Taking a Break
It's time for a respite for me for a few weeks, after over 3 years of mostly 5-day-a-week-Endangered Durham and ~1000 posts, I need a bit of down time before cranking up with new areas of Durham, including Trinity Park, Old North Durham, East Durham, Northgate, Hope Valley, the southern-eastern-western portions of the county, etc., etc. I know that I'll be unable to completely take a break, and thus I'm going to plan on publishing posts as the mood strikes over the remainder of November and December, and perhaps January, with regular posting to resume, at the latest, in February. I'll update the twitter feed with posts I publish during The Break. As always, I appreciate your readership, and I hope you understand my need for a short hiatus to rejuvenate, research, and do some non-historic-durham-architecture-related-things. (Rumor is that there are some of those things out there.)
Thanks
Gary
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21 comments:
Enjoy your break! We'll be here, waiting, when you return...
Gary: Very well-deserved indeed! I don't know how you keep up the energy and time to research ED, but it's a great resource to our city. Enjoy the break and we'll see you when you're back.
Thanks for everything you do Gary--please dont think it goes unappreciated. I really hope to meet you one of these days to say thanks in person.
Enjoy your break, Gary. Hope you have a wonderful way to spend time while you're away. Thanks for your hard work and diligent research. See you in February.
Enjoy it.
Two things (one question and one comment):
1) What's your twitter handle, so I can follow you?
2) I'd love to see some posts about west-central Durham, around the Old Erwin Road corridor.
The twitter feed is /EDangeredDurham. It should also appear in the left sidebar on the main page of the site.
GK
Ditto all the above, Gary.
Gary, thanks for all the great posts. I really enjoy your work.
Thanks for everything you do with this site. Hope you enjoy your break. Really looking forward to when you do Trinity Park and Northgate, since I grew up on Buchanan Blvd. in the 1960s and 1970s.
This is unacceptable!!!
Just kiding....enjoy the break. You do a great job and service for the citizens of Durham.
You deserve the break Gary. Thanks for all you do for Durham. I look forward to when you come back.
You are to be commended on your research and efforts to remind people of the beautiful place Durham used to be. I look forward each day to new posts and information. With that being said, you DO deserve a break. Enjoy it and know that your readers will be anxiously awaiting your return!
If anyone deserves a rest,it's you.
You have certainly done a great tribute to Durham in all your past work.Just found this site a few months ago and it's the first thing I look at in the mornings while having my cup of wake up coffee.Memories,memories,memories.
Good for the soul.
Have a wonderful vacation.God Bless
Well, I'll just use the time to go back over the past years! Maybe there were some I missed. Moved from Durham some years ago but remember time there as special.
I'm 100% behind you taking a break. I'm still not convinced you'll actually do it, but you definitely should... :)
Enjoy your well deserved break.
Enjoy your recess, Gary.
I love the site and look
forward to your return.
Maybe I can get some work
done with fewer new posts.
;)
Thanks for all that you do.
Seth Roberts
I hope you come back with evidence that Dr. Durham's Pandora's Box, Julian Carr's Somerset Villa, Washington Duke's Fairview, Ben Duke's Four Acres, and both the Southgate Jones and E.J Parrish houses were all moved to a secret location and survive entirely intact to this day...Right?
Okay, a nice thought. Enjoy the break. You deserve it.
For those of you suffering from ED withdrawal...
History of West Durham: Sunday at main library
Herald-Sun, 4 Nov 2009
John Schelp, president of the Old West Durham Neighborhood Association, will discuss the history of West Durham as a mill village at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Main Library, 300 N. Roxboro St.
Schelp will describe how the Erwin Cotton Mills, from their construction in the 1890s to their closure in the 1980s, were the driving force that made Old West Durham what it is today.
The presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, call (919) 560-0268 or visit www.durhamcountylibrary.org.
Schelp’s presentation is in conjunction with "Piece Work," a performance about life and work in cotton mills, at Durham Technical Community College’s Educational Resources Center auditorium, 1637 Lawson St., on November 10 at 2 p.m.
Piece Work is the Touring Theatre of North Carolina’s original adaptation of North Carolina writer Barbara Presnell’s work of the same name.
Enjoy your downtime and relax! The quality of your work here on ED is amazing, and I also want to thank you for all you put into it.
your research is excellant. my daughter attended the NCSSM - i'd like to reprint some of your photos & background info to include in a memory book for her.
do you mind?
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