At one small-town theater, the comedy starts before you even arrive.
Merritt’s Store and Grill in Chapel Hill
You might wait 45 minutes for a B.L.T. at Merritt’s Store and Grill in Chapel Hill. But trust us, this bite is worth it.
Rosecrans Baldwin is the author of a travel memoir, Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down, and a novel, You Lost Me There. Rosecrans has taught creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, and Miami Dade College’s Miami Writers Institute, where he was an author-in-residence in 2013. He is a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and is a co-founder of the online magazine The Morning News.
At one small-town theater, the comedy starts before you even arrive.
You might wait 45 minutes for a B.L.T. at Merritt’s Store and Grill in Chapel Hill. But trust us, this bite is worth it.
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