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Key events from Orange County history: 100 highlights to start, then the full chronology of 6,171 dated events and 63 storylines, each connected to the index. A storyline gathers many dated events into one history, such as the Regulator crisis.

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1931Early twentieth century
  1. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
  2. Adeline McCall plays piano in a Folk Music Institute laboratory concert

    Publication, speech or performance · Chapel Hill

    The university's Institute of Folk Music held its second laboratory concert at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9, 1931, in Hill Music Hall, with Lamar Stringfield on flute, Adeline McCall on piano and Thor Johnson on viola. The program included a composition by Herbert Hazelman, an Asheville freshman.

    Subject: Hill Hall

  3. A puppet Hansel and Gretel is staged in Adeline McCall's music series for children

    Publication, speech or performance · Chapel Hill

    The Music Club and the Parent-Teacher Association presented Hansel and Gretel, a puppet show with music, at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9, 1936, in Hill Music Hall. It was the fifth in a series of music events for children under Adeline McCall's direction, and elementary school children sang songs from Humperdinck's opera.

    Subject: Hill Hall

  4. Civil rights era · 1945–1975
  5. Chapel Hill Elementary pupils play carols with professional musicians at the school Christmas program

    Publication, speech or performance · Chapel Hill Elementary School

    At the Chapel Hill Elementary School Christmas programs on December 17, 1957, directed musically by Adeline McCall, supervisor of music in the Chapel Hill schools, children playing psalteries, violins and bells accompanied the carols with two harpists, violinist Dorothy Alden and flutist Dorothy Hickok. The programs also staged the play Alias Santa Claus.

    Subject: Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

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