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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
RALEIGH – A new look at North Carolina is on view at the Transylvania County Public Library in Brevard. The Telling Our Stories Photography Exhibit includes 50 images from the state’s mountains to the coast that show different events and time periods. Organized by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the exhibition incorporates some [...]
GREENVILLE – Prettied up from top to bottom, the 1895 Humber House is ready to greet the world. A dedication program on May 8, at 10 a.m., will show the results of years of planning and labor. Formerly the home of Robert Lee Humber Jr., a significant force in the cultural life of [...]
RALEIGH – Visitors to the J. Y. Joyner Library at East Carolina University will get a fresh look at North Carolina through the “Telling Our Stories Photography Exhibit” on view through April 30. Organized by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the exhibition incorporates some of the state’s best professional and amateur photographers, and [...]
You may be surprised at some of the archaeological findings from the shipwreck believed to be Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, which ran aground off North Carolina’s coast in 1718. Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing, director of the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project, will explain what the findings reveal about the ship’s role in colonial America, the [...]
April 13, 2009 – 11:47 am
RALEIGH–As a hard rain lashed the last Confederate state capital to surrender to General William T. Sherman, the first Union soldiers entered Raleigh on April 13, 1865, ending the general’s infamous March through the Carolinas. By the time the general’s troops struck camp and left three weeks later, North Carolina’s original copy of the [...]