September 30, 2008 – 1:18 pm
WINNABOW—Find out all about how colonial settlers lived at Brunswick Town/Ft. Anderson’s Heritage Days program Saturday, Oct. 4. From 10 a.m.-4 pm., visitors to the site can watch costumed interpreters demonstrating colonial crafts including candlemaking and stenciling. The kids can play with 18th century toys such as buzzsaws, whirligigs, and Jacobs Ladders. Visitors can even [...]
September 29, 2008 – 4:27 pm
FOUR OAKS – The evocative aroma of assorted homemade dishes cooked over on open hearth will fill the kitchen at Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site during a fall civilian living history program scheduled Saturday, Oct. 4 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Because of shortages, food substitutes such as sweet potato coffee, “artificial oysters” (corn substituted for [...]
September 29, 2008 – 2:57 pm
ASHEVILLE – The Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site announces three programs in honor of the famous writer’s 108th birthday. On Oct. 3, 9:30 am -10:00 pm “What is this Dream of Time” reading on the front porch featuring performers Charlie Flynn-McIver and Deborah Austin, joined by harpist Maricia deBary, produced in cooperation with WCQS [...]
September 29, 2008 – 1:32 pm
RALEIGH – Storytellers at the North Carolina State Fair may offer up drumming, strumming or song and dance this year. It will be part of the exhibit from the N. C. Department of Cultural Resources, whose 2008 theme is “Telling Our Stories.” The family friendly free performances will be made available at 6 p.m. most [...]
September 24, 2008 – 1:45 pm
FREMONT – The Charles B. Aycock State Historic Site in Fremont will present its free “Fall on the Farm” fest on Saturday, Oct. 4, bringing the spirit of 19th-century harvest time to the present. From 12-4 p.m., share an old-fashioned farm experience with costumed interpreters to make candles, shell corn, spin cotton, tour the kitchen [...]
September 24, 2008 – 1:35 pm
STATESVILLE – Time travel back to late-1700s frontier North Carolina at the fourth annual 18th-Century Trade Faire at Ft. Dobbs State Historic Site in Statesville, to be presented from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4-Sunday, Oct. 5. At the site where soldiers once defended frontier settlers during the French and Indian War, visitors will have [...]
September 23, 2008 – 8:35 am
RALEIGH – The official dedication of the N.C. State Historical Highway Marker for Stede Bonnet, “Gentleman Pirate” will be at noon on Friday, Sept. 26, on N.C. Highway 211 in Southport, under the direction of the N.C. Maritime Museum in Southport. N.C. Representative Bonner Stiller, Southport Mayor Sandra Spencer and others will mark the occasion [...]
September 22, 2008 – 4:33 pm
RALEIGH – For the first time ever, the best among North Carolina’s professional and amateur photographers will be showcased in a traveling exhibit organized by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources from October 2008 through December 2009. The Telling Our Stories Photography Exhibit celebrates the 2008 Cultural Resources “Telling Our Stories” theme, and will be [...]
September 19, 2008 – 4:20 pm
BEAUFORT – The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources today announced completion of an evaluation report of the Maritime Museum expansion site at Gallants Channel, Beaufort, N.C., prepared by members of a statewide review committee. Committee Chair Ellen Newbold of Rose Hill, N.C. said “This report offers a perspective that incorporates many desires expressed by [...]
September 18, 2008 – 8:10 am
Tiffianna Honsinger, state capitol historian, and John Mintz, assistant state archaeologist, recently spoke with Bruce Ferrell of the North Carolina News Network radio chain about the State Capitol’s history and design, as well as an archaeological project to learn about the original design and materials of the sidewalks around the Capitol. Click here to listen [...]
September 17, 2008 – 10:49 am
Come see the benefit performance “Oldest Living Confederate Widow: Her Confession” with Jane Holding Friday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. in the Tryon Palace Visitor Center Auditorium. Meet Jane Holding and Allan Gurganus, author of the New York Times best selling novel, “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All” at a reception and book signing following [...]
September 12, 2008 – 6:08 pm
RALEIGH – Researchers on the wreck of the presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), Blackbeard’s flagship, will conduct the fall dive expedition Sept. 15-Nov. 7, and they are thinking big. The highlight of the thousands of artifacts they expect to recover is a cannon about eight feet long and weighing more than a ton, at about [...]
September 11, 2008 – 8:08 am
KURE BEACH – Queen Anne’s Revenge Project Director Mark Wilde-Ramsing will speak about annual fall dive on the shipwreck of the presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s flagship, on Tuesday, Sept. 16. The 7 p.m. public presentation at the Southport Community Building on Bay Street is sponsored by the N.C. Maritime Museum in Southport. Registration is [...]
September 10, 2008 – 10:51 am
North Carolina’s rich traditions continue through individuals such as storyteller Alan Hoal and third-generation tinsmith Peter Blum. Both men will demonstrate their talents during free programs at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. Summer Performance Series: Alan Hoal Alan Hoal tells legendary Jack tales that have been passed down for generations in Appalachia. His [...]
September 10, 2008 – 10:45 am
As crisp, cool autumn days approach, the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh offers plenty of reasons to get out and enjoy the season. October brings a full slate of programs for all ages. Get ready for the upcoming election during a Music of the Carolinas performance with rousing presidential campaign songs from the past. [...]