97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

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Scott and Aaron discuss the invention of the modern ice cream maker – and whoever it was that discovered the ice cream-making process in the first place. Also: Jesse Owens defies Hitler and wins four gold medals, and a courageous North Carolina woman singlehandedly saves her home from the British army.

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