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Cooking Through the Counties: Brown Sugar Pecan Pie from Rutherford County
When I examined the cookbook, The Whole Town’s Cooking, compiled by the Rutherfordton Woman’s Club, I was intrigued to find a full page of recipes for pecan pie. I’ll be the first to tell you that pecan pie isn’t one of my favorites. I often find it too sweet – it makes my teeth sing […]
New Acquisitions: Spring 2026
Manuscripts Katherine Johnson Papers Katherine (Wright) Johnson was born on August 30, 1938. She attended the Woman’s College (now UNC Greensboro) from 1956 to 1960, earning a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts. During her junior year, she participated in a USO tour to military bases in the Far East, with stops in Japan and South […]
Wordless Novels at SCUA
by Jordan Fridley Wordless novels, also known as woodcut novels, use sequences of wordless images to tell a story using woodcut and other relief printing techniques. The genre reached its peak popularity in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, prior to the rise in film and anti-socialist censorship, particularly in Nazi Germany and the United […]
Harriet Elliott
Harriet Wiseman Elliott is considered one of the most illustrious faculty members who ever taught at UNC Greensboro. Born in Carbondale, Illinois, on July 10, 1884, Elliott grew up in a close and politically active family. She soon followed in the footsteps of her father, Allan Elliott, who was very committed to causes related to […]
What They Were Wearing While They Were Reading: 1940s
The events of the 1940s utterly transformed the foundations of American society. Impelled by World War II, the influx of immigrants fleeing Europe and the relocation of American soldiers to European and Asian war fronts led to the dissemination of new ideas, encouraged technological innovation, and altered traditional gender roles within American culture. Forcing the […]