Look at the two circles on the back of the bill. An uncapped pyramid in the left circle, signifying that we were not even close to being finished, has a lighted face and the western side is dark. Our new country had not begun to explore the West and decided what we could do for Western Civilization. Inside the capstone [...]
As historians and would-be historians reconstruct the Civil War in this sesquicentennial year, Levi Coffin emerges anew as a hero of that tragic era. His Quaker upbringing in Guilford County assured his opposition to slavery, but it was his boyhood observations that persuaded him to defy federal and state law to help escaped slaves achieve freedom. Among the fugitives he [...]
Allen Trelease, Emeritus Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is author of numerous books on southern history including “White Terror,” the definitive work on the Klu Klux Klan. Levi Coffin, the Quaker abolitionist, sometimes called President of the Underground Railroad, was born in the New Garden community in Guilford County in 1798. [...]
Well•Spring Services, Inc., has entered into an agreement with the Guilford County Adult Center for Enrichment to integrate ACE’s services into the recently formed Well•Spring Services program. ACE joins the Well•Spring Retirement Community, an accredited not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Greensboro, and PACE of the Triad, also in Greensboro. Well•Spring Services, Inc., is dedicated to exceeding the needs [...]
