Monthly Archives: October 2008

“Telling Our Stories” State Archives’ Photographs from the Past

October 13, 2008 – 1:38 pm

RALEIGH – A farmer with oxen at the end of the work day, a women’s basketball team in bloomers, a baby picture of former Secretary of State Thad Eure, and a tobacco festival queen bedecked in a gown of dried tobacco leaves, are among the treasured photographs from the North Carolina State Archives traveling with [...]

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QAR in the News

October 10, 2008 – 9:10 am

     Researchers on the wreck of the presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), Blackbeard’s flagship, are conducting the fall dive expedition through Nov. 7.  From time to time, they host visitors.  Click here to read a Carteret News-Times article about detectives from West Virginia who came to work on furthering their underwater investigative procedures.
     The QAR sank in [...]

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Town Creek Indian Mound Celebrates Fall Harvest

October 8, 2008 – 2:10 pm

MT. GILEAD - Just as American Indians did a thousand years ago, Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site in Mt. Gilead celebrates the annual harvest season Saturday, Oct.11. An annual living history program, Eastern Woodlands Day will highlight how American Indians who prospered during the Woodland Period (ca. 1000 B.C.-1200 A.D.) lived. From 10 [...]

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Alamance Battleground Holds Colonial Living Week Oct. 13-17

October 8, 2008 – 2:03 pm

BURLINGTON - How piedmont North Carolinians lived during the 1700’s will be recreated for over 1,500 middle-school students at Alamance Battleground State Historic Site Oct. 13-17 during its annual Colonial Living Week. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily, costumed interpreters will demonstrate colonial-era skills and crafts, while interacting with the youngsters and offering some [...]

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N.C. Citizens Invited to Talk About Arts Interest and Needs

October 6, 2008 – 1:13 pm

The North Carolina Arts Council invites the public to share ideas about how citizens can have more arts experiences in their daily lives and how partnerships between the state and local communities can build a robust economy through the arts.
Public meetings have been scheduled in Asheville, Winston-Salem and Greenville this fall so that citizens can [...]

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Plain Talk on the North Carolina’s Coastal Plains

October 3, 2008 – 8:26 am

RALEIGH – Commercial and residential development in coastal North Carolina have increased dramatically in the past 25 years. Archaeologists, anthropologists and other scholars will gather at East Carolina University on Oct. 11 to discuss and review the approximate 12,000 year old archaeological landscape along the coast.
“With the exception of increased coastal erosion, the basic landscape [...]

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Museum Sleuths: Whatchamacallits and Thingamajigs

October 2, 2008 – 10:58 am

An 8-year-old accompanies her mother to an antique shop, and she spies an odd-looking contraption. “What’s this?” she asks, while reaching for a 1960s record player. Before you know it, items like record players or rotary-dial phones become objects of mystery for the next generation.
Nearly every museum has unfamiliar objects in its artifact collection. At [...]

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