I’m featured on “Meet a Tar Heel”
September 2nd, 2010 | Published in blog
I grew up just a few miles away from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I figured I’d go somewhere far away for college, so when I was young, I paid little attention to UNC. Then, when I was in high school, my family and I moved to Yankeeland, the outskirts of Boston, where the winters were cold, dark and relentless. In my first week of at my new school school, a couple of my classmates asked me if I’d been “allowed” to learn about the Civil War at my high school in North Carolina. Had I been taught to call it “The War of Northern Aggression”?*
All of this is a long way of saying that I did go to UNC, and I loved it, enough to return for a master’s degree in journalism. And now I’m profiled on the university’s website. Read it.
*The answer is no, we called it the Civil War. In fact, the month I left North Carolina, my history class had been reading Howard Zinn.
