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2007-2008 Is Lunch and Learn's 9th Season

LUNCH AND LEARN
2007-2008
IS OUR 9TH SEASON!

Single tickets are $20, $18 for Preservation Durham members, $16 for Preservation Durham senior members.

Contact the Preservation Durham office by phone at (919)-682-3036 or by email for more information.

Lunch and Learn presents another season of fabulous lunchtime history lessons! Beginning in September, 2007, Lunch and Learn returns to Tosca Ristorante Italiano in West Village. Programs will be presented the third Wednesday of each month September-November and January-May, 2008.

Individual event tickets are $18 for Preservation Durham members; $16 for senior members; and $20 for others. Reservations are required- please contact the Preservation Durham office by the Friday before each program if you plan to attend. Last year, many events sold out, so call early! We accept telephone prepayment by Mastercard or Visa!

Sponsors of Lunch and Learn programs help support this popular educational series. If you or your business would like to sponsor Lunch and Learn, please contact the Preservation Durham office. Thanks to Ellen Dagenhart, Realtor, for the recording equipment used to save the oral histories presented at Lunch and Learn.

September 19, 2007: Wense Grabarek: A Mayor's Reflections Mayor from 1963-1971, Grabarek was was elected the day of a major civil rights demonstration in Durham. Mayor Grabarek and his wife recently endowed a scholarship at Duke University to support leadership in ministerial education. Sponsored by former mayor Sylvia Kerckhoff, former councilwoman Sandy Ogburn, and Gretchen Cooley.

October 17: The Royal Ice Cream Sit-Ins. R. Kelly Bryant will talk about this early civil rights protest in Durham. On June 23, 1957, seven black Durham citizens refused to leave the ice cream store when they were refused service because of their color. Sponsored by NC Instirute of Minority Economic Development and the Laurie Watson Team-RE-MAX Winning Edge.

November 14: Stanford L. Warren and the Durham County Library System Brenda Watson, Director of the Stanford L. Warren Branch Library will tell the history of Warren's 1916 founding of a library for black readers, who were denied service at the Durham Public Library. Sponsored by Dr. Denise Barnes and Faye Calhoun Broadwater.

R. Kelly Bryant talked about
a pioneering civil rights protest
at October 2007's sold out event.

february 2006: life in West Durham mill village
John Schelp, Wayne Smith, Elizabeth Utley,
Mary Coles, Dan Wiley, and Holly Hall
described cotton mill village life in
West Durham in February 2006.

January 16, 2008: Leigh Farm and Lowe's Grove: What's Happening in South Durham Panel members Curtin Booker, Gus Godwin, and Rosetta Radke will discuss the challenges and opportunities for these historic sites as development encroaches on the rural areas of south Durham. Sponsored by Hildegard Ryals and Isley Hawkins Architects. Book raffle sponsored by The Regulator Bookshop and Miles Wolff.

February 20: BC to Barcodes: Durham's Best and Least Known Products Although BC Powders have long been a popular headache remedy throughout the South, many users don't know that the medicine was invented by two pharmacists in Durham. The now-ubiquitous bar code was developed by George Laurer at IBM's RTP facility. Learn more about these inventions and many others that stem from the Bull City. Sponsorships available.

March 19: The Durham History Museum Representatives from Riggs Ward Design will present all the latest news about this exciting project planned for Downtown Durham. Sponsorships available.

April 16: Dying in Durham: Funeral Customs and Traditions in the Bull City Sponsorships available.

May 21: Still Open for Business: Durham's Oldest Enterprises Sponsorships available.

Some Earlier Program Highlights

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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