Pink House Forever

The Pink House was like an underground United Nations. Chapel Hill's aspiring artists, musicians, poets, DJ's, activists, actors, writers, nudists, flutists, knuckleheads, and couch-surfers, all living together in (relative) harmony, united by their common bohemianism. Life inside the Pink House often consisted of weird shit happening at all hours, every day, it rarely stopped. And there's something about that place that won't allow the vibe to ever fully dissipate. / PinkHouseForever.org

Pink House. 130 North Street. Back In The Day.

Fellow residents from the 1991-94 years were Clint Curtis, Shyam Patel, Raj Krishnasami, Lydia Craft, Jess Deltac, Kyle York Spencer, Caroline Rivers Hall, Mel Lanham, Michelle Sinnott, Jay Murray, N'Gai Wright, Scott Bullock (who crashed on the couch for a year before finally moving in), Bryan Ellerson, Karen Hurka, Sally Stryker, Ryan Mathias, Charlie Speight, Chris Palmatier, Trent McDevitt, and Steve William.

Besides holdovers and returnees Jay, Scott, Mel (& Laverne!), Chris, and N'Gai, residents during 1995-97 included Ian Williams, Greg Humphreys, Allen Sellars (who, like Jay, lived at both the Pink House and 401 Pritchard), Zak Bisacky, James Dasher, Linden Elstran, Jiffer Bourguignon, Grant Tennille (who first made the scene as a fixture in N'Gai's room circa summer '93), Zia Zareem, Ben Folds, Tom Holden, and Chris "Chip" Chapman.

- Erik Ose

Wednesday, December 3, 2003

Seeing the Seven Sisters from the back yard

OrangePolitics, 12/3/03

WillR: Not to bore the people here with more "I remember when...." stories of Chapel Hill, but....I do remember seeing the Seven Sisters from the backyard of the Pink House on North St. (behind Troll's roughly), throughout the early to late 80's, even into the early-90's. I'm sure Joe H. could better comment.

Far back yard circa Spring, 1994. Photo by Mel Keister (Lanham).

(Editor's note: This comment by Will Raymond from 2003 on an OrangePolitics discussion of the then-seemingly imminent development of Carolina North was referring to how much light pollution there was at that point in downtown Chapel Hill. Will must have stories to tell about Pink House parties of the 80s, and hopefully sometime he can persuaded to share some of them.)