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 Anita Spring Council and Annette “Neecy” Council - On Their Family History and Family Businesses

"Yeah our friends would be going to the ball games and going here and then we had to go to work. But then when it came down to going to McDonald’s or whatever we had the money to buy it and they didn’t, so that was the good part about it." - Annette "Neecy" Council Anita Spring Council and Annette…

Annette "Neecy" Council

Annie Hargett

Annie Hargett lived in Northside throughout her youth. She attended Northside Elementary and was part of one of the first classes to attend Lincoln High (class of 1957). Her parents moved from Chatham County to Northside in Chapel Hill, first to Craig Street, then to N. Graham. She left Northside…

 Annie Hargett - On her career, father, and growing up in Chapel Hill

Annie Burnett Hargett is a Northside “legacy seller.” She was born in Chatham County, where the family owned a large piece of land but moved to Chapel Hill to find work at the university. She remembers growing up poor, but lacking nothing. She talks about black businesses, Northside school and…

 Annie Jones Goins and Eugene Farrar - On their family history and legacy of builders

 Antonio Silva-Martinez

Antonio Silva-Martinez

"...for a good neighborhood you need the family to be united. The parents have to teach their kids well and teach them to live with their neighbors and share with their neighbors and get along well with their neighbors, and I think if one neighbor gets along well with the other neighbors then they…

 Antonio Vincent, Tar Heel Taxi

Antonio Vinson

"It takes a strong neighborhood to build a town. You’ve got to take it one neighborhood at a time. And I see that happening around here." - Antonio Vinson

Arminta Foushee

 Arminta Foushee - Introductions (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On becoming a member of St. Paul (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On being the church historian (clip)

Arminta Foushee (AF): I love history, and so I would end up being picked as the historian for the church. But this particular book, When Chapel Hill Was a Village by Cornelia Spencer Love, and it has information about the original churches in Chapel Hill, so of course St. Paul is included in this…

 Arminta Foushee - On Bible School (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On Bible school (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On Black Churches (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On Black churches as a community (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On Bynum and Susie Weaver's store (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On changes at University Mall (clip)

Arminta Foushee (AF): They used to have nice flagship stores there. Kathryn Wall (KW): You know, when I first moved to Chapel Hill the Belk was still there. AF: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And Ivey’s… that was a really upscale store. But they ran out of business. I don't know if there are any Ivey’s left anymore.…

 Arminta Foushee - On Chapel Hill's "liberal" character (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On children's meals during holidays (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On choir anniversaries at St. Paul (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On Christmas Bags (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On church memberships among families (clip)