RALEIGH – A new look at North Carolina is coming to the Monroe Branch of the Union County Public Library. The Telling Our Stories Photography Exhibit includes 50 images from the state’s mountains to the coast that show different events and time periods, and will be exhibited Sept. 28-Oct. 19. Organized by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the exhibition incorporates some of the state’s best professional and amateur photographers, and for the first time historic photographs from the State Archives are on tour.
The tour will visit public libraries across the state through December, on an eastern and a western route. The State Library of North Carolina coordinated the tour. Each route includes 11 images from the top winners of the 2008 Our State magazine Readers Choice Photography contest, 21 images from professional photographers, and 18 pictures from the State Archives. Among images are a young Andy Griffith in The Lost Colony, a desert crossing, and a pleasant pig. Learn more at http://www.ncculture.com/TOS_2008/TOS_home.asp.
Charlotte area professional photographer Byron Baldwin exhibits the mood filled Dairy Queen and Andrea Brown shares the poignant roomneedles.
Visitors in McDowell County wrote “Beautiful, all pictures tell a story of time,” and “Thank you for such a good exhibit.” Among comments in Madison County, “I went back to my childhood in some of the photos. They are awesome and I thoroughly enjoyed them.”
For information on call (919) 807-7385. The N.C. Department of Cultural Resources administers the State Library and State Archives and is the state agency dedicated to the promotion and protection of North Carolina’s arts, history and culture, with information 24/7 at www.ncculture.com.