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NHIA Monster Mash

Please come join us on Sunday, October 29, from 5-7pm for a Monster Mash. 

Treats, Halloween fun house, fun to be had.

Please come in costume. 

There will be a donation jar for our (now) annual fundraiser to buy Christmas gifts for the residents and workers at Pruitt Health. 

See you then. 

Open Board Meeting + Dessert Potluck

Please join us Friday, October 6, 2023, for a Dessert Pot-Luck and open Board Meeting, from 7pm-9pm

Have you ever wondered what goes on in our board meetings? Well, now is your chance to see us in action.  Friday, October 6, 2023, from 7-9pm we will be having an open Board Meeting at the New Hope Improvement Association building.  You are welcome to attend and join in the conversation.  The only thing you won’t be able to do is vote on any resolutions.

Please bring a dessert to share and get to know your neighbors… and board members.  And, who knows, maybe you will be interested in joining the board!

Berry Social

Please join us this Saturday night, from 7-9pm for games and berry fun desserts!

Bring your favorite berry dessert and a game or two.
This event is free (though donations are always welcome).

New Hope Improvement Association

4014 Whitfield Rd
Chapel Hill NC
Saturday, June 24, 2023
7:00 – 9:00pm

Turkey Run Reunion

Duke University had decided that running events will no longer be allowed in Duke Forest and that includes the New Hope Turkey Run every Fall and their own Pine Cone Pacer every Spring.

Our longtime sponsors had already funded the T-shirts we were going to give out for this year’s race and we wanted to make them available specially to folks who have participated in the Turkey Run for years or in some cases decades! We decided to have a get together at the New Hope Improvement Association building on the usual date of the Turkey Run (this year Nov. 12) at the usual start time 9 am and these T-shirts will be available for free (donations to support NHIA will be gratefully accepted too).

There will also be a Nature Hike on part of the Turkey Run race course led by UNC Botany professor Dr. Robert Peet and perhaps some refreshments, but sadly no usual Turkey Run breakfast. For those interested we will show a video that was made of the Dec. 5, 1992 Turkey Run – that would have been the 10th edition and this year would have been the 40th !!! We hope you can join us next Saturday morning and we appreciate all the support you have provided over the years.

Civil War History Talk 8/18/22

TALK BY ERNEST A DOLLAR, JR.

HEARTS TORN ASUNDER: TRAUMA IN THE CIVIL WAR’S FINAL CAMPAIGN IN NORTH CAROLINA

Thursday, August 18, 7-8:30 pm

New Hope Improvement Association 4114 Whitfield Rd, Chapel Hill; next door to the New Hope Volunteer Fire Department.

Mr. Dollar, the Director of the City of Raleigh Museum and Pope House Museum and Civil War scholar will talk about the last couple of weeks before the surrender of Gen. Johnston to Gen. Sherman at the home of James and Nancy Bennet. He will speak about the impact of the end of the war, especially after Lee’s surrender to Grant. As war weariness spread among the troops, the generals and leader of both the Union and Confederate troops were hard pressed to maintain discipline. There were wholesale desertions, increasing drunkenness, accompanied by looting and arson. The troops were spread between Raleigh and Hillsborough including Chapel Hill. Cornelia Philips Spenser describes women dressed in mourning vails trying to find food for their families in fear of soldiers, both Confederate and Union. Slave narratives collected in  the 1930s provide a glimpse into the hoped for freedom along with uncertainty about the future.  This is not the history found in usual books that fail to describe the execution of slaves by Confederate soldiers if they expressed a desire for freedom, and the indiscriminate killing of Blacks by Union soldiers. Come spend a fascinating hour learning about history that did not make it into history books or the “Lost Cause” of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Refreshments will be served. There  should be time for informal discussion with the author.