Building Charlotte, 1990s to Today
No Ballantyne, no Northlake Mall, no Johnson & Wales University, no I-485, no Bank of America tower? That was Charlotte just 30 years ago. Popular historian Dr. Tom Hanchett explores how our built environment” has changed and how women helped lead that transformation. Presented in partnership with CREW, Charlotte Real Estate Women.
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This event is part of The Rosalie Reynolds Explore History Series from The Duke Mansion. The series, presented by Wells Fargo Private Bank, is a partnership with The Duke Mansion, Levine Museum of the New South, and the North Carolina Chapter of The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art. The Duke Mansion is a nonprofit with all proceeds being used to preserve and protect this community treasure.
Brenda Tindal has been named executive director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), announced today. Tindal will begin her new position May 17.
Gay said that Tindal will lead “with a passion for the work of museums as incubators of courageous inquiry” as the public face of the FAS research museums, which include the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Herbaria, Museum of Natural History, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, and the Mineralogical and Geological Museum.
JCSU virtual-reality project to showcase Black neighborhoods torn apart by urban renewal
Using grants totaling $307,000, researchers at the school will use computer technology to reconstruct the former Brooklyn and Greenville neighborhoods.
With aid from computers and historic documents, JCSU researchers will use historic photos such as this to stitch together two Charlotte communities long vanished. (Photo: Courtesy of JCSU)
April 5, 2021
Seventy-three-year-old Arthur Griffin Jr. remembers growing up in the Brooklyn community long before urban renewal razed the historic Black area in uptown Charlotte.
“We felt safe,” Griffin said. “We felt like we belonged.”
Now thanks to work underway at Johnson C. Smith University, Griffin soon may get to revisit the lost neighborhood of his youth, but only in a virtual reality.
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