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www.unc.edu/bw 11 LOCAL HAUNTS: 3CUPS AND LOCOPOPS Both 3CUPS coffee shop and LocoPops on West Franklin Street embody Chapel Hill’s unique small-town aura. 3CUPS, a bright, cozy shop with brick walls splattered with artwork, serves premium coffee from Counter Culture, loose-leaf tea and other drinks. Customers receive their own French press pot for coffee or a teapot with free refills. LocoPops is also a local business, with its original store located in Durham. This frozen pops stand is famous for its wide variety of quirky flavors, including Strawberry Margarita and Mexican Chocolate. top 5 secrets We might not have many hidden doorways or passageways around here, but UNC-Chapel Hill has its own secrets lurking on and off campus. by erin wiltgen • design by kelly giles • photos by hannah taylor GIMGHOUL CASTLE Hidden in the woods at the end of Gimghoul Road, this impressive mansion contains a myth dating back to the 1800s. Legend has it that in 1833, 18-year-old Peter Dromgoole died in a pistol duel over the affections of a woman named Fanny. Accounts differ on whether or not Fanny witnessed the shooting, but all confirm that Dromgoole’s friends buried him under a rock marked with his blood. According to the myth, both Dromgoole’s and Fanny’s spirits haunt the castle and the rock still bears the bloody stain. Although the story has fallen out of the memory of most students, rumors of a secret society that meets within Gimghoul have become increasingly widespread. The society, called the Order of the Gimghoul, was founded in 1889 and supposedly consists of noted alumni such as J.L. Morehead and Frank Porter Graham. FOREST THEATER Nestled behind Cobb Residence Hall on Country Club Road, Forest Theater and the surrounding trees and paths provide a relaxing study environment as well as running routes far away from the hustle and bustle of campus. DAY-OLD BAGELS FROM ALPINE Start off today with yesterday’s treats. Alpine Bagel in the Student Union bags up its extra bagels each night and sells them the next day for about $2. Bags usually contain five or six bagels. FREE-FOOD LISTSERV The free-food listserv is exactly what it sounds like: a mass e-mail that informs its subscribers of events and groups giving out free grub. Chase Foster, a 2005 UNC-CH graduate, began the listserv in 2003 to try to reduce the amount of free food that was thrown away after these events. “It’s a great opportunity for students who don’t have a lot of expendable income in some cases to eat free food that was right within hundreds of feet from where they slept,” he said.
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LOCAL HAUNTS: 3CUPS AND LOCOPOPSBoth 3CUPS coffee shop and LocoPops on West Franklin Street embody Chapel Hill’s unique small-town aura. 3CUPS, a bright, cozy shop with brick walls splattered with artwork, serves
premium coffee from Counter Culture, loose-leaf tea and other drinks. Customers receive their own French press pot for coffee or a teapot with free refills. LocoPops is also a local business, with its original
store located in Durham. This frozen pops stand is famous for its wide variety of quirky flavors, including Strawberry Margarita and Mexican Chocolate.
top 5 secretsWe might not have many hidden doorways or passageways around here, but UNC-Chapel Hill has its own secrets lurking on and off campus.
by erin wiltgen • design by kelly giles • photos by hannah taylor
GIMGHOUL CASTLEHidden in the woods at the end of Gimghoul Road, this
impressive mansion contains a myth dating back to the 1800s. Legend has it that in 1833, 18-year-old Peter Dromgoole died in a pistol duel over the affections of a woman named Fanny. Accounts differ on whether or not Fanny witnessed the shooting, but all confirm that Dromgoole’s friends buried him under a rock marked with his blood. According to the myth, both Dromgoole’s and Fanny’s spirits haunt the castle and the rock still bears the bloody stain.
Although the story has fallen out of the memory of most students, rumors of a secret society that meets within Gimghoul have become increasingly widespread. The society, called the Order of the Gimghoul, was founded in 1889 and supposedly consists of noted alumni such as J.L. Morehead and Frank Porter Graham.
FOREST THEATERNestled behind Cobb Residence Hall on Country Club
Road, Forest Theater and the surrounding trees and paths provide a relaxing study environment as well as running routes far away from the hustle and bustle of campus.
DAY-OLD BAGELS FROM ALPINEStart off today with yesterday’s treats. Alpine Bagel in the
Student Union bags up its extra bagels each night and sells them the next day for about $2. Bags usually contain five or six bagels.
FREE-FOOD LISTSERVThe free-food listserv is exactly what it sounds like: a
mass e-mail that informs its subscribers of events and groups giving out free grub. Chase Foster, a 2005 UNC-CH graduate, began the listserv in 2003 to try to reduce the amount of free food that was thrown away after these events. “It’s a great opportunity for students who don’t have a lot of expendable income in some cases to eat free food that was right within hundreds of feet from where they slept,” he said.
