by Nancy Griffith | Jan 22, 2024 | Bottom Left Box, Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS Walnut Grove: a Davidson History Column by Nancy Griffith When we think of plantation houses in Davidson, our minds usually turn to Beaver Dam, the Davidson plantation on Concord Road. There was, however, a large plantation much closer to downtown,...
by Press Release | Jan 16, 2024 | Bottom Left Box, Local, News, Stories from Davidson College
Search for: NEWS Register Now for the 2024 Davidson Horticultural Symposium Meeting the Challenge: Gardening for a Greener Future Brought to you by the Davidson Garden Club together with Davidson College, this year’s symposium features: KELLY NORRIS – Where...
by Editorial Board | Jan 11, 2024 | Arts & Entertainment, Bottom Left Box, Local, News
Search for: NEWS Organ at Davidson: Patrick Pope Organ at Davidson returns on January 15 with organist Patrick Pope. Patrick Pope is the Director of Music and Organist at The Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter in Charlotte, NC. He has served in that...
by Jean Spangler | Jan 3, 2024 | Bottom Left Box, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Thank-You Notes: To Be Or Not To Be Over the past 70 years, I’ve probably written more than 1,200 thank-you notes. I started this ritual the day after my mother determined my handwriting was legible enough to decipher. So, in 1964, at age 11, I was...
by Nancy Griffith | Dec 22, 2023 | Bottom Left Box, Davidson History, News
Search for: NEWS A History of Christmas in Davidson Christmas celebrations in Davidson have changed greatly over the last century or so. In a 2001 interview with the Lake Norman Times, Van Lear Logan recalls that in her mother’s day Christmas was very simple. As toys...
by Press Release | Dec 13, 2023 | Bottom Left Box, Local, News, Stories from Davidson College
Search for: NEWS Meet Davidson College’s First Arts and Innovation Fellow Marquia Humphries ’22 Two years ago, Marquia Humphries ’22 successfully proposed a fellowship position at Davidson College that would bridge the gap between art, innovation and...