Record #:

2268

Author(s):

Sasser, Bill

Abstract:

To clean up their communities, neighbors in East Durham have joined forces with the Durham police. The program, Partners Against Crime, includes community policing, property redevelopment, and citizen involvement to help improve their neighborhoods.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 13 Issue 17, Apr 1995, p12-13, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Durham--Social conditions; Crime prevention--Citizen participation--Durham; Neighborhood--Durham; Durham--Police department

Record #:

2419

Author(s):

Sasser, Bill

Abstract:

During the late 1940s to mid-1950s, Beat generation author Jack Kerouac spent time writing and creating on visits with his sister and her husband, Caroline and Paul Blake, in Big Easonburg Woods, a small crossroads outside Rocky Mount.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 13 Issue 30, July 1995, p16-18, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969; Beat generation; Authors, American