Downtown Chapel Hill: Then, Now and Always

Price: $5 per talk, 100 percent of this price supports Experience Downtown Chapel Hill

We had a blast talking with the folks behind your favorite downtown establishments and we remembering what our favorite college town was like during our times at Carolina, and you can still view the series now. Click on the “Catch Up On The Series” link to view our six-part series, Downtown Chapel Hill: Then, Now and Always. Each virtual talk was led by a Chapel Hill business owner with deep historical knowledge and included a few other personalities behind your favorite spots. This series includes: Shops With Missy Julian-Fox ’73, Bars With Scott Maitland ’95 (JD), Arts and Entertainment With Stephen Judge and Kevin “Kaze” Thomas ’12, Black History and Black Businesses with Kaze and Delores Bailey, Quick Bites and Coffee Shops with Don Pinney, and Restaurants with Bill Smith.

And don’t miss the finale to the series on June 8th where we will show you an in-person way to see what was and what is that makes our main stretch such an important part of the University’s identity, the student experience and the community’s culture. While this event will be virtual, we will be showing you how you can come back individually to Chapel Hill to see this history.

Learn more on each talk, and sign up below.

We know getting back to Chapel Hill to relive memories and make new ones has been hard this year. As we relive and make new memories in this virtual series, we also hope you’ll support these businesses. The sign-up fees (100 percent!) for this series will support Experience Downtown Chapel Hill, an initiative aimed to support businesses affected by COVID-19, as well as encourage customers to safely return downtown. We invite #UNCAlumni to come back to the idyllic Chapel Hill we all love by supporting these business now. We look forward to having a lot of virtual fun in Chapel Hill until we can physically make it back “home.”