Dear Friends, After our March meeting, we're off to a promising start! Our April meeting will be Monday, April 28th, 6:30 p.m., at the Davidson County Public Library, 602 South Main Street, Lexington. There's a printable meeting notice here: http://www.tradingford.com/meeting.html (Note the spiffy new - and shorter (whew!) - domain.) We need to reach more people if we're going to be effective. Please spread the word to people and organizations who'd be interested. (Notifying the newspapers and media outlets will be taken care of.) Please put on your thinking caps and come with ideas about how we can get NCDOT's attention!!! The latest on that poor Confederate earthwork that was run over and parked on by NCDOT trucks in January and February is that NCDOT now questions the opinions of the two experts who validated it, and their archaeologist wants to dig it up to see if it really is a Confederate earthwork. There wouldn't be anything left! I'd say this is an outrage if they hadn't passed "outrage" a long time ago! Press coverage: Trading Ford History vs. Progress, by Mark Wineka, Salisbury Post, March 23, 2003: http://salisburypost.townnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2003/March/23-165-23-1%20trading%20ford%20fight.txt Effort Seeks to Preserve Historic Area, by William Keesler, The Dispatch (Lexington), March 27, 2003: http://www.the-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=LD&Date=20030327&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=303270323&Ref=AR&Profile=1006&SectionCat=ARCHIVES14 Oh, WOW! POINT! POINT! Editorial - County Government Needs to Get Involved - Quickly - to Save the Yadkin Trading Ford, by William Keesler, The Dispatch, April 5, 2003: http://www.the-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=LD&Date=20030405&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=304050303&Ref=AR&Profile=1012&SectionCat=ARCHIVES14 Hope to see you on the 28th! Come early and get some Lexington barbeque. And don't forget the Rowan 250 Fest Parade on Friday (2:00 Main Street, Salisbury). Ann Trading Ford history: http://www.tradingford.com/ Save the Trading Ford: http://www.tradingford.com/save.html "Here is your country. Do not let anyone take it or its glory away from you. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches, or its romance. The World and the Future and your very children shall judge you according to [the way] you deal with this Sacred Trust." -- President Theodore Roosevelt