August 2008

More Site Changes

August 24, 2008

Regular visitors to the site may notice that the blog is no longer front and center on the home page. Those of you who read the posts via a RSS feed in a reader like Google Reader may not notice anything. But in place of the blog the new landing page for anyone going to [...]

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Challenging Negativity

August 14, 2008

There’s a very interesting post over at Reyn Bowman’s blog about the sources of negativity about Durham. Reyn, of course, is the leader of the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau and for 20 years has researched and documented the sources of negativity about the Durham community.  One conclusion is that much of the word of [...]

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Ella Fountain Pratt

August 5, 2008

Ella Fountain Pratt died last week at age 94. The Herald-Sun front page story on July 30th chronicled her long and enduring impact on the arts in Durham. When I came to Durham in 1984 to be marketing director of Central Carolina Bank, the bank was small by regional or national standards but still one [...]

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