Calendar Signing tomorrow, 7pm at the Regulator
I'm excited to be doing a calendar signing event at the Regulator tomorrow night (10/26) at 7pm. The Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau asked me to volunteer my time to help them put together the Durham Historical Calendar this year, and in future years. I chose a theme of Mills and Factories this year, and included a timeline with each month reminiscent of ED. It was fun to work on putting together a printed Durham history project versus the usual web-based work.
Feel free to stop by and say hello. Calendars are $9.99, and proceeds go to the Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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Gary, you must know there are a lot of expatriated Durhamites that love your work on ED and would be interested in obtaining a calendar, especially an autographed one! Any way of obtaining one from afar?
Obviously the first place to start such a quest would be a call to The Regulator, but if you already have info on availability for folks who just can't stroll into the local bookstore, please post. :)
Yeah...and I want a brontosaurus t-shirt, too...the wish list grows...
Lynn
When I think of a man signing a calendar, I usually assume he appears in it nude. Especially if he's going to be Mr. January, February, March... all the way through December :-)
I'd love to have one of these. I'm such a homesick Durhamite (what are y'all calling yourselves these days?). Please let the rest of us out-placed, restless, homesick, piney whineys know how to get ours!
For those out of town, if you want to order online you can get one at www.durhamstuff.com
Good to see you at the Regulator, Gary. Nice editorial in today's Herald...
Editorial: History by the month
Herald-Sun, 28 Oct 2009
Durham has a rich history of manufacturing and industry, a source of pride to longtime residents and a legacy usually quickly absorbed by newcomers.
Especially in recent years, the city has been a leader in adapting for modern uses many historic structures that once turned out cigarettes, textiles, flour and other products for which the city was renowned. We have done a pretty good job of preserving our "built environment. "
But we've also had some notable lapses, where buildings which represented significant architectural styles or were landmarks to an earlier era met the wrecking ball.
Some of the greatest successes -- and some of the lapses -- are captured in the latest edition of the Durham Historical Calendar, put out for several years by the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau.
For the 2010 edition, the DCVB partnered with building preservation activist Gary Kueber, whose Web site, "Endangered Durham," has meticulously chronicled and advocated for the city's historical structures.
The calendar -- beyond reminding you what day it is -- is a trove of information about the buildings featured each month.
Residents and visitors familiar with the shops, restaurants and tree-lined courtyard of Brightleaf Square can get a glimpse on the calendar's cover of how it looked when it was the Watts and Yuille Tobacco Warehouses.
Constructed in 1904 by American Tobacco, they housed tobacco first for that company and then, after trustbusters dismembered it, for Liggett and Myers for much of the 20th century.
Their renovation in 1980 into Brightleaf Square was one of the first major efforts to recapture the city's tobacco-and- textile heritage in updated buildings. Many of the audacious renovations to follow highlight the calendar's months -- Golden Belt (July), the Liggett and Myers complex now West Village (October) and of course the American Tobacco Campus (January).
And the calendar will remind us of demolished landmarks, such as February's Austin-Heaton Company, built in 1902 as Carolina Roller Mills and demolished in 1968 as part of ill-starred urban renewal. The Durham Performing Arts Center now stands on the site.
The calendar, available from the DCVB and many retailers [including the Regulator], is a nostalgic and informative look at Durham's past, well worth the $9.99 price tag.
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