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, May 15, 2017
Carolina’s Oldest Roads
Trinity Presbyterian Church. Dinner is at 6:30 followed by the program at 7:15. Those not having dinner are welcome to enjoy the program at no charge. To make a reservation for dinner use the order form in your MHA Newsletter or contact Barbara Taylor, 1016 Goshen Place, Charlotte, NC 28211, btaylor797@aol.com 980-335-0326.
Historian and Roads Scholar Tom Magnuson will describe and discuss original roads and trails in the Carolina Piedmont. This will include the physical factors of geology and geography that caused the roads to be where they were then, where they are today, why the early settlers chose to live there and why we live where we do today.
Tom Magnuson is the founder of the Trading Path Association and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of the South at UNC Chapel Hill. He specializes in finding remnants of the pre-colonial and colonial times in this area and protecting them from accidental destruction.
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
To the Tune of Yankee Doodle
Fellowship Hall of Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church. Refreshments at 9:30, business meeting at 10, and program at 11. Visitors are always welcome.
Janet Dyer will present this program about one of our oldest and most beloved tunes. Most Americans know the song “Yankee Doodle”. From the 1760’s when British soldiers sang it to mock their American allies in the French and Indian War to the Americans’ claiming it as their own during the American Revolution to the present. Find out more about the history of this popular tune. Listen to different versions of the tune and dust off your dancing shoes to learn a dance to “Yankee Doodle” – no experience required.
Janet is a MHA Docent with an interest and expertise in early music. You may have seen her when appeared before our group with her fellow musicians, The Limbertwigs.