Video: William Ferris and Marcie Cohen Ferris on living and working in Chapel Hill

“My father was a farmer, and he always said he never knew a good farmer who didn’t live on his farm, and I see our work at UNC the same way. We are two minutes from where we both work. Our lives and our professional work are closely aligned, which is a very nice thing.”—William Ferris

In this video produced by the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, William Ferris (author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture) and Marice Cohen Ferris (author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South) talk about living where they work in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (running time 1:56)

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