GREENVILLE – The Humber House in Greenville isn’t what it used to be. It’s better. Once home to the visionary legislator Robert Lee Humber Jr. and his prominent family, the 1895 structure had fallen into disrepair. It has been restored to its former glory, complete with modern updates and now serves as the Eastern Office [...]
DURHAM—Discover how 19th-century farmers like Washington Duke grew tobacco in piedmont North Carolina by attending Duke Homestead’s annual “Planting Day” program on Saturday, May 2, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the state historic site in Durham. Free and open to the public, this hands-on living history program will feature colorfully costumed interpreters transplanting [...]
April 30, 2009 – 11:01 am
“Hoofing It By Mule Across North Carolina” Details Harberts’ Very Slow Trip Across the State SPENCER – With classic rail equipment, antique automobiles, airplanes and flight simulators, the N.C. Transportation Museum is well known for highlighting the machines North Carolinians have used to travel across the state and nation. Saturday, April 25, however, a form [...]
April 30, 2009 – 10:54 am
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) is extending the exhibition of Anna von Gwinner’s video artwork Minus 8 through May 1. The extension will give visitors of the monthly First Friday Gallery Hop in downtown Winston-Salem a chance to view the video. The video is being played nightly from 7 p.m. [...]
The Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex Announces the opening of a new special exhibit, A Thousand Words: Photographs by Vietnam Veterans on May 2 with special remarks at 2:00 pm by Mayor Tony Chavonne. On exhibit through November 15, “A Thousand Words is a very personal look at what the soldiers experienced and [...]
RALEIGH – Visitors to the Henderson County Public Library will get a fresh look at North Carolina through the “Telling Our Stories Photography Exhibit” which opens Monday, May 4. The exhibit contains 50 images from the mountains to the coast that show different time periods. Organized by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the exhibition [...]
BEAUFORT – The 35th Annual Wooden Boat Show will take place on Saturday, May 2, in downtown Beaufort. Activities are scheduled throughout the week leading up to show day. Enjoy activities and exhibits on display at the museum, the museum’s Watercraft Center and at the museum’s expansion site at Gallants Channel, where free parking is [...]
RALEIGH – A fresh look at people and places in North Carolina is found in the “Telling Our Stories” Photography Exhibit May 4-28 at Edgecombe County Memorial Library in Tarboro. The best among North Carolina’s professional and amateur photographers are showcased in a traveling exhibit organized by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. In addition [...]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A couple breaks up; a visiting business man gets lost; a young man struggles with a heavy box; speed walkers stretch; old friends reunite. These are the moments of real life — or are they? The blurring of theatre and real life is at the heart of a series of performances organized [...]
The North Carolina Museum of History will present a re-enactment of a historic duel on the State Capitol grounds during the Tar Heel Junior Historian annual conference. Black powder charges (blanks) will be shot between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friday, April 24. The Museum of History will have a weapons expert and a black [...]
GREENVILLE – From a section of the hull structure weighing more than a ton, to tiny glass beads, artifacts recovered from the wreck of the purported Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s flagship, will be on display Saturday, April 25. Open Lab Day at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Laboratory will showcase items recovered from the shipwreck [...]
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 [...]
April 17, 2009 – 10:31 am
SPENCER – The N.C. Transportation Museum, in association with the North Carolina Humanities Council, will host “Hoofing It By Mule Across North Carolina,” Saturday, April 25, featuring Bernie Harberts. Though the museum features trains, airplanes and automobiles, this program will focus on a more traditional form of transportation. Harberts will appear with Woody The Mule, [...]
Little did Martin Tucker know that a class photography project would evolve into a powerful exhibit of national significance. In November 2003, while working as photography coordinator at Sawtooth School for Visual Art in Winston-Salem, he posted flyers around North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad area stating, “Seeking Vietnam Veterans.” He hoped a few veterans would loan [...]