November 30, 2023
- In November the Carol Woods Grounds crew received notification of their Level 1 Arboretum status through Arbnet International, an arboretum accreditation and networking program.
Read More >September 27, 2023
- If you walked around the campus of Carol Woods in the summer of 2023, it's possible that you might have seen some bluebirds. In 2023 there were 181 young Bluebirds that successfully fledged in 2023 under the watchful eyes of the Carol Woods Nest Box Trail.
Read More >June 10, 2022
- This was hardly what I had expected in March 2020 when I moved into Carol Woods. Instead of Wednesday concerts, Thursday lectures, Friday afternoon sherry gatherings, Saturday movies, art classes and croquet matches, and spirited conversations in the dining room, I received a lukewarm dinner that arrived in a cardboard container outside my door. The coronavirus had invaded and, like fourteenth-century Europeans, the five hundred residents and I were quarantined. At best, I walked around campus waving at masked, white-haired strangers.
Read More >March 9, 2022
- From the day the first residents moved into Carol Woods in 1979, they were an integral part of the larger Chapel Hill community. One of our purposes has always been to improve the lives of older adults regardless of where they live.
Read More >February 2, 2022
- In many communities, housing developments spring up and are named after trees that used to be there— Hickory Hills, The Oaks, Dogwood Acres. Those trees once dominated the landscape, but they were removed to make way for the houses. Not so at Carol Woods.
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