Carolina Alumni Review - July/August 2008

daughter of the owner of Thell’s Bakery, a Franklin Street destination in the 1960s and ’70s. She made a career as an antiques dealer. “Magoo” is Margaret Pearson, a gallery owner and art dealer. Pearson’s daughter, Chloe Green, turns her design eye toward paper goods, hand-pressed invitations, business cards and stationery, as well as European and Japanese school supplies, notebooks and pens. The gallery represents artists from around the corner to around the world. Many of the paintings, prints and sketches are framed by Tommy LaGarde ’ 77, an athlete turned artisan.

Come fall, the gallery plans to host artist talks and workshops on topics such as book making and calligraphy.

Toots & Magoo, 142 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, (919) 942-3339

FRIENDS MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Farmers’ Market Sets Up at
University Mall

Chapel Hill has a farmers’ market all its own. The Farmers of Orange, a cooperative whose members sold their wares in a bank parking lot in Hillsborough, were displaced last fall when that town opened a new farmers market without a governing board. After Madison Marquette bought University Mall earlier this year, the new owners invited the Farmers of Orange into a parking lot alcove next to A Southern Season. The South Estes Farmers’ Market opened in April with 22 vendors.

On a Saturday morning soon after the market opened, a chef from A Southern Season created a recipe from ingredients available from the vendors and offered free samples to the crowd.Vendors sold handmade jewelry, bunches of flowers in plastic cups, bread, organic eggs, “Sassy jam” and quilts. Scratch Seasonal Artisan Baking offered sorghum sticky buns and tortonos, individual pizza-like pastries stuffed with ground lamb and goat cheese. Kaleidoscope Gardens laid out “Plants to Color Your World,” and at the end of the aisle, Twin Spruce Farms sold warm compost and red worms. Produce will change with the seasons; the market will be open year-round, because many of the farmers grow greenhouse crops.

South Estes Farmers’ Market, University Mall, 201 S. Estes Drive, Chapel Hill; 8 a.m.-noon, Saturday

— Nancy Oates

Professor Daniel Patterson knows the value of a strong library collection. In 1969 he began teaching a course on folksong and had to purchase the recordings he used in class with his own money. Since then, with the help of colleagues inside and outside the university, the materials he bought became a library collection accessible, protected and preserved for future teachers, students, musicians and researchers. The Southern Folklife Collection in Wilson Library is now one of the foremost archival resources in the world for studying American folk music and vernacular culture. When friends asked what he wanted for his 80th birthday, he suggested gifts to support this wonderful collection. Former students, friends and admirers are making this happen. During his 43 years at Carolina, he taught thousands of students in English as well as folklore and was chair of the Curriculum in Folklore from 1966 until 1989. Won’t you join in making a gift in his honor? It’s a great way to say thank you to someone dedicated to the excellence of the university’s library. Just specify the Dan Patterson Fund for the Southern Folklife Collection and make a gift by mail or online as below.