Durham NC

KidZNotes- Another Way Durham Will Distinguish Itself

December 12, 2010
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Another Fabulous Program from the Downtown Durham Rotary Club Note: This is republished from a write-up I did of a program presented to the Downtown Durham Rotary Club. The club is the largest Rotary club in our district and one of the ways we’ve been able to recruit and hold members is several years of [...]

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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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Alberta’s Favorite thing about Durham

July 31, 2010
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Making a Home is not Just about Buying a House. I recently asked Alberta what was her favorite thing about Durham. As often happens her answer surprised me. I mentioned that I hadn’t really written a post about the Bulls.  She volunteered to write one herself.  Here it is. Why I love the Bulls…another reason [...]

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Eno Restaurant and Market Gets NYT Attention

April 29, 2010
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More foodie attention from the New York Times. Last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine gave more credibility to the area and Durham as a great place for foodies. The spread tells the story of Coon Rock Farm near Hillsborough and the efforts of partners Richard Holcomb, Jamie DeMent and chef Marco Shaw to create a [...]

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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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Ringing the Bells

December 18, 2009
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Watching the Snow Begin While Ringing the Bell for the Salvation Army. Spending an hour in the cold ringing the bell and trying to collect money for the Salvation Army isn’t the least bit praiseworthy especially when compared to the people in the Salvation Army who devote their lives to helping people in trouble and [...]

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Dusty

December 13, 2009
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The Worst Christmas Gift I Ever Received and the Best A recent study tried to explain how our tradition of Christmas giving is only marginally good for the economy at best… and may actually harm it. The premise is that people buy stuff for themselves that they perceive will provide some value.  However, gifts  far [...]

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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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Design Sponge City Guide to Durham

December 3, 2009
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Via Downtown Durham Inc and its newsletter we find an interesting “city guide” to Durham. The guide was created on Design Sponge which describes itself as a “daily site for home and product design” and visually it is very attractive. The Durham guide is one of many city guides on the site and if you [...]

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Pride in Durham

November 30, 2009
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I collect most of my RSS feeds in Google Reader and I’ve found so many interesting ones to follow that sometimes I get way behind reading them…it’s kind of like unread magazines used to stack up unread when print media was more fashionable. I was catching up after the Thanksgiving holidays and came across a [...]

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