Citizen's Journal

Hillsborough: A Home Town Feel

by Rachel Hawkins | August 08 2008

Hillsborough is my hometown, and having grown up on a farm, three miles outside of Hillsborough, I experienced the best of both worlds by living three miles from town, and as the result of my mom teaching in the local school system. I always remember the ease of our community especially being able to walk downtown every day after school to the James Pharmacy with my friends.

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Home Grown in Chapel Hill

by Katherine Demby | July 21 2008

I have lived in Chapel Hill all my life and cannot think of a place I would rather live. Chapel Hill has all of the qualities of a big city with the feel of a small town. There seems to be something for everyone. It is a center of diverse culture with performances from the likes of Cirque de Eloize, the Khmer Arts Ensemble, and many other groups that come to Memorial Hall every year.

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Hillsborough:  A Charming Mix of Personalities

by Gretchen LaNier | June 04 2008

What I love about Hillsborough is its charming mix of personalities. We are a funky vintage community, mixed with classic antique trimmings; we are where down-home farm-town meets friendly, relaxed not-quite-uptown. We’re hiking and fishing in the morning and music and arts festivals in the evening.

There is a sense of energy here, knowing that you are a participant in history.

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A Creative Place To Call Home

by Gordon Jameson | May 13 2008

My wife and I first visited North Carolina in 1991 while on vacation. There was something special in the air that made us decide if we ever left California, North Carolina felt like a good destination.

Two- years later we sold our house in Los Angeles, put everything in storage and headed east. We stayed in a friend’s house in Winston-Salem and one day someone told us to check out Chapel Hill. I remember driving down Franklin Street in the historic part of town on a fine day and thinking, “I’m home.”

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A Great Place to Start Your Second Life

by Daniel Wallace | April 03 2008

I have lived two lives. In the first life, I was a boy in Alabama, and in the second I was a man in Chapel Hill. This is where I was when my father died, and when my son was born. In the basement of a house a half-a-mile from Franklin Street is where I wrote my first published novel, and one night—let’s say it was a Wednesday—I met the love of my life at the last place I ever expected to… a bar.

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