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University Kia and Meals on Wheels Chapel Hill-Carrboro Join Forces University Auto Group has been serving the Triangle for over 30 years. Since inception, University Kia has made its mission to provide outstanding customer service and to create a one-of-a-kind car buying experience. In an industry that is ever-changing, University Kia remains committed to its customers, staff, and communities it serves.

University Kia, currently located in the heart of Durham, will be moving to a new location closer to the Chapel Hill area.

“With our store moving closer to Chapel Hill, we decided to partner with Meals on Wheels. We were able to donate the New 2019 Kia Soul to the program and we even had it custom vinyl wrapped so that it University Kia and Meals on Wheels Chapel Hillwould stand out when people see it on the street. We Carrboro have joined forces to help feed the elderly and are hoping that this raises awareness for the good homebound in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area. With the that Meals on Wheels is doing for the Chapel Hill and generous donation of a New 2019 Kia Soul by University Carrboro communities. We also could not have done Kia, Meals on Wheels Chapel Hill-Carrboro will be this venture without the help of WCHL radio in Chapel able to continue to provide hot, nutritious meals and Hill, which is promoting the University Kia Meals on personal visits to more than 180 recipients in the Chapel Wheels Soul.” said University Kia’s General Manager, Hill, Carrboro, and southern Orange County areas who Aric Swanger. are unable to prepare meals for themselves.

New location coming soon: “We are so grateful for University Kia’s partnership 5105 Durham-Chapel Hill BLVD. and their generous donation of a KIA Soul. CHCMOW Durham, NC 27707 is dependent on our amazing army of volunteers and our giving community to be able to bring food and For more information on Meals on Wheels Chapel a human connection to the elderly and homebound.

Hill-Carrboro or to volunteer, please visit https://www.

With this donation University KIA is helping to not chcmow.org. only bring attention to often isolated and forgotten members of our community but joy and recognition to For more information on University Kia, please visit our volunteers.” said Rachel Sobel Bearman, Executive https://universitykiaofdurham.com.

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contents DURHAM’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

48 150+ WAYS TO CELEBRATE DURHAM’S SESQUICENTENNIAL

Keep the party going all year long with our list of suggestions of cultural events, milestone anniversaries, interesting reads, topical trivia and much more

A brief history of Durham

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Go. See. Do. Our top events for April

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What we’ve heard

around town …

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Wellness Durham bike routes are paving the way for safer and more affordable transportation

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In the Long Run Durham County Memorial Stadium provides a home turf for many sports organizations

A Culinary Tribute: The Life and Legacy of Karen Barker Her family and former staff members pay homage to the late pastry chef

82 What We Love About Living in Tuscaloosa-Lakewood

History repeats itself as this

vibrant neighborhood sees

new businesses, cultural

attractions and neighbors

moving in

Durham 150 Convening Committee members answer the question: What are your hopes for the next 150 years in Durham?

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Letter

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64 BEHIND THE SCENES

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30 An Unlikely Friendship

The fortitude of civil rights

activist Ann Atwater

60 MOMENTS IN TIME

DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS

118 Taste

Discover our city’s

best restaurants

… to just a few of the many Durham 150 events lined up to celebrate the city’s anniversary throughout the year

127 Engagement & Wedding

Tying the knot, Bull City-style

72 FORWARD THINKING

A roundtable discussion with three influential leaders in our community

DURHAM INC.

CITY PICS 10 Meals on Wheels Durham’s

Feed the Need gala

100 Hot Shot: Zach Maurides

SPONSORED CONTENT

104 Biz Briefs

24 Healthy Durham:

The City of Medicine

107 Durham Chamber’s 2019

Annual Meeting

108 LaunchBio’s Larger than Life Science 109 RTP: A History of Looking

to the Future

113 North Carolina Hemp Producers

Await the Birth of an Industry

36 Bull City Grown

Celebrating the businesses that

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Adopt A Pet Meet three pups waiting on their forever homes at the Animal Protection Society of Durham

12 An Evening with André Leon

Talley at Hillside High School 14 Dream Big Book Drive and

Community Celebration 16 Kidznotes gala

at The Umstead Hotel 18 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke

University’s Director’s Preview of

Pop América, 1965-1975 19 The Durham Regional

Association of Realtors’ 98th

annual awards luncheon

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Earth Day Festival A PRIL 2 8 This rain or shine celebration at Durham Central Park features a parade, live music, environmental education activities and food vendors. Go green by biking, walking, skating, carpooling or riding GoDurham transit to the festival, where you can enjoy a showcase of environmentally friendly businesses and organizations sharing information and resources; climb a 28-foot-tall rock wall; explore the Family Fun Zone; shred documents for recycling; and more.

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Moogfest AP R I L 25 - 28 The 15th annual festival celebrating music, art and technology will be held at various venues in downtown.

A tribute to analog synthesizer pioneer Dr. Robert Moog and the influence of his inventions, the festival moved to Durham from Asheville in 2016. By day, Moogfest hosts creative and tech enthusiasts for participatory programming including panels, experimentation and more, and presents electronic music, contemporary pop and avant-garde performances by night.

OUR TOP EVENTS FOR APRIL

Duke Hospice Gala

Fred Hersch ‘Leaves of Grass’

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Duke Hospice hosts its 17th annual gala at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club. This year’s event, themed “My Secret Garden,” will include a reception, silent and live auctions, an awards ceremony and dancing to the music of Bunn DJ Company. Proceeds benefit Duke HomeCare and Hospice.

The Grammy-nominated pianist Fred Hersch performs music from “Leaves of Grass,” his 2005 album inspired by Walt Whitman, at Baldwin Auditorium. This Duke Performances concert will feature the same lineup from the recording, including jazz singers Kurt Elling and Kate McGarry.

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Anastasia AP R I L 16- 21 The Broadway musical inspired by the films and historical events comes to the DPAC stage. Set at the end of the Russian Empire and in Paris in the ’20s, the tale follows a young Russian woman’s travels as she discovers the secrets of her past.

Angels Among Us 5K and Walk of HOPE A PR I L 2 7 This 26th annual race/walk winds through Duke’s medical campus (beginning at the corner of Erwin Road and Flowers Drive) and Sarah P. Duke Gardens. The family-friendly event also features a silent auction, fun activities for children, a marketplace, food vendors and more. The race honors those fighting brain cancer, and proceeds benefit research for the treatment of brain tumors.

Elder Millennial Tour

Durham Greek Festival MAY 4- 5

MAY 4

St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church hosts this celebration of the flavors, sounds and traditions of Greece. There will be plentiful Greek food and pastries, a Greek taverna and café, traditional music, folk dance performances, shopping, video travelogues of Greece, church tours and kids’ activities including face painting, YoYo balloons and a bounce house. Admission is free. A portion of the festival proceeds will benefit the Durham Rescue Mission.

Comedian Iliza Shlesinger performs her stand-up routine from her fourth Netflix special, which characterizes her life as a millennial at the older end of the generation, at The Carolina Theatre.

Spring Wildflower Walk

Pints for Paws

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Laura Daly, assistant horticulturist of the Blomquist Garden of Native Plants leads a morning tour of native wildflowers at Sarah P. Duke Gardens.

This craft beverage festival, now in its second year, takes place at Durham Central Park and will benefit The Animal Protection Society of Durham. Enjoy live music by The Rusted Rails, local fare from food trucks, games, dog wading pools and more than a dozen Durham craft beverage makers at this family- and dogfriendly festival. – Compiled by Cara Siliakus

(clockwise from top left) Earth Day Festival photo courtesy Durham Parks & Recreation; Moogfest photo by Brian Livingston; Anastasia photo by Evan Zimmerman, MurphyMade; Iliza photo courtesy The Carolina Theatre; Angels Among Us photo

by Susan Murray Photography; Pints for Paws photo by Mike Gorman; Wildflower Walk photo courtesy Lori Sullivan; Fred Hersch photo by Vincent Soyez; Duke Hospice Gala photo courtesy Chronicles Photography

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Meals on Wheels Durham hosted its annual gala

at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club to help raise funds for our hungry, homebound neighbors.

The evening’s festivities included a silent auction, cocktails, music by Southern Routes and live poems by The Poetry Fox. All of the nearly $80,000 in proceeds raised from the fundraiser will go directly to helping the organization reach even more people in need this year.

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1 Betty Elliott, Hazel Holmes, Selma Hayes, Christine Cotton and Emily Persons. 2 Christine Ferrell and Brian Ferrell, Meals on Wheels board secretary. 3 Meals on Wheels board member Pashara Black of the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce, North Carolina Central University’s Devonte Reese and Meals on Wheels Board President Wendy Kuhn. 4 Chuck Givens, staff assistant at the Office of the President at Duke University, and April Dudash, manager of internal 10

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communications at Duke Regional Hospital and a Meals on Wheels board member. 5 Assistant to the City Manager Karmisha Wallace, Elizabeth Ellis and Meals on Wheels board member Gray Ellis of Ellis Family Law. 6 Durham Magazine Chairman Dan Shannon and Vice President Ellen Shannon with Meals on Wheels Executive Director Gale Singer Adland (center). 7 CQC Home President and CEO Ken Combs and CQC Home Superintendent Raymond Orzulak.

Hugo Rivera-Scott, Pop América, 1968. Collage on cardboard, 30 x 21.5 inches (76.5 x 54.5 cm). Courtesy of the artist. © Hugo Rivera-Scott. Photo by Jorge Brantmayer. Pop América, 1965 – 1975 is a recipient of the inaugural Sotheby’s Prize and is supported

by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional thanks to the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) and to its President and Founder, Ariel Aisiks. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. At the Nasher Museum, this exhibition is made possible by the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Fund for Exhibitions; Mary Duke Biddle Foundation; Fox Family Foundation; Ann Chanler and Andrew Scheman; Katie Thorpe Kerr and Terrance I. R. Kerr; Lisa Lowenthal Pruzan and Jonathan Pruzan; Kelly Braddy Van Winkle and Lance Van Winkle; Parker & Otis; and Karen M. Rabenau and David H. Harpole, MD. Support from Duke University is provided by the Vice Provost for the Arts; the Global Brazil Lab and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute; the Dean of the Humanities; the Departments of Romance Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies; the Duke Brazil Initiative; the Office of the Provost; and the Office of Global Affairs.

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An Evening with André

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In February, Durham native and former American editor-at-large at Vogue Andrè Leon Talley returned home for an exclusive movie screening of his documentary, “The Gospel According to Andrè,” at his former high school, Hillside High School. The event, which was a part of Durham’s 150th anniversary, was followed by a Q&A with André, who shared anecdotes and wisdom from his travels and experiences as an African-American man in the global world of couture and culture.

Ticket proceeds benefited student programs at Hillside High School and The NCCU Foundation.

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3 Jennifer Stascak and Madissen Keys.

4 Christina Davis and VaNatta Ford.

5 Cheryl Brown and Keith Bryant.

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In January, Book Harvest held its eighth annual Dream Big Book Drive and Community Celebration at Durham Central Park on one of the coldest days of the winter. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at the more than 600 guests and volunteers who came out on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. They were donating and sorting books for Book Harvest, a nonprofit that aims to provide books to help improve child literacy. The volunteers spent the afternoon counting, sorting and boxing books. Anchor Tisha Powell from ABC-11 emceed the event. Guests played games on the grass, explored the booths set up by community partners and enjoyed food truck fare. They also worked on a community art project and

received poems written especially for them by the Poetry Fox. Children drew self-portraits and learned affirmations, coinciding with part of Book Harvest’s mission, which is to promote the distribution of diverse and inclusive literature so that children see themselves represented in their books. This year’s drive collected 44,092 books.

1 Joey Current of United Way of the Greater Triangle, Daniele Berman of Book Harvest, and Kaia Clarke and Addie Moody of United Way. 2 Anastasia, 7, and Luke Jackson, 15, with community art coordinators Elizabeth Lyle and Sarah Schulz, and Michelle Zhang, 5.

3 Book Harvest Board Member Sheronda Fleming and Community Partnerships Manager Nadiah Porter.

4 Leo Walker, 6, with the Poetry Fox. 5 Book Harvest Board Members Bert L’Homme, Holly Brown, Linda Shropshire, Sandy Heard and former founding Board Member Michele Lynn.

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A Note-Worthy Night PH OTO G RA P H Y B Y HA NNA H L EE

The Umstead Hotel & Spa hosted “Grow,” Kidznotes’ annual gala featuring a cocktail hour and dinner supporting the musical education of low-income students. More than 200 guests enjoyed live performances by the Al Strong Quintet and Kidznotes musicians while participating in a live auction throughout the evening. The night, which raised more than $100,000 for Kidznotes, concluded with a speech from the Grow Gala Honorary Chair and James Beard Award-winning chef Vivian Howard.

1 Kidznotes sixth graders Samantha Perez-Gonzales, Jennifer and Jasmine Ramos, Hillary Hankins and Diego Ramirez.

2 Damian Stamer, Ginger Finley and Worth Dunn.

3 Bridget Williams, Dennis Martinez and Julie Mendez of Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina.

4 Volunteers Meagan Craddock and Chloe Tenn.

5 JJ Philligin and Yasmeen Kashef.

6 Amy and Nick DeCenso.

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The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University invited guests to a special director’s preview prior to the public opening of Pop América, 1965-1975, the first exhibition with a hemispheric vision of Pop art’s engaging imagery, highlighting the significant contribution of Latin American and Latino/a artists. In addition to the exhibition preview, Nasher Museum Director Sarah Schroth spoke to the significance of such an exhibit, and introduced guest curator and Duke professor Esther Gabara, whose groundbreaking research

led to this exhibition, years in the making – a collection of nearly 100 works by artists connecting Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and the United States that makes a timely and critical contribution to a more complete understanding of this artistic period. The exhibition runs through July 21.

1 Maria Jimenez, The Carrack Director Saba Taj, Nasher Visitor Services Manager Myra Weise, Carin Walsh and Mike Williams, founder of The Black on Black Project.

2 Nadia Pacheco, Nasher Director of Education and Public Programs Jessica Ruhle, Maddy Kameny and Mary Catherine Hall.

3 Duke Financial Economics Center Executive Director John Caccavale with friends and Duke alums Steve Potter and Tom Wanty.

4 Haley Hough and Craig Carter of Discover Durham.

5 Duke student Michael Gulcicek and Nasher Visitor Services Representative Imani Nunn.

6 Guest curator Esther Gabara and her father, Vlodek Gabara, and sister, Rachel Gabara.

7 Artists William Paul Thomas and Telvin Wallace.

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What an Honor The Durham Regional Association of Realtors held its 98th annual awards luncheon at the Hope Valley Country Club early in the year. Lisa Borer of Fonville Morisey Realty received the 2018 Realtor of the Year Award. Shane Kirk of Go Realty received the Service Award; Bert Woodall of West & Woodall Real Estate received the Citizenship Award; the President’s Award went to Wendell Bullard; and Associate of the Year award went to Florica Shepherd of New American Funding. Shelli Lieberman, Susan Peak and Bennie Glenn were named Realtor Emeritus in recognition of 40 years of membership in the National Association of Realtors. Charles Bulthuis and Susen Darst were presented with Silver Service awards as DRAR members who have attained 25 years of membership.

1 Lisa Borer, 2018 Realtor of the Year.

2 Bob Carter and Bert Woodall.

3 Shelli Lieberman, Susan Peak and Bennie Glenn.

4 Tammi Brooks and Wendell Bullard.

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WHAT WE’VE HE ARD AROUND TOWN …

ANNIVERSARY

30th anniversary in April. Over the past 30 years,

School for Young

local organizations.

DMACF has awarded $5 million to 182 different

The Westminster

Children is celebrating

retirement of Carol

Texas Tech April 16 at 6 p.m. at the Durham

director and current financial director. Her work

Duke – the team lost in the 2018 Super Regional

staff in her 50 years at the school. Westminster

one game away from the College World Series

this year, as well as the

The Duke Blue Devils Baseball Team plays

Van Hise, the previous

Bulls Athletic Park. This will be a rematch for

has helped more than 6,000 children and 200

final against Texas Tech, which left the Blue Devils

will hold her retirement celebration at the

in Omaha.

Services celebrated its 100th anniversary in January.

Ash Family,” a searing debut about a young

Produce in a SNAP (PIAS) community produce

a new home, who

Produce Program at Duke Outpatient Clinic.

and in the arms of a dangerous cult

Greensboro.

were from Durham.

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(ACIS) scholarship contest in February.

geographically or financially.

have a reading and book

The Durham Merchants Association

Bookshop April 16 at 7

organizations in Durham County, celebrates its

on Feb. 16 in

the American Council for International Studies’

in the Great

organization that provides funds to charitable

competition

won the grand prize for middle school art in

PIAS provides fresh, affordable produce

Charitable Foundation (DMACF), a nonprofit

Out Loud State

Durham Academy eighth-grader Theo Preston

Hungry Harvest celebrated its one-year

to those with limited food access, either

the 2019 Poetry

three students

releases her novel, “The

ends up off the grid

runner-up at

the competition,

native Molly Dektar

market in January with its partner, the Fresh

of the Arts, won

district finalists at

On April 9, Durham

woman looking for

Jamilla Rahim,

Among the 40

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its 50th anniversary

Durham County Department of Social

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a 10th grader at

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school May 4 from 2 to 5 p.m.

From births to awards to new biz and more –

Smoky Mountains. She’ll

signing at The Regulator p.m.

CALLING ALL ARTISTS

Starting July 1, Andy

Pogach will be Durham Academy’s (DA) new

director of athletics once

Steve Engebretsen, DA’s longest-serving director

of athletics, steps down.

Andy serves as one of DA’s two assistant directors of athletics in addition to teaching middle school

CenterFest 2019 applications for visual

math and P.E., coaching the varsity girls tennis

are now open! Visual artist applications

and is also DA’s sports information director.

45th year, CenterFest Arts Festival is the

The North Carolina Central University (NCCU)

in North Carolina. For more information, go

ranked by onlinemasters.com as one of the

artists, performers, nonprofits and more will be the first to close May 1. Now in its

team, JV boys basketball, varsity boys basketball

longest-running outdoor juried arts festival

Master of Library Science degree was recently

to centerfest.durhamarts.org/applications.

nation’s top online master’s programs for 2019,

ranking No. 13 out of 36 selected library science programs in the country.

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Dr. Michael D. Page was

In the Centering model, new moms, partners,

Golf Club and a bouquet of flowers from Ninth

of external affairs in

together with their healthcare providers and

and Adrienne Rose, won a $250 Diamonds

appointed NCCU director

support persons and their same-age infants meet

February.

other parents who are facing similar challenges and milestones.

The Arbor Day

Foundation named Duke

The 22nd annual Full Frame Documentary Film

University a 2018 Tree Campus USA site, an

Festival will honor Oscar-nominated filmmakers

healthy trees. This marks the 11th year in a row

Tribute recipients. The festival will showcase a

honor for colleges and universities that promote Duke has been honored as a Tree Campus USA.

WHAT AN HONOR

Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert as the 2019

curated selection from their significant body of work April 4-7.

Street Flowers. The second place winners, Zac Direct gift certificate.

To celebrate International Day of Women and

Girls in Science, L’Oréal USA chose Duke

Mathematics Professor

Ingrid Daubechies as the North American Laureate

for the 2019 International Award For Women in

Durham Parks and Recreation earned national

Durham was ranked No. 8 out of 66 cities for best

the Commission for Accreditation of Park and

February.

accreditation is the only national accreditation for

Actress

of an agency’s overall quality of operation,

Henson was

The American Dance Festival (ADF) will

guest of the

Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished

accreditation for the third time in a row by

Recreation Agencies (CAPRA) in January. CAPRA

places for dating in 2019 by Apartment List in

park and recreation agencies and is a measure

Taraji P.

management and service to the community.

a special

In February, Gov. Roy Cooper visited the East

Pod Save

about the nonprofit’s cradle-to-college-or-career

show at

Science. The professor is the first female tenured professor of mathematics at Princeton University and the first woman to receive the National

Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics in 2000.

award the 2019 Balasaraswati/Joy Anne Dewey Teaching to longtime Paul Taylor Dance

Company rehearsal director Bettie de Jong

Durham Children’s Initiative (EDCI) to learn

America

model and the

DPAC in

realized for East

She talked

EDCI also hosted

role as

McKissick Jr. – a

rights activist, Ann Atwater, in the upcoming

Blue Challenge, won

advocate and

red carpet for a special screening of the film at

duo category at the

and Dr. Pascal

theaters nationwide April 5.

superintendent of

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Schools.

Diamonds Direct Crabtree’s halftime contest at

positive outcomes

February.

Durham families.

about her

N.C. Sen. Floyd

Durham civil

longtime Durham

film “The Best of Enemies.” She also attended a

public official –

The Carolina Theatre in March. The movie hits

Mubenga,

Durham Public

In a 2018 study by SmartAsset, the DurhamChapel Hill metro area ranked ninth in the

country for residents investing the most in retirement accounts.

at the opening night performance of the Paul Taylor Dance Company June 27 at Reynolds Industries Theater.

Jon Shain, winner

of the 2018 Triangle Blues Society’s

first place in the solo/ International Blues

Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee.

Manny and Lindsey Beltran won first place at

NEW ON THE SCENE

the Duke vs. NC State basketball game on Feb.

through the city, launched March 15.

16 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The couple

Bull City Laughs, a 90-minute comedic bus tour

received a pair of sapphire earrings valued at

$1,000, dinner at the Washington Duke Inn &

Lincoln Community Health Center

was accepted as a CenteringParenting site by the Centering Healthcare

Institute in January. CenteringParenting is a model of care in which well-child care is provided in a group setting.

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In January, Lee Moore Crawford partnered

transforming this area, once the Duke Diet and

Department’s Stormwater and GIS Division

improve water quality in Ellerbe Creek and Falls

with The City of Durham Public Works

to create wetland-themed art banners with local schools: Durham School of the Arts, George

Lake, a downstream drinking water source.

Watts Elementary School and Central Park

Owner Michael Bell renovated and expanded

banners on the construction fencing around the

Ninth Street, adding 10 taps and two floors of

School for Children. The students hung the

South Ellerbe Stormwater Restoration project PHOTO COURTESY OF CITY OF DURHAM PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

Fitness Center, into a stormwater wetland to

on Trinity Avenue. The City of Durham is

his record and smoke shop, Hunky Dory, on vinyl records.

Cecilia Henaine de Davis, manager of the Vega Metals and Cricket Forge Gallery on Hunt

Street, held the grand opening for her latest

business endeavor Cecy’s Gallery & Studios on 417 Foster St. on March 16.

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allows the average homeowner to host a beehive without the commitment and knowledge of

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The Durham County

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“Spring is ‘swarm season’ for honeybees,” says

a DCBA spokesperson. “If you see a large cluster of bees gathered in a tree or on another surface,

noted

don’t be alarmed – they are not interested

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remove the bees.” For more information, go to

record $9,189.36 for the Duke Pediatric Blood Program.

durhambeekeepers.org.

In January, Durham Continuum of Care (CoC)

GIVING BACK

nearly $200,000 from the U.S. Department of

was awarded two additional grants totaling

Durham’s Partnership for Children collected

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to

experiencing homelessness in Durham. The to serving the needs of survivors of intimate

partner violence, received a HUD CoC grant of $154,019, and the City’s Community

Development Department was awarded a CoC planning grant of $45,810 to support its role as the CoC Lead Agency for the Durham CoC.

more than 2,800 books for children across

Durham County at Barnes & Noble at The

Streets at Southpoint during the Barnes &

Noble Holiday Book Drive which ran from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31.

In December, the Wells Fargo Foundation

awarded the Durham Technical Community College Foundation $100,000 to continue and expand its financial literacy program.

“Due to Wells Fargo’s generosity, we can

scale promising financial education initiatives otherwise set to expire in spring 2019,” says Melissa Chappell, executive director of

the Durham Tech Foundation. “Too many

community college students are derailed by

unforeseen expenses; our goal is to ensure that they graduate prepared to obtain a job that pays family-sustaining wages.”

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urham has a reputation for its outstanding health need with the creation of Watts Hospital and its training care options. Our very name came from a physician, school for nurses in early 1895. It “was the major turning Dr. Bartlett S. Durham, who donated some of his point in health care for the citizens of Durham,” says Donna land for a railway station in 1849. The “City of Medicine” nickRogers, a nursing instructor at Watts School of Nursing name has its origins in the creation of BC Headache Powder for 39 years who has also spent the last 24 years helping by two local pharmacists, Germain Bernard and Commoto document and catalog the history of the school. “Up dore Council, at the Five Points Drug Company in 1906. to that time, most of the residents were not familiar with Fast forward 113 years, and our physician-to-population hospitals. Many considered hospitals to be places where ratio is more than four times the national average – Becker’s sick people were taken to die and those in need of surgery Hospital Review named this region No. 3 on its list of cities to be mutilated. Over time (with few deaths being reported) with the greatest access to quality health care in 2016. It these misconceptions were corrected, and patronage of helps that our hospitals are topWatts Hospital rose. This signaled notch: Duke University Hospital …the major turning point in health a crucial change in perceptions, took the No. 19 spot on the honor setting the stage for health care care for the citizens of Durham.” roll of U.S. News & World Report’s to grow into a major industry in top hospitals in the nation for Durham.” Indeed, that first year 2018-19 as well as the distinction only 68 patients were admitted, of No. 1 hospital in North and there were only 22 beds, 18 Carolina in 2018. It is nationally of which were available at no cost ranked in 11 adult and nine to poor patients. Compare that pediatric specialties and is rated to nearly 80 years later, in 1974, high-performing in nine adult when the hospital had 317 beds procedures and conditions. Duke and saw slightly more than 14,000 Regional Hospital was recently patients. In 1909, Watts opened a named a five-star hospital by The larger hospital on Broad Street, The original Watts Hospital.

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hospital where black patients could be treated with dignity and black doctors and nurses could be trained. Its own School of Nursing was founded in 1903 and incorporated in 1905, and the hospital was accredited for internship training in 1925 and for surgical residency training in 1933.

In 1976, Watts Hospital closed, and Watts and Lincoln Hospital merged as Durham County General Hospital (today Duke Regional Hospital). Today, Lincoln Community Health Center, which provides accessible, affordable, highquality outpatient health care services to the medically underserved, operates on on the grounds of Lincoln Hospital. Lincoln Community Health Center opened in 1971, when Lincoln Hospital significantly expanded outpatient services to provide medical help to the poor.

In 2013, Durham Regional Hospital (formerly known as Durham County General Hospital) changed its name to Duke Regional, though the hospital became part of Duke University Health System in 1998. The North Carolina Specialty Hospital, a private, physician-owned medical center that opened its doors in 1926, has 18 licensed beds, 9 observation beds, 4 operating rooms and 5 procedure rooms to accommodate both inpatient and outpatient surgery in a multitude of specialties. The Durham Veterans Administration Hospital serves 70,000 veterans from across 27 counties in central and eastern North Carolina.

North Carolina Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat was founded in 1914 by Dr. Samuel D. McPherson Sr., and the practice has operated continuously in Durham since its founding.

Formerly McPherson Hospital, many instruments that are still used today in eye surgery were developed at the hospital by physicians affiliated with North Carolina Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat, including specialized suture materials for use in eye surgery, and doctors affiliated with the practice performed the first cornea transplant in the southeastern United States.

The legacy of Durham as the City of Medicine has inspired many community members to join efforts in order to actualize Durham as a community of health and wellbeing, paving the way for movements like Healthy Durham 20/20.

wellness

shifting gears

Durham bike routes are paving the way for safer and more affordable transportation

BY HA NNA H LEE | PH OTOGRAPH Y BY BETH M AN N

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O PUT IT NICELY, Justin Laidlaw’s 1995 Jeep was a piece of junk. He bought the car from his dad’s neighbor in 2013, but it soon started breaking down – brakes, engine, transmission, you name it. And finding parking, especially in Durham’s burgeoning downtown, was always a chore.

So in August 2016, he sold it. He then bought a bicycle from Bullseye Bicycle and used it as his primary mode of transportation. Bold, maybe – but he’s been riding it ever since.

“It’s really the only way that I think about getting around,” Justin says.

“I joke that sometimes I forget how cars work. I get in a car, and I feel uncomfortable. That’s how I think about my life now – having a bike and being on a bike.”

Justin is one of roughly 1,000 Durhamites who commute to work by bike, less than 1% of Durham’s working age population, according to 2013-2017 data from the U.S. Census Bureau. This metric, according to industry jargon, is called “mode share.”

Nathan Levin breaks out the big tools But advocacy at Durham Bike Co-op. groups and Durham officials are working both to increase those numbers and to make the city safer and more bike friendly for all riders.

This year the City of Durham with the help of groups like Durham Bicycle Boulevards and Bike Durham adopted phase one of a larger plan to enhance bike routes and institute a network of lanes stretching 15 miles.

By the end of this year, the city hopes to add 8 miles of new bike lanes on existing roads and 7 miles of bike routes on neighborhood streets within a 1.5-mile radius of downtown that have low traffic volume and speeds.

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“Durham is set up in a way where it could be one of the nation’s best biking cities,” says Aaron Lubeck, Bicycle Boulevards director. “Our weather is good, our topography is good and nearly everything is within a mile or two of Duke and downtown,” he adds, and “those are super flexible distances to bike.”

Durham is so well suited, in fact, “the dominant form of transportation really could be biking,” he says. “It just takes leadership and willingness to do some bold infrastructure things.”

Dale McKeel, City of Durham’s bicycle and pedestrian coordinator, says that as the city works toward its larger plan, it has already implemented smaller measures to increase bike use, like adding new pavement signs and markers near existing routes.

Aaron and Dale also credit Landis Masnor, the chair of Bike Durham, as a leader in efforts to expand bike routes rather than just encouraging increased use of pre-existing ones.

In 2006, Landis says, Seville, Spain, and Durham each had a 0.06 mode share for bicyclists, which is “very small.” “That’s 0.06% of the population that uses bikes to get around on a regular basis.” But two or three years later, he says, “Seville had a 7% mode share. That was a big change.”

“It would be like Durham going from Durham to Portland in two or three years. That kind of change we think is totally possible.”

Safety is one of Dale, Landis and Aaron’s main concerns about making Durham more bike friendly. According to the City of Durham Department of Transportation, a bicyclist is involved in a crash – with pedestrians, vehicles and/or other cyclists – once every two and a half weeks.

Then there’s the issue of Durham’s wealth disparity, and the fact that many of the city’s poorer residents might not have access to, or the means of acquiring, a bike. Enter Durham Bike Co-Op, a nonprofit that has a surplus of cycles and is attempting to close that gap. According to a 2013-

Robert Weston, volunteer Ronnie Rozenkranz-Boxford and Rob Walpole, the co-op’s construction coordinator, repair bikes at the workshop.

2017 census report, 17.4% of Durham residents live in poverty.

“There’s going to be 70,000 people new to Durham,” Landis says, “and they can’t all drive a car here or that road space is going to become a premium asset that not everyone can afford. Bicycling is a really great way to do that. And I think Bicycle Boulevards is the first real payment from the city to plan for a sustainable future.”

People interested in membership with the co-op can pay $30 a year and an extra $20 if they want a bike. Durhamites without that money can opt to become a member by volunteering for three hours and can do two more hours and pay $10 in exchange for a bike. The co-op views bikes as a solution to the wealth disparity for the larger transportation issues in Durham.

“There was no one, no organization that was helping people who had transport problems,” says Rob Walpole, the co-op’s construction coordinator. “We’re sort of trying to help them bridge that gap between

catching the bus and trying to get to their location. A bicycle is a perfect opportunity for them.”

For all the initiatives Durham is taking – both the city and local groups would like to eventually see a ten-to-thirtyfold increase in ridership – there is still some natural skepticism. What about safety? What about time costs?

What about just not having a car, something many Americans struggle to fathom?

To answer those, maybe it makes the most sense to listen to Justin, who can speak from experience.

“When I first got the bike three years ago, it was a matter of necessity,” Justin posted on Instagram recently. “I needed a more reliable mode of transportation,” and “started thinking about the ways that I could ‘put my money where my mouth is’ with regards to values I believe in.”

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in their words

THE AUTHO R

In the Long Run

IS A DUK E P RO F E SSO R OF ME DICINE A ND IMMUN OLOGY WH O HAS LIVE D IN D URH A M S IN CE THE L AT E ’ 7 0 S .

B Y DAV I D S . P I S ET S KY, M.D., PH.D.

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URING MY 40 YEARS IN Durham, I have driven past the Durham County Memorial Stadium many times without thinking much about this structure that sits just off North Duke Street. Built in 1960 and reopened in 2010 after an upgrade, the stadium is constructed of concrete in an unadorned and utilitarian style. The stadium seats about 8,500 people. For comparison, Wallace Wade Stadium seats 40,000 people and Durham Bulls Athletic Park seats 10,000. County Stadium is a hot spot for high school football, lacrosse, and track and field.

The Northern High School Knights have played home games on the Stadium’s Willie Bradshaw Field, which is artificial turf. County Stadium is home of the Division II Shaw University Bears football team. Shaw is located in Raleigh, but its home games are played in Durham. That’s why, on Saturdays in the fall, I see so many people around Durham wearing Shaw garnet and white regalia.

The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association held its championship games there from 2008 to 2012 and then again in 2014 and 2015. The Carolina Phoenix, which were the 2013 World Champions of the Independent Women’s Football League, has had home games there, as does the Tobacco Road FC, which plays in the USL League Two of the American soccer pyramid.

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Track and field events are one of the major attractions at the County Stadium. In recent years, the stadium has been the site for the Russell E. Blunt East Coast Invitational, the Bershawn “Batman” Jackson Youth Invitational and the Durham Striders Developmental Invitational.

Along with Wallace Wade Stadium, the County Stadium is an important part of the rich history of track and field in Durham and remains a choice venue for meets.

The reason I am writing about the County Stadium is that it was the site of the 2018 North Carolina Senior State Games Finals and, as readers of the magazine might recall, I was the representative of Durham in the men’s 70-74 age group for the 50-meter and 200-meter sprints on the basis of two gold medal performances in the Durham City Games.

The finals were originally scheduled for September, but had to be postponed until November because of Hurricane Florence, which soaked North Carolina and did incredible damage. I was ambivalent about the scheduling delay since I was anxious to compete and did not want to train two more months, lest injury strike.

The day of the finals was like winter. Dark gray clouds covered the sky. The wind swirled and a cold rain pelted Durham. Like me, most competitors wore heavy jackets, sweatpants and gloves. We looked ready for the Iditarod rather than a run around the track.

As I entered the stadium to register and get my race number, I heard clicking. The clicking was incessant and inescapable. I quickly discovered the source of the clicking, which came from the spikes on the track shoes that just about every competitor wore. I had never thought about running with real track shoes. Having not competed in the Senior Games before (or read the race instructions carefully), I was unaware that spikes were allowed.

Because of the rain, the track was wet and slippery, and I worried that my regular running shoes would lose traction, and I would have to be cautious to avoid an ignominious spill. Every click sent the same message: You will lose.

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When I ran in the Durham competition, I represented only myself. For Rest assured, readers, I will not abandon the State Finals, I was carrying the banner of our city. I felt a responsibility you. No one-and-done for me. I plan to to do well against the competition from Charlotte, Greensboro or continue to train hard through the winter and Wilmington. Alas, I was woefully ill-equipped. compete in the City Games in the spring.

Far more runners competed than at the Durham City Games and, for Who knows? Maybe next year with a brand each age group, there were heats. Watching the younger men run, I was new pair of spikes, I will run again with the man amazed at their speed. I was definitely out my league. from Rocky Mount and, this time, when his wife I practiced a few starts, jumped up and down to get warm, and snaps a picture, each of us will have a medal psyched myself up for the races. around our neck.

Sadly, my performance in my events was like that of the great Casey, even though there was no pride in my bearing or ease of my manner. Like Casey, I struck out.

In the 200-meter final, I was paired with a tall man who wore a wool cap. Despite many runners in our age group, it was just the two of us for a heat. Waiting to run, we exchanged pleasantries. He told me he had driven from Rocky Mount that morning for the finals.

By then, the rain had abated, and the sun shined intermittently through the passing clouds.

When the time for our heat came, the man from Rocky Mount and I each got into our stances at the starting line and listened as the race official barked, “Ready … set” and then the starting gun cracked, and off we went. The man from Rocky Mount raced quickly ahead of me, and I plodded to the finish line. As I learned from the printout of the results, I was dead last in my age group.

My events over, I started my way back to the parking lot, feeling chilled, my head It’s the perfect time of year for new beginnings, and what held low. From near the stadium, I heard better place to start fresh than The Village at Brookwood. the man call out to me. It was the man from Discover a thriving Life Plan Community that offers: Rocky Mount who ran alongside me. He said freedom from home ownership responsibilities he wanted to get a picture of us together.

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in their words

An Unlikely Friendship

THE AUTHO R WA S N AME D TH E B E ST

S E RIOUS CO LUMNIST OF 2 0 1 1 B Y T H E B Y CA RL W. K E NNEY II

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P RODUCE R O F “ G O D EVEREND KENNEY, C.P. and Ann had a lot in OF THE OPP RE SSE D,” I got somebody who needs common. Ann’s parents were AN UP COMING help over in McDougald sharecroppers. Her father DOCUME NTA RY F IL M Terrace,” Ann Atwater earned 5 cents an hour on ON BLACK L IB E RAT IO N said in a tone that refused the farm in Hallsboro, North THE OLOGY A ND IS T H E to hear, “I can’t help you.”

Carolina, where she was born AUTHOR O F “ P RE AC H A’ Saying no would result in in 1935. Ann told stories of MAN “ AN D T H E SE QUE L another phone call demanding the same thing. receiving food through the back “BACK S LID E .” H E H A S Ann had a way of getting things done. She door after all the white workers LE D CON G RE G AT IO NS had a strong voice and the type of personality had eaten. She married French IN MIS S OURI A ND that forced mountains to move. Ann worked Wilson when she was 13 years N ORTH CA RO L INA . with Operation Breakthrough, an anti-poverty old, and they moved to Durham movement established in Durham in 1964. She because there was work for was known for knocking on doors to mobilize black people in the tobacco and people to stand up against their landlords textile industries. regarding poor housing conditions.

It took me more than a year before I knew the rest of her story. Ann was more than a black woman who refused to go away. She’s the subject of a book, a documentary and a movie that tells the story of how she got a leader of the Ku Klux Klan to see things her way.

“The Best of Enemies,” directed and written by Robin Bissell and based on the book

by Osha Gray Davidson, hits theaters April 5. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Ann and Sam Rockwell as C.P. Ellis, a Klan leader. Ann and C.P. co-chaired public meetings Civil rights activist Ann Atwater and former Ku Klux Klansman C.P. Ellis (far right) led two in 1971 discussing school weeks of community meetings to help facilitate school integration without violence. desegregation in Durham.

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in their words

Durham was known then as the home of educated, successful else but in Durham can you find the courage of two people who refuse black people. Some struggled to pay the rent. Ann’s husband was an to be defined by the things that make them weak? alcoholic, and she divorced him after he became abusive. She raised her In Durham, there are people willing to listen even when they have two daughters as a single mother earning $57 a month from a welfare enough reasons to walk away. check and cleaning houses.

Durham’s contribution to America is our willingness to grow together.

Being poor was something C.P. understood. He worked at a gas station We celebrate 150 years of listening to one another. There are few to provide for his wife and four children. One of his children was born enemies in Durham. Just a bunch of good friends. blind and mute. C.P. said he had to blame somebody for being poor, and it was natural to hate black people because his father was a member of the Klan. C.P. said his rise through the ranks of leadership was due to his need to feel respected. He began a youth group to teach the need for political engagement. He Proceeds benefit Student Financial Aid for Hill School attended city council meetings to promote his goal of segregation.

When Bill Riddick, a local community organizer, decided to form a series of community meetings to discuss desegregation, he invited Ann and C.P. to serve as co-chairs. He was concerned that violence would follow the court order to desegregate the schools. He selected cochairs with conflicting views – a black civil rights activist and a white supremacist.

It was a plan destined to fail. But it worked.

Ann and C.P. became friends. C.P. denounced his association with the Klan, changing his stance to believe that poor whites gain more from the Civil Rights movement than from segregation. C.P. and • One Mile Run & Walk Ann recognized they both face many of the • Kids’ Dash (10 and under) same problems. The problem wasn’t race.

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It helps knowing that resolutions are rarely Thank You to our Sponsors: found when we cling to hate. Answers are discovered when we listen. When we listen, the conclusion may be a lifetime friend.

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bites of bull city

A Culinary Tribute: The Life and Legacy of Karen Barker

THE AUTHOR IS

THE CREATOR AND

WRITER OF THE LOCAL DURHAM FOOD AND RESTAURANT NEWS

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N EARLY FEBRUARY, WE LOST A beloved community figure and legend in the culinary and pastry world, Karen Barker, at the age of 61. Most Durhamites know her best from Magnolia Grill. Though the restaurant closed in 2012 after a very successful 26-year run, it’s still referenced frequently by those who worked or dined there.

Karen and her lifelong partner, Ben Barker, were foundational leaders and visionaries in the contemporary food movement, beginning with the regional rise of new Southern cuisine in the early 1980s. “The Barkers established a model of excellence in ‘farm-to-table’ dining unsurpassed in the nation,” says Marcie Cohen Ferris, professor emeritus of American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.

“Recently, I have been so moved by how many leading lights in our local food scene have told me of the power of Karen’s personal mentorship to them, from teaching her art and craft, sharing her business savvy and, finally, her generous support of their professional ventures.”

It was a bit of good fortune, a lot of determination and drive, and an honest passion for what she did that made for such a fulfilling life and legacy. And, as with most good stories, Karen’s begins with love and shared dreams.

Karen and Ben met in 1979 during their first day of class at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. As their relationship grew, so did their shared pursuit of one day having a restaurant of their own.

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As the couple approached graduation, they debated between moving to Napa Valley or returning to Ben’s hometown of Chapel Hill. Their desire to work at La Residence under then-chef/owner Bill Neal enticed them to the South. While their formal training was not a fit for Bill’s kitchen, he ended up leaving the restaurant in 1981 and his wife, Moreton, found Ben Barker’s letter of inquiry and gave him a job learning alongside Bill’s acolytes.

Ben and Karen married in 1982; she joined him in the La Residence kitchen as the pastry chef. From that point on, they worked together for the remainder of their professional lives.

At La Residence, they were able to learn from Bill Neal’s successors, top talent like Bill Smith (prior to the opening of Crook’s Corner). Learning the high standards of execution and operation required to achieve success enabled them to gain enough confidence to take over the helm at the Fearrington House Restaurant just two years later. The Barkers were generously afforded the support of the owners, Jenny and R.B. Fitch, and in return, that confidence resulted in a highly successful business that captured national attention. Two years in this role gave them the self-assurance to pursue their dream and open their own restaurant in 1986.

At the time, Wellspring Grocery stood on the corner of Ninth and Knox streets in Durham. When the owners, Ann and Lex Alexander, sought a bigger location down the street and offered the space to the Barkers, they jumped at the opportunity; this became the home of Magnolia Grill.

“Without their willingness to support our dream, we might not have found the venue that defined our love and partnership, our personal and professional relationship, and the location for a career-defining business that wrapped itself around more than a generation-plus of cooks, servers, growers and suppliers, and a wealth of devoted and warmly supportive guests,” shares Ben, who also recalls there was skepticism about their choice of location at the time. “We did our due diligence and felt the Triangle was on the cusp of exploding in growth and sophistication. The location was central to the anchor towns of the Triangle and RTP; the diverse university communities guaranteed an audience that was well-traveled and food savvy.

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We felt we could occupy a niche that was unfulfilled: an open kitchen, vibrant lively atmosphere, contemporary music, inventive and seasonal cooking delivered in a modern expression with bold, punchy flavors.”

The open kitchen to the dining room was an anomaly in a white tablecloth restaurant for this region at the time, but they were intent on demonstrating it was a chef-driven restaurant. They brought international influences to the menu, and it evolved to represent an integration of their intensely local focus on ingredients coupled with a modern, Piedmont Southern direction.

The restaurant opened with modest fanfare, and they cooked for 77 people, mostly family, friends and investors, the first night. There were no practice dinner services – they just threw the doors open and went for it.

Ben and Karen were extremely driven – an intellectual and creative team who lived and breathed the restaurant and the conceptualization of the food. Their insistence on high

sitting in the bar for hours some days while his mother organized flowers for the dining room and checked on the prep being done for the day.

He also remembers her taste-testing recipes at home and being the direct beneficiary of those experiments.

“My parents were always so motivated to do things in a great way,” he says, “not just to advance themselves professionally, but because they took pride in caring about what they did. That is something I have tried to represent in my own food.

I could always taste the love in my mom’s baking.

When you devote that sort of care and attention, you yield a consistently great product. For me, one of the

boys [older son Adam now lives in Wilmington with his partner and two children], conceptualizing and executing the dessert menu and training her assistants, doing the flower arrangements, daily accounting, collaborating with her husband and team on menu ideas and making sure they were responsive to media requests and promotion. Ultimately, she was the key to our success; her drive and organization were my inspiration,” Ben says.

Gabe, who opened Pizzeria Mercato in Carrboro in 2016, remembers

force – the real brains behind the business,” Ben says. “She took great joy in the life we shared, the opportunity to teach and the creative element of being a cook. She was a research monster, utilizing all the sources and resources available (and before the Internet, this was a lot more challenging!) to create her supremely balanced, never repetitive,

most important things I will always try to carry on is her sense of calm and perpetual collectedness. No matter the situation, my mom always had a warm and welcoming approach, making you not only trust her decision making, but knowing her mind was made up focusing on the best possible outcome. She helped turn me into a really good leader, which no matter my ability to cook, is quite possibly my strongest attribute.”

Karen built the first live yeast starter for Magnolia Grill’s house-baked baguette in 1991 and kept it alive to build Pizzeria Mercato’s pizza dough in 2016. “She was a kind and gentle woman who nurtured staff to become the amazing cooks and bakers they became, as if she were a second mother to them. There’s no way to describe how much we will miss her,” Ben says.

Karen and Ben were the ultimate team. “She loved planning and orchestrating behind the scenes. She was OK with my role as the slightly more public face, since I was there at dinner service and she was at home with the kids, but she was the PHOTO BY BRIANA BROUGH

standards in every element of the business enabled Magnolia Grill to succeed fairly quickly.

Magnolia Grill was fortunate to have Walter Royal (current executive chef at the Angus Barn), Maria Hitt, and David Jenkins as colleagues who followed from Fearrington. And Mickey Maloney brought extraordinary experience from many years leading the service staff at La Residence.

While the team was small, it had substantial experience and operational chops.

“We had a supportive audience that we responded to, driven to always get better, and our relationship triumphed under those circumstances,” Ben says. “Karen was the quieter one, gentle in nature, but just as driven and more inclined to pursue Ben, Gabe and Karen Barker. the opportunities to expand our profile. She was convinced that if we cultivated a repute beyond the Triangle, we would be less susceptible to the vagaries of the various university academic calendars, the summer doldrums that were more prevalent before Durham was the vibrant city it is now.”

Son Gabriel Barker was born in 1988, less than two years after Magnolia Grill opened, which, of course, added another element to daily operations for Karen. Gabe slept and played in a playpen in the bar and sat on her butcherblock baking table while she made cheesecakes. “She juggled raising two

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dessert menu that always was complex and layered.”

Because the Barkers were so dedicated to their craft they attracted an exceptional team of individuals to work with them over the years … many of whom went on to own and manage their own successful restaurants and careers, and every one of them carries lifelong lessons and vivid memories of Karen: “Karen was the first person I ever worked for who took baking seriously; who showed me the craft and care that go into well-made desserts.

She taught me there is much more than sweet when composing a dessert – it deserves the same respect and attention as savory food.” – Phoebe Lawless of Scratch “Magnolia Grill came into my life just at the right time – when I needed someone or something to believe in me. Karen once took me aside and offered some stern, yet loving, advice: She told me she respected my passion and ability, but if I wanted that to translate to success, I had some things to work on … some growing up to do.

Karen was the perfectly balanced mentor: stern, yet kind, intelligent and humble. A rare person, and an even more rare boss. When I told Karen

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about my tuna casserole, she told me it would be a lot better if I put a layer of crushed Lay’s potato chips on top. She was right! It’s now my daughters’ favorite part, and I think of Karen every single time I make it.” – Daniel Saratin of Bar Virgile “I worked as a server at Magnolia Grill in the ’90s, and over the years, I loved running into her throughout the Triangle. Without fail, she’d ask about our children, and there was something in the way she asked: her wistful smile, eye contact, her presence ... she wasn’t just asking to be polite; I could tell she found joy in hearing the details. She knew the love of being a parent and was thrilled to see me experience it as well. Running into Karen – like working with her – simply made me happy.” – Sean Lilly Wilson of Fullsteam Brewery “There was an air of grace that Karen carried with her through the Magnolia Grill kitchen. It was a highly competitive time in kitchens back then, and everyone was trying to be seen and noticed. She had a calming effect on a lot of us young aspiring chefs back then. It helped lower the stress of us all and made me feel noticed.” – Tom Ferguson Jr. of Rise Franchising “ ... I remember the staff Christmas parties at their house. One in particular, around 2001, we did a ‘Secret Santa’ with a very low budget restriction, and the person who picked her name got her a pale pink top covered in sparkly paillettes. She put it on and wore it with a smile all night long, and it looked very cute on her. I loved how she could always go with the flow and enjoy it the whole time.” – Kelli Cotter of Toast and Dashi “For the past 18 years she has been a mentor, friend and part of the family I have chosen. Karen was one of the most caring, honest, talented, intelligent and beautiful humans I have ever known.” – Amanda Orser of Littler

Excerpt from our recent investment newsletter

‘One From the Vault’ Recent investment headlines remind us of when the internet bubble popped almost 20 years ago as commentators shock their followers with statements like this one from Barron’s in late November: “Now the talk is about a trillion-dollar meltdown.

The FAANGs—a basket of high-growth technology companies that includes Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet (Google)—have lost $1.1 trillion since their peaks. This month alone, the loss comes to $400 billion.” [...] With all these billions and trillions bandied about, it is time to draw an important distinction between “cash” and “stock.”

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As we face what may be the later stages of a nearly ten-year bull market, we continue to believe that investors’ focus should be on the underlying relative free cash flow produced by companies rather than how markets might be pricing 1% slices of those enterprises trading on a daily basis.

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1981 919-682-9229 905 W. MAIN ST., STE. 24 DURHAM, NC 27701 HISTORICBRIGHTLEAF.COM INFO@HISTORICBRIGHTLEAF.COM

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Comprised of two historic warehouses joined by a landscaped courtyard, Brightleaf Square was among the first of downtown Durham attractions to undergo revitalization in the early 1980’s. During this time, the buildings were converted into mixed-use spaces, which today are occupied by independent and locally-owned retailers, restaurants and professional offices.

Between 1900 and 1904, the American Tobacco Company built the Watts and Yuille warehouses for storing, aging and fermenting tobacco. The warehouses were used for this function until 1970 and sold to private developers in 1980.

After a year of construction, Brightleaf Square opened with retail, restaurant and office spaces.

The courtyard hosts many local events, including a summer concert series and, new in 2019, the Durham Roots Farmers’ Market on Saturday mornings, April through November. Visitors can stroll through the courtyard as they discover uncommon finds, dine at one-of-a-kind restaurants and delight in the ambiance of Durham’s past and future.

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2015 919-381-5900 2705 N. DUKE ST., STE. 100 DURHAM, NC 27704 BULLCITYSMILES.COM

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We are dedicated to exceeding the expectations of our patients both in quality and service. We do this by providing esthetic, highquality, state of the art dental care with a patient-centered approach. We strive to build lifelong relationships with our patients based on trust and exceptional care.

Dr. Bolton has been serving Durham since 2001. She loves Durham for its soul.

Steeped in history, Durham attracts people from all over the world. A magnificent place to raise a family, the city maintains a small-town feel while offering the diverse and cultural experiences of a metropolitan city. Simply said: We love Durham!

We invite you to meet us and tour our office. We love giving back. We donate 100 percent of the proceeds from our teeth whitening services to the Helene Foundation, which directly helps local mothers fighting cancer.

Their Gala will be on May 3, 2019. We couldn’t be prouder to help such a great cause!

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1 0 0 2 919-928-0204 3905 UNIVERSITY DR. DURHAM, NC 27707 EMERGEACHILDSPLACE.COM INFO@EMERGE-CH.COM

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Emerge – A Child’s Place is an occupational and speech therapy practice that gives your child the confidence to navigate their life. They place a strong emphasis on caregiver education, and elicit results in therapy through a playbased approach in a fun, nurturing and supportive environment.

We chose to grow our business in Durham because of the dynamic nature of the community.

Book a free call today for us to learn more about your child. Follow us on instagram @emerge_achildsplace to see us in action and to check our community events!

Durham offers a wide array of experiences, and we have found it to be a great place for families to learn, play, and grow.

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JOHN R. CHRISTENSEN DDS, MS, MS ROBERT T. CHRISTENSEN, DDS, MS

1987 919-489-1543 121 W. WOODCROFT PKWY. DURHAM, NC 27713 DURHAMPDO.COM

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Durham Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics believes dental health is essential to overall well-being. We also know a beautiful smile opens doors and warms hearts.

It’s our privilege to be a trusted partner in your child’s healthcare needs, providing compassionate care and building the foundation for a lifetime of great oral health.

We have served Durham for more than 30 years, and it is our pleasure to continue to serve Durham’s growing and diverse population. Our family-run practice values the diversity each family brings, and prides ourselves in providing individualized care to match each child’s unique needs.

Please visit our office! We deliver exceptional, patientcentered care. We will partner with you to discuss alternative treatment plans, helping you decide what is best for your child. We are confident you and your child will have a positive experience in our office and will leave with a smile.

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DESIREE T. PALMER DMD, PA & ASSOCIATES

1985 106 W. PARRISH ST., STE. 1 DURHAM, NC 27701 919-680-3531 BULLCITYDENTALDOWNTOWN.COM

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Bull City Dental’s mission is to provide optimal oral health in a chair-side manner that exceeds patients’ expectations. Drs. Desiree Palmer and Audrey Kemp constantly pursue educational opportunities for themselves and their dedicated staff of female professionals, which enable them to utilize cutting-edge, state-of-theart technology to provide efficient, effective service.

Dr. Palmer and her husband were enthusiastic about raising their family in a diverse community, rich with African American role models. After practicing for 30 years in Durham, recognizing the reemergence of downtown, Dr. Palmer focused on finding a location on historic Parrish St. for a second office, Bull City Dental.

Drs. Palmer, Barton and Kemp and their team at both offices are dedicated to giving back to the community.

Their volunteer services include: NC Baptist Men’s Dental Bus Clinic, Families Moving Forward, Back-toSchool Book Bag Drive, Book Harvest, coat and hat collection for children, lecturing on dental health and mentoring young people interested in the dental field.

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8 0 0 2 919-688-9400 3200 CROASDAILE DR., STE. 601 & 603 DURHAM, NC 27705 ELLISFAMILYLAW.COM INFO@ELLISFAMILYLAW.COM

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Ellis Family Law provides legal counsel and representation for people experiencing transition in their family lives. Following an initial consultation, clients are paired with an attorney whose particular skill set and personality suits their legal goals. Each attorney offers a realistic and meaningful approach to the client based on their needs.

Durham has eclectic citizens with diverse backgrounds and differing levels of education who are able to live harmoniously with each other. Through these differences, Durham has found its strength. Durham is for all people, as is our law firm.

Ellis Family Law gives back to the community through volunteering with different non-profit organizations and outreach projects. One of the events of which we are most proud is the establishment and hosting of the original Feed the Need Gala, an annual black-tie event that benefits Meals on Wheels of Durham.

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DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS

1927 919-551-3783 DUKEHEALTH.ORG/DUKECHILDRENS GIVING.DUKECHILDRENS.ORG

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Duke Children’s serves patients in the Triangle and beyond and strives to provide the highest quality care through advanced treatment, compassionate support and full family participation.

Duke Children’s is recognized for its clinical programs, research initiatives, educational opportunities for medical students, residents, and fellows, and strong advocacy efforts for children.

Duke Children’s is affiliated with the Department of Pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine. As a major pediatric teaching hospital, Duke Children’s educates tomorrow’s leading physicians and researchers.

As one of the largest southeastern pediatric providers, Duke Children’s addresses health equity through clinical service, research, education and community engagement.

Duke Children’s researchers and physicians are internationally recognized for ground-breaking discoveries, and remarkable advances have emerged from both laboratory studies and the investigation of new therapies in patients.

Discoveries made here impact children around the world. To support Duke Children’s and to learn more, visit giving.dukechildrens. org or dukehealth.org/ dukechildrens.

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1952 919-383-2535 150 GOLDEN DR., STE. 200 DURHAM, NC 27705 CTWILSON.COM

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A third-generation, family-owned commercial general contractor, CT Wilson provides turnkey construction services throughout North Carolina.

Experienced with both new construction and renovations in all commercial construction project types, areas of expertise include historic renovations, institutional and educational facilities, mixed-use developments, affordable housing, and religious facilities.

North Carolina native, Charles T. Wilson Sr., met his wife shortly after graduating from NCSU’s engineering program.

Her career as a social worker brought them to Durham. After serving in the Navy, Charles Sr. returned to Durham and co-founded WrennWilson Construction. He later formed CT Wilson Construction when Mr. Wrenn elected to focus on civil construction.

As an advocate for education, workforce development and community improvement, CT Wilson builds conscientiously and collaboratively, and takes pride in value brought to clients, with 60 percent of clients being non-profit organizations. In addition to greatly valuing its employees and continuously encouraging their professional development, CT Wilson is pleased to be a Certified Living Wage Employer.

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1993 919-419-1234 3608 SHANNON RD., STE. 100 DURHAM, NC 27707 PSCP.COM

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In 1993, Susan, Sudi & Ann launched their family-friendly residential real estate firm focused on individualized client service. As a resource for accurate, timely information, they guided buyers and sellers with their expertise.

Their energy and creativity coupled with flexibility and innovation led to excellent results. Today, they are still known for professional, responsive, discreet real estate guidance.

Durham thrives as a blend of old traditions and new ideas.

A welcoming community with trendy bars, exceptional restaurants and great media, Durham is an easy choice.

It was equally rewarding to choose Durham 25 years ago when Susan, Sudi and Ann, three young visionaries, first believed in the rich future of their deserving town.

Peak Swirles & Cavallito invests in Durham as advocates for buyers and sellers, and in support of those who are less fortunate.

In this capacity, they are volunteers and financial advocates for organizations including Habitat for Humanity of Durham, PORCH, Salvation Army, JDRF, TROSA, The Hill Center and Durham Academy.

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1982 919-518-9963 3206 OLD CHAPEL HILL RD., STE. 300 DURHAM, NC 27707 GENERALDENTISTDURHAM.COM

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Dr. Blaylock serves the Durham community as a cosmetic and restorative dentist. Known for his complete care approach to dentistry, Dr. Blaylock customizes patients’ treatment plans based on needs and desired results.

This is especially beneficial for patients who suffer from pain in their jaw joints, teeth or gums.

After earning his degree from the UNC School of Dentistry, Dr. Blaylock found an opportunity to purchase his first dental practice in Durham. His wife, Debbie, had been working as a paralegal for a law firm in Durham, so moving to the Bull City was a natural transition.

Dr. Blaylock volunteers several times a year with the Southwest Durham Rotary Club to treat Urban Ministries and TROSA residents. In taking the time to understand not only the needs of his patients, but also those of the wider community, Dr. Blaylock has become one of Durham’s most trusted dentists.

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2003 919-286-5640 700 9TH ST. DURHAM, NC 27705 NINTHSTREETFLOWERS.COM

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Larry and Lea Wood established Ninth Street Flowers to provide fresh flowers, inspired designs, unsurpassed service and value. The shop’s reputation spread as their team built longstanding relationships with neighbors, friends and the community. Ninth Street Flowers is known for its creative designs, high-quality flowers and personalized customer service.

The Woods chose Durham because of its robust university and medical community, progressive and diverse population and proximity to Research Triangle Park. They located their business on Ninth Street because of the neighborhood’s business opportunity and value. Larry & Lea are commited to Durham—they live, work, shop & dine here.

The Woods work with individuals, businesses, schools, churches, charities and corporate clients to provide flowers for birthdays, memorials and holidays, plus meetings and events of all sizes. In thanks for their success, they give back to the community by donating flower arrangements and gift certificates to many local non-profit organizations.

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1992 919-490-8000 2701 PICKETT RD. DURHAM, NC 27705 FORESTDUKE.ORG

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The Forest at Duke is a vibrant, not-for-profit 501(c)3 continuing care retirement community that welcomes residents from all over the world. Its mission is to provide a caring, responsible community that fosters the independence of residents of retirement age by enhancing their capability to lead purposeful, active, healthy, and secure lives.

More than 25 years ago, neighbors and faculty members of Duke University envisioned an exceptional retirement experience in the town they loved, Durham. The founders set out to redefine retirement and the result is one of the premier retirement communities in the industry—The Forest at Duke.

Volunteering at Urban Ministries, reading with the Boys and Girls Club, walking on the Al Buehler trail, attending a performance at DPAC—each day engages residents. A leader in social responsibility, The Forest at Duke is comprised of people who share their time, talent, and resources to serve the Durham community.

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150+ WAYS TO CELEBRATE DURHAM’S SESQUICENTENNIAL KEEP THE PARTY GOING ALL YEAR LONG WITH THIS LIST OF SUGGESTIONS – IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER – OF CULTURAL EVENTS, MILESTONE ANNIVERSARIES, INTERESTING READS, TOPICAL TRIVIA AND MUCH MORE

your chance to traverse 150 years of durham history is here, one move at a time!

game token. A coin or something of similar size will work.

2. At the start of game, roll a die and move your token according to the number you roll.

follow the corresponding instructions below:

Join the player directly ahead of you!

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Answer a Durham Trivia question correctly for another roll!

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1. What are the two Native American tribes that lived and farmed here before Europeans arrived?

in the world?

5. The name “Bull Durham” is said to have been taken from the bull from which condiment?

6. Which teams played in the South’s first interracial basketball game?

7. Who was the first African American woman to become an Episcopal priest?

8. What are four notable innovations that were developed at Research Triangle Park (RTP)?

5. Colman’s Mustard 6. North Carolina College for Negroes (now NCCU) and Duke University’s medical school 7. Pauli Murray 8. Astroturf, AZT, crtl+alt+del, and the barcode

• Plan to attend at least one or two American Dance Festival shows this summer. Encourage young arts lovers in the community to take advantage of the ADF Go program, which allows audience members ages 18–30 the opportunity to purchase $12 tickets to many 2019 ADF performances. (Tickets may only be purchased with a valid ID at the box office one hour prior to performance.)

• Grab some ice cream from The Parlour, sit outside on CCB Plaza and people watch, or go on Third Friday for the chance to be entertained by a busker.

• Brush up on your Durham trivia! We’ve got plenty of factoids that will impress your friends on page 49 … |

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2. What are the names of the three state historic sites located in Durham?

3. Which Downtown Durham street is known as Black Wall Street?

4. True or False: American Tobacco Company was once one of the largest corporations

• Join a local running and/or biking club. Bull City Running Company, Fleet Feet and Bike Durham host various weekly rides and runs.

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Roll the die again. If the number is EVEN proceed upwards towards the finish. If the number is ODD you’ll have to take a detour downwards towards the ladder.

1. To begin, grab a knick-knack to be your board

• Head out on a sunset paddle in Falls Lake with the canoeing and kayaking adventure experts Frog Hollow Outdoors.

• Spend a spring afternoon picnicking at Sarah P. Duke Gardens. And make sure you come back in the summer for

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•… and then challenge your friends to play “The Road to Durham 150” board game! (Download a full-size version at bit.ly/ roadtodurham150.)

• Take a Taste Carolina downtown tasting tour – a great way to hit all the most popular eateries with friends and family, and then compare notes later. Featured restaurants have included Alley Twenty Six, The Blue Note Grill, COPA, NanaSteak, The Parlour, Pizzeria Toro, Viceroy and many others.

• Visit the Pixel Wall at Durham Central Park and make your own colorful creation out of the blocks.

• Support independent dance by seeing a show presented by DIDA! Durham Independent Dance Artists works to connect audiences and artists, providing audiences with easy access to exciting local work and providing artists with increased visibility to local audiences. The next show in their 2019 season presents Untitled by noise-dance

DID YOU KNOW? the most famous movie to feature the city, several other films have been shot in Durham, including: 1997’s “Kiss the Girls;” the 1990 version of “The Handmaid’s Tale” (with Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall and Natasha Richardson) which was shot at Duke University and other locations around Durham, including on the streets near Brightleaf Square; the 1983 sci-fi thriller “Brainstorm,”

with scenes shot at Research Triangle Park and Duke (this was Natalie Wood’s last film before she died); and 2012’s “Arthur Newman” with Colin Firth, Emily Blunt and Ann Heche, filmed in part at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

• Duke University’s Mike Krzyzewski is college basketball’s winningest coach, with more than 1,100 wins.

• Madonna attended the American Dance Festival in 1978.

• The international headquarters of the Forest History Society, the

only organization in the world solely dedicated to preserving forest and conservation history, is in Durham. The comprehensive compilation of materials related to forest history includes original Smokey Bear campaign materials, and the organization just finished a 16,750-squarefoot building housing its library, archives and headquarters at 2925 Academy Road. Fittingly, it’s on 8.6 wooded acres.

• During the mid-19th Century, the Bennehan-Cameron plantation

complex was one of the largest in the state, encompassing 30,000 acres with a working slave community of 900, including those whose life is now interpreted at Stagville State Historic Site.

• Due to extensive innovative advertising featuring its bull logo, William T. Blackwell’s company’s Bull Durham smoking tobacco became one of the world’s best-known American products in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. The name “Bull Durham” is said to have been inspired by the Colman’s Mustard logo. Blackwell mistakenly believed that the popular condiment was manufactured in Durham, England, and used the bull in the logo as inspiration.

• During the 1890s, James B. Duke’s American Tobacco Company

produced 90% of the cigarettes manufactured in the United States. A Supreme Court anti-trust ruling in 1911 dissolved the company into four competing firms – American Tobacco, RJ Reynolds, Liggett & Myers and P. Lorillard.

• The grand Hotel Carrolina, a large Queen Anne Victorian building

built in 1891 by Julian Carr, once stood on the corner of present-day

PHOTO COURTESY THE NORTH CARO LINA COLLECTION AT DU RHAM COUNTY LIB RARY]

• While “Bull Durham” is probably

Ramseur and Corcoran streets. A fire destroyed it in 1907. The space stood vacant until 1919 when the Durham Silk Hosiery Mill opened.

• Durham Public Library started the first bookmobile service in North Carolina in 1923 to provide access to the county’s rural population.

• Pauli Murray, the acclaimed

activist, lawyer, poet and priest who advised both Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in their landmark civil and women’s rights Supreme Court cases, was raised in Durham by her aunt and maternal grandparents at their home on Carroll Street, which is now being preserved as a National Historic Landmark. She graduated from Hillside High School.

• The Durham Folklife Festival, which drew more than 100,000 to Eno State Park in 1976, was the largest U.S. Bicentennial event in North Carolina, and was the predecessor to the Festival for the Eno.

• The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics was

the nation’s first public residential high school focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) when it opened in 1980. It became the 17th campus of the North Carolina University System in 2007.

• The last cigarette manufactured in Durham was in 2000, when Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company moved its production facility to Mebane.

American Tobacco moved its operations to Reidsville in 1987.

• Duke University’s West Campus, including Duke Chapel, was

designed by Julian Abele, a prominent African-American architect of the prestigious Philadelphia firm Horace Trumbauer. However, due to his race, his role was often unknown or ignored until the main campus quad adjacent to the Chapel was named in his honor in 2016.

• George W. Watts and the Duke family funded a drive for Durham’s first YMCA at the southwest corner of Main and Roxboro streets in 1908.

• The Duke Lemur Center, established in 1966, is home to 240 individual lemurs from 17 species, making it the world’s largest sanctuary for rare and endangered prosimian primates.

• “Truckin’ My Blues Away,” a song by Durham bluesman Blind Boy Fuller (1907-1941) inspired the popular American saying, “Keep on Truckin’.”

• North Carolina Central University is home to the Biomanufacturing

Research Institute & Technology Enterprise Center for Excellence (BRITE).

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The Federal, est. 2004 James Joyce, est. 1998 Hog Heaven Bar-B-Q, est. 2003 Bennett Pointe Grill & Bar, est. 1997 Saladelia, est. 1988 The Palace International, est. 1989 (reopened 2007) King’s Sandwich Shop, est. 1942 Bullocks Bar-B-Cue, est. 1952 The Chicken Hut, est. 1957 Devine’s, est. 1978 Shanghai Restaurant, est. 1980 Ole NC BBQ, est. 1984 Yamazushi, est. 1986 Wimpy’s Grill, est. 1987 Foster’s Market, est. 1990 Parizade, est. early ’90s Pulcinella’s, est. 1994 JC’s Kitchen, est. 1998 Piper’s in the Park, est. 1999 Guglhupf, est. 1998 Piper’s Deli, est. 1984 Bleu Olive, est. 1994 Fairview Dining Room, est. 1988 Blue Corn Cafe, est. 1997 Elmo’s Diner, est. 1997 Ninth Street Bakery, est. 1981 The Original Q Shack, est. 2003 Hope Valley Diner, est. 1998 West 94th Street Pub, est. 1994

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RESTAURANTS

trio Paideia and interdisciplinary guest artists who collaborate in an improvisational performance inquiring, “Who gets to belong?” Show is April 18–20, 8 p.m., at The Scrap Exchange.

• Perkins+Will architecture firm has begun a year-long, staggered Art+Architecture series that will offer opportunities to artists who live and/or create in Durham. “We hope to start a conversation about the intersections between art and architecture – how both play a significant role in the human experience and how the built form can support art,” says Kate Nation, director of the series at Perkins+Will. “We recognize that both art and architecture can give voice to the under-represented, celebrate diversity and nurture positive change.” Head to their office in The Tower at Mutual Plaza to see the sitespecific piece created by artist-in-residence Calvin Brett, the first featured in the Art+Architecture series. Calvin’s work will be on display through April 19. And get updates on the series by following the firm on Instagram, @perkinswill_nc.

• Rewatch “Bull Durham.”

• Go have a meal at some of Durham’s longstanding restaurants (we have a list to the left).

• Purchase an album by a Merge Records artist from one of our local record shops.

• Visit all three of the county’s state historic sites: Bennett Place, Historic Stagville and Duke Homestead.

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• Do your part to help Keep Durham Beautiful … volunteer with Keep Durham Beautiful (come on, you saw where that was going), start composting with Compost Now, ride GoDurham buses more often (or bike!), stay fresh and clean (and eliminate unnecessary plastic waste) with Fillaree refillable soap bottles, become a member of reusable takeout container service GreenToGo, recycle your electronics with Triangle Ecycling and donate unwanted household and clothing items to places like the TROSA Thrift Store, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Durham Rescue Mission Thrift Store or Pennies for Change Thrift Boutique.

• Do good in your neighborhood. There are several fundraisers coming up in the next month for various causes – pick one or two to support, mark your calendar, and show up to demonstrate your support! We have just a few ideas listed to the right.

• Spend a few hours exploring the galleries at 21c Museum Hotel.

• Play a round of golf at Durham’s historic courses. Gene Lee – a Durham resident for 33 years – provides some background on five golf courses on the next page.

• Have a drink! Bars and restaurants across Durham are offering signature cocktails made with Durham Distillery’s Conniption Gin. Each Durham 150-themed cocktail will honor the history and spirit of the city and prominently feature one of Durham Distillery’s award-winning products, including their Conniption Navy Strength Gin, just named “Best in the U.S.” by the World Gin Awards. Look for the cocktails through November on menus at Alley Twenty Six, Arcana, Mothers & Sons, Saint James Seafood, Counting House, Mateo, The Restaurant at the Durham, COPA, Motorco Music Hall, Jack Tar & the Colonel’s Daughter, Littler, Pizzeria Toro, Kingfisher and more. See how many you can taste over the year!

• More of a beer drinker? Several of our breweries are hopping on the Durham 150 party bus with interesting collaboration brews. Participants include Bull City Burger and Brewery, Starpoint Brewing, Durty Bull Brewing Co., Barrel Culture, Fullsteam Brewery, Ponysaurus and The Glass Jug Beer Lab. Ponysaurus is partnering with Dashi; The Glass Jug is partnering with Durham Distillery on a Belgian Witbier with gin botanicals; and Fullsteam is partnering with Goorsha on a Tella-inspired beer.

• You can also find Durham history-inspired beers at Bull City Burger and Brewery every day, like the Goat Bullock Bock, which was named after the 1965/66 Hillside High School basketball team member John “Goat” Bullock. 

SHOW YOUR SUPPORT

For more than 26 years, the Exchange Family Center (EFC) has been working to strengthen relationships between parents and their children when life brings about difficult or uncertain moments. In honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month in April, EFC’s Pinwheels Family Fun Day brings Durham families closer together for a day of games, prizes, limbo contests and a mini golf tournament at Wheels Fun Park April 28 from noon-6 p.m. bit.ly/EFCPinwheelsAdvanceTickets

Hill Learning Center’s fifth annual Hill Mile (pictured above) takes place April 28 and features a one miler and kids’ dash to help raise funds in support of the Wendy B. Speir Student Financial Aid Fund. This year’s goal is $100,000. Help them get there by signing up: bit.ly/hillmile The Face of Fierce Fashion Show was created to benefit the Pretty In Pink Foundation, which provides payments for chemotherapy, radiation and surgeries for breast cancer patients. It takes place at the Durham Armory May 2, 6 p.m. faceoffierce.com/tickets The Susan G. Komen Triangle Race for the Cure raises funds for breast health services, breast cancer education and outreach from the Triangle area to the Coast. This year’s 5K and 1-mile fun run/walk takes place at The Frontier in Research Triangle Park May 4 at 7:30 a.m. komennctc.org Fashion for a Cause, a fashion show that benefits cancer research, patient care and awareness, takes place at the Durham Convention Center May 5 from 6-9 p.m. bit.ly/fashionforcause The Lincoln Community Health Center Foundation’s seventh annual legacy award luncheon, scheduled for May 10 at the Washington Duke Inn, will honor Dr. Oveta McIntoshVick, chief of pediatric medicine, and Dr. Veronica Ray, a provider in adult medicine. The only yearly fundraiser for the Foundation, this event helps the 33,000 men, women and children who come to Lincoln Community Health Center annually for their primary medical care. lincolnchcf.org

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SEEING GREEN

Golf in Durham began in the 1920s, and today you will find some of the sport’s best certified PGA members directing, teaching and improving the performance of players on any golf course. Here are some courses for you to explore: Hillandale Golf Course The staff at Hillandale is like a golfing family. Always welcoming everybody and prepared to arrange for improving your golf swing or equipment needs. You can visit the pro shop, have lunch anytime, enjoy a beverage and watch golf on TV. John Sprunt Hill, an avid golfer, wanted to establish a course close to his home, and used a portion of his farm to build the golf course. He hired Donald Ross, who had designed Pinehurst golf course, to design a nine-hole course for him. The Durham Country Club, built for the course in 1911, is where Club Boulevard gets its name.

The original clubhouse was demolished in 1961, and a new one was constructed to the north on Hillandale Road, where it stands today on a redesigned course.

Umstead Pines at Willowhaven This North Durham, semi-private golf course opened in 1957. It was designed

by George Cobb around shady trees meandering around today’s residential community. Membership options include pool and clubhouse access for special events.

Duke University Golf Course Award-winning golf course designers Robert Trent Jones and Reese Jones are known around the world for crafting many golf venues. Since 1957, the course has been a memorable experience thanks to the natural and mostly undisturbed contours meandering near Duke Forest adjacent to the Duke campus. Improvements to the course were completed in 1994. It’s always nice to grab a bite and a drink in the Bull Durham Bar at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club after a round.

Croasdaile Country Club In 1966, dairy farmland northwest of downtown was the location for another golf course designed by Cobb and redesigned in 2002 by his former associate, awardwinning golf course architect John LaFoy. Beautiful residential homes surround the fairways.

Hope Valley Country Club Byron Nelson, a world-famous American champion golfer, is on record to have won “the 1945 Durham Open golf championship” at Hope Valley golf course.

This carefully crafted course, also designed by Donald Ross, began accepting applications for membership in 1926. Dining, pool and tennis are also available at Hope Valley Country Club. Some of Durham’s premier residential designs surround this well-groomed golf course.

– by Gene Lee, a semi-retired real estate agent and 20-year member of the Durham Lions Club. When he is not on the golf course, he enjoys playing guitar and accordion and spending time with his five grandchildren.

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• The celebratory drinks just keep on coming. Unscripted Durham honors the sesquicentennial with a “We Are Durham” specialty cocktail, which is made with Bedlam Vodka and Ponysaurus Brewing Biere de Garde, mixed with fresh-squeezed lemonade, Crude Sycophant Bitters and topped with an orange twist. The Bull City-centric cocktail is priced at $9.19 as a tribute to the Durham area code. The hotel is also offering a staycation package – guests will receive two limitededition Durham 150 T-shirts and a Shop Durham NC card for exclusive discounts and freebies at local businesses. (Use the code “wearedurham” to book directly through Unscripted’s website until the end of the year.)

HISTORY AND HOPE COME TOGETHER IN DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS We’re lighting a spark that will ignite the limitless potential of EVERY child in Durham!

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• Visit the Museum of Life and Science’s Magic Wings Butterfly House, one of the largest butterfly houses on the East Coast, during one of the daily butterfly releases.

• Come out to Durham County Memorial Stadium as the Durham Sports Commission hosts the 2019 USA Track & Field Youth Outdoor National Championships June 25-30. This is the first national championship for youth track and field hosted in Durham and is expected to bring 3,000-6,000 athletes to the Bull City. Registration for the championship is now live for both athletes and spectators. Athletes can register at athletic.net, and spectators can purchase an all-championship pass at bit.ly/ USATFYOUTH.

MILESTONE ANNIVERSARIES IN 2019 Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce – 113 Immaculata Catholic School – 110 Durham County Social Services – 100 Sarah P. Duke Gardens – 80 The Secret Game – 75 Bimbé Cultural Arts Festival – 50 Festival for the Eno – 40 Merge Records – 30 Downtown Durham Inc. – 26 TROSA – 25 Moogfest – 15

• Go see “The Best of Enemies” in theaters. The movie opens April 5 and stars Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award winner Sam Rockwell, and depicts the true story of Ann Atwater (Henson), an outspoken civil rights activist who faced off against C.P. Ellis (Rockwell), a local Ku Klux Klan leader, to work toward school desegregation in Durham in 1971. The pair formed an unexpected friendship that drove social change.

• The Durham Community Concert Band (DCCB), which just celebrated its 35th anniversary last year, kicks off its season at the Durham Crop Walk April 7 at Duke Chapel, followed by the band’s spring concert at North Carolina School of Science and Math April 14. This year, they will also host the Triangle Band Festival June 15 at Durham Central Park. Open to all, no auditions required, DCCB has more than 100 musicians, from high schoolers to retirees, and has nearly tripled in size under the leadership of Tom Shaffer, DCCB director since 1991.

• Spend Fourth of July (and/or Saturday, July 6) at Festival for the Eno, which celebrates 40 years of raising awareness and funds to

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protect the natural areas surrounding the river. This year will feature more than 80 bands across five stages, rows upon rows of craft and artisan vendors, food, beer, cider and plenty of family-friendly fun.

(For more organizations and businesses celebrating milestone anniversaries, see our sidebar at left.)

• Visit the Museum of Durham History (MoDH) to experience the latest exhibits on display. Be sure to check out the Memories of Durham Story Quilt, a permanent part of the MoDH collection that is based on oral histories from people who recalled their memories of Durham from the ’40s to the ’80s, and a selection of these stories formed the basis for the quilt’s design.

• Explore Durham’s history outside the museum as well by visiting the Durham History Groves, sites in Durham neighborhoods that honor individuals, families and organizations (discover a few in our story starting on page 56).

• Durham’s first professional baseball team was the Durham Tobacconists in 1902. To mark the 150th year, the Durham Bulls will wear a reimagined version of the uniforms the city’s first baseball team wore during the following games: Saturday, April 13 (in conjunction with the Durham 150 celebration); Saturday, May 18; Thursday, June 27; Saturday, July 13; Saturday, Aug. 31. For more moments in sports history, flip to page 58.

• Feeling crafty? Visit Freeman’s Creative in the Lakewood Shopping Center for DIY supplies like fabric and yarn, or sign up for one of their classes to learn how to make something on your own! Upcoming topics include natural dyeing, sewing your own jeans and Ukrainian egg decorating. And pop on by The Scrap Exchange just across the parking lot for any other craft needs. 

On view at 21c Museum Hotel Durham: Wim Botha, A Thousand Things Part 190 (detail), 2014. Treated wood and black ink, bust and pedestal. Collection of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, 21c Museum Hotels.

On view at the NCMA: Wim Botha, Prism 13 (Dead Pietà) (large detail), 2015. Bronze and wooden pallet. Courtesy of Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

INTRODUCING

Wim Botha: Still Life with Discontent ON VIEW BEGINNING APRIL 13

Wim Botha’s first solo museum exhibition in the U.S., featuring works that span Botha’s career.

On view at both 21c Museum Hotel Durham and the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.

Organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, and 21c Museum Hotel Durham. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible

by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel.

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PLACES AND FACES

History Groves honor those who made Durham the city it is today

By Brandee Gruener | Photography by Beth Mann

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ourteen plaques scattered around Durham contain stories about the people who dedicated their lives to the betterment of our community. These honorary sites, known as History Groves, feature environmentalists, teachers, philanthropists, business owners and others. Some contain gardens, others a bench with a simple memorial.

Steve Channing, local historian and documentary filmmaker, spearheaded the idea while on the board of the Museum of Durham History. He had an interest in bringing history outdoors to the public, an appropriate project for an institution that touts itself as a “museum without walls.”

“What is the purpose of history if not to remember, as the cliche goes, ‘on whose shoulders we stand,’” Steve says. He was driven first to honor John Hope Franklin, a trailblazer in African-American studies and “just a tremendously admirable figure, a noble person.”

With the help of a Durham Parks and Recreation open trails grant, the Franklin History Grove was installed with a bench at Durham Central Park in 2012. After that, Steve considered how to honor more of the city’s leaders.

It seemed appropriate to open that question up to the people of Durham.

The History Groves became a true community effort, made possible by fundraisers, landscapers and volunteers who maintain the sites.

The museum continues to provide some funding and assistance with the projects.

Steve says they are working with groups that want to honor a Duke historian and a CEO of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. Finding open land for sites can be tough, but he’s determined to remember the people who made Durham unique. He believes the groves serve as reminders that history matters. The legacies of those who came before inspire others to continue those missions today. Here are just a few examples: Dr. John Hope Franklin, Durham Central Park Andre Vann’s office at N.C. Central University contains an autograph of every book Dr. John Hope Franklin ever wrote, photos, conference programs and more.

You could say the history instructor and archivist is a fan.

The first time the two met, they discovered a Harvard connection. Andre’s great-great aunt ran a boarding school for black students attending Harvard University. Dr. Franklin stayed at the boarding house next door as a doctoral student and still remembered her 50 years later. The academic world for African-Americans in that time period was small and tight-knit, and earning a doctorate in history was extremely rare.

Racial tensions were high in the 1940s, but Dr. Franklin “never allowed the constraints placed on him by his race to hold him back,” Andre says. Dr. Franklin taught at N.C. Central, then called the N.C. College for Negroes, and published the seminal textbook, “From Slavery to Freedom: A History

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of Negro Americans.” It was updated and used in African-American history courses for decades.

In the 1950s, Dr. Franklin went on to become the first African-American chair of an all-white faculty at Brooklyn College. He took teaching appointments around the country, participated in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, earned a presidential Medal of Freedom and served on a national panel on race relations.

In 1983, he returned with his wife to Durham to teach at Duke University, where the law school eventually founded the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies.

Though Dr. Franklin died in 2009, Andre says his “lengthening shadow” lives on in the historians he trained. His son John Whittington Franklin is at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Many historians in African-American studies, including Andre, continue to share Dr. Franklin’s pioneering work today.

Dorothy Kitchen, Oval Park Dorothy Kitchen taught music to scores of neighbors in Watts-Hillandale over the years. Fittingly, they honored her at Oval Park with a violin bench sculpted by artist Perry Whitted and a performance by a children’s chamber group.

“I was so thrilled with that,” Dorothy says. “I thought that was such a beautiful thing.”

The growth of the Duke University String School over 50 years was another beautiful thing. Dorothy, who studied at Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester and Brandeis University, formed the school with Arlene di Cecco of the Ciompi Quartet in 1967. Dorothy remained the director until retiring in 2014.

There weren’t many formal music education options for children in Durham then, so demand was high. Dorothy’s 25 students met in a campus

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building, though they did not officially become part of Duke until the university received a grant from A.J. Fletcher to start a program.

“Pretty soon it was 250 people,” Dorothy says. “We started with one orchestra and ended with 15.”

As the school grew, Dorothy started a music program in Durham Public Schools and taught in Haiti in the summers and at other universities. She took a group of high school students to play at the White House during Clinton’s presidency, a personal high point. Somehow the mother of two also played in three orchestras.

Dorothy, who’s won numerous awards for her lifetime service to music, delights in seeing her students’ successes. They write from all over the world, and some have started schools of their own. Son Nick is an internationally known violinist who runs into former students. A Duke String School scholarship fund named in her honor allows more students in Durham to attend.

“Our hope was always to get people to love music,” says Dorothy, who still teaches adults in her private studio at home. “It’s kind of like a little seed that was planted and grew into a tree, and a lot of really wonderful people have gone on.”

James “Jay” Marshall Rogers Jr., Maureen Joy Charter School Jay Rogers’ ideas about equity were formed at a time when the South was struggling with desegregation. He grew up in Durham, graduated from N.C. Central in 1962 with a history degree and was a leader in the Neighborhood Youth Corps during President Johnson’s war on poverty. After getting his master’s degree, he taught at Durham High School, one of the first all-white schools to integrate in the city. Jay made an impression, because in 1972 he became the first African-American teacher of the year at the local, state and national levels.

Jay later spent decades teaching history at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts. He was instrumental in their efforts to transform into a multicultural school.

Today, Jay, who died in 2013, is honored with a bench and a plaque under a stately pine at Maureen Joy Charter School on Driver Street in East Durham. Jay’s commitment to equity and access are mirrored in Maureen Joy’s mission, says Mark Bailey, principal and executive director. “That’s what drew me to this school,” says Mark, who took the job four years ago. He was looking for a school dedicated to strong outcomes for kids and families who were underserved. “I wanted a community that wants the best for everyone and has the resources in place to make that a reality, too,” Mark says.

Bela Kussin, equity and community facilitator at Maureen Joy, also sees parallels with Jay’s commitment to students. She met him when he retired to Durham in 2004, but still traveled to train teachers on diversity.

“He stayed connected with a lot of people because he was kind of a hero in town,” she says. “He was just a very deep intellectual. Everybody wanted to listen to what he had to say.”

Bela wishes more people knew about the History Grove.

“If we don’t keep honoring our stories and our people locally, they just disappear.”

Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, Forest Hills Park To say Mary Semans was well known around Durham is an understatement. She was the great-granddaughter of Washington Duke, the first woman elected to Durham City Council, a longtime Duke University trustee and a founder of the North Carolina School for the Arts. From the civil rights era until her death in 2012, the philanthropist also was known for her interest in opening up opportunities to others.

The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, which she led for years, continues her work. The foundation gives grants to K-12 educational programs and arts organizations. Sherry DeVries, executive director of the Durham Arts Council, most remembers Mary for her passionate support of artists.

Mary helped found the Emerging Artists Program at the Durham Arts Council about 30 years ago. The program supported the creation of the Durham Children’s Choir and the work of jazz singer Nnenna Freelon, among hundreds of other recipients. Mary, a “dynamo” with “amazing energy,” attended their awards ceremony every year and sometimes closed the place down.

“I just loved her,” Sherry says. “She and [husband] Jim both were so enthusiastic about the arts and understood how important they were to making a community vibrant and livable.”

Mary also played a big part in the Durham Arts Council’s capital campaign to rehabilitate the old City Council building into the organization’s new headquarters and in the establishment of Duke’s art museum. The Durham Arts Council has thrived in its new home and has a second-floor gallery named in Mary’s honor. The Emerging Artists Program became a national model, and today the program also extends to surrounding counties. Mary, who is honored by a History Grove in Forest Hills, would be pleased to see her unwavering support for burgeoning artists continue.

She was very passionate about “the development of their talent,” Sherry says. 

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TIME OUT

Moments in Durham’s sports history

• One afternoon, at a local YMCA meeting of the Duke and North Carolina

College for Negroes chapters, a challenge was proposed: a secret basketball game between the NC College (which would later be renamed to North Carolina Central University) basketball team, and Duke University’s medical school basketball team. The challenge was accepted, at considerable risk, since social integration was illegal at the time. On March 12, 1944, the first-ever mixed-race game was held at NC College’s gym. NC College won with a final score of 88-44. The game was kept secret for 52 years until Scott Ellsworth published an article about it in The New York Times in 1996.

• Durham was named the 1942 Rose Bowl site because of U.S. fears

that Japan would attack the West Coast after Pearl Harbor’s bombing in December 1941. Duke lost to Oregon State, 20-16, on January 1, 1942. It remains the only time the game was not played in California.

• Frequently listed among the best sports movies of all time, the ‘88 film “Bull Durham” stars Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins and focuses on the story on a star pitcher and a veteran catcher playing for the Durham Bulls. The film was shot at the Historic Durham Athletic Park, where the real team played at the time, as well as at various houses and businesses around the city.

• Former head track and field coach and later chancellor of

North Carolina Central University, LeRoy T. Walker was the first African-American to coach a U.S. men’s Olympic track team (in 1974) and to serve as the United States Olympic Committee president (in 1992).

• Pro tennis player Arthur Ashe played at the city’s Algonquin Tennis Club, a former African-American social club and a community center that was on Fayetteville Street before it was demolished in the late ’60s.

PHOTO COURTESY THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION AT DURHAM COUNTY LIBRARY

HELPING THE TRAFFIC AND ART FLOW

Have you spotted those cool traffic box murals around town? Use this list to discover them all! (You can also sponsor a traffic box mural – email Stacey Poston at stacey.poston@durhamnc.gov if interested!)

Main/Morris – “Durham’s Super Hero” by Candy Carver Trinity/Foster/Washington – “Four Seasons, Three Rabbits” by Bethany Bash Corcoran/Chapel Hill – Durham Mural Crew* & Brenda Miller-Holmes Corcoran/Main – Durham Mural Crew & Brenda Miller-Holmes Costco at Broad/Northpoint – Durham Mural Crew & Brenda Miller-Holmes Life and Science at Murray – “Journey of the Imagination” by Daniel LeClaire Miami/Holloway – “Bull City, You Are Beautiful!” by Durham Mural Crew N. Buchanan and W. Club Blvd. – “It Takes a Village” by Durham Mural Crew NCCU at Lawson/Merrick – “Hayti: Honoring Elders, Uplifting Youth” by Durham Mural Crew & Brenda Miller-Holmes *The Durham Mural Crews consisted of: Jade Wilson, Jaiden Holden, Jane Tayyeb, Marshal Leitzsey, Maura Scroggs, Gregory Cross, Nyla Hoskins, Timya Kerr, Cailee Parker and Elise Watkins.

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• Go sketching in the galleries of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University on the third Saturday of each month.

Durham artist Tedd Anderson leads the program April 20, 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

• Bring the kiddos out to the Perkins Orchard farm stand for fresh produce and popsicles.

• Attend both a North Carolina Central University and a Duke football game this season.

• Learn about just a few of the many important moments in African-American history in Durham by reading “The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change and Basketball’s Lost Triumph,”

by Scott Ellsworth; “Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle,” by Jerry Gershenhorn; and “African Americans of Durham County” by Andre Vann.

(Bonus points for checking out the books at your local Durham County Library branch.)

• For more Durham history, take a look at our timeline on page 60.

• Watch the Season 3 premiere of “Stranger Things” – created

by Durham’s own Duffer Brothers – on Netflix July 4.

• Preservation Durham hosts its annual Home Tour April 27 and 28 from noon-4 p.m. each day. The tour will focus on residential architecture just before and immediately following World War II. • Watch the sunset on the roof of The Durham Hotel.

• “Adopt” a lemur at the Duke Lemur Center.

• Come listen to local bands play the Brightleaf Square summer concert series May 10-Sept. 6, and make sure to stop by the Durham Roots Farmers Market, which just moved to the Square this year, on Saturdays from 9 a.m.-noon beginning April 6.

• Pick up a Mural Durham Mural Finder at the Durham Visitor Info Center at 212 W. Main St. and see how many of the 26 murals you can spot around town! Take a photo and share with #MuralDurham. Bring your finder back to the Visitor Info Center when you have five photos to claim a Durham-branded prize! Find more murals in the living archive and learn more about bike/walking mural tours at muraldurham.com, and follow @mural_durham on Instagram.

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MOMENTS IN TIME 12. 18. 1820 Washington Duke was born

in what was then Orange County. The Dukes revolutionized cigarette manufacturing in 1884 with a gamble on the the untested Bonsack cigarette machine; the production speed gave the Dukes a vital competitive edge. Duke provided a substantial endowment to Trinity College to help lure it to Durham in 1882.

The college was later renamed in his honor in 1924 after his son, James Buchanan Duke, established The Duke Endowment. James Duke expanded his father’s tobacco business and, with his brother Ben, launched Southern Power Company in 1905, which grew into Duke Power.

4. 10. 1869 Durham was incorporated following the rise

in population surrounding the Durham railway station, which had been built on land donated by Dr. Bartlett Durham in 1849.

4. 17. 1881 For many years, Durham was part of Orange County, and as

Durham grew, it became an increasing disadvantage to have to travel to the County seat in Hillsborough for legal and business matters. On Feb. 28, 1881, legislation passed to make Durham a separate county, and on April 17, the governor proclaimed Durham County officially established.

giving “Durham” a place on the map. A larger post office building was later constructed downtown and served until 1934 when the present facility was completed.

4. 26. 1865 Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and Union General William T. Sherman met

at the Bennett farm, where Johnston signed the largest military surrender of the Civil War – involving almost 90,000 soldiers – effectively ending the fighting in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. The armies’ presence boosted Durham’s tobacco business by introducing the troops to the area’s supply. |

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He bought property at the corner of Fayetteville and Pettigrew streets. Four posts were anchored in the ground, surrounded at the top with boards covered with branches forming the roof. Those who came to worship brought boxes, chairs and homemade stools or sat on the ground.

As winter approached, the little band of worshippers and Rev. Markham built a log church. As the congregation grew and more pastors came, it was decided that a brick structure was needed. The cornerstone was laid by the masons in 1891, and the name was changed to St. Joseph Church.

St. Joseph’s AME Church formed the anchor for what would become known as Hayti, the epicenter of black life in Durham.

9. 1. 1892 In 1838, Brown’s Schoolhouse was founded

4. 26. 1853 The Durham’s Station Post Office opened,

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in Randolph County near the present-day town of Trinity. In 1841, North Carolina issued the school a charter to become Union Institute Academy. The Academy was renamed Normal College in 1851 and then Trinity College in 1859 because of the support from the Methodist Church. In 1892, Trinity College moved to Durham due largely to the generosity of Julian S. Carr and Washington Duke.

Credits: Photography courtesy the North Carolina Collection at Durham County Library Sources: Museum of Durham History and the Hayti Heritage Center

7. 4. 1901 A growing population of black residents

by the late 1800s warranted additional medical facilities, and black leaders called for a new hospital in which black doctors could practice and care for their own patients.

With the financial help of James and Benjamin Duke, Lincoln Hospital was founded on this date, with John Merrick serving as president of the hospital’s board and Dr. Aaron Moore as hospital superintendent. A nursing school was added in 1910, and a larger hospital facility was built in 1921.

12. 9. 1924 Trinity College becomes Duke University

the principal beneficiary of a new $40 million Duke Endowment and home of a planned complex of liberal arts and professional schools.

Immediately after the announcement, Durham citizens approved a substantial extension of the city limits to encompass the new university and surrounding areas, making Durham the fourth largest city in the state overnight.

2. 2. 1926 The Carolina Theatre opened 1908 Incorporated in February 1907 by nine prominent businessmen,

including R. B. Fitzgerald, J. A. Dodson, J. R. Hawkins, John Merrick, Aaron M. Moore, W.G. Pearson, James E. Shepard, G. W. Stephens and Stanford L. Warren, Mechanics and Farmers Bank opened for business at 112 W. Parrish St. in August 1908. The name honors the bank’s founders and original customers, who represented the trades, crafts and professions in which AfricanAmericans had achieved success and prominence.

10. 20. 1898 One of the most influential African-American businesses in United

3. 18. 1902 The Durham Tobacconists were founded

Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company was organized on this date with John Merrick as founder and Dr. Aaron A. Moore, D. T. Watson, James E. Shepard, P. W. Dawkins, E. A. Johnson and W. G. Pearson all part of the early organization.

North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association was incorporated in February 1899 and commenced business the following April.

professional baseball team.

With W.G. Bramham as their owner, the team played until the North Carolina league ended in July of that same year. In 1912, the team started anew as the Durham Bulls.

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1910 Founded by Dr. James E. Shepard,

and quickly became a cultural and social center for public functions and live entertainment. In 1929, the theater was transformed into a motion picture house until its renovation in 1988. Further renovations took place several years ago, which restored much of the interior as well as made many major replacements, like adding a new roof. It now showcases an auditorium that closely resembles its original 1926 appearance and can seat more than 1,000 guests.

the privately funded National Religious Training School and Chautauqua opened to students in July 1910. It was reorganized in 1915 as the National Training School and started training black teachers. In 1923, it gained funding from the General Assembly and became the N.C. College for Negroes in 1925, the nation’s first statesupported liberal arts college for African-American students.

Graduate courses were added beginning in 1939, and in 1969, the school became N.C. Central University.

5. 6. 1953 R. N. Harris was elected as Durham’s first African-American City Council member.

The voter turnout to elect Harris, who lost the race in 1949, was an “unprecedented show of liberality” that came “a few days after Durham’s 100th birthday.”

6. 23. 1957 The Royal Ice Cream Company had a doorway on the Dowd Street side with

a “White Only” sign and, on Roxboro Street, a sign marked “Colored Only,” with a partition separating the two sections inside. On this date, Rev. Douglas Moore of Asbury Temple Methodist Church and six others assembled at the church to plan a protest of this segregated practice, and then moved to Royal Ice Cream and sat in booths. When they refused to budge, the manager called the police, who charged them with trespassing. The next day, the protesters were found guilty and each fined $10 plus court costs. The case was appealed to Superior Court, and the trial by an all-white jury resulted in a guilty verdict of trespass for each defendant.

On further appeal, the state Supreme Court upheld the law regarding segregated facilities, and on July 15, 1958, the seven protesters paid fines totaling $433.25. Attorneys appealed the decision to the United States Supreme Court, which refused to hear the case. 

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three traditional industries (furniture, textile and tobacco), diversification was a focus for the state’s authorities. The presence of three major academic institutions in the Triangle was the cornerstone of the concept of a technologybased park. After a number of years of maturation for fundraising, property purchase and structural organization, the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina held its first meeting on this date.

The first company to open in RTP was Chemstrand Research Center Inc., in October 1959.

(Chemstrand changed to Monsanto in 1974.)

1971 Civil rights activist Ann Atwater and Ku Klux Klansman C. P. Ellis led two weeks of community meetings focusing on ways to facilitate school integration without violence. The effective collaboration of these unlikely co-chairs of the “Save Our Schools” effort caught national attention and was captured on television, in a documentary film and in the book, “The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South.”

6. 27. 1981 The city of Durham held its first Gay Pride Parade, entitled “Our Day Out.” The parade, which

to attend a meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. During the visit, he also spoke at Duke’s Page Auditorium. King had first visited Durham as a young pastor in 1956, when he spoke at Hillside High School as part of the Durham Business and Professional Chain’s “Trade Week.”

In 1960, King visited the Durham Woolworth’s, site of demonstrations the previous week, and then addressed a crowd of 1,200 at White Rock Baptist Church. In 1968, King cancelled an early April appearance in Durham, feeling he was needed more in Memphis, where he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

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was carried out without incident, proved a great way to get the LGBT community involved in the city after a string of hate crimes at a popular gay sunbathing and swimming location in Durham.

11. 13. 1964 Not long after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King Jr. came to Durham

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at the American Tobacco Campus from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The official sesquicentennial birthday party will be celebrated with entertaining, educational, thoughtprovoking and tasty activities for all ages.

The event is free.

3. 19. 2011 The Durham City Council declared this day “Marry Durham Day.”

11. 30. 2008 The Durham Performing Arts Center opened,

Residents were afforded the opportunity to show their love for the city by participating in a wedding ceremony, parade and reception.

transforming the arts scene in Durham and adding significantly to downtown revitalization.

4. 6. 1995 Durham Bulls Athletic Park opened for its inaugural season.

Opening Day was pushed back many times because of costs and construction issues, but on this day, 10,886 fans cheered the Bulls at the first game in their new stadium.

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1. 9. 1959 After the post-World War II decline of North Carolina’s

Since the beginning, City of Durham employees have always put serving Durham residents first. Not just in the changing face of Fire service, but also in every aspect of contributing to making Durham a great place to live, work and play. Join us as we celebrate our sesquicentennial throughout 2019.

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BEHIND THE SCENES 11 PEOPLE WHO ARE ALL ABOUT CELEBRATING DURHAM’S SESQUICENTENNIAL – THE DURHAM 150 CONVENING COMMITTEE – ANSWER THE QUESTION: WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES FOR THE NEXT 150 YEARS IN DURHAM?

Shelly Green

President & CEO, Discover Durham Co-chair of the Durham Sesquicentennial Convening Committee My hope for Durham is that it remains a place with a soul; where residents are fiercely passionate about their city even with all its imperfections. I hope our people are still bold, visionary and welcoming, and that we continue to embrace and find commonality in all our differences.

Patrick Mucklow

Executive Director, Museum of Durham History Co-chair of the Durham Sesquicentennial Convening Committee I hope there is a continued appreciation for the community spirit that is uniquely Durham and its rich history. I hope this leads to a greater understanding between neighbors, and that we value their individual stories.

value the wonderful opportunities that our school system provides.

This free public education is the stepping stone for success in life. I hope this tax-payer "gift of education" will be utilized to build a stronger, more creative and more cohesive Durham.

and passion for bringing original ideas, inventions and art to life.

And by making them sharable, benefiting the broadest groups possible, we’ll be known as a model of community that other places clamor to replicate.

Emily Egge

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My hope is that we use this anniversary as a catalyst to build – with intention – opportunities for all residents of Durham to share in our growing community's prosperity. Durham can only benefit as a whole when it includes the wisdom and energy of all of our communities.

Adjunct Professor, North Carolina Central University; Durham 150 Project Manager

Durham resident

Margaret Pentrack

Director of Content & PR, Discover Durham; Durham 150 Communications Committee Co-Chair

COMMITTEE MEMBERS (in alphabetical order)

Beverly B. Thompson

Public Affairs Director, City of Durham Durham 150 Convening Committee; Co-chair, Opening Celebration Committee

Durham today is vibrant, diverse, and electric.

I can’t imagine Durham slowing down anytime soon. My hope is for Durham to move forward with that same energy and opportunity for all.

Durham may be ever-changing, but its diversity and foundation is never changing.

Pilar Rocha-Goldberg

President & CEO, El Centro Hispano, Inc.

A hundred and fifty years from now, when the topics of homelessness, lack of affordable housing, crime or hunger come up, we’ll roll our collective eyes and happily say, “Oh, that was so a 150 years ago in Durham!”

To see a vibrant, live city with a full, diverse population that feels welcome, engaged and appreciated, valuing and respecting the history, but embracing the future with hope and enthusiasm.

Eddie Davis

Former City Council Member Public Historian for Durham's Sesquicentennial

President & CEO-Elect, Discover Durham Durham 150 Convening Committee; Co-chair, Opening Celebration Committee

As a former educator, it is my hope that the future will allow all area students to appreciate and

Over the next 150 years, I look for Durham to keep evolving into its best self: full of curiosity

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Susan Amey

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I hope that Durham continues to excel in its reputation of being an authentic and culturally diverse city while remaining a hub for innovators and entrepreneurs. I hope that while we continue to progress, we ensure that all residents and communities have access to opportunities that promote inclusion, growth and development.

Shade Shakur

Durham 150 Project Assistant If Durham is able to grow progressively in K-12 education, higher education, public health and entrepreneurship with collaboration and communication in all sectors, and with equity in all forms, then I truly believe Durham will be the leading place in the nation for quality living for all ages. This is my hope for Durham. Bonus points if we can do this without more traffic.

Alyssa Noble

Durham 150 Social Media Specialist I hope that Durham continues to expand in a way that preserves and honors its history. I hope the art community continues to thrive and that innovation, entrepreneurship and independent businesses remain a top priority. I hope Durham is always a city of creativity that fosters a close community.

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The Annual Black History: Artists’ Perspective Exhibition 2019 PHOTO BY ESTLIN HAISS

Through April 30 Hayti Heritage Center celebrates African-American

history through the work of local artists at this fourth annual exhibition curated by artist Willie Bigelow.

Twenty talented artists pay homage not only to culture and history, but also Durham’s sesquicentennial – the 150th anniversary of the city’s founding. Many of the pieces are for sale. hayti.org

The Durham 150 opening celebration will take place at American Tobacco Campus.

“Portraits of Durham” Exhibit Through May 2

Work by 64 local artists, from high school students to accomplished professionals, each sharing their interpretation of what defines Durham, is on view in the Semans and Allenton Galleries at the Durham Arts Council. durhamarts.org

Turning the Page: Durham’s Reading History Through June 30 The past is brought to life through pictures of Durham citizens reading at the library and visiting the bookmobile. This photographic exhibit at the Southwest Regional Library is built in collaboration between Durham County Library’s Art Committee and the North Carolina Collection. durhamcountylibrary.org

Durham Beer Tap Takeover April 11, 5-10 p.m.

The Glass Jug Beer Lab taps a series of beers that were brewed by

Durham breweries in partnership with other Durham food and beverage producers. The Glass Jug has partnered with Durham Distillery, Ponysaurus has partnered with Dashi and Fullsteam has partnered with Goorsha, just to name a few of the combinations you will find on draft and available by the pint or in a tasting flight of four small pours. glass-jug.com

Durham 150 Opening Celebration April 13, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

The official sesquicentennial birthday party will be held at the American Tobacco Campus. The event will kick off with Mayor Steve Schewel leading the official birthday recognition. There will be exhibits, local experts, artists and activities to explore, plus drawings for 66

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prizes. Confirmed acts include the African American Dance Ensemble, the Bouncing Bulldogs, Kidznotes and storyteller Willa Brigham. The event is free and open to the public. durham150.org

SummerStage April 13, 2-9 p.m.

Golden Belt celebrates Durham’s 150th birthday and National Record

Store Day with participants from Jamla, Cardigan, Raund Haus, Merge Records, N.C. Central University and Small Town Records. The event features a hiring fair, food trucks, music, art and brews from Hi-Wire. There are nearly 100 planned free events – from music and film to art, education and fitness events – scheduled for the inaugural SummerStage season, curated by Art of Cool Project co-founder Dr. Cicely Mitchell. The season runs through October.

Larger Than Life Science May 2, 4-7 p.m.

Launchbio hosts this networking event at the Chesterfield Building

monthly to bring together the city’s burgeoning life science and tech communities. The program for this month will explore the changes and developments made in the science community in the past 30 years, showing why Durham truly is the City of Medicine. Plus, there’s always ample time for networking and free beer from Durty Bull Brewing Company. launchbio.org/durham

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medical practice of the time? What was it like for Artelia Roney Duke to be a pregnant woman and mother? Come explore this part of Duke Homestead’s history in a spotlight on women’s stories. dukehomestead.org/special-events.php

The Bull City Benefit Gala June 1, 7-11 p.m.

Nonprofit organization The Good Turn hosts this fundraising gala at the Millenium Hotel, not only to celebrate Durham turning 150, but also to bring more exposure to local nonprofits that help the youth in the Durham community. The organizers are partnering with and donating to 100 Black Men of Triangle East, SEEDS and East Durham Children’s Initiative. Durham’s own radio personality from The Light 103.9, Steve Jake, hosts the evening, which will feature another Durhamite, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kevin Wilson Jr., as the speaker. bethegoodturn.org

ADF Pop-Up Performances June 13-July 20

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For the past 42 years, American Dance Festival has made Durham its home and an international hub for the modern dance world. As part of the 2019 performance season, ADF will activate public spaces throughout Durham with commissioned works by award-winning choreographer and North Carolina native, Mark Dendy, who will work with 10 ADF scholarship students to create site-adaptable choreography to perform throughout Durham. The materials will be adapted to take place in various sites, such as baseball games, malls, retirement homes, business centers, parks and beyond, all free and open to on-lookers. The students will perform in 10 to 15 pop-ups per week throughout 2019. americandancefestival.org

Taste 2019 June 26-30 Durham Magazine’s Taste food festival has a 150th theme. The celebration of local food and drink features two Grand Tastes where you can sample from 40+ culinary artists at the Durham Armory.

Friday night, come to a Prohibition jazz club in a secret location.

On Saturday night, take your tastebuds on an edible exploration of Southern food heritage. Expect a multi-course ethnic menu from Southern chefs, feasting tables, cocktails and wine, a historic overview and entertainment. tastetheevent.com

Festival for the Eno July 4 and July 6, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Since 1980, the Eno River Association has presented this festival, which draws thousands of people to the shaded banks at West Point on the Eno, to sing and dance to 60+ bands across five stages with great food, drink and crafts from 80+ artists, all while learning about natural resource conservation and raising funds for land protection in the Eno River basin. enofest.org  68

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Harvest and Hornworm Festival Aug. 24, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

The Carolina Theatre, Motorco Music Hall, Durham Armory, The Pinhook

and PSI Theater. aocfestival.com

Celebrating North Carolina’s farming culture and history, this event at Duke Oct. 5, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Homestead allows guests to explore The 18th annual festival will bring The Art of Cool Festival, now in its sixth year, celebrates the world of tobacco. Join costumed various styles of Black American music. thousands to Fayetteville Street to interpreters as they harvest, loop and celebrate the musical and cultural cure tobacco in the historical area. In the afternoon, experience the last heritage of Hayti – one of our city’s and state’s oldest Africantobacco auction in Durham, with seasoned veterans of the industry that American communities. The free festival starts with a parade on was once the lifeblood of Durham. dukehomestead.org/special-events.php Fayetteville Street followed by an Africana vendor market and all-day

Worship Under the Heavens Sept. 21, 5-9 p.m.

Nondenominational churches in Durham and surrounding cities join to bring the community together to worship at Durham Central Park.

Art of Cool Festival Sept. 27-30 A black American music festival that fuses forward-thinking jazz, alternative soul and mature hip-hop greats over the course of a culturefilled weekend. Celebrating its sixth year, the festival will showcase performances, panel discussions, local artisan vendors and food trucks at a variety of downtown venues, including the Durham Bulls Athletic Park,

Phoenix Fest

music on center stage from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. with a rotating roster of jazz, blues, reggae, R&B, gospel, African percussion and hip-hop performers. phoenixfestdurham.com

The Young Entrepreneurs’ Expo 2019 Oct. 12, 2-5 p.m.

Young entrepreneurs from around the community will convene at the Hayti Heritage Center to showcase their businesses, goods and services.

This event is meant to inspire youth to change their mindset regarding wealth, and how to obtain and maintain it; to entertain families; to educate the community; and to provide networking opportunities.

Durham 150 Closing Ceremony Nov. 2

Subscribe to Durham 150’s email list to get details about the ceremony as soon as they are released: info.discoverdurham.com/ durham-150-updates

Jump rope classes & camps for all ages

'Durham: A Self-Portrait' Film Screening Nov. 16, 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Ten years ago, this film documented the rise of our unique Southern city. Since then, Durham has experienced rapid growth in technology, medicine and its food scene.

But, as in most cities, Durham is also deeply tested by gentrification and poverty. In recognition of the city’s 150th anniversary, this screening at The Carolina Theatre shows an updated version of the film, featuring a new epilogue that speaks to today’s Durham.

Find more events all year long at durham150.org.

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n celebrating Durham’s sesquicentennial, there’s a lot of interesting history to reflect upon. But, as a city that’s always moving to that next step, we’ve got to plan ahead. Durham Magazine COO Rory Gillis and Executive Editor Amanda MacLaren invited Mayor Steve Schewel, Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce President Geoff Durham and Downtown Durham Inc. President/CEO Nicole Thompson to Counting House at 21c Museum Hotel to discuss where we’re at as a city, and where we go from here.

Responses have been edited for clarity.

DM Durham has been known as the City of Medicine. When the Rice Diet was a big thing, we were a city of diets. Now we are adding more tech and commerce jobs. It seems like that’s our next wave. How many tech jobs exist in Durham today and what does that number look like tomorrow?

GEOFF What company in Durham isn’t in IT in some form or

another, right? If you look at our four major industry clusters, yes, IT is one of those, as is life science and bio-med, as is advanced manufacturing as well as clean tech. But there is an IT in all of those.

So it’s really hard to specifically pare down a number because there’s a lot of cross-pollination there. Roughly I’d say about 15 to 20% of our companies would identify to be predominantly in the IT sector.

DM At what rate do you think that’s climbing? How fast do you think tech is growing?

NICOLE Well, we’re No. 4 region-wide in life sciences and bio,

according to Jones Lang LaSalle. There are quite a bit of tech, biotech and life science companies coming downtown, and our focus is to make sure that we still have the space available for them.

DM What other industries is Durham trying to attract?

GEOFF Continuing to grow our clean tech sector is a big deal. I think

continuing to build upon some of the success stories you’ve started to see in ag bio.

NICOLE Though it’s not a sector per se, Durham does have this special

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and the art community. There’s The Mothership, which is located in downtown, that’s very supportive of the art community, and we have a number of spaces for artists. Durham is a place where you can come and experience and experiment and fail, and that’s not such a bad thing. You learn from that and you pick yourself up, and there are communities that are around to support you.

GEOFF That entrepreneurship applies to our restaurateurs, our

brewers, our distillers. That creative culture that resides here. I think it’s shown through all the different types of sectors, in large companies and small companies.

DM Going back to tech, IT, life sciences for a second, what makes Durham competitive in those areas? What makes people want to bring their companies here?

GEOFF Don’t just think about it in terms of Durham, think of it

regionally. Three Tier-1 research institutions, [we have] a worldclass HBCU in N.C. Central. The 10 additional colleges and universities in total combine to produce 42,000 graduates each year.

NICOLE A really robust technical community through Durham Tech

and Wake Tech. There is that ability to either move yourself up or come in and get an associate degree or get training. And there’s a really robust workforce talent here.

DM Jumping off of that, there’s so much conversation, it seems to us from the outside, between industry and schools – Duke Energy is

trying to get programs for line workers and things like that; even our Durham Public Schools (DPS) that are trying to train students. How is DPS supporting all of these initiatives and workforce readiness?

GEOFF I think it’s absolutely critical to make sure there is an alignment

between the business community and Durham’s education system. We have to ... define clear career pathways to make sure that the variety of opportunities that we are providing for the high school graduate, for the technical school graduate, for the advanced degree graduate – they understand what level of commitment needs to be there. They have to understand that those jobs are sitting there waiting for them.

STEVE Think about the City of Medicine Academy, which is a fabulous

high school. You do have that kind of alignment with our health professions, but it’s really much bigger than that. There’s a whole lot of

Geoff Durham, Mayor Steve Schewel and Nicole Thompson sat down with members of our staff at Counting House in March to discuss Durham’s future.

thought being given to DPS and in our businesses and organizations like Made in Durham where we’re trying to connect our students up with the businesses that they can work in.

Durham has the highest wages of any county in the state, but 60% of the jobs in Durham are not held by people who live here. They drive in from Raleigh, they drive in from Johnston County, they drive in from Roxboro. And we want to make it so that our kids, our young people can get these jobs, and that depends on, as you all were discussing, our education system. DPS, but also Durham Tech and also our ability to align, as Geoff was saying, the needs of businesses with the training that they’re giving. The program that you talked about is a great example, where Duke Energy needs line workers, and so they worked with Durham Tech to establish a program to produce them.

We need a lot more of that.

DM What are the greatest accomplishments in Durham in the last year?

GEOFF For us, it’s the jobs. About 8,500 jobs came into Durham last

year. A lot of that is catalyzed by some of our economic development initiatives. But in total, 8,500 jobs, and $1.3 billion of private investment. What’s important about those numbers is that these aren’t just $200,000 a year science jobs or research and development

jobs. And because we’re fortunate enough to have a diverse economy, in many cases with life science or bio med or big pharma, they come with a logistics and warehousing component to them. So you don’t necessarily need to have an advanced degree. So when we land a big company, like most recently, AveXis bringing in an additional 200 job opportunities, a big piece of that is bringing along Durham Tech with us as a partner to make sure that the 60% [of those workers] who are in the warehouse or logistic jobs, they are teaching that curriculum. We put that into our conversations and fed that into our agreements.

If we can give our citizens and our students the leg up on that and the opportunities ahead of time, it helps put us at an advantage.

STEVE When I think about the accomplishments of the last year, I

think about a couple different things. We have really begun to think differently about providing more affordable housing where the city, especially, but the county as well, is beginning to really increase our affordable housing communities in a big way.

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which is a really important thing, too.

And we’re trying to think about all of our assets in that way. How are we providing equitable access to our assets?

I think about [how] this past year we’ve had our lowest crime rate we’ve had in many years.

Our property crime is the lowest this year in 23 years. Our violent crime is also significantly down. Along with the fact that Durham is a safer city every year is the fact that we’re building trust in our police officers, especially in our communities of color; you have to do both of those things at the same time. You can’t do one without the other.

The reforms that our police department has instituted, [and] in the city council as well, have been very critical.

Also I will mention one other thing: Our county commissioners aren’t here, but we’ve really gotten a great kickoff on universal pre-K, and the county commissioners have put a big chunk of money into universal pre-K, and they’re about to do it again. And I think that’s as important as anything we can do to ... we talk about the workforce development and starting early. That’s starting really early. We’ve got to give our kids that leg up. That’s a big commitment on the part of our county commissioners, which I applaud.

NICOLE We’re excited about some of the new Class A office spaces

coming on in order to ensure that we continue to have room for growth and expansion of those jobs. But it trickles down; we still have a very robust street level business. People are still coming to downtown for a number of different reasons. We have small festivals to our large [ones like] Moogfest and CenterFest and Art of Cool, which has now grown much larger, to small restaurants to regional restaurants. So I think downtown continues to show its vibrancy and its ability to pull from all sectors, all communities throughout the region.

STEVE The big issue for me when I think about economic development

is not, “Are we going to continue to grow, and are we going to be able to continue to attract these businesses?” Absolutely [we are, but] there are lots of issues associated with that. We need to be a city that has no barriers to town, so we need to make sure that the diversity that we have continues to grow, because in addition to the trained talent, people want diversity, and so [we need to maintain] Durham’s incredible, welcoming, embracing attitude toward [all]. The other thing is, when we think about our economy … all of us sitting here around this little table are sharing in Durham’s newfound prosperity, but there are 20% of our residents, predominantly people of color, who aren’t sharing in this prosperity. A lot of the things we’ve been talking about in terms of education and connecting people to jobs and so forth, have to do with being able to

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bring people into this newfound prosperity, and that’s our issue.

I know we’re going to continue to grow and prosper, but can everybody share?

DM Let’s go forward into the future, off of that statement. How do we ensure that we keep Durham – Mayor Schewel, you mentioned it in your State of the City address – a Durham for all?

NICOLE What is important to DDI and to me would be having

that conversation and start talking about equity and the ownership piece, because ultimately, when you start talking about the future of a community, you can be invited to the table a number of different ways.

But if you have an ownership, then you’re expected to be at the table and you’re expected to provide some input. I would say that a “Durham for all” is that everyone has that ability to come in and find their way to have an ownership in the community. Having that ownership of the property, residential, commercial, whatever it would look like.

STEVE I agree with that. To me there are a couple of things when I

think of, “What can we do to change the trajectory we are on so that we can include everybody?” One thing [I think of is], “How are we going to do economic development differently?” So, these guys, you know, they used to come to city council for incentives for big projects.

Back then the idea was, “How are we gonna get people to come downtown?” Good job, y’all. [laughter] STEVE Now we have to think about, what do we want to do

differently? That has to be something that’s jointly developed with DDI, with the Chamber, with the city of Durham, with the county and other economic development partners to figure out what our strategy is now. Our Office of Economic and Workforce Development is working now to figure out what that strategy ought to be. Some of the things that we’ll include for sure are some of the things we talked about and connecting people differently, but also, in reference to what Nicole said, working to figure out how we can help our local entrepreneurs, especially entrepreneurs of color and women to be able to build businesses.That will include things [like] technical support and marketing and accounting and finance, but also access to capital, both debt and equity.

We discussed at our recent City Council budget retreat, beginning to work to create such a fund that would be able to provide debt [capital] and equity to minority and women business owners. It’s going to take a while to do it, but that’s fine. 

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The other thing I think there’s a lot of concern about is, now that we’ve had this success downtown, what is downtown going to be?

Are downtown and the near-downtown neighborhoods going to be inclusive? Are we going to be just creating a downtown where you have to be affluent to live here, where people of color who’ve lived in the neardowntown neighborhoods for years, can no longer afford to live there?

Or are we going to try to insert ourselves as a community in a way that changes that trajectory? That’s where affordable housing comes in. We have got to do a better job in creating affordable housing so we can create a different future for our community.

I proposed a $95 million bond issue be put on the ballot, all for affordable housing, in November. This will leverage over half a billion dollars of affordable housing construction. It will create lots of jobs … but we also are creating a different downtown, a downtown that’s inclusive, one that, if you are a person who’s not affluent, you can still live here and you can still take advantage of DPAC. You could still take advantage of the great jobs that we have downtown.

DM Is there anything in place now to support minority business owners specifically in downtown?

NICOLE What we still have in downtown are those

committed property owners who are willing to take the time [to wait for diverse tenants]. I think that is why we have such a good mix in downtown. We are leading with local as opposed to going out and getting the national.

Taking that a step further, with some of the property developers and owners who we are talking to, there is a willingness to be a little flexible so that there is the ability to bring in minority and small and woman-owned businesses. It happened in DDI’s building. Self-Help was very intentional, and we were able to identify two AfricanAmerican, female owned-businesses that will locate in two spaces on the plaza at the center of downtown hopefully in the summer. It’s [about] being intentional. Any development project takes time, but we are lucky that we have patient, private sector partners who are willing to work with us through that and reach out and say, “I’ve got space. I know this is really important to you, Chamber, DDI and the City. I want to help out. How can I help out?” And those conversations are occurring.

GEOFF That goes back to your points earlier. It’s wealth building within

[everyone agrees it’s going to grow] STEVE We only have two choices. We’re going to have density or we’re

going to have sprawl. And if we want to have the kind of growth that we want, we need to be willing to have more density now.

One of the things we’re going to be doing if the bond issue passes, is provide a funding tool for people, especially low-income people, who want to build accessory dwelling units on their property, which can be a way in which they can continue to hold onto their home over a long period of time because it gives them income. We’ll provide a financing tool for them to be able to do that.

Expanding housing choices is controversial because 74% of the residences in Durham are single family. I live in Watts-Hillandale, and it’s important for those people in those single family neighborhoods like mine to be able to, you know, still have the wonderful neighborhoods that they’re used to. But we also have thousands of people moving through here all the time. And we have to make room for them. We can’t privilege existing residents to the extent that we’re locking other people out. If we don’t provide more supply, that’s not going to happen. That will also, of course, improve affordability throughout the city because if people can buy in WattsHillandale, it makes it less likely that they’re going to be competing with somebody else in East Durham and driving the price of that house up.

The average person who moves to Durham has an income of about $10,000 more than that than the average person who lives here now. That’s what’s driving gentrification. They’re able to buy and out-compete people here. It’s driving the price of housing up, and if we don’t provide more supply, that dynamic is only going to continue to get worse.

NICOLE With expanding housing choices, now I can

come into a community, and if I don’t want to live in an apartment, I could find a small, 1,000-square foot duplex, because I want that feeling. Right now we don’t have that. It’s either multi-family or single family. If we are truly a city that is growing, we have got to have other options.

GEOFF If you can think about the single parent with a school-aged

DM Do you think we’re going to continue to our trajectory of 20 or so

kid and maybe one in day care, is it reasonable to expect that person would want to drive into the most densely populated part of the entire county, in the midst of traffic with a couple of kids in tow, go through a parking deck, cycle, park, walk 50 yards into a hallway?

people a day moving to Durham? Do you think it’s going to grow?

STEVE Bringing up another important thing, too, which is transit. 

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DM Do you believe that [the light rail plan] can still happen?

STEVE This is a plan that’s at least a decade in the making. We’re either

make sure that everybody gets an opportunity to take advantage of a growing economy? I think that’s, that’s the critical piece here.

going to have transit in this region or the quality of life is going to be greatly diminished. If we’re serious about improving our quality of life, serious about fighting climate change, if we’re serious about providing affordable transportation to people throughout our region for these good jobs, we’ve got to have transit. Right now, the Durham-Orange light rail is hanging fire right now, and we’ll see. The federal money is waiting.

And so is the state money. We are at the top of the line for the federal money, $1.25 billion and $190 million in state money already allocated.

They’re both sitting there for us – a billion-and-a-half dollars. If we lose this opportunity, getting to the top of that line again, it’s going to be very, very hard. And it will be a tragedy.

If it doesn’t happen, we’ve got to pick ourselves up and figure out how we’re going to build a transit system in this region.

NICOLE Those two big things that we led with, … there was a rightness

GEOFF Transit matters to the business community, it matters to their

have our sights set high enough for 2023?

workers, it matters to their road. It matters to folks who would be considering relocating to the Triangle. It’s a very important piece of the broader economic development strategy.

NICOLE We’ve always been a supporter of light rail and having a system

that would connect points within Durham, within Durham to Chapel Hill, then ultimately in Raleigh. I think it’s imperative for the entire region to be successful. We have pockets of economic development where we need to get people there either because of jobs or because of retail opportunities or just because we’re in the region. I don’t know why I’d want to leave Durham, but we know that people want to come in to Durham. Without a doubt it is vital for us. A lot of future development may hinge on what that looks like.

DM Think about American Tobacco, think about DPAC ... what do you believe is the next big idea, the next big game changer for Durham?

STEVE I don’t think it’s one single big project anymore. I think that those

days are over. It’s not to say we will never do any one big building project that’s important. I don’t think what we’re going to see as our next great achievement is one big brick-and-mortar. I think the way we’re going to be able to judge ourselves and how we did in the next 10 years is, are we able to create shared prosperity? Are we able to bring everybody into our economic mainstream?

GEOFF DPAC, the baseball park that led to the American Tobacco

development, those were catalyst-type products that took somebody swinging big, being very ambitious. It was a different time. Economic development’s way more nuanced and where yes, the catalyst stuff is great, how we grow next is critical. The market recognizes that you can come and make money in Durham. Durham totally fits into the Triangle now. It’s no longer really functioning like a tertiary market.

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for it to occur, but it took the buy in of a number of people in the city and the county to make it happen. That’s what makes Durham so unique, that people come here, whether it’s a small entrepreneur or a big developer who wants to buy the Durham Bulls and move them out of downtown and finds out, nope, this is the place for them, and he grows from there. I would agree that there’s not going to be one thing, but I think we need to be ready for whatever those things are as a community.

DM Changing course here, the superintendent has a 2023 plan of improving our kids’ grade-level proficiency rate to 60%. And it’s a dramatic improvement, especially with our Latino population. But as far as the economic development plan for Durham, are our public schools still the biggest obstacle that we have to overcome? Beyond that, do we STEVE My kids went to DPS, K-12. Both of them went to E.K. Powe

Elementary, one of them went to Durham School of the Arts (DSA) and

the other one went to Brogden and Riverside. There are certainly things we need to do to improve. Some of it’s at the state level. Durham does a great job of supplementing our teacher’s salaries. But as long as North Carolina’s teacher salaries are languishing, we’re going to have teacher turnover. As long as you’ve got teacher turnover, that’s your biggest challenge to improving our schools.

I also think that we have a challenge in that people don’t understand that their kids can get a great education at DPS. They’ve heard something bad about the schools, or they’ve looked at a certain school’s report card, and those school report cards are totally correlated with poverty. The poorer a school is, guess what? The worse their report card is. We know that, it’s not a secret. Durham has lots of kids from poor families who are in our schools. I have been trying to challenge our young families to look at DPS, give it a shot. Don’t just say, I’m sending my kids to private school or a charter. There is so much DPS has to offer.

One of the things that I’ve offered to do, and our county commissioners, City Council members and school board members who have or have had kids in DPS, we’ve now offered to go and visit any group of people that get five families together who [are] thinking about where you’re sending your kids to school. We will visit with you and talk to you about our experience in DPS, and what information that you might need and where to get it. I believe that we have great public schools that are getting a bad rap.

GEOFF Well, I’ll join you. I’ve got a daughter at DSA and another

daughter at [Jordan High School]. So, I’d be happy to join you all.

STEVE Thank you, Geoff, I’m going to take you up on that.

GEOFF I think it’s sort of an inherent understanding and it is a, “Come

on in, the water’s fine” piece where some of these folks are living

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in Durham, and maybe aren’t aware of these schools. Superintendent [Dr. Pascal Mubenga] has been fantastic. We asked him what specifically, “What can we do?” What he said is, “Help me create a foundation.” I’m going to defer to him as the expert. If he said that’s what he needs, that’s what we’re going to help him do.

STEVE And the fact that you have

community leaders like Geoff with their kids in public schools makes a huge difference.

People need to see that.

DM Finally, we just want to ask what you hope your impact will be on Durham’s future.

What is your wish for Durham’s future?

GEOFF I’d like to continue to grow Durham

to the benefit of all, with the inclusion of all.

I think we recognize that trying to figure out what that looks like is the tricky part. But the good news is that we have willing partners.

The important part for me is to preserve the culture in the time of growth.

NICOLE Whatt I would hope [is] that at the

end of the day, when we talk about minority participation, it is truly full participation. That communities of color, minority businesses, minority people, that we are at the table, and not out of some courtesy. But because we belong at the table, because we have a very important role that we are playing, and therefore the conversation could not happen unless we’re at the table. I think it would be amazing to get to that point. And I know we have to start somewhere, and I’m glad that we are having the conversation, but to be a part of that conversation – and I think it gets back to my passion of the equity of ownership piece – you are at the table because development conversations, growth conversations, success conversations cannot happen [without you] because of what you and your ownership and your belief [brings] in that community.

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opportunity to build an attraction that would increase ridership and bring vitality to the neighborhood.

Lakewood Amusement Park opened in 1902, and for 30 years, served as a place to gather for picnics, play arcade games and share a soda with neighbors. It featured a bowling lane, casino, swimming pool, carousel and even a wooden roller coaster. Today, Lakewood’s residents have put their spin on century-old homes, and its commercial district is once again being re-envisioned as a new destination for Durham’s growing community.

Myers Sugg has been a resident of Lakewood’s Historic District for about 20 years. He and husband Patrick Wooten purchased their 1916 home on James Street in 1998. Before that, the home had been exclusively owned and occupied by the family that built it: “Charles Myrick and his siblings built the home themselves, and then his daughter, Frances, lived there until we bought it,” Myers says. The home was constructed with bricks salvaged from a tobacco warehouse, and its craftsman details have stood the test of

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Myers and Patrick chose to embrace that character in the home, making few changes other than enclosing the porch to create a den.

“Another development phase took place in the 1950s and ’60s, so there are a variety of home types and sizes here to suit all kinds of people,” Myers says. He notes access to Duke University, the local YMCA and proximity to highways as some of the more practical amenities, but says the real beauty of life in Lakewood is its people.

“It’s wonderful that there are folks who walk the neighborhood

The Charles & Harriet Myrick house had a single-family ownership from the time it was built to Myers’ purchase in 1998, so many details were extremely well-preserved, like the living room’s dark wood interior shutters.

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Myers and Patrick enjoy a sunny afternoon on their spacious front porch with their pup, Lila.

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and will stop and say hello – in some instances, we will see a familiar face we hadn’t seen in years, and of course we get to meet so many new and interesting people. And the shops in the area are improving all the time.”

The neighborhood, says Martin Curtis, who has lived next door to Myers and Patrick since 2012, “is definitely still in transition.” A three-month search led to this home that Martin, his wife, Caitlin, and their nearly 4-month-old son, John Martin, now share. Like Myers and Patrick’s home, it was built in 1916, though the Curtis home has had a considerable number of renovations and additions.

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“We redid the kitchen, and the previous owners added a large garage extension,” Martin says. This was a huge draw: “Garages are really rare in homes this age.”

The family enjoys the connectivity provided by life in Lakewood. Caitlin, a nurse at Duke University Hospital, especially appreciates being able to walk or bike to work. After living on the West Coast, she says that Durham’s small city vibe is unique. “I love the mix of people, the range of home styles and the neighbors,” she says. “We have all of the amenities and resources of a much bigger city, but it’s still so accessible and friendly.”

Martin adds, “We love the food scene, too.” Their current favorites include The Boot, Cocoa Cinnamon and Thai Cafe.

“And we can’t wait for [the new] True Flavors to open,” he adds. On nice days, the Curtis family can often be found strolling through Sarah P. Duke Gardens or taking in an exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

Maggie Smith, owner of Pine State Flowers, moved into her shop on Chapel Hill Road in April 2014. “There were a lot of empty storefronts along this road then,” she says. “Seeing more businesses move in is great.”

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The lofted office above the centrally located dining room makes it easy for Martin to work from home.

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When Jack, 1, was first born, he often accompanied Maggie to work.

He spent a lot of time looking up at floral arrangements from his vantage point on her workbench.

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seasonal flowers. “We prioritize farmers – I think that’s an ethos Durham has embraced.”

In growing her business, Maggie has also restored a building that had been in disrepair for years. “It’s architecturally beautiful, and we were able to reuse a lot of materials.” Originally the home of the Rolls family, who were florists for the Duke family, the small Tudor was built in the 1930s and remained open as a flower shop until the 1970s. “The real strength of Durham is definitely small businesses,” Maggie says. “So many people come in here and tell me they have memories of coming to the flower shop with their parents, or that their first job as a kid was delivering flowers.”

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Formerly the executive director for The Scrap Exchange, she recently began a new role as program director for the entire Reuse Arts District, a planned redevelopment of the northern part of the shopping center, which will transform the area into a “multi-faceted cultural, environmental, historical, recreational and communitybased destination,” according to The Scrap Exchange website. “We have 12.5 acres of commercial space, are on the bus line, have access to Duke, downtown and plenty of parking,” Ann says. “And lots of really great neighbors.”

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Ann loves that the creative center’s home in Lakewood has a history as a gathering place: “It has always been a place to experience community in Durham. Nothing aligns more with our mission than that.”

Next door, Rhythms Live Music Hall opened in January. It began as an idea many years ago, but the search for the right venue was a difficult one. “I needed a lot to make the concept viable, and when the space opportunity at Lakewood came, I couldn’t believe it,” says founder Victor Graham. Though not originally from Durham, Victor has lived here for more than 30 years; it’s home to him, and he feels Lakewood has embraced him with open arms. “I feel like a partner in the revitalization plan for this area, rather than a tenant in a building,” he says,

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Myers believes that, now more than ever, Lakewood is a wonderful place to be. “We have great proximity to downtown, and the commercial improvements are continuing,” he says. “I always encourage folks to come check out the neighborhood, introduce yourself and consider joining us in investing in the community. It really is a special one.”

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HOT SHOT: ZACH MAURIDES

The Teamworks founder draws from an athletic mindset when it comes to managing his company

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AKE A WALK through the newly renovated Teamworks headquarters on the corner of Parrish and Church streets.

Start, as you might expect, in the lobby.

Move down the bright hall, past a workspace called the “bullpen,” and past a line of meeting spaces labeled “locker rooms.” Turn left toward the dining room, and you’ll pass a wall of football helmets signed by teams, some NFL, some college, all clients.

Continue straight, and you’ll come to the “stadium,” a room with bleacher seating and an AstroTurf floor, where team leaders – called coaches rather than managers – can address their teams.

If you keep moving through the warren-like building, you pass “batting cages,” “the pitch,” and “the dugout,” eventually winding back to the lobby, where you find “the

president’s box,” a conference room, and Teamworks founder Zach Maurides, who is sitting in the room contemplating how to make it all better.

Maurides built Teamworks from a bare-bones class project into a multimilliondollar software company.

It employs more than 100 people; works with more than a quarter of teams from the four major professional leagues; helps more than 2,500 teams, leagues and organizations efficiently manage their operations; and helped the NCAA run March Madness.

But, Maurides isn’t satisfied.

During a conversation in that president’s box in early February, Maurides, the CEO, offered thorough and complex answers to a visitor’s questions, hinting at a company ethos for improvement, and mirroring Teamworks’ intricate, lively and state-of-the-art headquarters.

“I think what keeps me up at night,” Maurides said, is wondering, “Are we as efficiently as possible

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deploying our resources?

Because, you don’t want to be wasteful. Are we building the right things? Are we being thoughtful?

Or are we having to go back and refactor something because we didn’t do the research.”

He developed the first iteration of Teamworks’ technology in 2004 during a software class at Duke, where he played on the football team.

Create software that improves your own life, the professor charged.

Maurides knew just what to pick.

“I’d say there were probably 12 or 13 people and departments,” in the football program, who “were trying to work with me on a regular basis,” he said, including

Zach Maurides is the chief executive of Teamworks, which helps sports teams manage logistics.

coaches, trainers, a nutritionist, a sports psychologist, academic advisors, tutors and media advisors. But, “none of them were conferring with one another,” he said.

They were all “trying to get a piece of my calendar,” but “they would all go about it in different ways. And so, often I’d end up double booked,” he said, or caught between appointments without enough time to travel from one to the other. Which means he’d be late, and his coaches would make him run stairs as punishment.

“So, you know, I was frustrated by that.”

When he began to develop the software to address this frustration, he thought it would be easy: What if the staff kept all its notes in one place? What if each person demanding his time had access to his calendar?

But, as he progressed, some of the challenges raised questions he hadn’t considered.

“As you start to think through it, it’s like, ‘Well, there’s data security, and then the person in academics should probably be able to see my class schedule and potentially my grades, but he shouldn’t be able to see my financial information or my health information.”

It’s a key lesson in entrepreneurism.

“When you build your first product,” he said, “if you’re lucky, you get enough of it

right that you get some people using it, and then immediately you just have to become good listeners.”

He continued: “I think where a lot of startups go wrong is they say, ‘We’re just going to learn enough to do what we have to do.’ But, we realized we had to become experts,” especially around matters like security.

WHEN YOU BUILD YOUR FIRST PRODUCT, IF YOU’RE LUCKY, YOU GET ENOUGH OF IT RIGHT THAT YOU GET SOME PEOPLE USING IT. AND THEN IMMEDIATELY YOU JUST HAVE TO BECOME GOOD LISTENERS.

“Early on, when we’re just four guys in a garage, there’s a certain level of paranoia about doing business with you,” Maurides said. He would be asked, “How is the data encrypted in transit and at rest, and what type of encryption are you using?”

He continued: “It’s not enough that we make our products safe and secure. I needed to know more than the IT guy who was grilling us.

And anytime somebody asks you a question you haven’t heard before, you have to be like, ‘I want to know the core of it, not just what’s the right answer so I can regurgitate it.’

“I’m a big believer that as your startup grows, you get to these problems that you have to fight through in order to continue to exist. And if you just run past them, they come back to haunt you.”

It is a matter of marrying the details with the larger ideas, he said. It’s not just about a calendar function that makes a task easier; it’s about empowering athletes.

It’s not only about hiring former athletes; it’s about transitioning them into the business world and utilizing the same skills and work ethic that they learned through sweat and pain on the field, court and pitch.

Even the details themselves have higher function. All these sports names for meeting rooms, and calling managers coaches – it’s not just for show, Maurides said.

“You take a different approach when you coach somebody versus when you manage somebody. It’s more like, ‘I’m here to make you great.’ That’s the mindset that managers should have.

We want this to be a place of growth. We want this to be a place where we’re not just putting fun team labels on these roles, but we’re trying to recreate as much as possible the experience of being on an athletic team, where we all have the same goals and are trying to get better.

“I think you get much better results, and people are happier.”

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MEET DURHAM’S NEWEST DEVELOPER

The k W Ma eys to 11 Lenno in Street 2 first x & Grae , re ’s acqu al estate isitio n

“In Durham, we talk a lot about the importance of being purpose-driven and intentional. Being intentional about how we grow our community allows us to tell the Durham story through our buildings and the people who activate those spaces. It also allows us to preserve Durham’s culture while still growing.

When approached intentionally, real estate development can be good for the community and good for business.”

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ish Evans is the founder and president of Lennox and Grae, Inc., a real estate development firm. The company closed its first commercial acquisition, 112 W Main Street in the historic district of downtown Durham, in February.

The story of how Nish found her niche in development and the project’s connection to black entrepreneurship in Durham is one worth sharing. Last fall, after leading a conversation on the importance of “buying back the block,” a mutual friend introduced Nish to Elaine Curry and Dawn Paige, managing partners of Empress Development, LLC. Elaine and Dawn purchased the two-story, 9,256 square foot building from Erwin and Meredythe Holmes in 2013, then took the next two years to complete renovations and secure new tenants: Luna Rotisserie & Empanadas, Morningstar Law Group and Empower Dance Studio.

While a $2.5 million deal tied to Black Wall Street history wasn’t exactly the kickoff project Nish expected for her new firm’s launch, she gravitated towards the deal for two reasons. First, she felt like an acquisition was a good way to set the stage for future

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I HOPE THIS DEAL INSPIRES OTHERS TO ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES AND LEVERAGE PARTNERSHIPS TO CREATE THE SPACES THEY WANT TO SEE. nd n n o x as h ’s e L y r Elle Grae, Ni Zoelen , were the d sons ion behin t i n s p i r ar e a t i o n a n d the c of Lennox n a m i n gG r a e , I n c . and

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deals. “Initially, I wanted to close an acquisition because I thought,

Nish credits the deal’s success to instincts, a strong team of advisors and

who is going to trust a rookie with their money? I figured that if I

asking good questions. “I hope this deal inspires others to roll up their

could bring prospective investors a cash flowing deal, I’d grab their

sleeves and leverage partnerships to create the spaces they want to see.

attention and establish a solid start for the firm.”

I am honored to be a third-generation black owner of this property, and equally proud that I’m building a legacy for my superheroes, Ellery Lennox

The property’s location and unique history also served as a constant

(6) and Zoelen Grae (4).” Transferring ownership of the property from one

source of inspiration. “I spent countless hours at the State Archives

company led by black women to another also makes this deal special.

in downtown Raleigh. I was there on a volunteer assignment, but that

“It’s rare to find a seller who is equal parts business and encouragement.

quickly turned into wanting to learn more about the thriving black

I lucked up in finding both in my first deal.”

businesses of the area in the early 1900s.” Her takeaway? That if those who came before her could move to Durham with pennies to

What’s next for Lennox and Grae, and Nish? “I’ve spent the last few

start a barber shop, grocery store, or bank, she had “no excuse for

weeks getting used to my new role as a landlord and integrating this new

not getting this deal across the finish line.”

work into my life. I’m deal-driven, so I’ve also started to review a few new opportunities in the pipeline. I know what it feels like to put everything on the line and to wake up each morning with the excitement to do it again!”

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BIZBRIEFS The Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce hired Timothy Downs as its vice president of economic development in late January. Timothy previously served as executive director on the Craven 100 Alliance, Craven County first publicprivate economic development partnership, and as a city attorney in Dayton, Ohio.

The Durham and New York-based advertising agency McKinney promoted Gretchen Walsh to the newly created role of managing director of its Durham office. Gretchen has been with the firm since 2004 and has worked with highprofile clients such as eBay, HP, MTV and Nasdaq.

Stirling Ultracold, a leading biotech manufacturer of ultra-low temperature freezers, hired Tommy McNeill as its regional sales director for the Southeast in February. Tommy graduated from North Carolina Central University School of Business and has worked for companies such as MediPurpose, TIDI Products and Pfizer.

NEW ON THE SCENE

Organic energy drink MATI introduced three new, zero-calorie flavors – raspberry mint, lemon ginger and grapefruit – in late January.

TALENT POOL

Tevano Green and Paul Mojica launched UnBound, a startup that seeks to create coworking areas in existing businesses, like breweries, that have unutilized space. Durty Bull Brewing Company is among the area businesses taking part.

Salon Del Sol opened a location at the Shops at Erwin Mill in January.

In March, Zaloni, a data management software, moved its corporate headquarters to The Frontier in Research Triangle Park. Zaloni also hired three new executives: Brent Fox as vice president of customer success, Stacey Robinson as vice president of engineering and Sean Ward as chief revenue officer.

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In a recent study published in the PLOS One Scientific Journal, researchers for Duke Health say that targeted blood tests could show if a patient has narrowed or blocked arteries, key risk factors for heart disease.

Rapid Results Fitness, owned by Betsy Collie, pictured right, celebrated its 11th anniversary this year.

Duke University researchers have discovered an antilaser that efficiently absorbs electromagnetic waves. The research first appeared online in the Advanced Optical Materials journal.

FAREWELLS

Tap the Triangle, a Durhambased company that provided

Matt Gladdek, Durham Downtown Inc.’s director of policy and planning and its director of government affairs, left the group in January. He is now the executive director of the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership’s board of directors.

Myra Wooten formerly the director of marketing and communications at the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce, left the organization in February to join Fidelity Investments.

CITY NEWS

Downtown Durham Inc. released a study on business diversity in Downtown Durham, reporting that less than 4% of all downtown businesses were minority-owned and that the 2008 recession disproportionately hurt minority-owned businesses.

The organization also laid out its recommendations to bridge the gap between white- and

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MOVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

In February, the real estate company Peak, Swirles & Cavallito Properties moved to an office on 3608 Shannon Rd. The coworking space company WeWork plans to expand its downtown presence this summer by adding space in the Durham Innovation District this summer. The new location, at 300 Morris St., will span three floors and have 80,000 square feet in total.

Leyline Renewable Energy’s Windstar Fund I, L.P., has raised $12.5 million to accelerate projects in early to mid-stage development.

Eleven North Carolina bioscience companies have raised nearly $26.3 million in follow-on funding after

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receiving loans from the N.C. Biotechnology Center.

Ribometrix, which treats diseases by developing smallmolecule therapeutics, raised about $15 million in venture capital. Spyryx Biosciences, which works on treatment for severe pulmonary diseases, raised nearly $6 million.

Additionally, Akros Medical, InnAVasc Medical and Redbud Labs each raised up to $500,000.

The consultant company IQVIA announced the launch of IQVIA Biotech, a new division dedicated to creating clinical and commercial solutions for small biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

GlaxoSmithKline finalized a $4 billion deal to develop an immunotherapy combating cancer in February. The company, which recently acquired focused drug firm Tesaro, will partner with Germany-based Merck KGaA on developing and commercializing potential treatments for difficult-to-treat cancers.

Disruptive Enterprises, a health and wellness company, has raised $7.75 million from One Better Ventures LLC. The money will go to one of the company’s subsidiaries, LowCarb High-Fat LLC, to innovate new products, build distribution and accelerate digital marketing.

RTP-based SmartSky Networks, an in-flight internet provider, has raised $104 million in debt commitments and private equity. The company, which also has offices in Charlotte and Virginia, will use the fund for the rollout of its nationwide airto-ground network.

Biocryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. received a $100 million loan from MidCap Financial Trust in February. The Durham-based drug development company will use the loan toward the development of a drug to prevent angioedema, a severe

allergic reaction that causes swelling under the skin.

Cultivate, a real estate marketing company, has raised $350,000 in equity. The Durham-based firm originally focused on music marketing, but switched to real estate at the beginning of 2018.

In February, the pharma startup Renovion raised nearly $500,000. Founded in 2015, the company aims to create the first drug approved for patients who have undergone a transplant of both lungs.

Formlabs, a 3D printing technology developer and manufacturer, has signed a five-year lease for the first two floors of the historical 211 Rigsbee Avenue Building in downtown Durham.

The Venable Center’s new

STEM in the Park, an RTP initiative focused on providing children opportunities to explore and pursue STEM careers, hosted its first Engineering and Math Fest at The Frontier 800 building in February. One hundred and forty-six students from seven different schools, including Neal Middle School, participated in four sessions: Think, Meet, Imagine and Build. Twelve organizations, including IBM, Biogen and Citrix, helped sponsor the event.

The United States Housing Department awarded $1.2 million in grants to The City of Durham Community Development Department for 10 projects dedicated to ending homelessness. The projects include four from Housing for New Hope – Andover Apartments, Streets to Home Projects I and II, William Square Apartments, and Rapid Rehousing Projects I and III; North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness’ NC Homeless Management Information Network project, Urban Ministries of Durham’s Fresh Start project, Durham Housing Authority’s Home Again project and Alliance Behavioral Health Care’s DASH project.

owners have announced plans to build an eight-story building called The Roxboro amid its collection of former tobacco buildings. The plans for the new building, to be located on East Pettigrew Street, include 200,000 square feet of office and retail space as well as 200 apartments.

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Shares in technology company Lenovo have climbed by 11% as the quarterly revenue reaches a four-year high. The company operates a global headquarters in Morrisville as well as Beijing.

Durham Board of County Commissioners, says the company’s expansion will translate into 200 new jobs, and some of them will have starting salaries at $73,000.

Several community-based workspaces for scientists have popped up around the area recently, including Hangar6, which includes access to prototyping equipment and training, and Splat Space, known previously as Durham Makerspace, for science and technology innovation.

Triangle-based technology nonprofit MCNC has begun offering access to a 110-mile fiber optic ring across the area, meaning that internet service providers can now offer a stronger connection to businesses and individuals.

AveXis, a growing biotech company in RTP, plans to invest $60 million over the next two years to expand its RTP presence and bring more jobs to the Triangle. Wendy Jacobs, chairwoman of the

MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS, PARTNERSHIPS

North Carolina bioscience companies collectively raised $962 million in the quarter, with three Durham-based companies accounting for more than three-

quarters of the total through acquisitions. HyperBranch Medical Technology was acquired by Stryker for $220 million in October, Avista Pharma Solutions was acquired

by Cambrex for $252 million in November and BioAgilytix Labs was acquired by Cobepa for $280 million in December.

Teamworks, the leading athlete engagement platform for collegiate and professional organizations, announced its new partnership with the Alliance of American Football in February. The Durham-based company, which manages more than 2,500 clients including professional teams in the NFL, MLB and NBA, will power operations and logistics for the league and its eight teams during its inaugural season.

The Durham Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the Durham City-County Planning Department have collaborated on Startup Roadmaps, a new set of guides detailing regulatory requirements for small businesses. The nine guides were created to remove barriers, help small businesses build capacity and save time.

Durham-based Velocity Clinical Research announced the acquisition of three research sites in Oregon, Ohio and Florida. The company raised more than $20 million toward the purchase of these locations and hopes to acquire and open more sites within five years.

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NETWORKING 2019 ANNUAL MEETING

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2 Lou Rollins, recently retired from The Duke Office of Durham and Regional Affairs, and Melissa Chappell, Durham Tech Foundation executive director. 3 ABC-11 Eyewitness News Co-Anchor Tisha Powell, who presented the Civic Honor Award to Henry Mickey Michaux.

4 Peggy Wynn receives the Bull City Hall of Fame Award in honor of her late husband, Dr. Phail Wynn Jr., from Duke University President Dr. Vincent Price. 5 Amos Cooper of Bull City Butler LLC and Ryan Dubose of IBM. 6 Outgoing Chamber board chair Indira Everett, Duke Energy district manager, and incoming chair Caroline Welch, president of ABC-11 Eyewitness News.

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PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY LAUNCHBIO The free event series Larger Than Life Science, which is held in the Chesterfield Building on the first Thursday of every month, featured a series of sessions and an expo surrounding the theme “Brilliant Minds” in February. Ariana Eily of Duke University moderated a session with four local life science entrepreneurs who are still students in high school and college. J.P. Morgan Executive Director of Life Sciences Joe Lee shared the trends and highlights that will shape the life sciences. The final session of the night, “Revolutionizing Drug Discovery,” provided insight and inspiration from Ribometrix, longtime BioLabs residents who have recently graduated out of the coworking lab. Ribometrix founders Drs. Kevin Weeks and Katie Warner shared their journey from academic research to $30 million Series A financing. In the atrium, community work spaces Hangar6, SplatSpace, North Carolina School of Science and Math’s FabLab and Triangle DIY Biology provided a hands-on opportunity to explore the exciting scientific fields of biology, genetic engineering and biotechnology.

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The Frontier building on the RTP campus is dog friendly.

Good news for Scott Levitan’s pups, Gizmo and Jensen.

RTP: A HISTORY OF LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

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or the past 60 years, many of the innovations and ideas that shape our world were formulated, hatched and brought to reality in the wide swath of piney forest known as Research Triangle Park. The park was founded as an attempt to keep the talent that was being churned out

by Duke, UNC and N.C. State within the state. But now it draws talent from all over the globe, and holds unique prestige among technological and innovation hubs.

Since its founding, “RTP has been a model for many research parks around the world,” Scott Levitan, Research Triangle Foundation’s chief executive, said. But, it is not merely a lesson in history.

RTP is governed by a board of 28, which includes

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Boxyard RTP, in addition to housing retail and dining options, will also showcase events, providing social, educational and healthoriented opportunities to patrons.

the presidents of the three universities, and it consists of 24 million-square-feet of built space spread across 7,000 acres. It is home to more than 300 companies, 50,000 employees and an additional 10,000 contractors. Its size is matched by its fiscal and cultural capital, which has been a driving force behind the growth and prosperity of the area at large. According to a study by RTI International, the park pays its employees more than $700 million in annual income.

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It has a roster of industry giants, including RTI, as well as Cisco and IBM, and is still growing.

Though its current scope may have seemed unimaginable to its founders, its mission is the same: to foster innovation, endear future-shaping companies to the area, and work in concert with regional world-class universities and industry leaders. It has always been a vision of the future.

RTP was established in 1959 by local leaders and academics

who saw a need to move away from the Piedmont’s standard industries like agriculture, furniture and textiles, and to focus instead on what the future of commerce might look like.

Nestled in the center of the Triangle, the park was seen as a hub in which the three universities could coexist in their research and as an axis of thought that could lure the world’s most fascinating and forward-thinking companies.

These goals have largely been met.

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RTI was one of the first big successes, opening simultaneously with the park. Its growth and focus on scientific applications helped spark interest in other companies, and many followed the nonprofit into the budding park.

In mid-1965, IBM, now RTP’s most famous tenant, moved in, growing the company’s local footprint to nearly 15,000 employees. By 1970, Burroughs Wellcome, the British company that eventually became pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, set up shop in RTP. Within a few short years, some of the world’s most exciting and universal technologies were produced in RTP. AstroTurf, soon to be found on baseball and football

fields around the country, was developed in the mid-’60s.

Fewer than 10 years later, the Universal Product Code — commonly known as the UPC — was created in the park.

From Bell Labs’ creation of digital cellular technology (aka cell phones) to the creation of the 3D ultrasound and LED lighting, the companies throughout RTP were regularly generating technological advancements with universal applications.

But it wasn’t just football fields and car phones. Many of the innovations have improved and even saved lives.

In the mid-’80s, RTP scientists re-engineered Azidothymidine, a failed cancer-fighting drug, as the first effective response to the AIDS epidemic. In

2013, scientists and doctors announced that, for the first time, an HIV patient had been effectively cured thanks in large part to research done in the park. Just last month, a second patient was reported to be cured.

Companies like Sapere Bio, a six-person startup that uses biomarkers to predict a person’s biological age in an effort to keep them healthier longer, are the newest generation. Its founders operated the company out of one of their homes. They knew they needed a bigger work area, but they also needed one that would allow them to remain a small, focused company with a tight staff and minimal lab and office space.

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The park “allowed us to customize our space down to the electrical outlets,” said Dr. Natalia Mitin, Sapere Bio’s co-founder, president and chief executive. “They worked with us to utilize every single inch of the space we’re in.”

RTP also embraced the company’s need for a small laboffice hybrid, she said, and did not scoff at a startup in search of less than 3,000 square feet.

“We will forever be grateful for that experience,” Dr. Mitin said.

Sapere Bio is housed in The Frontier, a section of modern office spaces at RTP that recently opened in some former IBM buildings.

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The Frontier is cultivating a more communal experience for employees, with more than 100 companies in its building, and a co-working space. The Frontier offers Food Truck Fridays, regular mid-day yoga classes and a TED Talk-inspired information series called RTP 180.

When RTP was formed, “research was different,” Levitan said. “It was private. So the model was a very protected campus where you controlled your periphery and all of your corporate secrets stayed behind the pines.”

Many companies still prefer the seclusion of the woods, but Levitan and his cohort realize the value of encouraging open communication among companies and their staffs.

The craft of building a community in some ways mirrors RTP’s larger story: creating a shared space and mutual history, embracing innovation through in-themoment connections over a quick bite to eat – or a locally crafted beer during one of The Frontier’s Thursday Happy Hours. But, RTP’s main focus – as it was on day one, year one – is on what’s next.

RTP is poised to begin work on phase one of a gargantuan addition – a $1 billion, 2 millionsquare-feet, pedestrian-friendly and mixed-use campus that will include retail and office space, a 400-room hotel and 13.5 acres of open space. Split into two phases, the project is expected to be completed in 2026 and generate $83 million in tax

revenue by 2028, according to an economic impact study conducted by RTI. Once up and running, the study says, the development will produce some 4,200 on-site jobs.

Next year, RTP’s attention will also be on unveiling Boxyard RTP, which Levitan describes as an incubator for retail companies and nascent restaurateurs. Built from repurposed shipping containers, the 15,000-squarefoot cargotecture development will be another communal space, filled with plug-and-play kitchens, retail pop-ups, open space and live music events.

“There has never been a reason for people to socialize in RTP, so we’re trying to optimize interior circulation modality,” said Levitan, recognizing that

such socialization leads not only to a pleasant lunch, but often also to an intra-park exchange of ideas, concepts and visions.

Lucas Blair, who runs RTI’s Immersive Technology Lab and is working to develop real-world applications for virtual and augmented reality technologies, said that RTP’s efforts to foster a sense of community among the companies held inherent value.

“I always try and go to Food Truck Fridays,” Blair said.

He also lauded the RTP 180 programs, having just given a presentation about the use of “smart classrooms.”

“There is a sense of community here,” Blair continued. “Just being around so many smart and talented people, every day is amazing.”

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David Owens, owner of Durham Greens, said he grew a healthy hemp crop last year, but much of it remains unsold.

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ORTH CAROLINA PRODUCES more tobacco than any state in the country, and the crop is inseparable from the state’s history and economic success.

But the tobacco infrastructure, along with some entrepreneurial foresight and significant changes in federal law, could position us near the front of another leafy, industrial revolution: hemp.

The national debate over legalizing marijuana has reached

full discord and remains a tangle of social, economic, moral and scientific arguments. But the push to legalize the production of hemp, another member of the cannabis family, has been nearly opposite – quiet, bipartisan and successful.

Last year, Congress passed a farm bill by wide margins that declassified industrial hemp as an illegal drug, and allows it to be grown nationwide and produced as a commodity. Though some restrictions will remain, the bill, long sought by hemp advocates, will allow farmers, processors and investors to develop what Forbes magazine

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said could become a $20 billion industry.

North Carolina is one of a small number of states with a head start.

In 2016, it licensed about 100 farmers to grow industrial hemp under a pilot program authorized by Congress for research institutions and agricultural states.

Many of those licenses were given to former or struggling tobacco farmers and a mini-industry has begun to develop in the state. Durham and Chapel Hill have a growing number of licensed farmers and processors, hemp-cultivation startups, investors and boutiques selling products – typically capsules and oils – with CBD, the Hunky Dory on Ninth Street sells several plant’s chief extract, which has shown promise in treating are now open. Two shops are chronic health conditions like open on West Franklin Street epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and in Chapel Hill, Tarheel Hemp inflammation. and CBD, and Smoke Rings, In May 2017, for example, which says that CBD products North Carolina issued a license account for roughly a quarter to Triangle Hemp, a Durhamof its business. The Hemp Store based hemp growing facility NC, which has shops in Raleigh that says it now has 10,000 and Wake Forest, expanded square feet of greenhouse to Chapel Hill in March, while space. The company supplies Carolina Hemp Hut operates hemp cuttings to 70 farmers a kiosk at The Streets at across several states.

Southpoint. And signs Criticality, a creator of foodadvertising CBD are becoming grade hemp products based more common in front of many in Wilson, partnered last year traditional smoke shops. with Pyxus, a billion-dollar Hemp has been harvested agricultural company, with a for centuries for its fibrous goal of becoming the state’s stalk and seeds, and was a leading producer of industrial staple of American agriculture hemp within five years. through the mid-20th century, Closer to consumers, a winding its way into American number of CBD retail stores

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textiles, paper and rope. The plant is sturdy, thrives in North Carolina’s soil and is easily adaptable to tobacco farms. But while supply has boomed, demand for the crop as an agricultural product is still relatively small, risking a saturated market.

David Owens, owner of Durham Greens and a veteran of California’s medical marijuana industry, said that though he grew a healthy hemp crop last year, much of it remains unsold.

“When harvest comes around, it’s kind of like tomatoes – everybody’s got them,” Owens said. “And the price drops.”

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Health was one of the area’s first producers of CBD products, and sells its inventory online. Founder and CEO Elliot Galdy said he launched Hybrid Health using Colorado and Tennessee-grown hemp when North Carolina was still rolling out its pilot program. Galdy says Hybrid Health now sources hemp from North Carolina farmers and processors, and is optimistic about the farm bill’s effect on the industry.

But, the passage of the farm bill is far from the end of the uncertainty.

Marijuana and hemp are closely related, but hemp is non-psychoactive. Both contain CBD, but hemp does not contain THC, the ingredient

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in marijuana that gets users high. This chemical distinction was at the root of advocates’ arguments for legalization, but remains widely misunderstood.

While public sentiment is changing, hemp growers and CBD providers say that many industry businesses crucial to growth, like financial instutions and marketing firms, are still reluctant to lend to them or do business with them. “Most traditional banks would not work with us,” Galdy said.

“Even after the farm bill, that is still the case.”

Another question mark is federal regulatory issues. While North Carolina regulators say they will continue to keep the industry largely under rules put in place for the 2016 pilot program, the FDA and USDA have not articulated their

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regulatory protocol. That lack of certainty has driven many potential investors to the sidelines.

“There is certainly an element of a Wild West feel to the industry,” said Josh Hayes, a Chapel Hill attorney who specializes in the cannabis sector and works

with corporate clients to identify, manage and minimize risk. “First, it’s a very young industry, and second, the regulatory landscape and the legal landscape is very undeveloped.”

Still, hemp is being touted as a possible savior of small family farms.

“We expect to see more and more tobacco farmers jumping into hemp,” said Brian Moyer, the CEO of Criticality.

He said he expects some farmers “transitioning out of tobacco and some adding hemp to diversify their crops.”

Criticality, said Moyer, built its 55,000-square-foot, stateof-the-art facility in Wilson because of the surrounding area’s strong tradition of small farms and growing expertise in the tobacco industry.

The optimism about hemp extends to its potential use as a raw industrial material in biodegradable plastics, bulletproof glass and a host of other items.

Robb Giddings, a colleague of Josh Hayes whose work focuses on the regulatory and operational aspect of the cannabis legal arena, believes this nascent industry has the potential to involve North Carolinians beyond what other cash crops have delivered.

“Small businesses drive the growth of all economy in the United States,” he said.

“What I think we’re going to see is it’s going to be the startup companies, the smaller entrepreneurs, that are really going to build the industry from the ground up.”

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Green Paradise 919-286-4009 Randy’s Pizza 919-286-7272 Ruby Tuesday 919-286-5100

El Corral Mexican Restaurant Authentic Mexican faijitas, tacos, enchiladas and a great chorizo queso dip. 1821 Hillandale Rd., Ste. 8; 919-309-4543; elcorralnc.com

Earth To Us Vegan Comfort Food Latin and American vegan dishes including cauliflower wings, garlic tostones, arepas and more. 1720 Guess Rd., Ste. 18; 919-908-1000 Gocciolina Upscale Italian fare in a cozy atmosphere.

This wildly popular restaurant has graced our Best Of list again and again. 3314 Guess Rd.; 919-973-4089; gocciolina.com Hog Heaven Bar-B-Q Homestyle Eastern barbecue, fried chicken and seafood. Enjoy with a giant glass of iced tea. 2419 Guess Rd.; 919-286-7447; hogheavenbarbecue.com Jimmy’s Famous Hot Dogs Old-fashioned burgers, fries and a mean Carolina-style dog. 2728 Guess Rd.; 919-471-0005; jimmysfamoushotdogs.com La Cacerola Cafe & Restaurant Honduran specialties such as pupusas and chorizo asado.

2016 Guess Rd.; 919-294-6578 Thai Spoon All the trappings for a delicious experience: pad thai, drunken noodles and curries.

3808 Guess Rd.; 919-908-7539 HILLSBOROUGH ROAD Bennett Pointe Grill & Bar There’s something to please all palates on the large menu of this multiregional American restaurant. 4625 Hillsborough Rd.; 919-382-9431; bpgrill.com Shanghai Restaurant Established in the 1980s, this Cantonese restaurant offers both Americanized and authentic dishes. 3433 Hillsborough Rd.; 919-383-7581; shanghaidurham.com

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Melo Trattoria & Tapas Classic Italian - think spaghetti and meatballs and chicken parmigiana - meets tapas. 1821 Hillandale Rd., Ste. 3; 919-384-9080; melotrattoria.com Pomodoro Italian Kitchen Homemade sauces on fresh-made pizzas, pastas and other Italian favorites. 1811 Hillandale Rd.; 919-382-2915; pomodoroitaliankitchen.info NORTH POINTE DRIVE The French Corner Bakery Artisan breads, beautifully crafted tarts and pastries, plus lunch.

Baking classes taught by French-trained master baker chef Benjamin Messaoui. 2005 North Pointe Dr., Ste. B; 919-698-9836 MORE NORTHERN DURHAM DINING Alpaca Peruvian rotisserie chicken. Need we say more? 302 Davidson Ave.; 919-220-9028; alpacachicken.com Bullock’s Bar-B-Cue A staple in the community since 1952, serving up soul in Eastern-style barbecue, Brunswick stew and fried chicken. 3330 Quebec Dr.; 919-383-3211; bullocks-bbq.com Dogwood Bar & Grill American fare including burgers, sandwiches, soups and salads, plus larger entrees like baby back ribs, shepherd’s pie and penne alle vodka. Try the House Nachos (chips are made in-house) and the spinach salad. 5110 N. Roxboro St.; 919-973-2342 Goodberry’s Frozen Custard All-natural frozen custard with a variety of topping options. 3906 N. Roxboro St.; 919-477-2552; goodberrys.com Picnic Order the pulled pork, of course, but also the fried chicken, mac and cheese, and hushpuppies.

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Silver Spoon Restaurant A large menu of breakfast favorites like strawberry waffles and omelettes, plus sandwiches, pastas, salads and kids plates. 5230 N. Roxboro St.; 919-479-7172; silverspoonnc.com Skrimp Shack Fast casual seafood restaurant serving addictive shrimp, fish and a variety of other fried and grilled seafood. 3600 N. Duke St., Ste. 28B; 919-477-0776; theskrimpshack.com

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BROAD STREET DeeLuxe Chicken Fried chicken with dark and light quarters, plus a sauce bar with almost a dozen options. Other offerings include seafood platters and Velveeta mac and cheese. 1116 Broad St.; 919-294-8128; deeluxechicken.com Joe Van Gogh Cozy and full of natural light, this local coffee shop sources quality beans for a superior coffee. 1104-B Broad St.; 919-286-4800; joevangogh.com.

The Palace International African cuisine including curry goat, dovi chicken and samosas. 1104-A Broad St.; 919-416-4922; thepalaceinternational.com Watts Grocery A Durham native, chef Amy Tornquist artfully develops Southern-inspired dishes with seasonal, local ingredients. 1116 Broad St.; 919-416-5040; wattsgrocery.com BR Wellspring Cafe Salad and hot bar in the Whole Foods Market, plus sandwiches, pizza and sushi.

621 Broad St.; 919-286-2290 ERWIN ROAD Another Broken Egg Cafe Unique breakfast and lunch menu including cinnamon roll french toast and a scrambled skillet. 2608 Erwin Rd., Ste. 120; 919-381-5172; anotherbrokenegg.com BR Early Bird Donuts Doughnuts, biscuits, croissant breakfast sandwiches and coffee. Try the cinnamon sugar donut. 2816 Erwin Rd., Ste. 101; 984-888-0417

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MediTerra Grill Mediterranean and Lebanese cuisine, offering gyros, kabobs and curry.

2608 Erwin Rd., Ste. 136; 919-383-0066; mediterranc.com Naan Stop Indian Cuisine Authentic Indian cuisine with dishes like daal makhani, paneer tikka masala and biryani. 2812 Erwin Rd., Ste. 103; 919-891-3488; naanstopduke.com Nosh “Eclectic foodstuffs” like “Mike’s Breakfast Pizza,” “Coach’s Queso" sandwich and the brown derby chopper salad. 2812 Erwin Rd., Ste. 101; 919-383-4747; noshfood.com BR Saladelia Cafe @ Hock Plaza Simple and honest food prepared with authentic, local and seasonal ingredients.

Espresso, juice and organic smoothie bar, yum-on-the run pastries, gourmet sandwiches, salads and soups. Dine-in or carry out. 2424 Erwin Rd.; 919-416 1400; saladelia.com

Fairview Dining Room Seasonally inspired contemporary cuisine with selections like coffeerubbed duck breast and seared NC flounder.

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Smashburger Unique burgers smashed on the grill, chicken and salads. 2608 Erwin Rd., Ste. 116; 919-237-1070; smashburger.com Sushi Love Specialty sushi rolls such as the “Honey Love” roll topped with mango and kiwi, as well as other Asian cuisine favorites. 2812 Erwin Rd., Ste. 204; 919-309-2401; sushilove.org Tamale Factory and Tequila Bar Authentic Mexican food and drinks, including tamales made daily, scratch-made salsas and sauces and margaritas made using fresh ingredients. 2816 Erwin Rd., Ste. 205, 919-237-1116; tamalefactorync.com ERWIN SQUARE Guasaca Arepas, salads and rice bowls with South American flavor. 2200 W. Main St., Ste. A100; 919-294-8939; guasaca.com Local 22 Kitchen & Bar Upscale Southern-inspired cuisine, with emphasis on food sourced within a 30-mile radius and local brews. 2200 W. Main St.; 919-286-9755; local22durham.com BR Parizade Sophisticated Mediterranean food like grilled bronzino, Australian lamb chops and pan-fried Roman dumplings. 2200 W. Main St.; 919-286-9712; parizadedurham.com

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Shuckin’ Shack Seafood restaurant serving up shrimp, oysters, fish-n-chips, surf-n-turf dinners and more. 2200 W. Main St.; 984-219-7337; theshuckinshack.com

Cocoa Cinnamon Signature handbrewed coffees and lattes such as the “Dr. Durham” with maca root powder and black lava salt. 2627 Hillsborough Rd.; cocoacinnamon.com

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MarketPlace JB Duke Hotel’s main restaurant, open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 230 Science Dr.; 919-660-6400; jbdukehotel.com

NO FARE County Fare – which featured food from various food trucks daily in addition to its own menu options, a bar and plenty of outside seating – had been open less than a year before closing indefinitely early this year after the ownership team announced they intend to sell the project.

blu seafood and bar Upscale seafood restaurant featuring innovative regional classics and a complete oyster menu. Try the crab mac and cheese! 2002 Hillsborough Rd.; 919-286-9777; bluseafoodandbar.com Blue Corn Cafe Authentic Latin-American fare with fresh, organic ingredients. 716 Ninth St.; 919-286-9600; LUNCH • DINNER • SNACKS bluecorncafedurham.com SALADELIA.COM Burger Bach Signature New Zealand grass-fed burgers and fresh-cut fries. 737 Ninth St., Ste. 220; 919-973-4416; burgerbach.com

Dain’s Place Pub fare centered around award-winning “thick and juicy and juicy and thick burgers.”

754 Ninth St.; 919-416-8800

TWO TRUE True Flavors Diner is set to open any day now at 2022 Chapel Hill Rd. in the former Lakewood restaurant space.

Del Rancho Mexican Grill Authentic Mexican lunch and dinner menu with a full-service bar. 730 Ninth St.

IN WITH THE NEW Cucciolo Osteria has expanded, adding a new private dining and event space next door in the former Magpie location.

Elmo’s Diner Homemade Southern classics with breakfast favorites like cinnamon apple waffles and biscuits and gravy served all day in a casual, familyfriendly setting. 776 Ninth St.; 919-416-3823; elmosdiner.com

BEST IN THE U.S. In January, Durham Distillery’s Conniption Navy Strength Gin was named “Best” in the United States in the “Navy Strength” category by The World Gin Awards. Their Conniption American Dry Gin also received silver in the “Contemporary Style Gin” category.

NINTH STREET DISTRICT Alpaca Peruvian rotisserie chicken. Need we say more?

703-A Ninth St.; 919-908-1597; alpacachicken.com Banh’s Cuisine Vietnamese and Chinese dishes with great vegetarian specials. Cash only!

750 Ninth St.; 919-286-5073

Cosmic Cantina Authentic Mexican cuisine with vegan options. House-made mole and corn tortillas.

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Happy + Hale Healthy salads, bowls, breakfast, smoothies, cocktails and cold-pressed juice.

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Itaewon Grill Build-your-own Korean barbecue bowls with a variety of meats and meat substitutes, toppings and sauces. 2608 Erwin Rd., Ste. 132; 919-864-9742; itaewongrillkbbq.com

MAKING THE LIST News & Observer dining critic Greg Cox announced his 10 best new restaurants of 2018.

Several Durham eateries made the list including: WINNER COPA; Cucciolo Osteria; Rose’s Noodles, Dumplings & Sweets; Saint James and Saltbox Seafood Joint.

Juju Asian fusion tapas including selections like steamed barbecue Kurobuta pork belly and chicken fried oysters. Try the crispy Brussels sprouts! 737 Ninth St., Ste. 210; 919-286-3555; jujudurham.com BR

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Locopops Gourmet frozen pops in a variety of rotating flavors like lavender cream, strawberry lemonade and malted milk ball.

2618 Hillsborough Rd.; 919-2863500; ilovelocopops.com

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FROM COLORADO WITH LOVE 2016 Stem Ciders, a Colorado-based cidery, acquired Black Twig Cider House in February and plans to rebrand it as The Spy. The renovated • Northern CATERING 60-seat restaurant, bar and bottle shop will feature a new menu as well as draft and bottled cider, beer, wine and cocktails. Nearly half of the 2,200-square-foot space will be dedicated to a togo bottle program.

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Metro 8 Steakhouse Classic American steakhouse with an Argentinian flair. Pair empanadas with a filet mignon or crab-stuffed shrimp with a churrasco steak.

746 Ninth St.; 919-416-1700; metro8steakhouse.com

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Monuts Donuts Scratch-made doughnuts, pastries, English muffins, bagels and breakfast sandwiches.

Try the bagel and lox. 1002 Ninth St.; 919-286-2642; monutsdonuts.com BR Pincho Loco Latin-flavored ice cream, milkshakes, popsicles and more, featuring flavors like tequila, Tiger Tail (vanilla, mexican Vanilla and chocolate), guava, tamarind and more. 1918 Perry St.; 919-286-5111 Saint & Co. Bakery and café serving fresh-baked artisan pastries and breads, salads, sandwiches and Neapolitan-style pizza. 810 Ninth St., Ste. 130; 984-888-0190 Snow Factory Rolled ice cream treats, including flavors like peanut butter ’n pretzel, Oreo wonderland, Uji matcha and many more, with choice of multiple sweet toppings. 760 Ninth St., 919-294-4111; snowfactorystl.com Triangle Coffee House Coffee and pastries with selections like vegan blueberry muffins. 714 Ninth St.; 919-748-3634 Vin Rouge French bistro-style dinner with regular oyster specials and Sunday brunch. Get the hanger steak and frites! 2010 Hillsborough Rd.; 919-416-0466; vinrougerestaurant.com BR ZenFish Poké Bar A healthy, fast-casual restaurant serving poké (raw fish) in made-to-order bowls containing rice, quinoa or salad, and toppings of your choice. 810 Ninth St.; 919-937-9966; zenfishpokebar.com

Goorsha Ethiopian restaurant featuring dishes like shiro chickpea stew and tibs (sauteed meat in spices). 910 W. Main St.; 919-588-4660; goorshadurham.com It’s a Southern Thing Kitchen and bar that serves up traditional Southern dishes with a twist, like jalapeno-brined fried chicken; a half-beef, half-bacon meatloaf; and both traditional and vegan barbecue. 605 W. Main St.; 919-294-9632; itsasouthernthingdurham.com BR

James Joyce Irish Pub and Restaurant Traditional pub food and snacks like brisket cheese steak and Reuben sandwiches.

912 W. Main St.; 919-683-3022; jamesjoyceirishpub.com

Lilly’s Pizza Stone-hearth-baked pizzas with fresh, organic and local ingredients. 810 W. Peabody, St.; 919-797-2554; lillyspizza.com

Maverick’s Smokehouse and Taproom Range of barbecue and smokehouse fare as well as Chef Brian Stinnett’s signature fried chicken and Memphis barbecue spaghetti.

900 W. Main St.; 919-682-8978; maverickssmokehouse.com

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BRIGHTLEAF DISTRICT Clouds Brewing American favorites with a German flair. Featuring an amazing craft beer selection, brunch on the weekends and the NFL ticket. 905 W. Main St.; 919-251-8096; cloudsbrewing.com BR El Rodeo Mexican Restaurant Authentic Mexican cuisine like quesadillas, tacos and huevos con chorizo. 905 W. Main St.; 919-683-2417; elrodeonc.com The Federal Pub fare with bistro panache.

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BRAVO! The North Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Association honored Mike Martino of the Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center at its Stars of the Industry Awards in February. Mike, pictured here with NCRLA President/CEO Lynn Minges and NCRLA Vice Chair Vinay Patel (right), was awarded the Griff & June Glover Award for Distinguished Service.

Kaffeinate Coffee shop featuring locally roasted beans and made-to-order Belgian waffles.

115-A N. Duke St.; 919-237-2856; kaffeinatenc.com BR

The Little Dipper Fondue, salads and entrees with selections like cheddar ale fondue, seasonal spinach salad and filet mignon with mushrooms. 905 W. Main St.; 919-908-1023; littledipperfondue.com BR

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BEERY NEW LouElla, a wine, beer and beverage shop, open d in downtown on 316 W. Geer St. in March.

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BULL CITY MARKET The Mad Hatter’s Café & Bakeshop Artisan café and bakery celebrating the sweet things in life. Scratch made cakes, cupcakes and pastries, organic salads, sandwiches and wraps, with breakfast all day and delicious brunch every weekend. Espresso, juice and organic smoothie bar as well as local beer and wine selection. Dine-in, carry-out, or order online.

1802 W. Main St.; 919-286-1987; madhatterbakeshop.com

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Mount Fuji Asian Bistro Sushi & Bar Thai, Japanese, Chinese and sushi. Try the duck wrap.

905 W. Main St.; 919-680-4968; mtfujinc.com Parker and Otis A gift shop, coffee shop and restaurant all in one. First-timers should dedicate a good chunk of time to this delight.

Try the No. 26. 112 S. Duke St.; 919-683-3200; parkerandotis.com BR

Pine Cone Maple View ice cream, shakes, Joe Van Gogh coffee and baked goods galore. 905 W. Main St., Ste. 20-H; 919-416-6128; pineconenc.com

NEW ROOTS The Roots Farmers Market is moving from Northgate Mall to the historic Brightleaf Square for its fourth market season. The market will run on Saturdays, April 6 to Nov. 23, 9 a.m.-noon.

Tents will be set up within the Square and West Peabody Street parking lot.

COMING IN HOT The World Hot Sauce Awards announced Mike D’s BBQ placed second for its Spicy BBQ Sauce in the “Hot/Xtra Hot BBQ” category and second for its BIG Sauce in the “Lexington Style Sauce” category. Since 2016, all four of Mike D’s products have finished in the top three categories at least once, competing against 12 other countries.

PIZZA PERFECT Southern Living named Pizzeria Toro one of the top best pizza spots in the South.

COUNTING THE YEARS Counting House celebrated its fourth anniversary with an Underground Pop-Up Cocktail event in The Vault in March, which will continue monthly on Third Fridays and feature handcrafted, themed cocktails. Space is limited, and access is granted on a first come, first served basis.

Rose’s Noodles, Dumplings & Sweets Sandwiches, pastries - rhubarb galette, anyone? - and daily dinner specials. 121 N. Gregson St.; 919-797-2233; rosesdurham.com BR Saint James Raw bar featuring daily selection of oysters, peeland-eat shrimp and more; seafood towers, Lobster Newberg, shrimp and grits, and Calabash platters.

806 W. Main St.; 984-219-7900; saintjamesseafood.com Torero’s Mexican Restaurant Authentic Mexican cuisine. Try the ceviche de camaron. 800 W. Main St.; 919-682-4197; torerosmexicanrestaurants.com CENTRAL PARK & WAREHOUSE DISTRICTS The Blue Note Grill Fantastic barbecue, ribs and live music.

709 Washington St.; 919-401-1979; thebluenotegrill.com Boxcar Bar & Arcade Offers more than 70 arcade games, a full bar including 24 craft American drafts (and a wide variety of local beer, liquor and wine), private event space and a Neapolitan-style pizza kitchen. 621 Foster St.; 984-3772791; theboxcarbar.com/durham Cocoa Cinnamon Signature handbrewed coffees and lattes such as the “Tower of Babel” with honey and date sugar. 420 W. Geer St.; cocoacinnamon.com

Cucciolo Osteria Italian fare like pastas with housemade noodles, antipasti and porchetta.

601 W. Main St.; 984-243-8744; cucciolodurham.com Dame’s Chicken & Waffles Chicken, waffles, shmears. ’Nuff said. 530 Foster St.; 919-682-9235; dameschickenwaffles.com BR Foster Street Coffee Coffee house on the ground floor of Liberty Warehouse Apartments that uses carefully curated coffee beans from around the world for its classic concoctions as well as local produce for housemade smoothies. 530 Foster St., Ste. 2; 919-797-9555; fosterstreetcoffee.com

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Fullsteam In addition to their well-known “plowto-pint” beers, Fullsteam now serves bar snacks, sandwiches, small plates and kombucha. Try the Eastern Carolina-Style Pork Meatballs and the Spicy Carolina Dip Chicken with a side of deviled eggs. 726 Rigsbee Ave.; 919-682-2337; fullsteam.ag Geer Street Garden Simple, down-home fare in a cozy atmosphere. They make a mean “Dark and Stormy,” and be sure to order “The Pile” to split with friends! 644 Foster St.; 919-688-2900; geerstreetgarden.com

Beyu Caffè Coffee shop, restaurant, bar and live jazz club. Beignets, buffalo wings and mushroom burgers. 341 W. Main St.; 919-683-1058; beyucaffe.com 0BR Bull City Burger & Brewery Local beef burgers with all components from bun to barbecue sauce made in-house. 107 E. Parrish St.; 919-680-2333; bullcityburgerandbrewery.com Bull McCabe’s Irish Pub Pub food and bar snacks like nachos, burgers and wings. 427 W. Main St.; 919-682-3061; bullmccabesirishpub.com COPA Cuban-inspired tapas and cocktails restaurant.

Try the Butifaras a lo cubano, Cuban-style sausages and the Paella del verano, “summer rice,” with a mojito or daiquiri. 107 W.Main St.

Gonza Tacos y Tequila Columbian-Mexican restaurant with traditional dishes like chilaquiles, enchiladas and sopa in addition to a variety of tacos.

604 Fernway Ave.; 919-907-2656; durham.gonzatacosytequila.com

Counting House Upscale restaurant featuring locally sourced entrees, as well as small plates featuring oysters, shellfish, and meats and cheeses.

111 Corcoran St.; 919-956-6760; countinghousenc.com BR

Hutchins Garage Full-service bar serving Grandma-style pizza, salads and sandwiches.

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Dashi Traditional ramen shop and izakaya with saké options. 415 E. Chapel Hill St.; 919-251-9335; dashiramen.com

LouElla Neighborhood bottle shop, bar and event space. 316 W. Geer St., Ste. A; 919-973-2001; louelladurham.com

Dos Perros Sophisticated Mexican cuisine; plates include carnitas, flautas veganas and pollo relleno.

Don’t skip on the guac! 200 N. Mangum St.; 919-956-2750; dosperrosrestaurant.com

Rise Biscuits & Donuts Daily-changing menu of doughnuts and biscuits. For vegetarians, the fried green tomato biscuit is hard to beat. 401 Foster St.; 984-439-2220; risebiscuitsdonuts.com BR Parts & Labor Dishes meeting many dietary needs, including veggie samosas, “Hipster Poutine” and falafel. 723 Rigsbee Ave.; motorcomusic.com/eats BR

The Accordion Club Late-night bar serving beer, hot dogs and green chile stew. 316 W. Geer St. The Pit Fried pimento cheese, whole-hog Eastern barbecue and Lexington-style barbecue. 321 W. Geer St.; 919-282-3748; thepit-durham.com

Jack Tar and the Colonel’s Daughter Diner fare with a twist. Classic diner menu, served all day long, plus smaller dinner menu. Brunch is served on Saturday and Sunday mornings. 202 Corcoran St.; 919-682-5225; jacktar-durham.com BR Littler Look for latkes Benedict, pan-roasted striped bass with sungold tomato and blueberry panna cotta at this small restaurant with big tastes. 110 E. Parrish St.; 919-374-1118; littlerdurham.com Loaf Oven breads and pastries. Counter Culture Coffee, pain au chocolat and cumin gruyere loaf.

111 W. Parrish St.; 919-797-1254

Piedmont Seasonal cooking inspired by local ingredients. Broccoli beignet, pickled shrimp and peach or Mills Farm’s beef coulotte. 401 Foster St.; 919-683-1213; piedmontrestaurant.com BR

Lucky’s Delicatessen Deli crafted by chef Matthew Kelly and headed by chef Drew Brown serves seasonal soups and sandwiches like the garbanzo with chickpea fritters and the super Reuben. 105 W. Chapel Hill St.; 919-864-8841; luckysdelinc.com

CITY CENTER DISTRICT Alley Twenty Six Originally a craft cocktail bar, the addition of a kitchen and dining room now offers plates like pan-seared duck breast, cornmeal-crusted fried oysters and pimento cheese. 320 E. Chapel Hill St.; 984-439-2278; alleytwentysix.com

Luna Rotisserie & Empanadas South American cuisine meets the American South. Woodfired rotisserie meats, Andean-inspired braises, empanadas. 112 W. Main St.; 984-439-8702; lunarotisserie.com

Bagel Bar Homemade bagel varieties, lunch and breakfast sandwiches. 104 City Hall Plaza, Ste. 101; 919-294-6661; bagelbarbagels.com Bar Brunello Featuring 25 wines by the glass and 60 by the bottle, as well as draft beers and ciders, the bar’s food menu includes charcuterie and cheese boards. 117 E. Main St.; 919-294-4825; barbrunello.com Bar Virgile Artfully crafted beverages paired with an ever-changing dinner and small plates menu including selections like tandoori chicken and flat iron steak. 105 S. Magnum St.; 919-973-3000; barvirgile.com

M Kokko Casual chicken entrees including the fried chicken sandwich, ramen and “KFC” wings. 311 Holland St., Ste. B; 919-908-9332 M Sushi Quality sushi from seasonal seafood, daily menu changes and creative rolls like “Unagi Maki” with barbecue eel and fried garlic. 311 Holland St.; 919-908-9266; msushidurham.com M Tempura Traditional tempura omakase-styled food, featuring select seafood and seasonal vegetables, as well as rich meats like Iberico pork from Spain.

111 Orange St.; 919-748-3874; m-restaurants.com/ m-tempura

Mateo Acclaimed menu of tapas and small plates by chef Matthew Kelly. Great for date night or night out with friends. Order a pitcher of “Cheerwine Sangria,” pollo frito, gambas and queso frito y huevo. 109 W. Chapel Hill St.; 919-530-8700; mateotapas.com Mothers & Sons Trattoria Italian restaurant by partners Matthew Kelly and chef Josh “Skinny” DeCarolis. Handmade pasta, bruschetta and antipasti dishes. 107 W. Chapel Hill St.; 919-294-8247; mothersandsonsnc.com Neomonde Authentic Mediterranean food like man’ousheh and kabobs, including a variety of vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options.

202 Corcoran St.; 919680-1886; neomonde.com Ninth Street Bakery Organic breads, pastries and lunch. Grab a “Wheel of Steel” (peanut butter, raisins and oats). 136 E. Chapel Hill St.; 919-688-5606; ninthstbakery.com BR The Parlour Handmade ice cream in rotating flavors like cookies and cream, salted butter caramel and sweet potato. 117 Market St.; 919-564-7999; theparlour.co The Patio Unscripted Hotel’s poolside bar featuring a range of cocktails and gourmet bites including salads and burgers. 202 N. Corcoran St.; 984-329-9500; unscriptedhotels.com BR Pizzeria Toro Wood-fired pizza with selections like spicy lamb meatball with kale, fried eggplant ricotta and soft eggs on white pizza. Also, ricotta dumplings!

105 E. Chapel Hill St.; 919-908-6936; pizzeriatoro.com Pie Pushers Grab a slice of staples like the cheese or pepperoni, or try out one of the specials, like the "Pace Car." 117A W. Main St.; 919-294-8408; piepushers.com BR Pokéworks Hawaiian-inspired poké with a menu featuring signature “works” like the Spicy Ahi bowl, or Poké Your Way, an option for creating a customized poké burrito, bowl or salad made with your choice of protein, mix-ins, toppings and sauces. 122 W. Main St.; 919-973-3372; pokeworks.com Pompieri Pizza Neapolitan pizza joint with a family-friendly approach. Try the “Drunken Horse” pizza with beer crust dough and house-made sausage. 102 City Hall Plaza; 919-973-1589; pompieripizza.com Pour Taproom Pay-by-the-ounce beer, wine and cider taps, plus tasting board, sandwich and kids’ options, and specials from Littler and Pizzeria Toro.

202 N. Corcoran St., Ste. 200; 919-251-8985; durham.pourtaproom.com The Restaurant at The Durham Locally sourced Southern cuisine crafted by chef Andrea Reusing.

Selections include beef tartare and spring pie with asparagus and mushrooms. The Roof focuses on shared plates. 315 E. Chapel Hill St.; 919-768-8831; thedurham.com/dining Rue Cler French bistro-style cuisine with lunch, brunch and dinner showcasing fresh ingredients.

401 E. Chapel Hill St.; 919-682-8844; ruecler-durham.com BR

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Tyler’s Restaurant &Taproom Hearty fare and huge beer selection. Order the garlic fries! 324 Blackwell St.;919-433-0345; tylerstaproom.com

Saltbox Seafood Joint Local seafood that is delivered fresh from the Carolina coast and served griddled or fried in a straightforward manner.

608 N. Mangum St.; 919-908-8970; saltboxseafoodjoint.com

EAST DURHAM East Durham Bake Shop Handcrafted sweet and savory pies, baked goods, salads,coffee and more – all made with local ingredients. 406 S. Driver St.; 919-957-1090; eastdurhambakeshop.com

Taberna Tapas Paella, flatbreads, bacon-wrapped dates, gambas. 325 W. Main St.; 919-797-1457; tabernatapas.com Table South Kitchen and Bar Breakfast, lunch and dinner, located in the Durham Marriott City Center.

201 Foster St.; 919-768-6000 Thai @Main Street Classic Thai dishes including tom yum soup, curry, pad Thai, drunken noodles and more. 317 W. Main St.; 984-219-7444; thaiatmainstnc.com Toast Italian paninis and soups. The warm goat cheese with honey and peppercorn crostini is our favorite. 345 W. Main St.; 919-683-2183; toast-fivepoints.com Viceroy Fusion restaurant featuring dishes like jeera wings as well as traditional butter chicken. 335 W. Main St.; 919-797-0413; viceroydurham.com AMERICAN TOBACCO DISTRICT Cuban Revolution Restaurant & Bar Cuban tapas served amid ’60s-style decor, plus bolsitas, sandwiches and Havana pork. 318 Blackwell St.; 919-687-4300; thecubanrevolution.com Mellow Mushroom Pizza, hoagies, calzones and salads made using fresh ingredients. 410 Blackwell St.; 919-680-8500; mellowmushroom.com/store /durham NanaSteak Offers various cuts of beef and steaks, plus other meats like salmon and tuna steaks and pastas like beef short rib ravioli. 345 Blackwell St.; 919-282-1183; nanasteak.com BR

Saladelia Cafe @ ATC Simple and honest food prepared with authentic, local and seasonal ingredients. Espresso, juice and organic smoothie bar, yum-on-the-run pastries, gourmet sandwiches, salads and soups. Dine-in or carry-out. 406 Blackwell St.; 919-687-4600; saladelia.com

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DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL BOULEVARD (15-501) Blaze Pizza Pizzas with made-from-scratch dough and healthful ingredients. 5320 McFarland Dr.; 919-251-6095; blazepizza.com Duck Donuts Warm, made-to-order doughnuts and coffee. Watch your donut being hand dipped and topped right in front of you.

5320 McFarland Road, Ste. 140; 919-973 1305; duckdonuts.com Foster’s Market Fresh breakfast selections, sandwiches and salads. Also pick up specialty food items. 2694 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd.; 919-489-3944; fostersmarket.com BR Guglhupf Bakery, Cafe and Restaurant Germaninspired cuisine and artisanal bakery. Restaurant dishes include house-cut noodles, weiner schnitzel and pan-roasted duck. 2706 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd.; 919-401-2600; guglhupf.com BR Kanki Steak, chicken and seafood cooked on hibachi grills, plus an extensive sushi menu.

Come for a show! 3504 Mt. Moriah Rd.; 919-401-6908; kanki.com

Los Cabos Bar and Grill Mexican Restaurant Mexican fare plus a variety of seafood options like fish and shrimp tacos, ceviches and more. 4020 DurhamChapel Hill Blvd.; 919-748-4290 Namu Restaurant and Coffee Bar Bulkogi Truck and Bo’s Kitchen food trucks combine to bring casual Korean eats, local beer, wine and specialty coffee.

5420 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd.; 919-251-9794 The Refectory Cafe Dal, chili, salads and soups.

2726 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd.; 919-908-6798; therefectorycafe.com BR

Tobacco Road Sports Cafe American dishes like “Country Frizzled & Drizzled Chicken” made with local ingredients; overlooks the Bulls’ stadium. 280 S. Mangum St.; 919-937-9909; tobaccoroadsportscafe.com

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Lily’s Cheesecake Bakery & Cafe Homemade cheesecake, sweet and savory French pastries and Mediterranean sweets. 5504 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd., Ste. 101; 984-219-1226; lilyscheesecake.com

OnlyBurger Build-your-own burger options and sides like bacon-wrapped mac and cheese squares. 359 Blackwell St.; 919-237-2431; onlyburger.com

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Saltbox Seafood Joint A new, second location for the popular local seafood place. Fish delivered fresh from the Carolina coast and served griddled or fried in a straightforward manner.

2637 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd.; 919-908-8970; saltboxseafoodjoint.com

Sister Liu’s Kitchen Homestyle Northeastern Chinese food made by hand like dumplings and Chinese hamburgers. 5504 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd. Ste. 103; 984-244-3973; sisterliuskitchen.com Sitar Indian Cuisine Homemade Indian dishes at affordable prices, with daily lunch buffets and a weekend dinner buffet. 3630 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd.; 919-490-1326; sitar-indiancuisine.com BR Souly Vegan Cafe Vegan takes on favorites like mac ‘n’ cheese and jerk chicken, along with sides like candied yams, plantains and lentils and spinach soup.

4125 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd.; 984-219-6050 Zweli’s Traditional Zimbabwean food and family recipes from owner Zweli herself with a number of options for vegans and vegetarians. 4600 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd., Ste. 26; 984-219-7555; zwelis.com BR UNIVERSITY DRIVE Barley Labs Choose from 16 different beers and ciders on tap while enjoying the company of your four-legged friends. Food from nearby restaurants welcome.

4015 University Dr.; 919-432-4597; barleylabs.com The Boot A neighborhood Italian American Restaurant serving soups, salads, sandwiches, pastas and traditional Italian entrees, plus a full bar.

2501 University Dr.; 919-294-8383; thebootdurham.com Capital Seafood Market & Grill Fried catfish, porkchop sandwiches and collard greens. Raw seafood for sale. 1304 University Dr.; 919-402-0777 Mi Peru Peruvian fare like ceviche mixto, asado and leche de tigre. 4015 University Dr., Ste. A1; 919-401-6432; miperupci.com NanaTaco Inventive taqueria that features locally produced meats and veggies. Enjoy with margarita in hand. 2512 University Dr.; 919-489-8226; nanataco.com The Original Q Shack “BBQ tender as a mother’s love,” includes signature chile-rubbed beef brisket and Carolina pork shoulder. 2510 University Dr.; 919-402-4227; theqshackoriginal.com Sake Bomb Asian Bistro Asian bistro and sake bar; specialty rolls like the “Green Monster” with spicy yellow tail and tuna. 4215 University Dr.; 919-401-4488; sakebombdurham.com Saladelia Cafe + Catering Simple and honest food prepared with authentic, local and seasonal ingredients. Gourmet sandwiches, soups and salads, speciality entrees, and mezza platters, made from scratch with Mediterranean flare. Espresso, juice and organic smoothie bar as well as local beer and wine selection. Catering all of life’s occasions. Dine-in, carry out, or order online. 4201 University Dr.; 919-489-5776; saladelia.com BR

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Tacos Nacos Tacos, pupusas, tortas and horchata.

3411 University Dr.; 919-267-8226 Thai Cafe Authentic Thai cuisine: drunken noodles, curries and stir-fries. Don’t miss the coconut cake! 2501 University Dr.; 919-493-9794; thaicafenc.com WEST END & LAKEWOOD Cocoa Cinnamon Local coffee shop with signature hand-brewed coffees and lattes, hot chocolate and churros. 2013 Chapel Hill Rd.; cocoacinnamon.com GRUB Durham Serves up comfort food favorites with a twist like brioche donuts and beer-battered mushroom sandwiches. 1200 W. Chapel Hill St.; 919-973-3636; grubdurham.com Local Yogurt Frozen yogurt treats. 1114 W. Chapel Hill St.; 919-489-5900; localyogurtdurham.com MORE WEST-CENTRAL DURHAM Bull and Bean Fresh salads, breakfast and sandwiches like pulled pork-loaded hashbrowns and the turkey and Brie sandwich. 3710 Shannon Rd.; 919-237-2398; bullstreetdurham.com BR Core Cafe & Catering Locally sourced, with a variety of vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options.

Breakfast, lunch, gourmet coffee. 3211 Shannon Rd., Ste. 106, 919-525-6202; corecater.com Eastcut Sandwich Bar East Coast sandwich fare and salads, small plates, soups and sweets.

Mainstays include Chicken Parm, BLTs and Roast Beef sandwiches. 3211 Old Chapel Hill Rd.; 984-439-1852; BR eastcutsandwich.com Hope Valley Diner Diner food and breakfast all day with selections like chicken and dumplings, fried pickle chips, biscuits and gravy. 3710 Shannon Rd.; 919-419-0907; hopevalleydiner.com BR New Tokyo Quick-service Japanese restaurant where everything on the menu – including hibachistyle dishes, sushi, udon and more – comes in under $10. 3822 S. Roxboro St.; 919-224-8811 OnlyBurger The food truck’s brick-and-mortar offers all the same build-your-own burger options and sides. 3710 Shannon Rd., Ste. 118; 919-937-9377; onlyburger.com Pop’s Backdoor South Fresh pizza and Italian cuisine, including calzones with homemade ricotta-mozzarella filling. 3710 Shannon Rd.; 919-493-0169; popsbackdoorsouth.com BR Piper’s Deli Deli sandwiches and burgers like pimento grilled cheese and French dip sandwich.

3219 Old Chapel Hill Rd.; 919-489-2481; pipersdeli. com Randy’s Pizza Pizzas, garlic knots and stromboli.

1813 Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy.; 919-490-6850; randys-pizza.com Roots Bakery, Bistro and Bar Southern meets Central American at this breakfast, lunch and dinner spot with “from the sea,” “from the ranch” and “from the garden” options. 4810 Hope Valley Rd.; rootschapelhill.com BR Tonali Restaurant Inventive Mexican cuisine such as chicken con mole, Mexican chocolate torte and adobo pork. 3642 Shannon Rd.; 919-489-8000; tonalirestaurant.com

Urel’s Jamaica House Traditional Jamaican dishes like goat curry, jerk chicken, oxtails and ackee and saltfish. 3825 S. Roxboro St., Ste. 123; 919-251-8104

SOUTHERN DURHAM / NEAR I-40

WOODCROFT SHOPPING CENTER Guacamaya (Chubby’s Tacos) Fresh Mexican favorites like burritos, nachos and salads, as well as the “Chubbychanga.”

4711 Hope Valley Rd.; 919-489-4636 Joe Van Gogh Cozy and full of natural light, this local coffee shop sources quality beans for a superior coffee. 4711-5A Hope Valley Rd.; 919-973-3950; joevangogh.com Pulcinella’s Italian Restaurant Southern Italian dishes.

Antipasto classico, baked ziti and tortellini alla panna. 4711 Hope Valley Rd.; 919-490-1172; pulcinellasitalianrestaurant.com

Gussy’s Place Greek street food like gyro pita, Greek fries and baklava. 2945 S. Miami Blvd.; 984-439-8455; gussys.com

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Piper’s In The Park Soups, salads, hoagies and burgers with selections like curried couscous and “South of Here” turkey sandwich. 2945 S. Miami Blvd.; 919-572-9767; pipersinthepark.com

HOME TO ROOST Dame’s Chicken and Waffles reopened in early March at 530 Foster St. after closing its Main Street location to move into the larger space at Liberty Warehouse.

FARM FAVORITE The Durham Farmers Market was named one of the top eight farmers markets to visit across America by Ecophiles.com.

Spicy Green Gourmet Cafe & Catering Sandwiches, soups, salads with specialities like Cuban flatbread. 2945 S. Miami Blvd., Ste. 126; 919-220-6040; spicygreengourmet.net

BEER-D AWARD Sean Lilly Wilson of Fullsteam Brewery was named a James Beard Award semifinalist for Outstanding Wine, Spirits or Beer Producer.

HOPE VALLEY COMMONS Mattie B’s Public House Housemade burgers, N.Y.-style pizza, wings and potato chips.

1125 W. N.C. 54, Ste. 301; 919-401-8600; mattiebs.com

WILL BE MISSED Primal Food & Spirits closed at the beginning of March, citing an inability for the restaurant to financially sustain its current lease. The gluten-free restaurant opened in 2014.

Randy’s Pizza Pizzas, garlic knots and stromboli. 4810 Hope Valley Rd., Ste. 112; 919-403-6850; randys-pizza.com Smallcakes Twelve signature cupcake flavors, as well as seasonal specials. 4711 Hope Valley Rd.; 919-937-2922; smallcakesnc.com West 94th St. Pub Traditional pub fare: loaded fries, chili cheese tots and fish & chips. 4711 Hope Valley Rd.; 919-403-0025; west94thstpub.com Yamazushi Japanese fine dining, kaiseki-style, with seasonal menu changes and a multi-course menu, as well as sake. 4711 Hope Valley Rd., Ste. 6-A; 919-493-7748; yamazushirestaurant.com SUTTON STATION Bocci Trattoria & Pizzeria Traditional Italian pastas, pizzas, crostinis and salads. 5850 Fayetteville Rd.; 919-206-4067; bocciitalian.com Bua Thai Cuisine Thai classics: Pad Thai, hot and sour soup, curries, Krapow lamb. Get your meal “Thai hot,” if you’re up to it! 5850 Fayetteville Rd., Ste. 101; 984-219-7357; buathaidurham.com Dulce Cafe Espresso, gelato and sandwiches.

Smoked salmon bagel, dulce Reuben and the “B-L-A-T.” 5826 Fayetteville Rd.; 919-797-0497; dulcecafedurham.com BR Nantucket Grill & Bar New England-style cuisine known for their desserts like the “Unbirthday” and coconut cake. 5826 Fayetteville Rd.; 919-727-6750; nantucketgrill.com LINCOLN PARK WEST Danny’s Bar-B-Que Hickory-smoked barbecue, ribs, fried catfish. 2945 S. Miami Blvd., Ste. 118; 919-806-1965; dannysbarbque.com

Denny’s Diner fare serving breakfast anytime, lunch and dinner. 7021 N.C. 751, Ste. 901; 919-908-1006; dennys.com BR

Makus Empanadas A variety of meat, veggie and cheese empanadas, with vegetarian and vegan options. 1125 W. N.C. 54, Ste. 304; 919-390-7525; makusempanadas.com Sweet Charlie’s Thai-inspired hand-rolled ice cream and frozen yogurt. 1125 W. N.C. 54; 984-888-5101; sweetcharlies.com Treforni Wood-fired pizza and sandwiches including traditional options like Margherita, as well as more inspired options like the prosciutto arugula pizza.

1125 W. N.C. 54; 919-973-0922; treforni.com

NEAR SOUTHPOINT

HOMESTEAD MARKET Bean Traders Coffee Coffee specialties and local pastries. 105 W. N.C. 54, Ste. 249; 919-484-2499; beantraderscoffee.com The Mad Popper A gourmet popcorn shop with flavors both sweet and savory. 105 W. N.C. 54, Ste. 259; 919-484-7677; themadpopper.com City Barbeque Smoked meats, peach cobbler and hushpuppies. 208 W. N.C. 54; 919-237-9509; citybbq.com Shiki Sushi Sushi and pan-Asian choices like “Bang Bang Shrimp,” gyoza dumplings and beef pho soup. 207 W. N.C. 54; 919-484-4108; shikitasu.com THE STREETS AT SOUTHPOINT AREA American Meltdown Gourmet melts, sides and desserts. Southpoint; 919-473-6358; americanmeltdown.org

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Bruster’s Real Ice Cream Hand-crafted ice creams, sorbets and sherbets in ever-changing flavors.

8200 Renaissance Pwy., Ste. 1002; 919-237-3537; brusters.com People’s Coffee Specialty coffee, pastries, coldpressed juice. 7830 N.C. 751, Ste. 100; 919-589-3045; pplscoffee.com Porchetta Slow-roasted Italian-style pork sandwiches and sides. Southpoint; 919-727-6750; porchettardu.com Harvest 18 Local, seasonal eats. Try the pimento cheese dip and a Bloody Mary for brunch.

8128 Renaissance Pkwy., Ste. 114; 919-316-1818; 18restaurantgroup.com/harvest-18 BR Rise Biscuits & Donuts Daily-changing menu of doughnuts and biscuits. For vegetarians, the “Fried Green Tomato” biscuit is hard to beat.

8200 Renaissance Pkwy.; 919-248-2992; risebiscuitsdonuts.com BR Town Hall Burger and Beer Offerings like the “Carolina Burger” with pork belly and pimento cheese, barbecue salmon burger and fries poutine. 7830 N.C. 751; 919-973-0506; townhallburgerandbeer.com N.C. 54 Akashi Japanese Grill & Sushi Bar Hibachi, sushi and noodle dishes like bento boxes, yakisoba and spicy scallop roll. 2223 N.C. 54, Ste. RS; 919-572-9444; akashisushi54.com

Na’Mean Asian fusion, Korean barbecue sandwich shop. A KoKyu joint. 4823 Meadow Dr., Ste. 108; 919-699-4667; kokyubbq.com/nmean

Sansui Sushi Bar & Grill Hibachi dishes and sushi rolls like “Spider Man” with crab and crawfish. 4325 N.C. 55; 919-361-8078; sansuisushi.com

Spice & Curry Traditional Indian, buffet-style or off the menu. 2105 E. N.C. 54; 919-544-7555; spiceandcurry.com

Sushiōki Sushi burritos in traditional flavors, plus rolls with a Southern twist, like double-fried chicken.

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Vit Goal Tofu Restaurant Korean dishes like fried dumplings and tofu soups. 2107 Allendown Dr.; 919-361-9100

N.C. 55 Backyard BBQ Pit Barbecue and other Southern comfort foods: mac and cheese, Brunswick Stew and pit-cooked barbecue. 5122 N.C. 55; 919-544-9911; sweetribs.com Basera Modern, fine-dining Indian restaurant featuring a lunch buffet and tandoor grill. 4818 N.C. 55; 919-205-5050; basera-rtp.com Big C Waffles Gourmet waffles. 2110 Allendown Dr.; 919-797-7576; bigcwaffles.com BR Brigs at the Park Breakfast selections and sandwiches. 4900 N.C. 55; 919-544-7473; brigs.com BR

Cafe Meridian Made-to-order salads and sandwiches. 2500 Meridian Pkwy., Ste. 130; 919-3619333; cafemeridian.com Jamaica Jamaica Carribean food favorites like jerk chicken, yellow rice and brown stew chicken.

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Large bar serving 22 rotating craft beers, bourbon, cocktails and wine. Welcomes single diners or large groups. 5311 S. Miami Blvd. 919-941-6380; societainfo.com MORRISVILLE G58 Modern Chinese Cuisine Traditional Sichuan and Cantonese flavors abound in sautéed flounder, fried grouper and steamed scallop entrees; a Western influence can be seen in dishes such as Chilean Sea Bass with brandy sauce and Cumin-Dusted New Zealand Lamb Chops. 10958 Chapel Hill Rd., Morrisville; 919-466-8858; g58cuisine.com

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411 West Pasta, seafood and pizzas inspired by Italian and Mediterranean flavors, with a Californian twist. 411 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill; 411west.com Acme Soups, salads, seafood and entrees with a Southern touch. 110 E. Main St., Carrboro; acmecarrboro.com Al's Burger Shack Gourmet burgers and fries with local ingredients. 516 W. Franklin St.; 708 Market St., Chapel Hill; alsburgershack.com Al's Pub Shack Classic gourmet burger and fries joint, featuring an expanded menu with sandwiches, seafood, soups and salads along with a full bar. 50050 Governors Dr., Chapel Hill; 919-904-7659 The Belted Goat Coffee/wine shop with paninis, cheeses and pastries. Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro; fearrington.com/belted-goat Breadmen’s Variety of sandwiches, burgers and salads. 324 W. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill; breadmens.com Buns Gourmet burgers, fries and shakes made from fresh ingredients. 107 N. Columbia St., Chapel Hill; bunsofchapelhill.com Capp's Traditional Italian cuisine including fresh pastas, pizzas, salads, sandwiches and more. 79 Falling Springs Dr., Chapel Hill; cappspizzeria.com

Compadres Tequila Lounge Mexican restaurant with a variety of classic dishes. 193 Lowes Drive, Pittsboro and 115 Siler Crossing, Siler City; compadresnc.com Crossroads Chapel Hill at The Carolina Inn New American cuisine and seasonal specialties; all ABC permits. 211 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill; crossroadscuisine.com CrossTies Bistro & Beer Garden Barbecue, peel & eat shrimp, lobster rolls and vegetarian options. 919918-3923; crosstiescarrboro.com Elements Classic and modern Asian and European cooking techniques; check out the wine bar next door. 2110 Environ Way, Chapel Hill; elementsofchapelhill.com Elizabeth’s Pizza Pizzas, calzones, sandwiches, salads and pastas. 160 Hillsboro St., Pittsboro; 919-5459292; elizabethspizzapittsboro.com The Fearrington House Restaurant Contemporary fine-dining with seasonal, farm-to-fork cuisine.

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House of Hops Relaxed bar and bottle shop with a large craft beer selection on tap. 112 Russet Run, Ste. 110, Pittsboro; 919-542-3435; houseofhopsnc.com

The Mod Wood-fired, artisan-style pizza, salads, small plates, full bar. 46 Sanford Rd., Pittsboro; themodernlifedeli.com

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Kitchen Bistro-style dining with a seasonal menu.

764 MLK Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill; kitchenchapelhill.com Lula's “Simple food made the hard way,” like fried chicken, homemade biscuits, farm-to-table veggies and more. 101 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill; lulaschapelhill.com Mama Dip’s Kitchen Traditional Southern specialties.

408 W. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill; mamadips.com Mel's Commissary & Luncheonette Open for lunch, Mel’s serves up a changing menu of comfort food.

109 W. Main St., Carrboro; melscarrboro.com Midici Authentic Neapolitan pizza made with allnatural ingredients, plus appetizers, salads, desserts, craft beer and wine. 100 E. Franklin St., Ste. 100, Chapel Hill; 919-240-7454; mymidici.com

Roost Beer Garden Wood-fired pizza, local brews on tap, wine by the glass and live music.

2000 Fearrington Village Center; fearrington.com/roost The Root Cellar Sandwiches, prepared salads, desserts and more. 750 MLK Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill and 35 Suttles Rd., Pittsboro; rootcellarpbo.com Squid’s Seafood options like live Maine lobster, fried oysters, plus soups and steaks. 1201 Fordham Blvd., Chapel Hill; squidsrestaurant.com Starrlight Mead Tastings of honey wines and honey. 480 Hillsboro St., Pittsboro; starrlightmead.com Yogurt Pump Frozen yogurt treats and shakes.

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Wedding Date May 25, 2019 Crossed Paths Anthony and Eva met through a dating app. They planned to meet in person for dinner and a movie at Silverspot in Chapel Hill in the summer of 2017. Shortly after, Eva left for school, so they committed to a long-distance relationship. The couple says the year that they were apart was surprisingly easy, and their relationship continued to deepen despite the miles apart. “I attribute this to us both being very secure and trusting individuals,” Eva says.

The Proposal On August 20 last year, Eva scheduled a consult with photographer Clay Souza of Photos by Clay, who took her outside for “test shots.” Meanwhile, Anthony had secretly arranged with Clay to surprise Eva by proposing during the photo shoot. Anthony snuck up behind Eva completely undetected, and when he was close enough, put his arms around her, dropped down on knee and popped the question. “When she turned around and saw me there dressed up for the camera, her face and exclamations let me know that Eva was completely surprised and had no idea what was happening,” Anthony says.

Now, “I Do” The couple will say their vows at Duke Chapel. Among local friends and family attending are Eva’s parents, Brian and Amy Ruff, maid of honor Abigail Griffo and bridesmaids Alexa Clayton and Hannah Spear. The reception will be held at Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club, Guglhupf will provide the cake, and Allegiant Luxury Limousines will provide transportation for the big day.

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Date September 22, 2018 Neighborhood Brightleaf at the Park Occupations Drew is the vice president for Vector Security in Raleigh, and Sarah is a construction manager for Szostak Design in Chapel Hill.

Crossed paths Sarah and Drew both grew up in the area, and the couple formally met when Sarah brought in her son, Amadi Smalls, 9, for a haircut at a mutual friend’s barbershop, Klean Kutz. They became friends on social media, and Drew messaged Sarah about several pictures of baked goods she had posted, leading to their first date.

The Proposal Drew threw a housewarming party to celebrate his newly built house. The couple invited their closest friends and relatives. Near the end of the party, Drew gave his thanks to everyone for attending and proceeded to play a slideshow. Each slide showed the phases of the house’s construction, but one photo in particular stood out. Using the studs in the walls, Drew had left a message: “Sarah, will you make this house a home? Sarah, will you marry me?”

The Big Day The ceremony and reception was held at Snipes Farm Retreat with catering by Hope Valley Diner and flowers by World of Flowers.

Whitney Scott of Your Vision My Talent helped the couple plan the day, and Triangle Mobile Sounds kept the dance party going for the newlyweds and their guests.

His Memorable Moment When Drew sent Sarah and her bridesmaids

Champagne and gifts, along with a note written in a book. The front of the book said “Vows,” and Sarah, thinking the book contained Drew’s actual vows, didn’t read the note. Once at the altar, Drew began reading his vows, making numerous references to the previous note. Following the ceremony, Drew asked Sarah if she liked the note he sent her. She responded, “I thought that was your vows. I didn’t know what you were talking about up there.”

Her Favorite Detail The feeling Sarah had when the doors opened, and she joined Drew at the altar. She says it was the happiest day of her life, surpassing every expectation she had, and that there were too many wonderful moments to choose just one.

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