DAVIDSON HISTORY
Dogs of Davidson
DAVIDSON HISTORY Dogs have long been a feature of town and campus life in Davidson. Times were different in earlier years. Until the early 1980s, dogs were allowed to run free, in town and on the campus --- no leashes, no dog parks, no scooping poop. This gave rise...
Recollections of Davidson College, 1946-1950
NEWS (For this column the editors are happy to share some reminiscences by a guest columnist, Bill DuBose, Davidson class of 1950.) Freshman orientation marks the first vivid recollection I associate with my experience at Davidson. We were assembled in the...
Miss Louise
NEWS During this Women’s History Month, it is perhaps fitting to learn a bit about one of Davidson’s great female eccentrics. Louise Withers Sloan, fondly referred to as “Miss Louise,” was born in 1891 to local businessman and longtime mayor James Lee Sloan...
A Forgotten Davidson Neighborhood
NEWS Today we think of Davidson’s African American neighborhood as being on the West Side. Over a century ago, however, there was another Black neighborhood located north of Davidson on an unpaved road that is now US 115. In his book David Played a Harp, Davidson...
Black Baseball in Davidson
NEWS 1946, Courtesy of the Davidson College ArchivesFirst row, left to right: Clarence Cornelius, equipment manager; Bud Forney, manager; Wilson Black, assistant manager; James Bernard Reid, coach; Jim Mundy, coach.Second row, left to right: Boots Forney, Narzell...