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Riding the Bull in Downtown Durham

September 2, 2010
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Prime Downtown Durham My friend and client Jesse Turner, a landscape architect and talented photographer, took the picture above that he calls Rodeo Sarah.  The Bull, of course, is the iconic bronze on the plaza in Downtown Durham that lets you know unequivocally that you are in the Bull City. Jesse also took the photograph [...]

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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

June 17, 2010
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New Director Describes Durham’s Annual Hosting of the Premier Documentary Film Festival in the World I’m privileged to be a member of Durham’s Downtown Rotary Club which attracts outstanding speakers for its weekly Monday lunch meetings at the Marriott . I frequently do the write-up of the program for the club bulletin and the club [...]

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A New Crowned Head in Durham

March 10, 2010
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Reyn Bowman Passes the Throne to Shelly Green Reyn Bowman has passed the management of the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau to his long time right hand person, Shelly Green.  The picture shows Shelly trying on the crown in her new office at the downtown offices of the organization which is responsible of the marketing [...]

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Sustainable Agriculture in Springtree Territory

March 1, 2010
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Slow Food Around Here “The underprivileged tend to have disastrously unhealthy diets and no wonder: $1 will buy you 100 calories of carrots — or 1,250 calories of cookies and chips.” The quote is from an article entitled “Crimes of the Heart” in a recent edition of Newsweek.   It sums up the challenge of  guiding [...]

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Interview with Homer

January 13, 2010
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Doing what you have to to get by – one agent’s strategy Recently I was in the local big box hardware store looking for some plumbing fittings when a friendly and familiar voice startled me, “Can I help you Sir?” I turned and there in the neon apron of the store employees was my friend [...]

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Football is Over and the Boo birds Come Out

December 7, 2009
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College athletics will never be reformed because the would be reformers have it all wrong. I graduated from Notre Dame in the sixties with a degree in English Lit and some swag to remind me that I was a small part of a National Championship football team. Now that I live in Durham I follow [...]

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Dancing

November 18, 2009

This is totally “off topic” for a real estate site and has nothing to do with Durham.  I’m not really a techie and I spent way more time today than I had budgeted trying to figure out why some parts of a “plugin” for this blog that would add additional information, just won’t work. It’s [...]

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