by Meg Kimmel | Oct 28, 2020 | News, Top Middle Box
Search for: NEWS A Homegrown Garden Just for the Post Office Relative newcomers may not be aware that the local Post Office was the only place Davidson residents received mail before the 21st century, or thereabouts. No friendly mail-folk walked the neighborhoods, no...
by Meg Kimmel | Sep 27, 2020 | Bottom Left Box, News
Search for: NEWS Reynolds Lecture at Davidson College: Ibram X. Kendi The Reynolds Lecture, one of Davidson College’s flagship lecture events, was endowed in 1959 through funding from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, intended to bring “a speaker of...
by Meg Kimmel | Sep 14, 2020 | Bottom Left Box, DavidsonLearns, News
Search for: DAVIDSONLEARNS DavidsonLearns 2020: Still Learning Right on schedule, the region’s lifelong-learning organization has begun its fall academic term, but in virtually unusual circumstances. And we do mean virtually. DavidsonLearns Executive Director...
by Meg Kimmel | Aug 6, 2020 | Davidson History, News, Top Left Box
Search for: NEWS Where the Heart Is This is a story about home. About love and family and neighbors. About a hot, humid August day in 1960 and a similar August day in 2020. And so many days in between. Betty Cashion Walley, who retired in 1997 after 42 years in...
by Meg Kimmel | Aug 2, 2020 | Bottom Left Box, News
Search for: NEWS Back to School? With the difficult decisions about school that families face this fall, News of Davidson turned to some veteran teachers in our community for their thoughts. Although local districts have chosen online education for the moment, these...