Paul Green of Chapel Hill:

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Paul Green of Chapel Hill

• His Life and Legacy

Prepared by Betsy Green Moyer, Wayland,
Massachusetts 2007
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Paul Eliot GreenMarch 17, 1894 May 4,
1981----Elizabeth Lay GreenApril 6, 1897 May
22, 1989
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His Mother Bettie Lorine Byrd Green, about
1889 (1862-1908)
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Father William Archibald Green 1852-1926
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1897, Age 3 With his sister Mary
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The Old Homestead, Lillington, 1905
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A recent photo
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Family gathering about 1906
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Pleasant Union School 1908-1909 Paul Green 2nd
row, 7th from right
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In the cotton field summer 1916, shortly
before entering UNC Chapel Hill.
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Forest Theater where as a freshman he saw his
first play his own
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In the army 1917-1919 With his brother Hugh in
France
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2nd Lieutenant Paul Greene, Paris 1919
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Re-entering UNC Chapel Hill, September 1919
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Elizabeth Atkinson Lay, summer 1919
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First playbill by the Carolina Playmakers,
featuring plays by Elizabeth Lay and Thomas
Wolfe, Playmaker Theater, March 1919
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Playmaker Theater as it was then
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July 6, 1922 Paul and Elizabeth married,
Beaufort, NC
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Wedding Party Green and Lay families
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Graduate Student Cornell University 1922-1923
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A scene from In Abrahams Bosom in a
production by Provincetown Players, 1926
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The Greens first home in Chapel Hill
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Elizabeth with children at the Glen, 1932. Paul,
Jr., Nancy Byrd, Betsy McAllister, and Janet
McNeill
1932
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Reading by firelight 1930s
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With his mentor Professor Frederic Koch, Proff
Koch UNC campus
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His second novel This Body the Earth was
published in 1935 by Harper Brothers
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At work on the script of The Lost Colony about
1936
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Waterside Theater, Roanoke Island, NC
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The Lost Colony Opening Season 1937
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Last scene from The
Lost Colony
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Now down the trackless hollow years That
swallowed them but not their song We send
response O lusty singer, dreamer,
pioneer, Lord of the wilderness, the
unafraid, Tamer of darkness, fire and flood, Of
the soaring spirit winged aloft On the plumes of
agony and death. Hear us, O hear! The dream
still lives, It lives, it lives, and shall not
die! (Remembering the original colonists
From the opening scene of The Lost Colony)
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L-R DuBose Heyward, Clifford Odets, PG, Proff
Koch, Barrett Clark celebrate the 21st
anniversary of the Carolina Playmakers, April 1940
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Collaboration with Richard Wright, author of
Native Son
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Greenwood Road home, Chapel Hill, c. 1940
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The extended Green family, Lillington, c. 1940
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The immediate family gathers for Christmas 1944
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At home at Greenwood
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Paul Green the farmer
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Gardeners always Pacific Palisades, CA
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The man and his tractor
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Authors gathering at the Greenshouse
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1955, at one of his 16 outdoor dramas
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Paul Green receiving honorary doctorate at UNC,
Chapel Hill, June 4, 1956
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Windy Oaks Farm to which the Greens moved in 1965
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Work cabin in back of Windy Oaks home
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TEXAS! 1966 - 2003
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At Pioneer Valley Amphitheater, Palo Duro Canyon,
Texas 1966
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With sculptor Bill Hipp, 1976
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Bust sculpted by William Hipp. Original made for
the 1978 dedication of the Paul Green Theater in
Chapel Hill
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Paul and Elizabeth Green with
portrait of Flora MacDonald
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At his Mason and Hamlin piano
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Pleasant Plains Methodist Church, Lillington,
1979
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With Sam Ragan picnic to dedicate the Weymouth
House, Southern Pines, NC
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Highway Marker near Paul Greens birthplace,
Lillington
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With Miss Maddie, who had been a slave
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With Frank Haithcock, the last of Mr. Greens
many helpers.
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Speaking on The Memories of Thomas Wolfe,
April 1981, UNC-Chapel Hill Library
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Published 1990
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With the boxes of 3x5 file cards, the basis of
Paul Greens Wordbook An Alphabet of
Reminiscence
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The Plant Book, Combining words by Paul Green and
photographs of North Carolina wildflowers, was
published in 2005.
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The Paul Green cabin where it stands now in the
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill
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Paul Green, the genial lover of all
mankind Spring 1981
Photo by Mark Murrow
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• Love Is the Soul of Man . . .
• I walk through the trees
• And I walk through the hills
• And I ask you to tell me if you can --
• You know what a tree is,
• You know what a rock is
• But what is the soul of man?
• Words and music by Paul Green
• from Wilderness Road

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• The end