Railroad Rooster Takes Chatham by Storm
Once again highlighting the antics of our very proud Railroad Rooster, we follow up on last week’s article about the building of the Chatham County railroad with this one celebrating the arrival of the...
View ArticleRailroad Rooster Knows How to Party
This week we say goodbye to our proud, strutting rooster friend with the third and final article chronicling the arrival of the railroad in Pittsboro. Fortunately, Railroad Rooster knew how to go out...
View ArticleA New Library for Pittsboro
The cover story of the August 9, 1973 issue of the Chatham Record featured none other than our esteemed predecessor, the Pittsboro Memorial Library! The next few entries will chronicle a bit of library...
View ArticleIt’s Good to Have Friends!
Continuing on with the opening of the Pittsboro Memorial Library in 1973, you can see below the architect’s sketch of the new library building. Below that, read the article about how the Friends of the...
View ArticleMore Than Just Books
As we continue highlighting the media coverage of the “old new” library, it’s interesting to note how much has changed since then. The article below proudly boasts of the “magazines, records, tapes,...
View ArticleLibrary History Finale
To wrap up our four-week series on the history of the Pittsboro Memorial Library, nothing seems more appropriate than this article on the humble beginnings of library service in Pittsboro. It’s hard to...
View ArticleX-Files: Pittsboro Edition
On August 8, 1952, the Chatham Record reported strange doings in the Pittsboro sky: It’s too bad the object disappeared before Reverend Maness could take a gander at it; it might have saved Mr. Morgan...
View ArticleThe First Record on Record
The first edition of The Chatham Record the library owns on microfilm is the one seen below from March 6, 1879 (click on the image if you’d like to see a larger version): As you can see, our collection...
View ArticleThe Historical Chatham Record
Longtime readers of the library blog know that we often featured excerpts from historical editions of the Chatham Record. But did you know that you can now peruse many of these editions from the...
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