[Durham INC] Where does Coach K get his hair cut? Neighborhoods Hike is Sat, March 28th (10AM)

[John Schelp]

NeighborhoodsHike: West Durham, East Campus & Beyond
Saturday,March 28 at 10 AM
Meet at Ninth & Green (free)

*Where does Coach 1K get his haircut, near Station 9?  * What song writer for Lou Rawls and Norah Jones was "born ona kitchen table" -- behind Monuts?

* What controversial Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist attended EKPowe school?  * Why do neighborhoods change so quickly in Durham? 
*Why wasn't Duke Chapel built in Walltown?
*Why was Duke Hospital built on top of Durham's old bone yard -- and not inTrinity Park? 

* Who wrote "The Gambler" for Kenny Rogers and lived ina mill house in Old West Durham?

*Where did Elvis sleep incognito, in a caboose?

*Where was Kevin Costner spotted in his boxer shorts, near East Campus?

*Where did Madonna take early dance lessons?

*Why is Ninth Street called Ninth Street?

Come along and find out...

Three-mileloop starts at Ninth & Green -- at the old stone steps by EK PoweElementary (aka West Durham High School).
We'llstart with the South Ellerbe Creek Nature Area and continue through an old millvillage. We'll see an old liquor house, Buck Dean's bungalow, a Sears House anda quiet urban garden in Old West Durham.

We'llcontinue into the Watts-Hillandale neighborhood and walk past Oval Park and theold Watts Hospital.

We'llgo down a hidden alley and see where a songwriter for Norah Jones, Lou Rawlsand Jefferson Airplane was born. We'll head over to Walltown and hear aboutDuke's original plans to build here. Then we'll go by Richard Nixon's house inTrinity Heights and continue past the homes of Duke's famous faculty andcoaches on Buchanan -- including Cap Card, the father of Duke basketball -- andWallace Wade, whose bowl games paid for Cameron Indoor Stadium.

We'llgo down Watts Street, past Trinity Park park, and see where Mr. Costner wasfilmed in his boxers. Then we'll head across East Campus to Ninth Street, pastErwin Cotton Mills and back to where we started.

You'llsee a little nature and learn some Durham history on the route. We might evenget into current events in the Bull City.

Localhistory lover John Schelp will narrate along the way. No need to register.Parking is available on streets near Ninth & Green. (Bike racks are alsonearby.)

Optional post-tour gathering at Dain's Place at 754 Ninth Street-- for a cold drink and further conversation.
Co-sponsoredby Museum of Durham History, Sierra Club and the Old West Durham NeighborhoodAssociation. Rain or shine.
 Hikeunveils Duke, Durham lore
Duke Chronicle, 2 April 2007

Rumorhas it, Coach K gets his hair cut at an old Wesleyan church just off EastCampus. "He goes there after hours," said John Schelp, who pointedout historical markers and facts Saturday morning on the third annual UrbanHike he leads around Durham. "I don't know if that's true or not, but it'sthe local lore."

Schelpshowed Durham residents, Duke employees and members of other neighborhoodassociations little known locales around the city, including former PresidentRichard Nixon's old house on Clarendon Street and the house where Elvis Presleyis said to have undergone drug rehabilitation.

"Eachtime he adds a little new twist to something," said Janet Hitti, a memberof the Sierra Club in Durham. "He's Durham's national treasure."

Whenthe tour reached East Campus, Schelp led the group past the Ark, Duke's dancestudio and the site of the first Trinity College basketball game. The Ark ismade out of wood salvaged from the grandstand of a horse race track that onceencircled East Campus, Schelp said.

"Onlytwo can walk in at a time going up the gangplank into the Ark, like Noah'sArk," he said, adding that Madonna-an American Dance Festival student inthe '70s-lived in Gilbert-Addoms Residence Hall for a summer and took earlydance lessons at the Ark.

Schelpsaid Duke and Durham were very different in the past, when the neighborhoodsmelled like a laundromat because of soapy water from the dye ponds and smokepuffing from the cotton mills and when the main drive into East Campus once ledto the Ann Roney Fountain by what is now the East Duke Building. [Since movedto Duke Gardens]

Amongother things, Schelp added that Whole Foods on Broad Street used to be part ofthe field where mill workers played baseball and that the gap in the EastCampus wall-now planted with cypress trees-was once a ticket counter that keptpeople from watching football games without paying.

"Theybuilt Duke Hospital on top of Durham's boneyard," he said, adding thatthis change is an example of how different the University used to be.

OnNinth Street, Schelp spoke about former local businesses like Durham's firstKentucky Fried Chicken, now an art studio. [New apartment construction]

"ColonelSanders liked to go stand next to [his life-size fiberglass statue] and takethe same pose," he said. "Customers would come into the shop and hewould move, and the customers would jump."

Schelpalso took the hikers past a house from the days of Prohibition -- which he saidstill smells like liquor when it rains -- and the house on Knox Street where anassistant professor at Duke once kept 65 exotic snakes. [The house that burneddown, releasing snakes into the neighborhood.]

Otherhistorical places discussed on the tour included a cemetery where poor blackand white Durham residents were buried side by side, the stone wall thatsurrounds East Campus and a corner close to campus where Schelp said drug dealswere being made daily seven years ago.

Schelpadded that the rich history of west Durham was a result of the openrelationship between the city and the University.

"Everythinghas connections," he said. "The more Duke students learn about theseconnections, the more they appreciate Durham."

Eventhough some of the hikers have spent their whole lives in Durham, many saidthey have still not gotten to learn about all of the area's history.

"Ilearned more today than I have in the last sixty-four years," said FreddieCable, who grew up in Durham and currently lives in the city.

SusanWilkins, whose grandparents opened Bullocks Bar-B-Que in Durham, and PeggySchaeffer, who has lived in Durham 27 years, said they enjoyed the informativenature of the hike.

"Theselittle details make everyday life more interesting," Schaeffer said."It opens your eyes."


  
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