the durham convention and visitors bureau just released some interesting survey results about how area residents feel about durham.
for what it's worth, i had to google "mcdougald" to found out where it was. (it's a public housing site near NCCU.) i used to live in walltown (the "distressed" area mentioned in the survey intro), which is located just north of duke's east campus.
Posted by xta at July 26, 2005 11:57 AM | TrackBackFascinating. Reyn Bowman and the Durham CVB continue to add data to the crusade!
And a funny thought -- will Durham ever become one of those cities that's so cool that it gets overrun with non-cool people? You know, like Seattle thinks happened to Seattle?
Posted by: Phil at July 27, 2005 12:04 AMI taught for 2 years at a school on the edge of MACdougald (that's how som folks say it). It is a severely depressed area - a side of Durham that lots of folks never see - except on the news. I also volunteered a lot at the Stanford L Warren branch of the Durham Public Library that's right on Fayetteville Street...a different world than where I came from in white, suburban, country club NC.
Posted by: John Boy at July 27, 2005 11:58 AM