HATTERAS – The singer sometimes called “one of the strongest and finest tenor voices on the folk scene” is coming to the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum. Geoff Kaufman has performed nationally and internationally and is widely known for music of the sea. On April 9, at 7 p.m., he performs a free concert at [...]
RALEIGH – For most North Carolina students prior to the Civil War, education was only available a few weeks or months a year to white children only, if at all. Families often paid for schooling since public schools had limited geographic reach. Only white male property owners could vote or hold office. That and more [...]
WINSTON-SALEM, NC — As part of its 2009 public art program Inside Out: Artists in the Community II, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) needs actors and performers of all ages, backgrounds and levels of experience. Volunteer actors will become a part of SECCA’s third public art project featuring work by Greensboro artist Lee [...]
BEAUFORT – The N.C. Maritime Museum offers programs in March that share the unique heritage of coastal North Carolina. For information on all of these programs, call (252) 728-7317.
Virtual Tour of the Coast. A free program that features slides of wildlife and habitats associated with the Cape Lookout National Seashore, Tuesday, March 17 at 11 [...]
French scholar Pascal Brioist will speak about Thomas Harriot, the explorer, scientist, navigator and mathematician that Sir Walter Raleigh sent on the Roanoke voyages of the 1580s, at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 2, in the North Carolina Museum of History auditorium.
Brioist’s talk is part of a larger celebration of Thomas Harriot that will take [...]
On a hot summer night in 1960, a historic meeting took place in Raleigh in the auditorium of Murphey Elementary School. The meeting sparked the capital city’s participation in the Civil Rights movement. Forty-nine years later, Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh is producing a play, 1960, based on spoken-word interviews with the people who [...]
RALEIGH – When today’s 27th North Carolina Troops re-enactors participate in a program at Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site on Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 23, they will wear the same kind of uniforms and carry the same kind of weapons as did the 27th North Carolina Troops during the Civil War. The original [...]
Engaging Volunteers for a Lasting Relationship and Recruiting New Members to Your Historical Organization
March 27, 2009—Hertford Academy, Murfreesboro
April 29, 2009—Central Carolina Community College, Pittsboro
May 13, 2009—Lincoln County Cultural Center, Lincolnton
The Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies invites staff and volunteers of historical organizations and museums, libraries with special collections, and other cultural organizations to its [...]
Nearly 150 years after the Civil War, the bloody Battle of Antietam is still studied and analyzed. At day’s end in the countryside surrounding Maryland’s Antietam Creek, more than 23,000 American soldiers were dead, missing or wounded. Stephen R. Potter, PhD, will speak on “Antietam and the Archaeology of Tactics” Saturday, March 28, from 4-5 [...]
March 13, 2009 – 10:13 am
BEAUFORT – The N.C. Maritime Museum offers programs in March that share the unique heritage of coastal North Carolina. For information on all of these programs, call (252) 728-7317.
Virtual Tour of the Coast. A free program that features slides of wildlife and habitats associated with the Cape Lookout National Seashore, Tuesday, March 17 at 11 [...]