The MHA Newsletter comes out 4 times each year, in advance of the 4 meetings. It contains information about the upcoming meeting and other information of interest to the MHA membership.
The MHA Dandelion is the newsletter of the MHA Docents. It comes out 5 times each year, in January, March, May, September and November and contains news of the Docents, articles of interest to the history community and news of upcoming events at local historic sites.
Monday, November 18
Mecklenburg County and Charlotte in the Colonial Era
Native Americans, Scots-Irish, African Americans and Germans lived in colonial Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The presentation looks at the origins, histories, settlement patterns, and interaction of these groups. Developments in the area and across the colonies led to the founding of Mecklenburg County and the town of Charlotte.
A native of London, Dr. Hugh Dussek is a professor of history at Central Piedmont in Charlotte, North Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Union Institute & University and serves on the Board of Trustees for The Charlotte Museum of History. Hugh has given presentations on colonial and revolutionary history for the “Trail of History” television series on WTVI.
Tuesday, December 3
The Mills and the Music
Please join us in the Fellowship Hall of Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church for the MHA Docents’ December Tea and Luncheon, our gift to the history community to share with friends both old and new. The business meeting is at 9:45 am; the program at 10 will be followed by the tea. This year we will again accept donations for the Toys for Tots program. To participate bring a new, unwrapped toy.
Our program features the early 20th century music of Charlotte. In the 1930s more music was recorded in Charlotte than in Nashville? Yes! Learn about the Queen City’s heyday as a country and gospel recording center – sparked by the establishment of WBT, one of America’s first broadcasting radio stations and by our emergence as the hub of the nation’s major textile manufacturing region.
Dr. Tom Hanchett, Historian Emeritus at the Museum of the New South, author and Historian-in-Residence at the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room of the public library will expand on the topic and tell us how this all happened.
Docents: Please be at the church by 9:30 to arrange your dishes on the serving table. All docents should bring a dish to share for our Tea/Luncheon. We will be joined by many of our friends in the history community, so do be generous.