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Photos: A day in #CLT

April 3, 2016

  Tilly and I spent the day in Charlotte April 2, visiting museums and wandering around town. Here are a few photos.

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Alishan sunrise. Worth getting up at 4am. Wednesday report: Morning in Tainan included a visit to Anping Treehouse, a one-time warehouse that has been swallowed by banyan trees. Creepy and cool, it had an Upside Down vibe. Other stops included Shennong old shopping street and a visit to the Agriculture God temple, as well as Anping Fort/Fort Provintia. Then it was off to the Alishan mountain area in Chiayi. We stopped for dinner at Fengqihu old street on the Alishan Railway, and finished with fresh Taiwan doughnuts. Tomorrow, sunrise on Alishan. We took the high speed rail south from Taipei Tuesday where we saw the countryside and arrived in Tainan. Lots of history and temples here. The train ride came after a morning viewing the Taipei Biennial exhibit at Taipei Fine Arts Museum. A whirlwind trip but so much to see. ##art #davidsonarthistory Spring Break trip. Monday in Taipei, an urban landscape tour including the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial, bats on a gate at the Presidential Guest House, trying out the foot-challenging reflexology rock foot path at 2-28 Peace Park, a Japanese Zen Temple where the god wore a winter hat, discovering a child's Stephen Curry drawing in the Metro, tasting Sichuan peppercorn lattes on Dihua Street with Shelley and @yukinazee . #davidsonarthistory spring break tour. Back inTaiwan after a 5-year absence ... I'm tagged ng along in the #davidsonarthistory Spring break art tour. We started at the National Palace Museum. Also had dinner with old friends and walked the city. New pavement markings around the NCDOT's Potts-Sloan-Beaty road project on Davidson's West Side signal more asbestos removal to come in the area. White "asbestos" markers show where soil testing in November 2025 found additional buried asbestos. Since December, NCDOT contractors have been removing asbestos-laden soil from land between Sloan and Potts streets, where a road connection is planned. NCDOT originally said in a Dec. 8 meeting that cleanup would take about a month. But workers on site have told me it's taking longer than expected. Asbestos from the nearby former Carolina Asbestos Co. mill on Depot Street (now Linden Mill) was spread across the neighborhood for decades in the 20th century. Some was removed as part of a Charlotte Water project a few years ago. Other tainted soil in people’s yards was cleaned up by the federal Environmental Protection Agency in 2017 and 2021. The cleanup has West Side residents concerned. Many have lost family members to asbestos related disease This snail was crawling through the park on the Friday #morningwalk.  Plus other sights and signs, including fresh "asbestos" markings at Roosevelt Wilson Park and around the NCDOT's Beaty-Sloan-Potts project. Thursday #morningwalk message. Window kitty and other Wednesday #morningwalk sights.
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