Tim Sullivan, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, a Morehead Scholar, and former president/CEO of Ancestry.Com, talks about his experiences at the top of an emerging company and the lessons he learned

Guest: Duke Professor Orrin Pilkey on his book, “How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels.” (Originally aired: September 15, 2004)

Guest: Joe Flora

UNC-CH Emeritus Professor of English and for 30 years leader if the Christianity and Literature class at University Methodist Church discusses the stories of Hillsborough author, Lee Smith.

Nelson Dollar on Civil War History and the last battles in on New Hope Creek at the eastern edge of Chapel Hill.

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.

Tim Sullivan, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, a Morehead Scholar, and former president/CEO of Ancestry.Com, talks about his experiences at the top of an emerging company and the lessons he learned that might be useful for others.

Getting to Carolina: 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.

Jim Auchmutey, a journalist who wrote for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for almost 30 years, specializing in stories about the South and its history and culture, talks about his new book, “Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America,” and how the history of barbecue parallels the history of our country.

Guest host is John Shelton Reed coauthor of “Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue”

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.

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