February 28, 2011 – 4:35 pm
SPENCER – Steam will again soar over Spencer Shops as the N.C. Transportation Museum hosts the first ever Spring Kick Off, March 19. The museum will welcome the warmer season with a day full of music, food, games for the kids and train rides. One of the museum’s largest and most impressive structures will also [...]
February 28, 2011 – 4:33 pm
SPENCER – The N.C. Transportation Museum brings history to life Friday, March 4, during “Night at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.” Those who lived and worked around the machines of the past will tell their stories during this third annual event. These special free tours take place at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. Costumed interpreters [...]
February 25, 2011 – 4:52 pm
As it has for generations, the Civil War engages and fascinates students of history like almost no other topic. A keynote address by David Blight of Yale University titled “Race and Reunion: Has Civil War Memory United or Divided America?” will kick off an all day conference at the N.C. Museum of History on Friday, [...]
February 25, 2011 – 3:06 pm
The N.C. Museum of History announces the winners of the 2011 N.C. Museum of History Student Essay Contest. Chuck McShane, a graduate student at UNC-Charlotte, won first place for his essay “Cocktails and Cultural Conflict: North Carolina, 1965-1980.” His essay examines the cultural conflict surrounding the North Carolina General Assembly debates over restaurant alcohol sales [...]
February 24, 2011 – 10:17 am
Feb. 22, 2011 I am so pleased to be able to join Sen. Michaux, Rep. Womble, African American Heritage Commission members, and all of you today. It has been my great honor to serve the citizens of North Carolina for these past two years, and one of the first of those honors was to attend [...]
February 23, 2011 – 5:14 pm
HALIFAX – Celebrate 235 years of American Independence from Great Britain on Tuesday, April 12, at the annual Halifax Day festivities. From 9 a.m.-5 p.m., visitors at Historic Halifax State Historic Site may join in the remembrance of the April 12, 1776, vote by North Carolina’s Provincial Congress to separate from the British Crown. The [...]
February 23, 2011 – 5:12 pm
Twenty-nine high school students from across the state will take center stage to compete in Poetry Out Loud, a poetry recitation program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and coordinated by the North Carolina Arts Council. The semifinals start at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 5, at the North Carolina Museum of History [...]
February 22, 2011 – 4:40 pm
CONFEDERATE LIFE IN NEW BERN Friday, March 11 – Sunday, March 13 Experience the outbreak of the Civil War through the eyes of the New Bern residents who lived it. Throughout the weekend, tours of the historic Dixon and Stanly houses will focus on New Bern during the time of the war’s outbreak to the [...]
February 22, 2011 – 4:20 pm
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Feb. 22, 2011) — This spring The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) is presenting an exhibition of international significance titled Oscar Muñoz: Imprints for a Fleeting Memorial. The traveling exhibition will open on March 12, 2011 with a Talk @ SECCA at 2 p.m. by visiting Colombian curator José Roca. A reception [...]
February 22, 2011 – 4:15 pm
“Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb?” was a common question heard on the TV show “You Bet Your Life” in 1959 when the Aycock Birthplace State Historic Site first opened its doors. That question and many more will be asked on March 3, at 7 p.m., when Aycock Birthplace will hold its second annual Civil [...]
February 22, 2011 – 10:44 am
RALEIGH – Lewis Sheridan Leary promised abolitionist leader John Brown that he was “ready to die, if need be,” under Brown’s leadership in attempts to end slavery. At Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, Va, he did. For this and other activities Lewis Leary will be remembered with the dedication of a North Carolina Highway Historical [...]
February 22, 2011 – 9:31 am
System adds to Tryon Palace’s new environmental sustainability program. NEW BERN, NC – February 21, 2011 Tryon Palace and the North Carolina State University Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering are partnering to implement a rainwater harvesting system at Tryon Palace. The team, led by Extension Associate Kathy DeBusk, is installing a system designed to [...]
February 18, 2011 – 3:32 pm
Greetings! It brings me great joy to present to you “Envisioning the Future of North Carolina’s African American Heritage,” (PDF) a report on the community-responsive development of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission. This commission has gone about the compelling work of listening to community needs, taking stock of heritage resources, and developing partnerships towards [...]
February 18, 2011 – 3:15 pm
NEW BERN, N.C. – Nancy Packer, Tryon Palace Chief Curator, announces that a collection of historical documents highly significant to New Bern and North Carolina history and the early history of the Freemasons in America is now generally available for the first time. This collection, on loan from the archives of St. John’s Masonic Lodge [...]
February 18, 2011 – 3:10 pm
In the early 1900s, most child workers in North Carolina textile mills labored 10 to 12 hours, six days a week. They toiled in hot, humid, lint-filled air that triggered respiratory diseases. They endured the deafening roar of textile machinery. They risked serious injury from dangerous, exposed gears and belts. They forfeited a childhood. In [...]