into each pie a good story, regardless of where it lands on the truth...
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Episode 8: Elizabeth Spencer and Allan Gurganus in Conversation
Living in neighboring towns in North Carolina’s Piedmont, writers Elizabeth Spencer and Allan Gurganus were close friends for decades. A few months before she died in 2019, he visited her one afternoon to talk to her about her story, “Rising Tide” (featured in Eno Publishers’s 27 Views of Chapel...
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Episode 7: At Home with Allan Gurganus
Novelist Allan Gurganus tells all… about his beloved home, Sunnyside, in small-town North Carolina. He and Sunnyside have been together for decades, and like most long marriages, it’s had its up and its downs, its joys and sorrows. A celebrated storyteller, Allan reads from his essay, “Old Houses…
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Episode 6: Feasting on Words with Jaki Shelton Green
An autobiography told through food: North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green knows food. Long before the farm-to-table movement took hold in popular culture, the garden was a rite of summer for families everywhere. Jaki's family was no exception. As soon as the garden “came in,” they would...
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Episode 5: Hunting Down Stories with Jill McCorkle
Writer Jill McCorkle talks about her afternoon as a non-hunter on a deer hunt; her encounter with Dottie, the rebellious beagle; and the necessity of wearing orange in winter. She also reads excerpts from her short story, “Dog Hunting” (featured in Eno Publishers’ 27 Views of Hillsborough: A…
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Episode 4: Exploring Chapel Hill’s Presidential Visits with Historian Bill Leuchtenburg
William Leuchtenburg knows his presidents. The historian is an authority on American presidents, particularly Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Many presidents, including FDR, have traveled to Chapel Hill, Dr. Leuchtenburg’s home. He talks about those visits, the University of North Carolina, and about...
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Episode 3: In the Cul-de-Sac with Samia Serageldin
Writer Samia Serageldin talks about growing up in the tumultuous Middle East and immigrating to the U.S., where she realizes the American dream—until one September morning in 2001. Samia discusses navigating her way in a post-9/11 world, and reads excerpts from her story “Muslims in the…
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Episode 2: Chasing Goats with Tom Rankin
Documentarian Tom Rankin balances the demands of academic life with caring for his herd of escape-artist goats. In this episode, he talks about the often-maligned animal and reads excerpts from his story “Raising Goats to Their Rightful Place” (featured in Eno Publishers’ The Carolina Table…
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Episode 1: Remembering Dinner with Randall Kenan
Writer Randall Kenan had a passion for food. Before he died in 2020, he dropped by for dinner, and stayed to talk about the importance of food in his life, in his upbringing, in literature, in culture, in bridging divides. He revealed his deep fondness for the humble butterbean. He also read...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
27 Views is the podcast dedicated to exploring the South through writers and stories. Produced in Hillsborough, North Carolina, each episode showcases a writer and his/her storytelling. Featured writers include Jill McCorkle, the late Randall Kenan, Jaki Shelton Green, Daniel Wallace, and Allan Gurganus.
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Elizabeth Woodman
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