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To recount, in article <3352A8EA.26A3@mindspring.com>, rstaylor@mindspring.com 
says...
>
>someone wrote:
>> 
>> Paris of the Piedmont?
>
>That's us. Carrboro, the "Paris of the Piedmont"  Term was coined in
>1972 by UNC grad student Nyle Frank, when during the hippy era, he tried
>to teach some extra curricular "classes" on campus and ran into
>trouble.  So he took his "Invisible Universe" to Carrboro and helped
>coin the term Paris of the Piedmont. 
>

Wasn't it Nyle who used to greet bus passengers at the Chapel Hill bus stop 
with a ukulele and hula girls?  I've heard that but never had it confirmed.  I 
was also told that he helped with the sit-in to block the NCNB/Nationsbank 
plaza edifice that now hovers over Franklin Street like an unwelcomed buzzard. 
 
(Really messed up the CH skyline.)  Speaking of which, isn't it unfortunate to 
watch the number of neighborhood businesses continue to decline in the city 
center?  I think so.  Makes me think of Jonathan Richmans' "Corner Store" song.

>It was sort of a joke back then, but now Carrboro has lots of artist
>interessts, like resident artists, galleries and of course the
>ArtsCenter and the Cat's Cradle. There's a Salviador Dali exhibit going
>on now and next weekend at Town Hall.  So now the name fits.
>

Didn't someone also coin "the gateway to Chapel Hill"?  And, while we're on it, 
when I used to do regular WXYC shifts in my college days, I used to call it 
Radio Free Carrboro (if anyone remembers Radio Free Europe?).  Oh, but, I could 
go on.  I'll see you at Carrboro day.  And, the exhibit *is* worth it!


>We celebrate all that May 3rd at the second annual Carrboro Day.
>
>Richard Taylor
>Carrboro

Did you ever get a Carrboro web site area started??  Someday, I bet, they'll 
call Paris the "Carrboro of France".  Just you wait and see.


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