First, my apologies for the late blog this week - we had a bit of a software glitch -but we're back online. And since we're between snow events, I thought it would be fun to see images and read accounts of snowfalls in Davidson history.
January 25 was the birthday anniversary of the National Poet of Scotland, Robert Burns, often affectionately known as "Bobby."
The December 9, 2009 issue of the Davidsonian reported on plans for reviving Mid-Winter with a Winter Fest. The original mid-winters were organized by the Pan-Hellenic Council (later renamed the Interfraternity Council) and featured dances.
Most of us experience the campus and town at ground level. What we see and how far can depend on how tall we are. Aerial photographs in the archives can make us taller - and let us see our world from a different perspective.
Happy 2010 - to start off this year, we'll take a look at Davidson a century ago.
As we come up on the college's holiday break, the Around the D Crew would like to wish all our readers happy holidays. The college will be closed from December 24 to January 3. To keep you entertained, we're offering a selection of new digital projects and blogs to explore.
Davidson will be getting a new movie theater in 2010 - 95 years after the first films were shown in Davidson and 55 years since the last theater burned.
What are Artists' Books? Stephen Bury defines them as "books or book-like objects, over the final appearance of which an artist has had a high degree of control; where the book is intended as a work of art in itself."1
Every year since 1989, Davidson residents and college students have gathered during the first weekend of December to celebrate Christmas in Davidson.
The December 1895 issue of the Davidson Monthly contains an editorial protesting required attendance for a Thanksgiving service. After noting that a survey the year before had revealed 78% of the student body opposed compulsory attendance for religious services, the editorial defended daily chapel before going on to declare, " A most preposterous things it is, to try to make a man thankful when he is not, and equally as preposterous, if he is thankful to make him declare his thankfulness in a way he would not." and "evidently if thanksgiving be under constraint, it is no longer thanksgiving, but a mockery and a sham." (click on the image for the full editorial).
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