2005 UNC-Chapel Hill Tar Heel Bus Tour / from Manteo to Blowing Rock
May 2005. Photos by Adam Gori
- Chancellor Moeser welcomes the bus tour participants and encourages them to use this weeklong, statewide tour of North Carolina as on opportunity to engage with the issues facing their new home state.
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- Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at UNC-Chapel Hill, and one of the two bus tour guides, gives the participants a briefing on North Carolina politics as the bus heads toward its first stop in Rocky Mount.
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- UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Jean Kitchin and Don Stallings join the group at the Rocky Mount train station to discuss how the Citizen-Soldier Support Initiative, a national demonstration program spearheaded by UNC-Chapel Hill, helps the families of National Guard and Reserve members.
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- Chancellor Moeser talks with bus tour participants at the back of the bus.
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- Bob Dennis, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, passes a woman fishing the Scuppernong River in Columbia, NC.
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- Emil Kang, director of the arts at Carolina, and Peggy Jablonski, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, head for the Elizabeth II, berthed on Manteo's waterfront at the Roanoke Island Festival Park. The Elizabeth II is a reproduction of a 16th-century, 69-foot vessel representative of those used to transport Sir Walter Raleigh's first colonists to the New World in 1585.
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- Sarah Michalak, University librarian with the Academic Affairs Library, with other bus tour participants below deck on the Elizabeth II.
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- Peggy Jablonski, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, talks with Martin Vazquez about his garden, which benefits Latino diabetics in Siler City.
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- Bob Anthony, curator of the North Carolina Collection, takes over as bus tour guide.
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- James Cowan, CEO of Stonecutter Mills in Spindale, takes participants through the former mill.
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- Layna Mosley, assistant professor of political science; Larry Griffin, Reed Professor of Sociology; Bill Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Distinguished professor of History and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South; and Kathy Barnhouse (with the microphone), clinical instructor of Family Practice, participate during an onboard discussion on how participants can help the Spindale community recover using a Carolina Center for Public Service grant designated for a bus tour project.
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- Stephanie Schmitt, assistant dean for Academics in the Graduate School and Carol Tresolini, associate provost for Academic Initiatives in the Office of the Provost, relax on the bus.
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