[Durham INC] Historic tour of neighborhoods offered (Herald-Sun & WXDU Radio)

[John Schelp]

Dear neighbors,

Saturday's "Neighborhoods Hike" will be the main topic tonight at 7:30 on WXDU's "Shooting the Bull" (88.7 FM)... http://www.wxdu.org/talkshows

Weather should be beautiful. Here's more from the Herald-Sun...


Historic tour of neighborhoods offered
Herald-Sun, 4 April 2010

Local history buff John Schelp will lead a free, public "Neighborhoods Hike: East Campus, West Durham & Beyond" at 9 a.m. Saturday.

Meet at Markham Avenue and Buchanan Boulevard.

Was Duke Chapel going to be built in Walltown? What songwriter for Nora Jones and Lou Rawls was "born on a kitchen table" behind Magnolia Grill? Where did Madonna take early dance lessons? What Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist went to E.K. Powe school? Why is Ninth Street called Ninth Street? Where did the father of Duke basketball live?

The walk will take place along a four-mile loop [starting at] the old Durham city limits.

Participants will walk past the homes of Duke University's famous faculty and coaches on Buchanan, then down Watts Street, past Trinity Park and across East Campus to Ninth Street.

>From there, participants will stroll up Ninth, past E.K. Powe, and see the South Ellerbe Creek Nature Area. Also included is an  old mill village, some old liquor houses and a parsonage that was ordered from the Sears catalog. The tour will continue up Oakland, past Oval Park, and Indian Trail Park in the Watts-Hillandale neighborhood and then head east along the West Ellerbe Trail in the 17-acre wood, past old Watts Hospital and across Club boulevard near Ninth Street.

Schelp, president of the Old West Durham Neighborhood Association, will then lead the tour down a hidden alley and over to Walltown to hear about Duke's original plans to build here. Then through Trinity Heights and back to where the tour began.

Parking is available on streets near Markham and Buchanan. The walk is co-sponsored by the Sierra Club and the Old West Durham Neighborhood Association.

For more information, visit http://www.owdna.org/selfguidedtourOWD.htm online.

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