On June 29, 1905, Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham a Carolina grad and older brother of President Frank Graham appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants and then became a beloved doctor in Minnesota. That story was popularized in the move, Field of Dreams. This weekend WCHL is remembering that game by re-airing a 2009 conversation with Brett Friedlander and Bob Reising, authors of “Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham.”

Patrick Wooten, Wayne Goodwin, and Karen Popp celebrate John Sanders, who has been a leading light in Chapel Hill since his arrival on campus more than 70 years ago, serving at study body president in 1950. He joined the staff of the Institute of Government beginning in 1951 and served as director for many years. He has been the go-to man when there was a problem or an opportunity in state government. He was also mentor to many young Carolina students and an inspiration to many others.

Coach Lefty Driesell, the legendary and Hall of Fame basketball coach at four different colleges, Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, and Georgia State, all of which he took to the NCAA tournament. In a program from 2014 he shared some of those memories

Howard Covington is the author of “Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase”. We discuss his new book and the University of North Carolina during the years between World War I and the Great Depression.

Rufus Edmisten, Deputy Chief Counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee, NC Attorney General and Secretary of State, Democratic nominee for governor in 1984 and, many say, the most colorful politician in North Carolina’s last 50 years, talks about his new book, “That’s Rufus: A Memoir of Tar Heel Politics, Watergate and Public Life”

Guest: Robert Morgan

North Carolina mountain native, admired author, and for more than 40 years professor at Cornell University, discusses the amazing story of how the American Revolution was won in the Carolinas in 1780-81.

On May 20, North Carolina celebrated the 1775 Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. This weekend we will re-air an earlier program with Scott Syfert, who discussed the lingering question of whether the Declaration is fact or fiction.

Chapel Hill’s John May, a retired textile executive and author of “Poe and Fanny” and “The Poe Letters,” talks about his family history and his privately published new book, “The Mays of Alamanns’ Creek: A Family Odyssey,” in which he tells his family’s story--from the time of human origins in Africa to the textile town of Burlington.

Guest: Chapel Hill’s Lennie Rosenbluth, hero of the 1957 championship victory over the University of Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain 54–53 in triple overtime, talks about his story of how and why he came to Carolina and what is was like to play for Coach Frank McGuire.

Patrick Wooten, Wayne Goodwin, and Karen Popp celebrate John Sanders, who has been a leading light in Chapel Hill since his arrival on campus more than 70 years ago, serving at study body president in 1950. He joined the staff of the Institute of Government beginning in 1951 and served as director for many years. He has been the go-to man when there was a problem or an opportunity in state government. He was also mentor to many young Carolina students and an inspiration to many others.