Sponsored by Preservation Durham
Tuesday April 29, 2008

7 pm in the Lecture Hall on the Educational Technology Center on the NCSSM campus

The Roundtable will be an informal presentation and discussion by people who have been part of the Watts-Hillandale neighborhood. Most of them grew up in the neighborhood, some in the 1920s and 30s, others in the 1950s. Some panel members raised families in the neighborhood in the 1960s. Come to hear about how the trees were cared for when they were planted, where the "Dye Ditch" was, how the golf course used to look, what "wild" animals were at the Children&squot;s Museum, who marched in the first Fourth of July parade, why the bookmobile kept coming to Virginia Avenue, and mostly, why this has been a beloved place to live for the past 100 years.

The Roundtable will take place at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in the Lecture Hall of the Friedrick Educational Technology Center (ETC). The ETC is located along Maryland Avenue with the entrance facing Club Blvd. There will be signs to guide you to the ETC and the lecture hall from the main parking lot that runs along Club Blvd. The parking lot entrance is where Ninth Street ends at Club Blvd.

This Roundtable is a free event done in conjunction with the Watts Hospital Hillandale Neighborhood Home Tour that will take place on Saturday, May 3. Tickets for the home tour will be available at the Roundtable.