by luckgdme | Apr 29, 2024 | Bennett College, Civil Rights Movement, downtown greensboro, Greensboro, Greensboro Four, Greensboro NC, NCA&T, Sit In Movement, Student Sit Ins, Woolworths
Post #1 of 3 Without a doubt, the most extraordinary time in the history of Greensboro, NC was 64 years ago when four teenage college freshmen at NCA&T University helped change the course of the civil rights movement. These four young men, 17 and 18 years old,...
by luckgdme | Mar 1, 2024 | downtown, Greensboro, Localism, nc, See And Do, trolley
Hey there Greensboro Hopper Trolley fans!! The Hopper has four more months of funding and then…? We don’t know for sure, but its funding might not be extended if ridership does not increase before the end of June 2024. So let’s ride the trolley! Even...
by luckgdme | May 31, 2020 | Greensboro, Localism, Uncategorized
South End during the holidays 2019 There will be time tomorrow to Monday morning quarterback about who is to blame, what could have been done better, why Greensboro, why South End, where to go from here, and all.But for now, right now, the morning after, I need to...
by luckgdme | Apr 28, 2020 | Greensboro, Shopping
How can we create a silver lining for this pandemic? One way is to use these weeks to research and support buying fresh local foods from our community’s farmers, markets, butchers, bakers, and grocers. Here’s why and how. Most of us are trying to stay...
by luckgdme | Apr 19, 2020 | Eat & Drink, Greensboro, Localism, Shopping
Think about all the things you’ve been missing lately. Things like sending your children off to school, hugging your senior parents, getting your hair cut, having a drink out with your friends, watching current sports events… all of those things that you...
by luckgdme | Mar 8, 2020 | Greensboro, Localism, Shopping, Uncategorized
It’s International Women’s Day, and I want to give a shout-out to Greensboro’s independent women business owners. The proliferation of small, women-owned businesses in the neighborhoods of Greensboro…particularly in downtown, has been...