panel discussion about the history of watts-hospital-hillandale neighborhood

[Doyle, Dot]

Dear Friends - The Watts Hospital Hillandale neighborhood (the neighborhood directly to the West of NCSSM) is celebrating its Centennial this year.  From our perspective, the neighborhood really began with the development of the Watts Hospital in 1908.  In honor of this, Preservation Durham is featuring the neighborhood in its home tour on May 3.  (Tickets for the home tour are available at the Regulator Bookstore on 9th Street and other locations.)  Of particular interest, I think, is a FREE event, a panel discussion among  members of our neighborhood and described below.  Jo Ann Lutz has worked hard this spring talking with current and former residents of the neighborhood, some of whom have agreed to serve on the panel.  If you are interested in how the neighborhood and the former hospital grew up together, please come to the event next Tuesday evening.  It should be very interesting.      

Dot Doyle

 

Tuesday April 29

7 pm at NCSSM 

The Preservation Durham Roundtable will be an informal presentation and discussion by people who have been part of the Watts-Hillandale neighborhood.  Most of them grew up in the neighborhood, some in the 1920's and 30's, others in the 1950's.   Some panel members raised families in the neighborhood in the 1960's.  Come to hear about how the trees were cared for when they were planted, where the "Dye Ditch" was, how the golf course used to look, what "wild" animals were at the Children's Museum, who marched in the first Fourth of July parade, why the bookmobile kept coming to Virginia Avenue, and mostly, why this has been a beloved place to live for the past 100 years. 

The Roundtable will take place at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in the Lecture Hall of the Friedrick Educational Technology Center (ETC).  The ETC is located along Maryland Avenue with the entrance facing Club Blvd.  There will be signs to guide you to the ETC and the lecture hall from the main parking lot that runs along Club Blvd.    The parking lot entrance is where Ninth Street ends at Club Blvd.

 


 
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