Mac and Jonathan Neumann in high school, 1984.

Claire Ashby in the Angels of Epistemology.

Honor Role, circa 1988.

Left to right: Ethan Smith, Wwax’s Wayne Taylor, and Brian Walsby with Reed Mullin of Corrosion of Conformity (bending over) in the summer of 1985.

Laura in her goth years.

Slushpuppies flyer from 1987.

Laura’s first bass guitar, a short-scale Fender.

Angels of Epistemology promo photo, 1987.
From left: Bill Mooney and Rob Stewart (who were not in the band), Mike Carter, Sara Bell, and Jeb Bishop.

Mac and Brian Walsby in Wwax.

Flyer for a 1986 COC show with the Slushpuppies.

Chord chart Mac made for Amy Saaed, Laura’s roommate, in the late 1980s.

Laura and Sam Mauney (Days Of...) in 1986.

Zen Frisbee, with Chuck Garrison on drums.

Typical Carrboro house party in 1992. Spott is second from left;

Garrison is fourth from left.

Bricks at a house party in Fairfield, Conn., 1989. Left to right: Laura Cantrell, Josh Phillips, Mac, Jim Wilbur (holding cup), Andrew Webster, and Mahinder Kingra.

Chunk flyer, August 1989.

Bricks and Fugazi flyer, March 1990.

Erectus Monotone.
Left to right: Andy Freeburn, Caspar Lee, Jennifer Walker, and Kevin Collins.

Insert for the first Angels of Epistemology 7-inch on Merge.

Chunk flyer, August 1989.

A February 1990 letter from Mac to Aubrey Summers.

Superchunk in the early 1990s.

Tourist coin that Mac, Laura, and Aubrey Summers bought at the Space Needle during their 1989 road trip to Seattle.

Merge’s first invoice form, made by Laura on her typewriter.

Superchunk at O’Cayz Corral, Madison, Wisc., 1990.

Mac in 1990.