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Singer-songwriter James Taylor, born in Boston in 1948, moved with his family to the Morgan Creek neighborhood of Chapel Hill as a young child and attended local schools. His 1968 song "Carolina in My Mind" pays homage to his Chapel Hill childhood, and in 2003 a bridge over Morgan Creek was named the James Taylor Bridge in his honor.
Source: Orange County Courthouse Mural: James Taylor
1948– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
1 work about James Taylor is indexed here, as is one work by Taylor.
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Correspondence of William R. Davie for August 1799, near the end of his single year as governor, which ended when President John Adams named him an envoy to France. James Taylor is among the writers. Davie is remembered as a founder of the University of North Carolina, and Hillsborough is named. Ninety images.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Live sound recordings gathered by Mark J. O'Donnell, born 1951, between 1960 and 2018, roughly 7,700 items filling 52 linear feet in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, collection 20555. Subjects include performers such as Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, John Prine and the Red Clay Ramblers, and venues and events including Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, MerleFest and the Festival for the Eno.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Taylor, James, 1948-.
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Picture: James Taylor, 2008. CC BY 2.0. Photograph by Paul Keleher; originally posted to Flickr as James Taylor at Tanglewood; via Wikimedia Commons
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