Downtown Greensboro, NC

Downtown Greensboro, NC

Tuesday, January 17, 2012







STOP SOPA!








STOP SOPA!


This site has gone dark today in protest of the U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA). The U.S. Congress is about to censor the Internet, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill these bills to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. Learn more at AmericanCensorship.org





Thursday, July 14, 2011

Green Hill Cemetery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Green Hill Cemetery is Greensboro's oldest cemetery, it officially opened in 1887.  It encompasses 51 acres and is recognized as a place of respect and respite.  Greensboro's former leaders including mayors, newspaper editors, life insurance and railroad magnates, educators, and those for whom many Greensboro streets are named, were laid to rest in this “open air museum”.


Many of the cemeteries gravestones show their age and have toppled and disintegrated.  According to Greensboro, grave sites are private property, so Greensboro can not step in to repair the gravestones.  The Friends of Green Hill Cemetery work hard to maintain the grounds and offer tours to help raise money for their mission.  

Thursday, June 23, 2011

The Jefferson Standard Building

 
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The Jefferson Standard Building is a 233 ft skyscraper in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was completed in 1923 as the headquarters for Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co. (now known as Lincoln Financial Group) and has 18 floors. Until it was superseded by the Nissen Building in Winston-Salem in 1927, it was the tallest building in North Carolina (succeeding the Independence Building in Charlotte) and the tallest building between Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.