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Today’s show highlights some of the stories found in Cultural Resources 2008 theme, “Telling Our Stories. First up, Fay Mitchell takes a look as some unusual donations to the Museum of History. (:24)
“Letters About Literature,” a project of The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, [...]
RALEIGH - A hard-fought battle for the 2008 N.C. History Bowl championship came to a blazing finish late this afternoon with West Craven Middle School of New Bern winning the consistently tough competition against finalist McDougle Middle School of Chapel Hill.
Students from seven middle schools across the state (including two from the Craven County/New Bern [...]
During the recent State Employee Recognition Week, State Archaeologist Steve Claggett shared his story. The Office of State Archaeology is part of the Division of Archives and History in the Department of Cultural Resources.
RALEIGH - “Who was North Carolina’s longest serving governor?” “Name the two women pirates who served on the crew of Captain “Calico Jack” Rackham.” “The bloodiest slave revolt in American history occurred along the Virginia-North Carolina border in 1831. Who led this slave uprising?” (Answers: Gabriel Johnston, Anne Bonny and Mary Read, and Nat Turner.) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]