Current Exhibition"We're All Family Here: Preserving Community Heritage
in the Rogers Road Neighborhood of Chapel Hill"
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For the past four decades, the Rogers Road neighborhood in Chapel
Hill has often been at the center of a public debate about the impact
of the landfill located in their community. The neighborhood has
largely been defined in the public eye by this controversy; however,
the story of this community began several generations before the
placement of the landfill in 1972.
Inspired by the book Rogers Road, this exhibition provides an introduction
to some of the families who have lived in and shaped this historically
significant area from the 1700s to the present. Rogers Road is a
product of author Emily Eidenier Pearce’s partnership with
the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association, and was completed during
the association’s struggle to keep a solid waste transfer
station from being sited in their neighborhood. During the project
numerous neighborhood meetings were held and an archive of family
history documents was collected. As with many family histories,
there are gaps in the stories. The exhibition and the book should
be considered a beginning to the continuing investigation and preservation
of this community’s history. “We're All Family Here” opens June 12 and continues
through August 31, 2009. The North Carolina Collection Gallery is
located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill in Louis Round Wilson Library. The Gallery’s visitation
hours are Mondays through Fridays, 9:00-5:00; Saturdays, 9:00-1:00;
and Sundays, 1:00-5:00. Admission is free. For more information
or guided tours call 919-962-1172. |
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