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2012 September Newsletter Volume 9, No. 3 Mecklenburg Historical Association September 2012 Dinner Meeting Monday, September 24, 2012 6:30 pm - Dinner; Program follows at 7:15 pm Fellowship Hall Trinity Presbyterian Church 3115 Providence Road Charlotte, NC 28211 Upcoming Dinner Program “Captain Jack Rides Again” By Tony Zeiss Monday, September 24th, at Trinity Presbyterian Dr. Zeiss, trusted to assure that the interpretation along Church. Dinner is at 6:30 followed by the program at president of the trail is historically accurate. We are 7:15. Those not having dinner are welcome to enjoy Central Pied- fortunate to have someone of his stature as the program at no charge. To make reservations for mont Com- a major player in this endeavor. Dr. Zeiss is dinner use the order form on page 3 and mail to munity Col- the recipient of the 2012 Whitney M. Young Linda Dalton, 2401 Sharon Road, Charlotte, NC lege, is pas- Humanitarian Award presented by The Ur- 28211 or contact Linda at 704-661-8470 or sionate about ban Lengue; the 2012 Jack Callaghan Cor- [email protected]. history. He nerstone Award presented by Goodwill In- was instru- dustries of the Southern Piedmont, and the Dr. Tony Zeiss will appear as Mecklenburg patriot mental in 2012 recipient of the UNC Charlotte Distin- Captain James Jack. We are all familiar with Cap- situating the guished Service Award. Dr. Zeiss and his tain Jack’s heroic ride to Philadelphia in 1775 carry- Captain Jack wife, Beth, have two sons and two grandchil- ing the newly penned Mecklenburg Declaration of statue in the dren. Independence and the Mecklenburg Resolves to the Little Sugar Creek Greenway at the very Continental Congress. But there was much more to visible corner of 4th Street and Kings Drive. Tony’s presentations are filled with humor, the man than this one meritorious journey. Just who He has also actively raised funds and enthusiasm, and energy; we’re sure to have was James Jack, and why was he chosen to be the planned for future statues and plaques along a rousing good time. bearer of these treasonous documents We’ll hear all the Trail of History. Because of his immer- about this interesting fellow and the times he lived in sion in local history he is one of those en- from the man himself. Inside this issue: Remarks from the President 2 Charlotte Museum of History... 2 Charlotte Liberty Walk 3 Membership Renewals 3 Reservation Form 3 MHA Docent Program 4 The History Calendar 5-6 The MHA meets in Trinity Presby- terian Church’s Fellowship Hall. 3115 Providence Road PAGE 222 MHA NEWS | MECKLENBURG HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Remarks from the President amazing program planned for us on the histo- See you on September 24th to meet Captain Greetings to everyone! The first of our two fall ry of WBT radio, which celebrates its 90th Jack! programs will be a great one with Dr. Tony anniversary this year. Three Charlotteans Zeiss coming to us as Captain James Jack. decided to pool their equipment and set up a Linda Dalton, President Please don’t miss this informative and enter- radio station in one of their homes in 1920. In [email protected] taining program. The installation of the history April of 1922, they were issued a license for 704.661.8470 exhibit on Concourse A at the Charlotte Doug- the first commercial radio station in the South- las International Airport is complete, featuring east. The call letters were…WBT. Artifacts Captain James Jack. We are thrilled with this will be on display for this truly local and inter- opportunity to share part of Charlotte’s history esting program. Please mark your calendars with all the visitors who come through the for November 12th. airport. The picture of the exhibit includes Audrey Millichamp, MHA Docent Chairman. Special thanks to Jim and Ann Williams who Please look for the exhibit when you visit the produce the MHA Docent newsletter and allow airport. me to borrow heavily from it! Let me know if you have any suggestions for MHA and Our November dinner meeting will be on Mon- please bring your friends to our dinner meet- day, November 12th (in order to avoid ings and encourage them to join. Thanksgiving week). Jane Johnson has an building to see how it might be best used to serve the 1960’s for example. We want to make sure rare relics The Charlotte Museum of community. The Museum building was built in 1999 of Charlotte’s history continue to be preserved and and has 32,000 sq. feet. This building is more than made accessible to the most people possible. We are History is Not History can be supported by the History Museum alone, so looking at how best and where best to preserve and we are looking for partners in the nonprofit communi- offer these items for public study. Some will stay with In May the Charlotte Museum of History an- ty to come share these quarters with us. We are the Charlotte Museum of History and some might be nounced that they were temporarily suspend- reaching out to any nonprofit with education, history better offered through other history organizations. I ing public operations. Financial problems, or culture in their mission statement and quantitative heard a rumor we were selling our collection and that Is many resulting from the recession, made it measures of program excellence. not only untrue, but not good practice – we were en- impossible to continue with business as usual. trusted with these items over past decades and need to It seemed prudent to step back and explore Another plan underway is looking at how and when respect the intentions of the donors and collectors who we can re-open the Hezekiah Alexander home site shared them with the Museum. their options. Meanwhile rumors arose that and grounds to the public and school tours. We the museum was permanently closed, and the currently offer “Guide by Cell” phone tours for the And of course, we are planning our program areas for 1774 Alexander home would be abandoned. general public Tuesdays through Sundays from 10 the future. We are looking at the possibility of bringing These rumors are entirely false. Hezekiah am to 5 pm but we hope to have docents and volun- history closer to the community by being less bound to Alexander’s beautiful rock house is safe. It is teers recruited to help us make Charlotte’s historic the Shamrock Road location, though still using that as owned by the Methodist Church, and is leased home once again accessible to the public and school our ‘base camp.’ We are exploring ideas for another to the museum for maintenance and operation groups in early 2013. In order to do this, we will location and/or using others’ premises to tell Charlotte’s have to rely more on volunteer docents than in the stories and share our local history. as an historic site. The church and the Al- past when we had some paid staff to help greet dersgate retirement community have always tours, work in the gift shop, and interpret the history On September 15, we are having a one-time special been good stewards of the historic home and of the house and the Alexander family. event at the Charlotte Museum of History, An Historic will certainly continue to be so in the future. Evening, for the public to experience what the Alexan- We have recently re-opened the Museum building for der family life was like at twilight. We will have other The museum is hard at work reassessing their special events with a contracted professional meet- history organizations sharing information tables and situation and making great progress. The ing planner. We evaluated the rates we charged for materials, food trucks in our parking lot for refreshment special events and found our ‘advertised’ rates were and some community information sessions for those Dandelion editors asked the museum’s interim competitive but in reality, we were offered very large interested to hear more about what’s being planned for director Kathy Ridge to submit an article out- discounts to most every group and as a result, suf- the Museum, and to ask questions and share ideas with lining their plans and progress. She was de- fered financial losses. We have now modified our us. We hope to see many of you there! lighted for the opportunity. The following is rates and plan to be consistent in our pricing includ- her report. ing offering nonprofit groups a 20% discount. There Kathy Ridge is information now on the Museum’s website includ- Interim Director, Charlotte Museum of History - - - - ing an information request form for any group desir- - - - - August 20, 2012 ing to rent space for an upcoming special event: www.Charlottemusuem.org Kathy Ridge is also hosting community input The Charlotte Museum of History regrettably had to discussions at the Museum during the Sept. 15 close operations to the public temporarily beginning Thanks to dedicated and very conscientious volun- event at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 pm. Anyone who teers, we have underway a full inventory of the Mu- May 26 but is very much alive! Since the tempo- wants to know what is being planned or with seum’s collections – over 7,000 items. We are rary suspension of public operations the remaining opinions and ideas should attend and express staff, of program director, historian and curator, and learning that many of these items are not from Char- interim director, Kathy Ridge, has been hard at work lotte/Mecklenburg.
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