Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Finding Aid

Appendix 2: List of News Clippings

[Articles are listed and arranged by title, as the author is not always known.]

  1. “Black students’ grievance prompts new look at town graveyard.”
    Ray Gronberg. Chapel Hill Herald April 22, 2001.

  2. “Burial ground getting a push: Preservationists seek recognition.”
    Jane Stancill. Raleigh News and Observer February 27, 1993.

  3. “Cemetery nominated for register”.
    Author and source unknown (possible date of 1994).

  4. “Cemetery restoration leaves all stones unturned – Respect for detail marks work on historic graveyard”.
    Ray Gornberg. Chapel Hill Herald April 25, 1996.

  5. “Cemetery workshop slated Fri.-Sat.”
    Author unknown. Chapel Hill Herald November 10, 1993.

  6. “Chapel Hill Cemetery Plan A Good Example.”
    John H. Adams (Editorial Page Editor). Durham Morning Herald October 1987 (vol. 94, no.17).

  7. “Chapel Hill cemetery to undergo renovation.”
    John Welter. Raleigh News and Observer November 20, 1987.

  8. “Chapel Hill Gets Deed To Cemetery.”
    Author Unknown. Herald Chapel Hill Bureau July 9, 1987.

  9. “Chapel Hill: Its Special Quality Cut Deep in Cemetery Stones.”
    Marguerite Schumann. Durham Morning Herald February 9 1970.

  10. “Chapel Hill restores cemetery to keep town’s history alive.”
    Linda Fox. Raleigh News and Observer November 15, 1990.

  11. “Cleanup of historic cemetery back on town’s to-do list.”
    Laurie Willis. Chapel Hill News November 27, 1994.

  12. “Council Endorses Plan For Improving Cemetery.”
    Jack Weible. Durham Herald October 13, 1987.

  13. “Eloquence… Monuments of Mind – Old Cemetery Records the History of Chapel Hill.”
    Marguerite Schumann. UNC-Chapel Hill News Bureau (probably dated 1970s).

  14. “FPG students seek grave of namesake on field trip.”
    Vic Simpson. Raleigh News and Observer March 13, 1994.

  15. “Graveyard markers keep Carolina history writ in stone.”
    Kathy Peters. Daily Tar Heel August 26, 1986.

  16. “The ‘graveyard’ shift.”
    Chuck Liddy. Chapel Hill Herald (date unknown).

  17. “Historic Plaque sought for cemetery.”
    Anne Blythe. Chapel Hill News March 16, 1994.

  18. “Husband, wife work to resurrect town cemetery.”
    Anne Blythe. Chapel Hill Herald July 10, 1992.

  19. “Kuralt believed you can go home again.”
    Associated Press article. Source Unknown July 9, 1997.

  20. (News item re:) “HunterReynoldsJewell awarded contract to develop master plan.”
    Author Unknown. Durham Morning Herald June 28, 1987.

  21. “In Brief: Cemetery seminar.”
    Staff Reports. Chapel Hill News November 10, 1993.

  22. “Living Things: Cemeteries draw preservationists.”
    Susan Margolis. Chapel Hill Herald (date unknown).

  23. “Local history haunts campus cemetery.”
    Yi-Hsin Chang. Daily Tar Heel October 31, 1991.

  24. “Monument to ‘Luminous Life’.”
    Marguerite Schumann. Source Unknown (probably dated 1970s).

  25. “New gazebo marks refurbishment of historic Chapel Hill graveyard.”
    Tom Parks. Raleigh News and Observer (date unknown).

  26. “Old cemetery is a historic site.” (Letter to the editor)
    William Preston Mangum II. Chapel Hill News April 11, 1993.

  27. “Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Officially Deeded to Town.”
    Tom Moore. Chapel Hill News July 8, 1987.

  28. “Preservation group wants to bring Old Chapel Hill Cemetery back to life.”
    Mo Dickens. Chapel Hill Herald June 15, 1992.

  29. “Preserving history stone by stone.”
    Donna DeLeno. Chapel Hill News July 21, 1996.
    Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Archival Collection, Appendix 2: List of News Clippings

  30. “Scout project enlivens old cemetery.”
    Susan Kauffman. Raleigh News and Observer July 4, 1991.

  31. “Special Quality of Village Life Read in Monuments.”
    Marguerite Schumann. Chapel Hill Weekly September 1, 1971.

  32. “State resolves question of cemetery ownership.”
    Liz Clarke. Raleigh News and Observer July 8, 1987.

  33. “State Returns Cemetery Deed.”
    Author unknown. Herald Chapel Hill Bureau 1989.

  34. “Town cemetery has aura of history.”
    David Perry. Daily Tar Heel December 1, 1973.

  35. “Town Plans Cemetery Renovation”
    Tom Moore. Source unknown (date unknown).

  36. “UNC-CH cemetery to get renovations – Graveyard added to historic register.”
    Laurie Willis. Raleigh News and Observer November 24, 1994.

  37. “Uncertainties about plot ownership hinder cleanup of neglected cemetery.”
    Mike McQueen. Raleigh News and Observer April 26, 1985.

  38. “UNC Wants Town to Have Cemetery.”
    Paul Brown. Durham Morning Herald March 5, 1987.

  39. “Who’s who of old cemetery.”
    Author unknown. Chapel Hill News July 21, 1996.