The end of the year means we start cleaning out our desks, shelves – even the refrigerator.
Pictured below is a set of random, never-before-read books we’ve put together, focusing on American history. (We’ve since added to the set since the photo was taken.)
If you’re interested in entering to take these home, drop us a comment below: We’d love to hear what your favorite piece of Charlotte history is. The Penguin before 2010? The Hornets before they were sold? Downtown before it became uptown?
(P.S. – Don’t know much about Charlotte‘s history? Ask a question instead, and we’ll get our resident history buff David Aaron Moore to look into it.)
One winner will be picked randomly at the end of the day Wednesday and notified later this week.
**Must be able to come by CL’s offices at the N.C. Music Factory to pick up books between the hours of 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Please make sure to leave correct email when commenting.
This article appears in Nov 7-13, 2012.
My favorite area of town is Southend. The way the old interacts with the new and the way history is being preserved yet still made accessible to everyone is really inspiring. I can only hope that as Charlotte continues to grow, other neighborhoods make the effort to keep old Charlotte alive.
Camp Greene history.
My favorite part of CLT history is when Coffee Cup was still open in its original location and you could sit at the counter, have great Southern cooking, and meet people from all walks of life.
We purchased our first home on Rosemary Lane in the Sharon Hills subdivision in 1991. It was located directly behind the Harris YMCA. It was a neighborhood with homes built in the ’70’s. There was a very old home in the middle of the subdivision on a large piece of property. It was a dark brown, one story, sprawling wooden home. No one lived there at the time and I didn’t know anything about it. One afternoon I was taking a walk around the neighborhood with my young children and we noticed smoke coming from the area around the home. Then we noticed a several fire trucks and fire fighters who were putting out the fire. I asked one of them what happened and they said they were using the home a fire fighting excercise. It seems that the home and the surrounding area where all the homes were built in the ’70’s had been a hunting lodge for the residents of Charlotte in the early 1900’s. People from Charlotte, (now downtown), would come out to the “country”, (Southpark), for the weekend and go hunting. I always liked the story. That area is only about 7 or 8 miles from downtown but back then it was considered “the country” and a place to go for recreation.
I also thought it was interesting that Charles Kurault across the street from our subdivision, Sharon Hills, on Sharon Rd. I guess he grew up in the country as well!
Pearle Street Park and the dedication ceremony to Thereasa Elder. Pearle Street Park really symbolizes the period of “separate but equal” and reminds us that there once was a vibrant African-American counter community in this city and that full integration and acceptance has taken a little too long to achieve in the ‘New South.’