Monthly Archives: May 2008

Museum of History Family Day Features Coast

May 8, 2008 – 2:41 pm

Watch a dramatic re-creation of a ship rescue, see decoy carvers at work, meet an Albemarle Sound fisherman, hear fish tales and sea songs, and experience much more. An upcoming Family Day, entitled “North Carolina’s Coast: Working the Waters,” at the N.C. Museum of History on Saturday, June 7, promises to be an event filled […]

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Literary Pen-Pals

May 1, 2008 – 4:24 pm

RALEIGH  — North Carolina students are talking back to authors.  As participants in the 2008 “Letters About Literature” contest, 1,483 middle and high school students communicated with an author about how reading the writer’s book has made a significant difference in the student’s life.  In an age of iPods and wii, these students find that […]

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Bentonville Battlefield

May 1, 2008 – 12:20 pm

 
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Donnie Taylor, site manager for the Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site, takes viewers on a tour of the Harper House (ca. 1855), which was used during the battle as a hospital.  The house is furnished as a Civil War field hospital. 
The Battle of Bentonville, fought March 19-21, 1865, was the last full-scale action of the […]

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