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Lunch and Learn's 11th Season 2009-2010

LUNCH AND LEARN
Tickets are $19 for Preservation Durham members, $17 for senior members, $25 for others.

Preservation Durham members can buy season passes for $97 until the October meeting.

Plan now to join us for our 11th Season at Tosca Ristorante Italiano in West Village for more fun and informative programs about Durham and its fascinating history! Season passes are available to Preservation Durham members for $97 until the October meeting. Single event tickets are $19 for Preservation Durham members, $17 for Preservation Durham senior members, and $25 for the public. You can make your reservations with your credit card by calling (919)-682-3036 or by email.

Lunch and Learn programs are presented the third Wednesday of each month from September through May, with December and January off and include a delicious lunch.

Sponsors of Lunch and Learn programs help support this popular educational series. If you or your business would like to sponsor a Lunch and Learn event, please contact the Preservation Durham office. Sponsorships are available for each program for $300. Sponsors are recognized with table cards and from the podium and on Preservation Durham's website.

Monthly book raffle sponsored by The Regulator Bookshop.

Thanks to Ellen Dagenhart, Realtor, for the recording equipment used to save the oral histories presented at Lunch and Learn.

LUNCH AND LEARN'S 11TH SEASON 2009-2010

September 16, 2009: Life at the Tobacco Auction: Hawkers, Hookers, and Homegrown. Tobacco auctions were once big business and social events in Durham, attracting buyers from all over the world to bid for the Golden Leaf.

October 21: Building the McPherson Hospital. Learn the story of this historic hospital, which opened on West Main Street in 1926. Speakers include Jane Goodridge and Peaches McPherson, widow of hospital founder Dr. Samuel McPherson. Sponsored by the North Carolina Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital.

November 18: 35 Years Ago: Nick Galifianakis Remembers Galifianakis was a three-term US Congressman from Durham who lost the 1972 Senatorial election to Jesse Helms.

February 17, 2010: Blues and The Piedmont Style - A Lecture and Performance by Billy Stevens and John Dee Holman Sponsored by Hessling Conservation LLC.

March 17: Join us for the Preservation Leadership Lecture at American Tobacco. Tickets for this special event are $40 and are not included in the Lunch and Learn season ticket.

April 21: Surprise: All about the 2010 Home Tour of Hope Valley

May 19: Hide and Seek: Lost Building in the Central Park Neighborhood Durham Central Park now occupies several square blocks north of Downtown that once were filled with tobacco warehouses and other buildings. Sponsored by Ellen Cassily Architect and Durham Central Park.

Some Earlier Program Highlights

R. Kelly Bryant talked about a pioneering civil rights protest at October 2007's sold out event.	John Schelp, Wayne Smith, Elizabeth Utley, Mary Coles, Dan Wiley, and Holly Hall described cotton mill village life in West Durham in February 2006.
Joe Liles and students from the NCSSM described their adventures retracing Fish Dam Road in 2004's opening program.	In October 2004, Durham native Artis Plummer described his experiences barnstorming with the Negro Baseball Leagues.
Kevin Bailey previewed his documentary film at the January 2004 event. Bailey's special guests described life at American Tobacco	October 2003's Lunch and Learn Panel discussed the World War II homefront in Durham.Harriet Childs, Gloria Johnson, Pat Coman, and Myra Markham
Howard Clement spoke to a full house in March 2003 about Durham's Black Wall Street	April 2003 panelists Harrell Tice, Jack Schrader, Gran Uzzle, Ned Newsome, and Robinson Everett reminisced about growing up on Dillard Street.
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