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Paul Green

Paul Green studied at UNC under Frederick Koch, whose Carolina Playmakers staged many of his folk plays, graduated in 1921, and taught philosophy there from 1923 and dramatic art from 1939 until 1944. He won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for In Abraham's Bosom and wrote The Lost Colony, first produced in 1937.

Source: NCpedia: Green, Paul Eliot

1894–1981 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

29 works about Paul Green are indexed here, as are 6 works by Green. 1 held at OCPL →

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Paul Green, 1941
Paul Green, 1941

Life and Orange County connections

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StorylineThe University’s hard year and the choice of Frank Graham, 19301930 · 6 events · In 1930 the University lost its president and two faculty members and had its budget cut 20 percent before the trustees chose Frank Porter Graham to lead it. Harry Woodburn Chase left for the University of Illinois, and Dean Addison Hibbard left for Northwestern, a loss the Weekly put down to larger salaries and pensions elsewhere, and Howard Mumford Jones left for Michigan. The trustees named a committee to gather facts and lay names before the board, not to nominate one man. On June 9 they voted without nominations. R. D. W. Connor led the first ballot, but Graham took a majority on the fourth. Brought in from a walk, Graham asked that Connor be chosen instead, then accepted. StorylineThe Movie Guild and Sunday movies in Chapel Hill, 1931–19371931–1937 · 4 events · Sunday movies in Chapel Hill ran for years as charity benefits under an informal understanding before the aldermen legalized them in 1937. By January 1931 a Movie Guild with Paul Green as president was showing educational and artistic films to members on Sunday afternoons at the Carolina Theatre for local charities. In 1935 its directors gave one Sunday show's proceeds toward the American Legion post's log hut and added a Sunday night picture after church services, and they reported money spent on relief, school lunches and other needs. The 1937 rules allowed Sunday shows outside the evening church hour and required the Guild to report its receipts and spending each year.

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During their lifetime

  1. Paul Green, playwright of The Lost Colony and an outspoken opponent of segregation, was born Paul Green was born in Harnett County and entered UNC in 1916. Place: Harnett County; later Chapel Hill connectionSearch the index · NCpedia · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 17, 1994, p. 3
  2. The community spring festival in Battle Park stages student plays, one of them by Paul Green The annual Community Spring Festival was held in the outdoor theatre on a hillside in Battle Park under Dr. Hanford's pageant committee, with orchestra music, May games and dances by the town's children, and student one-act plays: Harris Copenhaver's rustic comedy and Paul Green's 'A Surrender to the Enemy,' given by the Omega Deltas. Rain moved the university's 'Twelfth Night' from Battle Park on Friday to the college chapel on Saturday. People: Paul Green Place: outdoor theatre, Battle Park, Chapel Hill · Also named: Harris Copenhaver · Also mentions: Battle ParkSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), May 10, 1917, p. 1
  3. The Reviewer brings out its first number edited in Chapel Hill The literary quarterly The Reviewer, founded in Richmond by a circle that included James Branch Cabell and Emily Clark and handed over to a group of North Carolinians the previous fall, issued its first number under editor Paul Green of Chapel Hill a few days before February 26, 1925. Contributors included Archibald Henderson, Gerald W. Johnson, Addison Hibbard, Julia Peterkin and Archibald Rutledge, and R. S. Pickens ran the business office in Hickory. People: Paul Green Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: R. S. Pickens, Archibald Henderson, Addison Hibbard, Gerald W. JohnsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 26, 1925, p. 3
  4. Carolina Playmakers give a free performance for freshmen in their new theatre Before the formal opening, the Carolina Playmakers gave a special free performance for freshmen in their remodeled theatre, presenting Paul Green's The Miser and Lucy Cobb's Gaius and Gaius, Jr. With only 345 seats, tickets went to the first freshmen to ask. People: Paul Green Place: Playmakers Theatre, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lucy Cobb · Also mentions: Carolina PlaymakersThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 9, 1925, p. 2
  5. The Reviewer magazine leaves Chapel Hill for Dallas Paul Green, editor of The Reviewer, and business manager George V. Denny announced that their efforts to raise money to keep the literary magazine going had failed. A group at Southern Methodist University in Dallas took it over to merge with the Southwest Review; the board turned down an offer from Columbia University people so that it would stay Southern. People: Paul Green Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: George V. DennySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 9, 1926, p. 2
  6. Paul Green reads his new play In Abraham's Bosom at the Playmakers Theatre Paul Green read his new play, In Abraham's Bosom, to a large audience in the Playmakers Theatre; the Weekly noted it was to be produced in New York within a few months. The play, a tragedy of Black life in eastern North Carolina, opened at the Provincetown Theatre in New York on December 28. People: Paul Green Place: Playmakers Theatre, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 29, 1926, p. 3
  7. Paul Green wins the Pulitzer Prize for In Abraham’s Bosom Paul Green received the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for In Abraham’s Bosom. People: Paul Green Place: Chapel HillThe Pulitzer Prizes · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 6, 1927, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 23, 1928, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, March 16, 1994, p. 3
  8. Black quartets sing at Paul Green's reading of The Field God Two groups of Black singers from Chapel Hill, the men's Silver Tongued quartet led by Tom Booth and the women's Lily Whites, sang spirituals in the Playmakers Theatre after Paul Green read his new play The Field God on a Sunday evening. The Weekly reported a house filled to the doors and a collection of $56 for the singers' church. People: Paul Green Place: Playmakers Theatre, Chapel Hill · Also named: Tom BoothSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 1, 1927, p. 4
  9. Press governors object to Paul Green's introduction to Congaree Sketches Called before Chase and the press's board, assistant editor William T. Couch heard Royster and the others condemn Green's introduction, which said neither race could leave the ditch until whites gave Blacks a hand. Couch pointed out that some 150 advance copies were already out, and the book went out as printed. Six months later, at Chase's order, unsold copies went to a commercial publisher, which reprinted it without Green's introduction. People: William T. Couch, Paul Green, Harry Woodburn Chase, James Finch Royster Place: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel HillHoward E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 366-367
  10. Paul Green and Louis B. Wright win Guggenheim fellowships Playwright Paul Green received a Guggenheim fellowship for a year in Europe to study the theatre, and Louis B. Wright, a University English instructor, received another. Green planned to sail with his family in July and make Berlin his base. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Louis B. WrightSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 23, 1928, p. 1
  11. A Black community chorus and Paul Green give a benefit for the Black school term The Colored Community Chorus and the Silver-Tongued Quartet sang spirituals and Paul Green read his new play of Chapel Hill's Black quarter, 'Potter's Field,' before a crowded house at the Playmakers Theatre, and the free-will offering of $72.60 went toward extending the Black school's term from six months to eight. The Rosenwald Fund had promised to match $800 raised locally, of which Black leaders had already raised $500. People: Paul Green Place: Playmakers Theatre, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 14, 1930, p. 1
  12. Faculty players stage an old melodrama for the county's poor A company of University faculty and townspeople billed as the Imperial Stock Company played the 1880s melodrama 'Thorns and Orange Blossoms' to packed houses in the Playmakers Theatre, with the proceeds above expenses going to the Orange County poor relief fund. Paul Green and Wilbur Daniel Steele were the managers, and Howard Mumford Jones directed and played the villain. People: Paul Green, Howard Mumford Jones Place: Playmakers Theatre, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Wilbur Daniel SteeleThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 9, 1930, p. 2
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  1. Howard Mumford Jones leaves Chapel Hill for the University of Michigan Howard Mumford Jones, a member of the university's English faculty since coming from the University of Texas in 1925, left for the University of Michigan in 1930 and handed his syndicated book-review column, The Literary Lantern, to Paul Green and his wife. People: Howard Mumford Jones, Paul Green Place: Chapel HillIn the index: University of Michigan · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 23, 1930, p. 1
  2. Paul Green and his wife take over 'The Literary Lantern' book column Howard Mumford Jones, leaving for the University of Michigan, turned over 'The Literary Lantern', the Chapel Hill column on Southern books carried by a dozen Southern newspapers with about 450,000 readers, to Paul Green and Mrs. Green, whose first column was set for June 8. Addison Hibbard had started the column in 1924. People: Howard Mumford Jones, Addison Hibbard Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 23, 1930, p. 1
  3. Writers in Chapel Hill launch a literary magazine, The Agora A group of writers in Chapel Hill brought out the first issue of a new magazine, The Agora, in mid-September 1930. Edited by the student Richard A. Chace, it set out to give young Southern writers a place to publish, with Paul Green and Addison Hibbard on its advisory board. People: Paul Green, Addison Hibbard Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Richard A. ChaceSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 19, 1930, p. 2
  4. Paul Green reads Tread the Green Grass with music by Lamar Stringfield Paul Green read his play Tread the Green Grass, a fantasy somewhat like an opera, in the Playmakers Theatre, with music Lamar Stringfield had composed for it played by a string quartet under his direction. The reading had been put off from November 16. People: Lamar Stringfield, Paul Green Place: Playmakers TheatreSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 21, 1930, p. 1
  5. Chapel Hill Movie Guild organizes to show Sunday films for charity A Chapel Hill Movie Guild was organized with Paul Green as president to show educational and artistic films on Sunday afternoons at the Carolina Theatre for local charities, admitting members only. Sunday benefit shows had raised more than $1,500 for charity in the past year or so. People: Paul Green Place: Carolina Theatre, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina TheatreSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 9, 1931, p. 1
  6. Paul Green arranges to buy about 200 acres east of Chapel Hill Playwright Paul Green arranged to buy about 200 acres east of the village, joining the part of the old Strowd farm known as the Hargrave place with N. W. Walker's adjoining land running south to the Raleigh road. He chose a house site on a hilltop by a grove of elms where the Hargrave family home was said to have stood before the Civil War, and tree surgeons and clearing crews were already at work. People: N. W. Walker Place: Old Hargrave place, east of Chapel Hill between the Raleigh and Durham roadsSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 25, 1933, p. 1
  7. The Carolina Playmakers stage Paul Green's The House of Connelly The Playmakers gave three performances of Paul Green's The House of Connelly in their theatre, directed by Samuel Selden with sets built under Harry Davis, all to large crowds. The Weekly called it the first production of any of Green's full-length plays in the South; the company took it to the North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro the next week. People: Samuel Selden Place: Playmakers Theatre, Chapel Hill · Also named: Harry DavisSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 10, 1933, p. 1
  8. Paul Green finishes a small writing retreat on his land east of Chapel Hill Playwright Paul Green finishes a small building for study and writing on the tract he had bought about two years earlier beyond the Strowd farm, between the Durham and Raleigh roads. He meant to build a family house near it later. Place: Paul Green tract between the Durham and Raleigh roads, later Greenwood Road, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 5, 1935, p. 5 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 1, 1936, p. 1
  9. Textile editor David Clark charges radicalism among UNC professors in a Gerrard Hall talk Invited by the new student branch of the American Liberty League, David Clark of the Textile Bulletin told a large crowd in Gerrard Hall that a small group of professors promoted 'atheism, socialism, and communism', naming W. T. Couch and E. E. Ericson, who were present, and Paul Green. Couch and Ericson answered in statements the next day, and the Weekly defended the University's tradition of free speech. People: William T. Couch, Paul Green, Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Gerrard Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: David Clark, E. E. EricsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 17, 1935, p. 1
  10. Carolina Playmakers stage the first production of Paul Green's 'The Enchanted Maze' The Playmakers gave the first production of Paul Green's 'The Enchanted Maze,' a play about American college education with about 70 actors, in Memorial Hall on December 6 and 7 under Samuel Selden's direction. Crowds were large enough that an extra performance was added on December 9, drawing four to five hundred people. People: Samuel Selden Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 13, 1935, p. 1
  11. The Southern Committee for People's Rights starts its People's Rights Bulletin in Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill chapter of the Southern Committee for People's Rights issued the first number of its People's Rights Bulletin, reporting on strikes, chain gangs, lynchings and civil-liberties cases across the South. Its editorial board included Stanley Stevens, Loretto Carroll Bailey and George McKie, and Paul Green, Phillips Russell and William T. Couch were among its North Carolina sponsors. People: Loretto Carroll Bailey, George McKie, Paul Green Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Stanley Stevens, William T. Couch, Phillips RussellSearch the index · People's Rights Bulletin (Chapel Hill), January 1936, p. 1
  12. Schoolchildren of the Junior Garden Club plant a small park behind the Chapel Hill post office In March 1936 children of the Chapel Hill school, organized as the Junior Garden Club, planted 200 shrubs given by W. C. Coker, beds of flowers and bulbs on the lot behind the post office at Henderson Street and Rosemary Lane. The town cleared and graded the ground with WPA labor, Paul Green gave cedar poles for the fence, and the Senior Garden Club and the Movie Guild gave $25 each. People: William Chambers Coker, Paul Green Place: Lot behind the post office, Henderson Street and Rosemary Lane, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill school, Henderson Street, Rosemary LaneSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 20, 1936, p. 1
  13. Paul Green joins the Playmakers staff as professor of dramatic art Paul Green, one of the early Playmakers, formally joined the staff in 1936 as literary adviser and professor of dramatic art, teaching graduate seminars in playwriting and in ideas in drama. By May 1, 1936 the Chapel Hill Weekly reported that he had arranged to rejoin the faculty as one of Frederick H. Koch's associates in the new department of dramatic art. By 1945, when Henderson's book appeared, he was dividing his time between Chapel Hill and Hollywood. People: Paul Green Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Frederick H. KochArchibald Henderson (ed.), Pioneering a People's Theatre (1945), scan p. 94 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 1, 1936, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, March 16, 1994, p. 3
  14. Paul and Elizabeth Green sell their village home and lay out a new house east of town Paul and Elizabeth Green sell their home in the Glen to Mr. and Mrs. J. Manson Valentine and, with advice from a landscape architect, site a family house, gardens and outbuildings on their tract east of the village, hoping to move in by September. People: Elizabeth Lay Green Place: Paul Green tract between the Durham and Raleigh roads, later 610 Greenwood Road, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. Manson ValentineSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 1, 1936, p. 1
  15. The Lost Colony premieres Paul Green's pageant-drama The Lost Colony opened at the Waterside Theatre on Roanoke Island on Sunday evening, July 4, 1937, and the Chapel Hill Weekly reported that it scored a hit. The production had Chapel Hill roots: Green was a Chapel Hill playwright, Samuel Selden of the Carolina Playmakers directed, and Frederick Koch's Playmakers were in the company. People: Paul Green, Samuel Selden Place: Waterside Theatre, Roanoke Island (Dare County) · Also named: Frederick Koch · Also mentions: Carolina PlaymakersThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 9, 1937, p. 1 (Green Play Makes Hit)
  16. The North Carolina Library Association holds its biennial meeting in Chapel Hill Led by its president, University librarian Nora Beust, the association met with a tea in the University Library, a dinner at the Carolina Inn with William T. Polk as toastmaster, and sectional meetings, and closed with an authors' luncheon attended by James Boyd, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Sherwood Anderson and Paul Green, among others. People: Sherwood Anderson, Paul Green Place: Carolina Inn and University Library, Chapel Hill · Also named: Nora Beust, William T. Polk, James Boyd, Wilbur Daniel Steele · Also mentions: Carolina InnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 15, 1937, p. 1
  17. The Carolina Playmakers stage Paul Green's Johnny Johnson The Playmakers opened their twentieth season in Memorial Hall with Green's anti-war play with music by Kurt Weill, a Broadway production of the winter before; Green and Weill helped with the production, which Samuel Selden staged with more than 90 actors. About 2,500 people saw the three performances, and the opening-night audience called Green to the stage. People: Samuel Selden, Frederick H. Koch Place: Memorial Hall, University of North Carolina · Also named: Kurt WeillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 5, 1937, p. 2
  18. Paul Green opens Greenwood, a restricted home colony on his land east of Chapel Hill Paul Green offered about 75 building lots on 100 to 125 acres of his 235-acre estate off the Raleigh road, through J. B. Johns of the Service Insurance and Realty Company. Lots were 150 feet wide and up to 700 feet deep, houses had to cost at least $6,000, and a consulting architect would approve all plans; football coach Bill Lange bought the first lot. Place: Greenwood, Raleigh road east of Chapel Hill · Also named: J. B. Johns, Bill LangeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 3, 1938, p. 1
  19. Dean Robert B. House tells Paul Green to get Richard Wright out of Chapel Hill According to a 1967 letter by Paul Green published in 1994, while Richard Wright was in Chapel Hill in 1940 working with Green on the stage version of Native Son, neighbors complained after Green's secretary gave a party for Wright at her home, and Dean of Administration Robert B. House told Green to get Wright out of town, warning that men were talking of running him out that night. Green wrote that he spent the afternoon at Eubanks' Drug Store talking the crowd out of it and the night outside the house where Wright was staying; Wright was already due to leave the next day. People: R. B. House, Paul Green Place: Eubanks' Drug Store, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Richard WrightSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 17, 1994, p. 3
  20. The Dialectic Senate opens a campaign to buy Thomas Wolfe's manuscripts for the University The Dialectic Senate, the student debating society Thomas Wolfe had belonged to, began raising a fund to buy his available manuscripts for the University, after Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's, executor of Wolfe's estate, gave the University first call at an option price of $5,000. Paul Green chaired the committee receiving gifts. People: Paul Green Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Maxwell Perkins, Thomas WolfeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 2, 1940, p. 4
  21. The Carolina Playmakers hold a regional theatre festival for their twenty-first anniversary The Playmakers marked their 21st year with a week-long festival on drama in the South, opening with the Carolina Dramatic Association's state tournament and closing with plays by groups from across the South, talks by Elmer Rice, Brooks Atkinson, Barrett Clark and DuBose Heyward, and a revised version of Paul Green's The Field God. The program printed for April 5 also scheduled talks on Black drama in the South by Zora Neale Hurston and Randolph Edmonds of Dillard University and Edmonds's play Breeders. People: Frederick H. Koch, Paul Green, Archibald Henderson, Samuel Selden Place: Playmakers Theatre and Memorial Hall, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 5, 1940, p. 1
  22. The Carolina Playmakers send a salaried company on tour with Paul Green's The House of Connelly The Carolina Playmakers began what the Weekly called their first professional tour, a troupe of sixteen paid actors, many of them former students, taking Paul Green's The House of Connelly to Virginia, New England and the Middle West under the Redpath Bureau's management. After trial performances in Raleigh, Henderson, Greensboro and Memorial Hall from October 6 to 9, the company set out on October 11, and Frederick Koch called it the start of a permanent acting group. People: Frederick H. Koch, Samuel Selden Place: Playmakers Theatre and Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Frederick Koch · Also mentions: Carolina Playmakers, Memorial HallSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 10, 1941, p. 4
  23. Person Hall shows Clare Leighton's Southern Harvest engravings, made in Chapel Hill The Person Hall Art Gallery showed wood engravings from Clare Leighton's new book Southern Harvest, with copies of the book on display. The Weekly had reported in December that most of the illustrations were engraved in Chapel Hill and that the book, published by Macmillan with a foreword by Paul Green, was largely of North Carolina interest. People: Clare Leighton, Paul Green Place: Person Hall Art Gallery, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 22, 1943, p. 2
  24. Preservationists ask the county commissioners to spare the courthouse stair hall As the county commissioners passed the final orders for a $1,045,000 bond vote on June 10, a group led by Elizabeth Sunderland and Eva Gatling of the Duke fine arts faculty asked them not to tear out the front stair hall of the old courthouse in the planned interior remodeling. After also hearing a telegram from playwright Paul Green, the board said it would revise the plans to leave the stair halls alone except for repairs. People: Paul Green, Collier Cobb Jr., Howard Raymond Weeks Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Elizabeth Sunderland, Eva GatlingSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 8, 1947, p. 1
  25. Chapel Hill's new Community Council launches the town's first Community Fund drive Meeting in the Town Hall, the newly formed Chapel Hill Community Council chose a joint Community Fund drive as its first project, trimming the requests of the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the white and Black recreation centers, an emergency medical care fund and the Black day nursery to a $7,500 goal, with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Green as co-chairmen. The council said it would organize a permanent Community Chest the next fall. People: Paul Green, Hubert Robinson Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Mrs. Paul GreenSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 22, 1948, p. 1
  26. The Southeastern Theater Conference meets in Chapel Hill Sponsored by the Carolina Playmakers with the National Theater Conference, a two-day Southeastern Theater Conference brought dramatic arts leaders from fourteen Southern states to Chapel Hill; Chancellor R. B. House opened it and Paul Green spoke on the South's opportunities in theater. People: Paul Green, R. B. House Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina PlaymakersSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 15, 1948, p. 4
  27. County commissioners name 55 citizens to committees for the bicentennial On September 11, 1952, the commissioners named 55 Orange County people to committees for the bicentennial: program and guests under R. B. Studebaker, finance under Clem M. Cheek, publicity under Mrs. Mack P. Efland, exhibits under Shepperd Strudwick, and a pageant committee under historian Hugh T. Lefler that took in playwright Paul Green and Samuel Selden of the Carolina Playmakers. Several pageant members already doubted a creditable pageant could be staged by the October date, and the observance was expected to slip to the spring. People: Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Paul Green, Samuel Selden, Archibald Henderson, Hugh Talmage Lefler Place: Hillsborough · Also named: R. B. Studebaker, Clem M. Cheek · Also mentions: Carolina PlaymakersSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 18, 1952, p. 1
  28. An Orange County chapter of the American Association for the United Nations organizes The newly formed Orange County Chapter of the American Association for the United Nations, chaired by former UNC dean D. D. Carroll, set as its first project sending a teacher and a student from each of the county's five high schools, Chapel Hill, Lincoln, Central, Hillsboro and Aycock, to the United Nations after an essay and speaking contest. It also offered a speakers' list that included Paul Green and planned panel discussions and the annual UN Day observance. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Paul Green Place: Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 24, 1957, p. 1
  29. Paul Green hosts a Chapel Hill High National Honor Society seminar at his home Playwright Paul Green talked with a large group of Chapel Hill High juniors and seniors at a National Honor Society seminar held in his home, in a room hung with a Japanese silk painting and pictures of Japanese drama. Place: Paul Green's home, Chapel HillSearch the index · Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, January 30, 1963, p. 2
  30. UNC chooses Emerson Field for its new drama theatre, to be named for Paul Green The Department of Dramatic Art announced that its new $2,225,000 theatre would be built on Emerson Field, then the Student Union parking lot, and on the faculty's recommendation would be named the Paul Green Theatre. Plans called for a main stage seating about 600, with Charlotte architects A. G. Odell Jr. and Associates and construction tentatively from spring 1973 to spring 1975. People: Paul Green Place: Emerson Field (Student Union parking lot), UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Student Union, Paul Green TheatreThe Daily Tar Heel, April 5, 1972, p. 1
  31. The American Issues Forum opens its Chapel Hill series with a debate on the melting pot The first Chapel Hill meeting of the American Issues Forum, a national Bicentennial program sponsored here by the town's Bicentennial Commission and the University's Bicentennial Committee, took up whether America was a melting pot. Mayor Howard Lee and Afro-American studies director Sonja Stone called the idea unrealistic, while playwright Paul Green defended it and said the University would stop if Black workers stopped for a day. People: Howard N. Lee, Paul Green Place: Carroll Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Sonja StoneSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 19, 1975, p. 2
  32. Playwright Paul Green is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Paul Green (1894-1981), the dramatist who wrote the outdoor drama The Lost Colony, was buried in the cemetery. Place: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, South Road (NC 54) and Country Club Road, Chapel HillSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, National Register nomination (OR0496), p. 24

After their death in 1981

Later events: estates and burials, and the buildings, honors and histories that remember them.

  1. Paul Green's writing cabin is moved to the North Carolina Botanical Garden The 16-by-18-foot log cabin where the playwright wrote was moved to the Botanical Garden and restored when its old lot was to be sold. A Paul Green Cabin Task Force pressed for the move, citing Green's study of native plants. Place: North Carolina Botanical Garden, Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 27, 1996, p. 15 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 7, 1991, p. 3
  2. UNC trustees approve moving Paul Green's writing cabin to the Botanical Garden The UNC Board of Trustees approved on March 1, 1991, a plan to move Paul Green's log writing cabin from Greenwood Road to the North Carolina Botanical Garden, on condition that the Paul Green Cabin Task Force raise the $50,000 needed for moving, restoring and keeping it; the task force had about half. The 16-by-18-foot cabin, built in Hillsborough by casket maker Robert Davis, had been moved log by log by Green in the late 1930s and was given to the task force by its owner, Dr. Maurice Newton. People: Paul Green Place: North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert DavisSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 7, 1991, p. 3
  3. Chapel Hill marks Paul Green's 100th birthday at his cabin and with a stage tribute On March 17, the centennial of playwright Paul Green's birth, a celebration was held at the Paul Green Cabin in the N.C. Botanical Garden off N.C. 54, with music from his symphonic drama Texas. The next evening the Department of Communication Studies, the Bicentennial Observance, the Paul Green Foundation and others opened Life As Art: A Tribute to Paul Green, a student production on his work as artist and activist. People: Paul Green Place: Paul Green Cabin, N.C. Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: N.C. 54Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 18, 1994, p. 1
  4. UNC Press publishes A Southern Life: Letters of Paul Green on the 100th anniversary of his birth The University of North Carolina Press published A Southern Life: Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981, edited and annotated by English department chairman Laurence Avery, who chose 329 letters from more than 9,000, on what would have been Green's 100th birthday. The town's centennial program that day included a pictorial postal cancellation at the Estes Drive post office, a birthday party at the N.C. Botanical Garden and a concert in Hill Hall, and a stage tribute, Life As Art, was set to open at Playmakers Theatre the next evening. People: Paul Green Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Laurence Avery · Also mentions: Hill Hall, Playmakers Theatre, Estes DriveSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 17, 1994, p. 3

People named in the same events

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Indexed works

Works about or by Paul Green. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.

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Chapel Hill 21North Carolina (statewide) 16Orange County 11Hillsborough 1

By Paul Green

A Southern Life: Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981

Green, Paul · 1994

Letters of the playwright Paul Green (1894-1981) spanning 1916 to 1981, published by UNC Press in 1994 in a volume of 735 pages with illustrations, forty-nine pages of front matter and a bibliography of Green's works. Green spent most of his life in Chapel Hill and taught at the university, and the letters describe Southern social life and customs. A primary source for the university and the town across six decades.

Reviewed in Choice Reviews Online (1994), The Journal of Southern History (1995).

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Paul Green's War Songs: A Southern Poet's History of the Great War, 1917-1920

Green, Paul · 1993 · North Carolina Wesleyan College Press

Paul Green's war poems from 1917 to 1920, presented as a poet's history of the First World War and published by North Carolina Wesleyan College Press in 1993 with a foreword by Sam Ragan and an introduction and notes by John Herbert Roper. Green, the Chapel Hill playwright who lived from 1894 to 1981, wrote them as a soldier; sections include 'Songs of the Metro' and 'Ain't Gone Study War No More', with appendices on sources and alternative versions. 184 pages with illustrations.

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Dog on the Sun

Green, Paul · 1949 · University of North Carolina Press

Twelve short stories by playwright Paul Green, published in 1949. Settings range from the Cape Fear valley and Harnett County, where Green grew up, to Chapel Hill, where he taught at the university; several concern the rural poor of eastern North Carolina. Titles include 'The Girl the King Loved', 'Education South' and 'Such Stuff as Dreams'.

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The University in a nuclear age: address University Day, October 12, 1963

Green, Paul · 1963 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paul Green's University Day address, delivered at the University of North Carolina on October 12, 1963, and printed by the university the same year as a 28-page pamphlet. University Day marks the laying of the Old East cornerstone in 1793. One copy carries the playwright's autograph presentation inscription.

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Chapel Hill speaks on the Bicentennial

Green, Paul · 1976

Fifteen leaves gathering short pieces written for the United States Bicentennial by people connected with Chapel Hill, among them Paul Green, William C. Friday, Albert Coates, Guion Griffis Johnson and Howard N. Lee. Published in 1976 with illustrations and no named publisher. Topics include the American Revolution Bicentennial in Chapel Hill and the town's history.

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Contemporary American literature : a study of fourteen outstanding American writers

Green, Paul, 1894-1981 · 1927

Paul Green's study course on contemporary American literature, built around fourteen American writers and issued in 1927 for university extension work at Chapel Hill. It concerns outlines and syllabi for the continuing education study of American literature. Extension courses of this sort served readers working at a distance from the campus.

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Adams, Agatha Boyd ; Walser, Richard Gaither · 1951 · University of North Carolina Library

Biographical study of the playwright Paul Green by Agatha Boyd Adams, edited by Richard Walser and issued by the university library in 1951 in its Library Extension Publication series. Topics include his drama at Chapel Hill and his writing on slavery. A slim book of 116 pages with a portrait.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Green, Paul, 1894-1981.

Reviewed in American Literature (1952).

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Carolina Folk Plays

Koch, Frederick H. · 1922

The second series of one-act plays from the Carolina Playmakers, the UNC theater company Frederick Koch founded in 1918, published in 1922. Includes Thomas Wolfe's 'The Return of Buck Gavin', 'Fixin's' by Paul and Erma Green, and plays by Elizabeth Lay, Lucy Cobb and Frances Gray, with appendices listing Playmakers productions.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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Chapel Hill Museum

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

Photograph taken on 30 May 2002 at the Chapel Hill Museum for the North Carolina ECHO project, showing the opening section of the museum's exhibit on the playwright Paul Green.

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Chapel Hill Museum

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

Paul Green's academic robe and collar at the Chapel Hill Museum, in a photograph made on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.

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Chapel Hill Museum

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

Close view of a program from the 1952 season of 'The Lost Colony', Paul Green's outdoor drama staged every summer on the Outer Banks, as shown at the Chapel Hill Museum. Photographed for the North Carolina ECHO project on 30 May 2002.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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Chapel Hill Museum

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

Artifacts and memorabilia of Paul Green on display at the Chapel Hill Museum, photographed on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project. Green was a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Botanical Garden

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

Obelisk standing near the Paul Green Cabin in the North Carolina Botanical Garden at UNC-Chapel Hill. North Carolina ECHO photograph, 6 March 2002.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Botanical Garden

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

Sign at the Paul Green Cabin in the North Carolina Botanical Garden. The playwright's cabin was moved to the garden in 1991 from his former home in Chapel Hill, to be kept safe and interpreted for visitors. North Carolina ECHO photograph, 6 March 2002.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Botanical Garden

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

Paul Green's cabin in the North Carolina Botanical Garden, relocated in 1991 from the writer's Chapel Hill residence so it could be preserved and interpreted. Photographed 6 March 2002 for North Carolina ECHO.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Botanical Garden

North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002

Small display on the relocation and restoration of the Paul Green Cabin at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill. Photographed 6 March 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

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  • Start here · NC BIO GREEN ADA Paul Green of Chapel Hill Adams, Agatha Boyd · 1951

    Biographical study of the playwright Paul Green by Agatha Boyd Adams, edited by Richard Walser and issued by the university library in 1951 in its Library Extension Publication series. Topics include his drama at Chapel Hill and his writing on slavery. A slim book of 116 pages with a portrait.

  • Rebecca Wall Collection · F GREEN Land of Nod: And Other Stories Green, Paul · 1976

    Thirteen short stories by Paul Green, among them 'Fine Wagon', 'Love at the Hanging' and 'Supper for the Dead', published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1976; 153 pages. Green, born in Harnett County in 1894, won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for drama and studied, then taught for more than twenty years, at the university in Chapel Hill, where he is buried.

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