O’Kelley Chapel at the intersection of NC Hwy 751 and O’Kelly Chapel Rd (SR 1731), Chatham County. credit: Glenn Abbey via Wikipedia The Museum of Durham History’s latest installment in the Durham A-Z series is G is for Geography and Growth, on display through October 14, 2015. Read More
The Museum of Durham History’s latest installment in the “Durham A-Z” series is “G is for Geography and Growth,” on display from Aug. 4-Oct. 14. This exhibit highlights how Durham’s unique geography influenced how and where people traveled and settled in Durham County. In conjunction with the new exhibit, community… Read More
New Hope — University Road with cobble stones in Duke Forest photo: Joe Liles The Museum of Durham History’s latest installment in the “Durham A-Z” series is “G is for Geography and Growth,” on display from Aug. 4-Oct. 14. This exhibit highlights how Durham’s unique geography influenced… Read More
The Museum of Durham History’s latest installment in the “Durham A-Z” series is “G is for Geography and Growth,” on display from Aug. 4-Oct. 14. This exhibit highlights how Durham’s unique geography influenced how and where people traveled and settled in Durham County. In conjunction with the new exhibit, community… Read More
From 1860 to 1940, Durham expanded from whistle-stop hamlet to bustling city of 60,000+. Learn what went into that growth in the Hub’s newest Durham A-Z exhibit, G is for Geography and Growth. Ridges, railroads, business, wealth and culture … these are some of the factors that formed the neighborhoods… Read More
In the mid-1990s Durham’s Hispanic population was about 2,000 people. Since then, the population has grown to more than 38,000, about 14 percent of the city’s population, according to the 2010 U.S Census. The growth of the Hispanic population has changed Durham economically, culturally, and socially. Today there are… Read More
Cover of Pig Pickin’ Carolina Style, by Davco Productions, published in 1980. It is one of the many fun covers to be found on the cookbooks in the Durham County Library’s North Carolina Collection. In Bob Garner’s Book of Barbecue, he says that “if you were… Read More
Men and women from a West Durham Baptist Church Sunday School class enjoy barbecue in a backyard in Brookstown, ca. 1940. Much of Brookstown, including the West Durham Baptist Church, was demolished by the construction of the Durham Freeway. Photograph by Wiley Bowling, donated by Clara Bowling. Read More
“Cornbread and beans And those good old collard greens Keep your skillet good and greasy all the time, time, time Skillet good and greasy all the time” … Read More
Maize, or corn, has been grown in North Carolina for thousands of years. Native Americans, who baked bread by open fires, shared this method with European settlers and enslaved African Americans. Enslaved people were given cornmeal as a regular ration. Cornbread and hush puppies have remained a constant on dinner… Read More