Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham lectures Monday at the college.

This week’s calendar in Davidson includes an Election 2008 lecture at the college tonight by Newsweek editor Jon Meacham and the monthly Town Board meeting on Tuesday. Exhibit openings are scheduled at Cornelius Arts Center and Lake Norman Art League Friday and “Hamlet” opens as the lead-off production in Davidson College’s newly renovated Barber Theatre in Cunningham Theatre Center. Meanwhile, in sports, the Davidson College men’s basketball team opens its season this week, and the college hosts the Southern Conference soccer tournament semifinals and finals Friday and Sunday. Those events and more …

WEEK OF NOV. 10-16

MONDAY, NOV. 10, 8 p.m., Davidson College Duke Family Performance Hall – Annual Wearn Lecture, with Newsweek editor Jon Meacham lecturing on “Decision 2008: How It Happened and What’s Ahead.” Free, but tickets required. Details on the college website.

TUESDAY, NOV. 11,, 11 a.m. to noon, Village Green, downtown Davidson – Town Veterans Day ceremony. Keynote speaker is U.S. Army Col. Mike Puckett. Free. More about the program in our Nov. 5 news item, “Veterans Day ceremony on the Village Green Nov. 11.”

TUESDAY, NOV. 11, 4-5 p.m., Davidson College Carolina Inn, Main Street – “Memory & Narrative,” a panel discussion with Davidson professors Scott Denham (German), Matt Samson (anthropology) and Trish Tilburg (history). It’s part of the “Memory & … ” series this year at Davidson. Participating professors are a loose-knit “Memory Group” interested in various aspects of memory. See Nov. 7 for the series keynote speech. Details on the college website.

TUESDAY, NOV. 11, 6 p.m., Town Hall, 216 S. Main St. – Monthly Town Board meeting. Agenda includes: Public hearings on revisions to the county’s soil erosion and sediment control ordinance and a proposed rezoning to allow office/retail use at 16618 Davidson-Concord Road, requested by veterinarians Bob and Karen Gochnauer. The board later will vote on both, and also on changes to the affordable housing ordinance. It will consider voting on a proposed agreement to create a regional transportation commission and vote on $19,000 in budget reductions. Agenda on the town website.

TUESDAY, NOV. 11, 7 p.m., Davidson College Belk Arena – Davidson College men’s basketball hosts Lenoir-Rhyne in a pre-season exhibition game. Tickets required, available at the door.

Michael Branch

TUESDAY, NOV. 11, 7:30 p.m., Davidson College Dana Science Laboratory Room 146 – Michael Branch, visiting professor of environmental studies, gives an inaugural lecture. Free.

TUESDAY, NOV. 11, 7:30 p.m., Davidson College Sloan Music Center Tyler-Tallman Hall – Grammy nominated mezzo-soprano D’Anna Fortunato gives a concert. Tickets required. Details on the college website.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12, 2-3:30 p.m., Davidson Parks & Recreation, 416 Armour St. – Davidson Senior Scholars program on “Back Pain and Treatment Options” with Dr. Jeffrey Yablon, board-certified neurosurgeon. He’ll discuss the latest and most effective treatments for degenerative disc disease, which affects more than 12 million people. Register online at www.d-Recs.org or call at 704-892-3349.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12, 7 p.m., Town Hall, 216 S. Main St. – Monthly Design Review Board meeting. Agenda on the town website.

THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 7:30 a.m., MI-Connection board room, 420 S. Academy St. at East Wilson Ave., Mooresville – MI-Connection monthly board of directors meeting. Agenda includes discussion of a Local Carrier contract with Level 3 Communications and a closed session for conversation with the board’s lawyer.

THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 7-8:30 p.m., Davidson public library branch, 119 S. Main St. – “Holistic Self-Care for the Menopausal Years,” with Cristin Gregory, owner of Wellbeing Natural Health in Cornelius, accupuncturist, herbalist and qi gong instructor. Free. To register, call 704-416-4000.

FRIDAY, NOV. 14, 7-8:30 p.m., Cornelius Arts Center, 19725 Oak St., Cornelius, in the Oak Street Mill behind the police station – Opening reception for the Faculty Show featuring works by staff and instructors at Creative Art Exchange and Childrens Arts Project. The exhibit runs through Dec. 27. (See Galleries below for details. Information: 704-892-7323 or www.creativeartexchange.org.

Stephen Curry leads the Wildcats in an exhibition game Tuesday and their season opener Friday. (Tim Cowie photo)

FRIDAY, NOV. 14 and SUNDAY, NOV. 16, Davidson College Alumni Soccer Stadium – Southern Conference 2008 Men’s Soccer Championship, seminfinal and finals. Semifinal 1, Friday, 4:30 p.m., No. 1 Elon vs. No. 5 College of Charleston; semifinal 2, No. 7 UNC-Greensboro vs. No. 3 Georgia Southern. Final: Sunday, 1 p.m. Tickets $5 for adults, $2 for youth and students. Details at soconsports.com

FRIDAY, NOV. 14, 9 p.m., Davidson College Belk Arena – Davidson men’s basketball vs. Guilford, season opener. Tickets required.

SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 9:30 a.m., Davidson College Presbyterian Church Congregation House, Concord and Lorimer roads – Davidson AGLOW Community Lighthouse presents Resurrection Dance Ministry. Teresa Gardner, director of Zion Center for Worship and the Arts and Resurrection Dance Ministry, will share her experience in Israel during the Feast of Tabernacles Celebration. Want to express your love for the Lord through dance? Coffee and registration begin at 9 a.m. Wear comfortable clothes!

SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Homewood Suites, Griffith Street and Harbour Place Drive, off Exit 30 – Men in Balance, a faith-based non-profit organization that helps men with spiritual growth, presents a “Couples Communication Class.” It’s a hands-on workshop where couples can learn to improve communication. Limited to 10 couples. Registration $100 per couple. Details at meninbalance.org or by calling 704-895-8976.

SUNDAY, NOV. 16, 4-5 p.m., Town Hall, 216 S. Main St. – Davidson Historical Society presents a program on the history of Lake Norman. Cindy Jacobs, Mooresville historian and author of “Around Lake Norman,” and Rick Howard, a lake area developer and resident, talk about what the area was like before construction of the Cowan’s Ford dam. It’s the final event of the 2008 Davidson Reads series. Free. For more information, please call 704-892-6022.

ONGOING EVENTS

THROUGH NOV. 16 – Carolina Renaissance Festival is back for a 15th year at its home off N.C. 73 and Poplar Tent Road in Huntersville. They have games, rides, music, food, and 10 stages of entertainment. Open 10:30 to 5:30 p.m., rain or shine. Information at RenFestInfo.com, or call 704-896-5544.

FILM AND THEATER

NOV. 6-16, Armour Street Theater, Armour and Watson streets – Davidson Community Players production of “Working,” a musical based on the book by Studs Terkel. Nov. 6-8 & 12-16, 8 p.m.; Nov. 9, 15, 16, 2 p.m. More information: www.davidsoncommunityplayers.org

NOV. 12-22, Davidson College Cunningham Theatre Center Barber Theatre – College production of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” will inaugurate the newly renovated facility. Assistant Professor Mark Sutch will direct a student cast. Performances at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 12; Friday, Nov. 14; Sunday, Nov. 16; Friday, Nov. 21; and Saturday, Nov. 22, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, Nov. 15. General admission $8 for adults, $5 for seniors, and $4 for students with IDs. Tickets: 704-894-2135 weekdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The production contains adult content and is recommended only for those age 12 and over. More on the college website.

GALLERY OPENINGS & ART EVENTS

TOWN HALL, 216 S. Main St. – Davidson Housing Coalition unveils its 2009 Images of Hometowns photographic calendar. The calendars and most of the original photographs are being sold to raise money for the coalition’s HAMMERS emergency home repair program. Images will be on display through Nov. 30, and include several you’ve seen on DavidsonNews.net, by David Boraks and Brenda Barger. Details: www.davidsonhousing.org.

CORNELIUS ARTS CENTER, 19725 Oak St., Cornelius, in the Oak Street Mill behind the police station – Nov. 7 through Dec. 27: Instructors and staff at the Creative Art Exchange and Childrens Arts Project will show their work at a Faculty Show. Opening reception Friday, Nov. 14, 7-8:30 p.m. Gallery hours: Weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays by appointment. Information: 704-892-7323 or www.creativeartexchange.org.

"Poppies," a painting by Inge Couteller, is in the Lake Norman Art League show.

LAKE NORMAN ART LEAGUE GALLERY, South Main Square office building, 442 S. Main St. – Nov. 14-Jan. 23: Lake Norman Art League’s “Small Works 2008 Exhibit & Sale,” with paintings, prints, 3-D and other works by art league members. Opening reception Friday, Nov.14, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The Small Works Exhibit and Sale will be open to the public during Christmas in Davidson, Dec. 4-6, from 6 to 9 p.m. nightly. Gallery hours: Weekdays, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Details: www.LKNart.org

DAVIDSON COLLEGE VAN EVERY/SMITH GALLERIES, Davidson College Visual Art Center, Main and Griffith streets – Through Dec. 10: “Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh.” Related events: , 8 p.m., Davidson College Union 900 Room; opening reception Thursday, Oct. 16, 7-9 p.m., at the gallery. Hours: Weekdays: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. & Weekends: 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. (See our Oct. 17 “Letter from the Editor” about the show’s opening.)

"Let's Play," by Angela Alexander, at Merrill-Jennings Gallery.

MERRILL-JENNINGS GALLERY, 463 S. Main St. – Through Nov. 29: “Dogz n’ and Catz” show, dog and cat art by leading artists, to benefit Lake Norman Animal Rescue. Hours: Mondays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Details: 704-895-1213 or on the gallery’s new website, www.merrilljennings.com.

CHRISTA FAUT GALLERY, 19818 North Cove Road, Jetton Village, Cornelius – Through Nov. 11: “A Self That Touches All Edges,” new work by Ulysses Jackson. Nov. 18-Dec. 31: “Metamorphosis: From Jewelry to Sculpture,” featuring Hongsock Lee, Reiko Ishiyama, Barbara Bayne, Ashka Dymel and Christy Klug. Opening reception Saturday, Nov. 22, 4-6 p.m. Gallery hours: Weekdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., or by appointment. Information: www.christafautgallery.com or 704-892-5312.

WOODEN STONE, 445 S. Main St. – Functional fine art and hand-made objects. Special events: Nov. 15, 6-9 p.m., an evening with sculptor Andy Brinkley, of Hickory. Mr. Brinkley specializes in copper and brass sculpture inspired by nature, including gardens, forests, and more. Gallery hours: Mondays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sundays, 1-6 p.m. 704-892-1449. www.woodenstonegallery.com.

Sculpture by Andy Brinkley, at Wooden Stone, with a special event Sat. Nov. 15.

SO ALIVE GALLERY, 108 S. Main St. – Through Dec. 31: Artwork by local artists and artisans. Eight artists are being chosen for display of up to 10 pieces each. old at 50 percent commission. Gallery hours: Tuesdays to Fridays, 11-6, Mondays and Saturdays, 10-2. Details: 704-892-0044.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

• SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., St. Alban’s Church, 301 Caldwell Lane – St. Alban’s Holiday Bazaar, with handmade items including scarves, note cards, ornaments, items from the Holy Land, vintage jewelry, food, prize drawings and silent auction. All proceeds benefit Hope House and Episcopal Relief and Development. Directions and information on the church website.
• MONDAY, NOV. 17, 9 to 11 a.m., Lowe’s YMCA, Mooresville – flu shot clinic in partnership with Lake Norman Medical Center. Cost: $30 per person, Medicare accepted, available to those at least 18 years old.
• TUESDAY, NOV. 18, 9 a.m., Town Hall, 216 S. Main St. – Meeting of the joint Mooresville/Davidson Lake Davidson planning committee, which is studying the future and possible regulations governing the lake. Details, including minutes from the October meeting and new information about overlay zoning and water quality, on the Town of Davidson website.
• TUESDAY, NOV. 18, 7:30 p.m., Davidson College Presbyterian Church, Main Street and Concord Road – Organist Andre Lash performs Spanish Baroque organ works in addition to works by Mendelssohn, Bach, Vierne and other masters in the Organ at Davidson series. Free, donations encouraged. Details and directions at www.dcpc.org or call 704-892-5641.
• WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 6:30-8 p.m., Cornelius public library branch, 21105 Catawba Ave. – Davidson Elementary School PTA’s PTA-Too (Together Overcoming Obstacles) sponsors a free workshop for parents, teachers and staff called “How Sensory Affects Learning.” Led by occupational therapists Valerie Goodfriend and Norma Wright, it will explore how senses affect children’s abilities to perform in an academic environment. Please RSVP to Mary Phalen at maryphalen@bellsouth.net or 704-987-8249 by Monday, Nov. 17.
• DEC. 4-6, 6-9 p.m. nightly, downtown Davidson – Annual Christmas in Davidson festival, with food, music and other entertainment, more than 50 vendors, shopping at local stores, visits with Santa at the public library, a live nativity scene, carriage rides, strolling carolers and more. Sponsors still invited to participate. If you’re interested in sponsoring, please contact Sandy Lemons at sandy@downtowndavidson.org or 704-892-2118 or Margaret Martens at margaretmartens@gmail.com or 704-658-8730.

CALENDARS ON THE WEB

DAVIDSONNEWS.NET SCHOOL CALENDAR – Laurie Dennis’s most recent listing of school events, CLICK HERE>

TOWN OF DAVIDSON – Listings of public meetings, citizens committee meetings and other town events are available on the town website, http://www.ci.davidson.nc.us/

DAVIDSON COLLEGE – For an up-to-date listing of events on the college campus, visit the college calendar page.

DAVIDSON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH – http://davidsonumc.changemywebsite.com/calendar.asp

DAVIDSON COLLEGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH – Calendar of events. http://www.dcpc.org/article83232.htm

DAVIDSON PUBLIC LIBRARY BRANCH – Events calendar on Charlotte-Mecklenburg public library’s PLCMC.org website.

ST. ALBAN’S CHURCH online calendar – http://www.saintalbans-davidson.org/

ST. ALBAN’S SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD – http://www.stalbanssq.org/calendar.html

LAKE NORMAN SENIOR CALENDAR, at LKNSenior.com

MUSIC AT ST. ALBAN’S, 2008-9 concert season.

YOUR COMMUNITY CONNECTOR – online listing of alternative and holistic health information and events. http://www.yourcommunityconnector.com/

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