Bull's Head Bookshop

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1. February 1927 Howard Mumford Jones opens the Bull's Head Bookshop in Murphey Hall English professor Howard Mumford Jones announced the Bull's Head Book Store, a non-profit shop for modern novels and short stories in his office at 214 Murphey Hall. It later moved to the YMCA building, the ground floor of the university library and, in 1968, the Daniels Building. The Tar Heel, February 12, 1927, p. 1
2. October 1935 The Bull's Head Bookshop moves into the University Library basement As the Bull's Head Bookshop was about to close, University Librarian R. B. Downs saved it by giving it room and staff in the extension library in the Library basement under Nellie Roberson. Moved from the Y.M.C.A. building, it reopened in mid-October to sell and rent books and began a series of Tuesday talks, opening with W. T. Couch of the University Press. People: Robert B (Robert Bingham) Downs The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 18, 1935, p. 1
3. October 9, 1936 The Bull's Head Bookshop announces a talk by Hope Summerell Chamberlain on Old Days in Chapel Hill The Bull's Head Bookshop on the ground floor of the University Library announced a talk by Chamberlain about her book for Tuesday afternoon, October 13, with autographed copies on sale for $1.35. The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 9, 1936, p. 2 (Bull's Head Bookshop notice)
4. April 22, 1992 The Black Cultural Center holds a reception for alumnus Randall Kenan UNC's Black Cultural Center held a reception for Kenan, a 1985 graduate, on the publication of his story collection Let the Dead Bury Their Dead; the Bull's Head Bookshop held an autograph party for the book the same day. The Daily Tar Heel, April 22, 1992, p. 1
5. 2001 Doug Marlette's novel The Bridge, set in a fictional Hillsborough, stirs the town's writers Marlette's first novel, The Bridge, is set in the fictional town of Eno, modeled on Hillsborough, where he lived and worked. Some of Hillsborough's writers took offense at characters based on them, and the manager of the Bull's Head Bookshop in Chapel Hill cancelled a reading. People: Allan Gurganus INDY Week: Bridge too far (December 12, 2001)
6. March 8, 2005 Author Inga Muscio speaks at Bull's Head Bookshop during Celebration Week Feminist author Inga Muscio discussed her book on women's bodies at Bull's Head Bookshop, then led a roundtable of about 11 students in Dey Hall on sexism, racism and homophobia. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), May 2005, p. 5

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