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Black Barbershops: A Davidson Tradition, Part II, The Nortons

by Nancy Griffith | Nov 18, 2021 | Bottom Middle Box, Davidson History, News

Search for: NEWS Black Barbershops: A Davidson Tradition, Part II, The Nortons Most longtime Davidson residents remember Norton’s Barbershop, most recently owned by Ken Norton. Ken, however, was not the first barber in the family. This distinction goes to his uncle,...

Black Barber Shops: A Davidson Tradition

by Nancy Griffith | Oct 12, 2021 | Davidson History, News, Top Left Box

Search for: NEWS Black Barber Shops: A Davidson Tradition   Editors’ Note: This article uses verbatim language from a bygone era, language that would not be appropriate today. It is used in an illustrative manner to tell this important historical aspect of...

Davidson College in the Late ’20s

by Nancy Griffith | Sep 20, 2021 | Bottom Middle Box, Davidson History, Local, News, Stories from Davidson College

Search for: NEWS Davidson College in the Late ’20s An interesting digital document in the Davidson College Archives is the scrapbook of Aubrey Brown of Mineral Springs, Texas, who graduated in 1929. The following excerpts from his letters describe life at the...

Davidson College in 1888

by Nancy Griffith | Aug 12, 2021 | Davidson History, Local, News, Top Middle Box

Search for: NEWS Davidson College in 1888 In his book “Memories of Davidson College,” former college president Walter Lingle described what the college was like when he enrolled in 1888. Things on today’s large modern campus are quite different than what he...

Life at Davidson College in the 1840s and 1850s

by Nancy Griffith | Jul 27, 2021 | Davidson History, News, Top Left Box

Search for: DAVIDSON HISTORY Life at Davidson College in the 1840s and 1850s Cornelia Shaw, in her history of Davidson College, writes of an unsigned sketch entitled “Davidson in the Forties,” which was found among the papers of Dr. Jethro Rumple, who graduated in...
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