August 8, 2008

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Unfettered walk down Fayetteville St.

For my Monday lunchtime walk I went from my building at Hargett and Fayetteville Street all the way down to Memorial Auditorium and back. It was the first time since I’ve been in Raleigh that I could make that stroll without taking a massive detour around the ugly concrete monstrosity that was the old Raleigh Civic Center or the construction site that for a time replaced it.

The plastic road barriers are still partitioning the new Raleigh Marriott from the rest of Fayetteville Street, but foot traffic now flows freely from the north end of F-street to the south. This downtown thing is coming together nicely.

Stacking the forums on the biolab?

I’m really perplexed at the outpouring of support for the troubled Butner biodefense lab which appears in the WRAL forums today. In my opinion having deadly pathogens in my backyard is on par with having a nuclear waste dump there. Yet, there are posters in the WRAL forums who inexplicably loves them some anthrax.

Either someone’s stacking the forums, they don’t fully appreciated the danger of such a facility, or these people know what it is and truly think its a good idea.

Scavenger hunt in Raleigh August 23rd

A local group called Triangulator is planning to hold a scavenger hunt here in downtown Raleigh on Saturday, August 23rd. Looks like fun to me! Their announcement is below.

(By way of the Historic Oakwood email list)

Triangulator Part Deux: City of Oaks

People of the Triangle,

Back in May we held our inaugural Triangulator scavenger hunt in Durham. Over thirty people participated in the six hour multi-media, multi-modal (sub)urban (mis)adventure.

In the Bull City we climbed, we rhymed, and we memorialized, discovering coal chutes and hidden swimming pools and secret passageways in the process. We learned about why Durham was the city of medicine long before Duke Hospitals, unearthed the ghosts of the city’s industrial past and experimented with new uses for Fufu flour and Waxy Corn. But most importantly, we were able to see Durham in new ways: finding new intrigue and beauty in the places and people we pass by every day and discovering parts of the city (sometimes right around the corner) that we never knew existed. Check out some of the photos from the event on our interactive map (circa 1923).
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