Visit Durham Recently? Share Your Experience.
Tell us about your experiences while visiting Durham, North Carolina. If your experiences relate to misleading/unclear signage within or leading to Durham, click here.
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For non-signage-related messages, email your posting, with your name and "Share Your Durham Experience" in the subject line, to webmaster@durham-cvb.com. The Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau reserves the right to omit offensive or vulgar language from comments submitted for posting.
Saturday, December 9, 2006
I was born, raised, and schooled in Durham. I have been gone for a very long time, but take every opportunity to proudly tell people where I am from! I know my beloved hometown has changed over these many years—Durham High is a cooperative school, some of the tobacco warehouses are now condominiums and shopping areas, the Durham Bulls now play in a grand stadium (I spent many a summer evening at the old field off Foster Street). When I left Durham, RTP consisted of two buildings!!! The list goes on. Durham has grown and evolved. Many nights, I think in retrospect—I should have never left!
Glenda Wolf
Bedford, Texas
Thursday, May 2, 2006
I'm glad the bureau is taking an aggressive stance on the media's perception of Durham, regarding the Duke lacrosse scandal.
My daughter (Caucasian) is a Junior at Duke. In her 3 years there, she has NEVER once mentioned any racial tensions, nor have any of her friends. She even lived last semester in a mixed racial area off East campus, near downtown, and she felt totally safe.
My husband and I always enjoy our visits to Durham and love the wonderful four-star restaurants there. I hope you continue your campaign to promote Durham as a nice, safe and enriching place to live, work and attend school.
Mary Hildebrandt
Paradise Valley, Arizona
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Although born and reared here, I moved to N.J. in the '60s and commuted to N.Y.C. for work. I returned in the '90s and must say, like Dorothy of Oz, "There's no place like home." There's cultural diversity, great restaurants, good schools & colleges, not to mention great weather and documented, well managed government. And there's no image problem; it's just that folks here aren't timid about airing dirty laundry instead of hiding it.
"F4Whit"
Durham, North Carolina
Friday, January 27, 2006
Recently, I had the opportunity to travel to Durham for a job interview. I am currently a resident of Alabama, and while I was born here, the lack of progressive opportunities began to take a toll. I traveled via car across I-40 and found the scenery beautiful, but I was pleasantly surprised when I arrived in the city. You can see the investment in the downtown area, and I was impressed by the number of television commercials touting the promotion of good schools. As the father of a one-year-old child, education is a priority in my family. As I await the decision regarding employment, I see forward movement the city is making, and I look forward to our possible move.
Alex DeJarnett, GCDF
Sheffield, Alabama
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Each June, my church along several others converge on Durham for a week. Our ministry's parent organization is headquartered there. Coming to Durham each year is just like Christmas morning for me and my daughter. We start planning for our trip months in advance. I enjoy exploring the area and finding little surprises all over Durham. The people are very friendly. We have plenty of things to do as far as the convention is concerned, but in our down time I want to make sure that I get to see more sights in Durham this year. We will definitely get to Magic Wings Butterfly House this year. It sounds great! Durham...can't wait to get there!
R. Allen
Henrico County, Virginia
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Hello my name is Anna Tucker. I moved to Durham in 1982 and lived there until April of 1998. The whole time I lived there the only real problem I had with Durham was there was no downtown area. I have moved to Louisville, Ky., where they have re-done their downtown area. I only wish someone there in Durham would take the Bull by the horns and start making downtown Durham a place for all to go and enjoy shopping, eating, etc.
Anna Tucker, ISU
Louisville, Kentucky
Editor’s Note: Downtown Durham has seen many great changes since the 1990s. In fact, public and private investment in Downtown since 1998 totals $143,232,293, according to Downtown Durham Inc. Last year saw the opening of Phase One of American Tobacco Historic District—one of the most ambitious, largest, and farthest-reaching historic preservation and renovation projects in N.C. history. Currently, the largest historic rehabilitation project in state history is underway at the former Liggett tobacco buildings Downtown. For more details on these and other New Visitor Developments, click here.
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