Edna Metz Wells Park drain, image credit: John Morris

The Raleigh I grew up in was a small dusty, small southern capital where most everyone knew everyone. Part of the circle included the son of the taxidermist at the old Museum of Natural History who imparted to his son a knowledge and appreciation for the natural world. Carl’s decidedly New Orleanian, Charlestonesque flavored rental on North Street provided a locus for our detailed weekend explorations of that world frequently involving Raleigh’s numerous subterranean conduits, local manifestations of urban waterways buried in concrete coast to coast spawned by a now-contested gestalt that nature was an entity to be separated from. This segregation, while bad for the life of streams proved an irresistable benefit to us growing up near downtown Raleigh, illustrated by a chum I found in a storm drain down from Wiley before and after school.

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The radio ads for local haunted houses are already filling the airwaves. Here are a few photographs I took behind the scenes of The Frightmare last year.

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Do you have home movies in your family vault? Do you want to know what’s on them, what condition they’re in, and how to take care of them? Interested in what other people filmed with their old movie cameras back in the day? Then bring your family’s old 8mm, Super 8 or 16mm home movies to the Triangle Home Movie Day event, Saturday, Oct. 16. Read more »