Is it a signed keg of bootleg whiskey? Or a bedwarmer?
Nothing like having April showers in March – but we do need the rain. For our readers who are staying in to avoid the damp chill, we have a mystery photo we want you to identify for Jan Blodgett.
More on Jan’s photo today as well as an engagement announcement for Anna Causey, news of recent Habitat workers, and a note on the Village Inn.
DAVIDSON COLLEGE ARCHIVIST NEEDS YOUR HELP
The Davidson College archivist is looking for answers about this piece of pottery.
Hard to believe that Davidson College Archivist Jan Blodgett could ever be stumped. A recent email, however, has her and the rest of her department scratching their heads. Someone (address unknown) picked up a special piece of pottery at a flea market in New Mexico. It is perhaps a bed warmer/hot water bottle or, as one person suggested, a container for bootleg whiskey! Measuring about a foot in length, it has an inscription reading “AS Sept 7 33 Davidson, N.C. 3-10 p.m.” The words are in clay slip and then painted with pitch or black paint – meaning it was signed before it was fired in a kiln.
Jan thinks that someone from Davidson took a pottery class and marked the piece to be able to distinguish it after firing. It would not have been connected to college art courses since in 1933 classes did not start until mid-September. Any suggestions? Possible leads on pottery classes/kilns in our area at that time? Respond to Around Davidson at the email below or contact Jan Blodgett at jablodgett@davidson.edu. Hope one of our knowledgeable readers can solve the mystery.
ANNA CAUSEY IS ENGAGED
Congratulations to Anna Causey and Aaron Pannebaker who are engaged and plan to marry this summer. Anna met Aaron at Lenoir Rhyne University her freshman year where both were members of their college’s A cappella choir. Aaron graduated with a BS in Music in 2006, and Anna graduated in 2008 with a nursing degree. Currently, Aaron is the band director at Bunker Hill High School in Catawba Co., and Anna works at Levine Children’s Hospital in pediatric surgical recovery.
Aaron Pannebaker and Anna Causey
Aaron is the son of Dr. Jeffery and Mrs. Linda Pannebaker of Silver Spring , Md. Anna is the daughter of Robbie Causey, of Cornelius, and Ken and Nancy Causey of Denver, NC. The wedding will take place at Belk Chapel on the campus of Queen’s University in Charlotte on July 18, 2009.
HABITAT HELPERS FROM NEAR AND FAR
In our area one does not have to look far to see the results of Habitat for Humanity. Volunteers of every size and skill representing church, civic or other club group, gather to build new homes for those less fortunate. This month students on Spring Break from as far away as Maine, Iowa and Illinois came to Davidson to help.
Students from Coe College in Iowa braved North Carolina rain and mud to help build a Habitat home.
The students were part of a Habitat International Program called the Collegiate Challenge. This program “offers high school and college-aged students year-around opportunities to use their vacations to serve a community by volunteering to build homes.” Each students donates $100 to Our Towns Habitat as part of their service. The team sent to our neck of the woods was housed at the Davidson United Methodist Church, in their Molly McKay Youth House. Their meals were donated by Our Towns Habitat staff and area restaurants.
The first group of 19 came from Husson College in Bangor, Maine. Hoping for warm, sunny North Carolina weather, they instead spent the first day shoveling snow and scraping ice from the parking lot of the Habitat store on South Main Street in Cornelius. The rest of their week was spent framing, painting and installing flooring in Habitat homes. Two other groups came the second week of March representing Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Monmouth College in Monmouth, IL. These 21 young people worked on the future home for the Nsabwa family in Davidson.
Thanks to Chris Boone for this worthwhile news story. It is always nice to applaud college students who are giving of their time and talent to make a difference.
NOTEWORTHY NOTES
Davidson’s Village Inn
Don’t forget to turn on your television this evening at 9 p.m. to catch “North Carolina Weekend” on UNC-TV. This program will have a feature on our own Davidson Village Inn and interview Gordon and Rebecca Clark who are beginning their 16th year as innkeepers. Some guests were also asked about their experience at the Inn and in our town. A nice tribute to the hard working Clarks and their expertise at making visitors to Davidson feel at home.
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