Snow Day Anniversary!

Excerpts from the Carrboro Snow Day Anniversary emails:

Dear sweet wonderful townie friends,

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY of SNOW DAY 2010!  I think you will all agree that Snow Day was one of the best days of your life.  It ranks in my top 5 for sure, possibly top 3...

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Although time and life has sent us all in different directions, distance knows no bounds to the love of our anniversary of [playing] in the snow.  From Australia to New York, Kentucky to South Carolina, farmland to hospitals, let us all take a moment today to remember Snow Day and the Townies that made it great.  Shotgun a cold one to appreciate Chapel Hill/Carrboro's failed municipal effort to clear roads when it snows four inches.

Quivering with delight and nostalgia,

Becky

one of the greatest days of my life!!!
thanks for the reminder...this email was awesome to find in my inbox today :)
can't believe how much all our lives have changed in the past two years and we're all scattered everywhere now.

these videos always just make me collapse in a fit of giggles.

-Bri


Becky, you're awesome. Everyone on this email? Also awesome.
I have added a yearly reminder ("Carrboro Snow Day Anniversary") to my google calendar for yesterday's date (ends? checkbox: "never")
Miss you guys.
-Ryan


I can't believe I have such wonderful, spontaneous and hilarious friends. I am truly lucky to have you guys in my life!! Hope everyone is doing well wherever they are in the country/world! 
-Macallagh


This was awesome to wake up to this morning!
What a fun, adventurous time in life with some very awesome people and some very serious [playing].
Hope everyone is doing well, kicking it, taking names, etc.
-Andy

Trivia @ Johnny's

Calling all townies! Come out to Trivia @ Johnny's in Carrboro on Thursday night at 7 pm. My good friend E.B. will be calling questions. Food trucks in the parking lot, beer/wine/coffee inside, good folks out back. I'm so ready for outdoor socializing to begin!

Happy 100th birthday Carrboro!

The big centennial birthday for Carrboro happens tomorrow! March 3, 1911 was the day that a new town, located just across the railroad tracks from the University town of Chapel Hill, was being incorporated.

Since the scholars of UNC declared that it was not classy to have a railroad in a university town, the tracks were laid a mile down the road in a town then called West of (as in West of Chapel Hill). The "of" was later dropped and the town was called West Chapel Hill, but the scholars were still not pleased about associating themselves with the blue collar society. It was later called Lloydville, followed by Venable, in honor of UNC president Francis P. Venable.

When Mr. Carr bought the mill and expanded the community, the town adopted the name Carrboro. 100 years later, the mill is home to Carr Mill Mall some of the most classically Carrboro businesses including Elmo's, Weaver Street Market, and Townsend Bertram & Co.

I have been a part of one quarter of Carrboro's life and have seen it change quite a bit. Likewise, it has changed with every phase of my life. Just as I have grown up, Carrboro has grown with me. As I child I loved the Christmas parade and Carrboro Day, in high school I started attending shows at The Cat's Cradle, as a college student I would escape to study at Weaver Street and Open Eye, and now as a post-grad I love hanging with my townies at The Station or Johnny's.

Let's face it, Carrboro really is The Paris of the Piedmont. Love.