Old Durham Map
Here, courtesy of the Library of Congress, is a perspective map of Durham from 1891. The website is set up for viewing and navigation around the map in a pretty cool way, once you figure it out. It took me a while.
On the very left edge is a multi-storey building with a race track behind it. That's Trinity College, the small college that was later endowed by Benjamin Duke to become Duke University. There's a racetrack there becuase it was the fairgrounds before the college moved in.
It may be hard to find if you aren't familiar with the place, but right of center in downtown there is a short street labeled Roxboro Street. It only goes a few blocks north of the railway tracks and dead-ends. These days that street is a major artery and goes all the way to - well, Roxboro.

Is Blog Dead?
I don't mean blogging in general. I just mean this blog.
The title of this entry is a reference to this Time magazine cover from 1966. I'd heard of this before but I was reminded of it recently when I found a copy in a file on contemporary issues in religion in the collection of personal papers I worked on at Special Collections for my archives class. The next-to-last week of class we had to give oral reports about our practicums, and I mentioned this cover and said I thought it was kind of controversial at the time. The instructor said basically, "'Kind of' controversial? That cover caused a backlash of religious affirmation that contributed to the rise of Jerry Falwell."
But as you can see I haven't been posting much. I'm not sure yet if it's just that I've been busy, with work and school and that madcap trip to Texas. Or if I'm losing interest in this. If I ever get a home computer I would probably change the nature of this blog considerably; I feel a little constrained by the circumstances of my internet access here.
Anyway, here's a fascinating website I found today, thanks to stories at the BBC and Sydney Morning Herald websites about this exhibit.