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Posted on February 12, 2008. Filed under: 2008, Announcements, Books, Education, Entertainment, Family, Greensboro, Life, Literature, Media, NC cities, NC news, News, North Carolina, People, Press, Reading, Review, Writing, culture | Tags: A Game Called Salisbury, artist, Barnes & Noble, book signing, Friendly Shopping Center, Greensboro NC, Lyerly murders, Outer Banks, Salisbury NC, Susan Barringer Wells, Susan Wells Vaughan |
Susan Barringer Wells will have a book signing at Barnes & Noble bookstore in Friendly Shopping Center in Greensboro NC on Friday, February 15, 2008, at 7:00 PM. Susan will be signing copies of her new book, “A Game Called Salisbury.” The book is a non fictitional account of the Lyerly murders that occurred over [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Education, Entertainment, History, Life, Media, NC cities, NC news, NC tourism, NC travel, News, North Carolina, School, TV, Television, culture, travel | Tags: North Carolina, Lost Colony, Fort San Juan, Morganton NC, Catawba river valley, first european colony, Spanish |
The Lost Colony in Manteo North Carolina. Most people, including myself, believed the English colony to be the first European colony in the US. However, recent archeological finds near Morganton NC have revealed a Spanish colony settled in NC 30 years prior to The Lost Colony. The Spanish built Fort San Juan in the Catawba [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Charlotte, Entertainment, Family, Home, Life, Media, NC cities, NC homes, NC news, News, North Carolina, People, TV, Television | Tags: North Carolina, NC, Kristin Wells, HomeMakers, HGTV new show, home remodeling, TV shows, renovations |
Kristin Wells has a new tv show that is being filmed in Charlotte NC. It is a home remodeling show and will air on HGTV within the year. Kristin’s first tv show was HomeMakers, an all female renovation show that was on Turner South. Turner South has been sold so the show is no longer [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2008. Filed under: 2008, Announcements, Charlotte, Entertainment, Family, Greensboro, Home, Life, Media, Money, NC cities, NC homes, NC news, News, North Carolina, People, TV, Television | Tags: Charlotte NC, Greensboro, HGTV new show, home remodeling, HomeMakers, Kristin Wells, North Carolina, renovation |
A new HGTV show is being filmed in Charlotte NC. It is being
hosted by Kristin Wells, a Greensboro North Carolina native
and former cohost of HomeMakers, an all female renovation
show on Turner South. The show will begin airing within the
year on HGTV.
Would you like to have Kristin Wells remodel your home.
Applications for home remodeling are being [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2008. Filed under: 2008, Announcements, Charlotte, Entertainment, Family, Greensboro, Home, Life, Media, NC cities, NC homes, NC news, News, North Carolina, People, TV, Television, culture | Tags: Charlotte, do it yourself, Greensboro, HGTV, HomeMakers, Kristin Wells, Portland, remodeling, renovation show |
Kristin Wells, former cohost of “HomeMakers”, an all female
renovation show that was on Turner South, has started filming a new renovation show for HGTV. The show has begun filming in Charlotte NC and will begin airing on HGTV within the year. The new show is geared to do it yourselfers and will include a lot [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2008. Filed under: 2008, Announcements, Economics, Government, Media, Money, News, Press, culture | Tags: Bernanke, Fed cuts rate by .75, January 22 2008, stock market drops |
The Fed has cut the discount rate by .75. The stock market is sharply down. This latest cut by Bernanke and the Fed brings the Federal Funds Rate to 3.50 percent. The reason for the cut was, according to the Fed, “in view of a weakening of the economic outlook and increasing downside risks to [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Greensboro, History, Life, Literature, Money, NC cities, NC news, NC real estate, NC tourism, News, North Carolina, People, Politics, culture, real estate | Tags: downtown Greensboro, Fred Preyer, Greensboro NC, Historical building, John F Kennedy, L Richardson Preyer, Martin Luther King, O'Henry, Vicks Vaporub, William Porter |
A great historical building in downtown Greensboro NC is for lease at 121 South Elm St. William Clarkson Porter, a druggist, built the building in 1873. O’Henry worked for his uncle. Later, Lunsford Richardson, the inventor of Vicks Vaporub, bought the building. The building is composed of 2 stories of over 9,000 square feet of [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Charlotte, Charlotte weather, Family, Greensboro, Home, Media, NC cities, NC news, NC travel, NC weather, Nature, News, North Carolina, Recreation, travel, weather | Tags: Charlotte NC, North Carolina, Saturday, Snow, Terri Bennett, weather forecast |
Charlotte may get more snow than northern areas such as Greensboro. It is looking like 1-4 inches in the Charlotte area with more snow southeast of Charlotte. According to Terri Bennett, it will be cold enough at all levels of the atmosphere and the temperature will begin dropping Saturday. For more information:
http://TerriBennett.com
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Posted on January 18, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Charlotte, Charlotte weather, Entertainment, Greensboro, Life, NC cities, NC news, NC travel, NC weather, Nature, News, North Carolina, Opinions, Recreation, travel, weather | Tags: North Carolina, Charlotte NC, weather, hurricanes, Snow, global warming, precipitation |
More snow is on the way to Charlotte and North Carolina for the second time in 2 days. Seems like mother earth is ignoring all the “expert” talk on global warming as she did hurricane forecasts for the past several years. I have lived in NC all of my life and seen cycles of weather within [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Economics, Family, Home, Media, Money, NC cities, NC news, NC tourism, NC travel, NC vacations, News, North Carolina, Press, Recreation, TV, Television, travel | Tags: Skybus Airlines, Greensboro NC, hub, first flights, PTI, Piedmont Triad International Airport, Portsmouth NH, Boston MA, St Augustine |
We were in Greensboro Tuesday, January 15 2008, when Skybus Airlines began their first hub flight from Greensboro NC to Portsmouth NH. The flight took off at 5:45 AM and was about half full. 750 passengers were scheduled to fly out of Greensboro Tuesday. The Portsmouth NH airport is just north of Boston MA. We [...]
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