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A Q and A with “Football in a Forest” author Lee Pace

CHAPEL HILL

Few college football stadiums can match the ambiance of North Carolina's Kenan Stadium, which was built in the middle of a forest, thick with trees, long before the UNC campus expanded and grew around it.

Once something of an outpost on campus, Kenan is now in the middle of it, with UNC Hospitals, dorms and other buildings nearby. Despite the campus growth, the stadium is still tucked into a forest, too, with the surrounding trees rising above the top of the stands, now like always.

Now there's a book that does justice to the history and beauty of Kenan, which (as I found out from reading) served as an inspiration to the stadiums at Georgia and Alabama.