Orange County Honors Grammy-Winning UNC Professor William Ferris
Posted May 28, 2019
Orange County Commissioners this week honored a North Carolina professor who won two Grammy Awards earlier this year. Bill Ferris has spent much of his life chronicling the South. He is a history professor at UNC and a former chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ferris was also previously nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
(Chapelboro.com)
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