Arminta Foushee - On being the church historian (clip)
Interviewed by Kathryn Wall on June 23, 2022
Arminta Foushee (AF): I love history, and so I would end up being picked as the historian for the church. But this particular book, When Chapel Hill Was a Village by Cornelia Spencer Love, and it has information about the original churches in Chapel Hill, so of course St. Paul is included in this publication. I think I actually underlined some names. Yeah, and the A.D. Clark Pool, which is the pool at Hargraves Community Center.
Kathryn Wall (KW): And she gave some of the money for that pool, the author of that book, I believe, didn't she?
AF: Cornelia Spencer Love? She probably did, it would not surprise me. I don't know it to be a fact.
KW: It was an anonymous donation, but I believe in the interview she did with the Southern Oral History program, she said that she was the anonymous donor.
AF: Wow, that's special. I did not know that, they said probably the name Caldwell derives from the first University President and we pretty much know that it does, and that I told you Wilson Caldwell was the one that [] knows his funeral took place at that first, the white United Methodist Church. A lot of the prominent families churches establishments.
