The Norfolk Southern Heritage Locomotives: A Family Portrait event at the N.C. Transportation Museum July 3 and 4 continues to grow to historic proportions. The event celebrates Norfolk Southern Corporation’s 30th Anniversary, created by the merger of Southern Railway and Norfolk & Western Railway. These two companies, however, were the product of hundreds of predecessor [...]
MANTEO - North Carolina A&T State University returns to Roanoke Island Festival Park with the production, “Songs I have Always Wanted To Sing” on July 2-6 at 7 p.m. in the Indoor Theatre. Have you ever wanted to sing like Celine Dion or GarthBrooksor even Diana Ross? This musical odyssey is full of some our favorite songs and [...]
RALEIGH – Destruction was felt around homes and communities as backyards were turned into battlefields in North Carolina during the Civil War (1861-1865). Widespread suffering impacted all North Carolinians regardless of race, class and gender. The involvement of Confederate soldiers, African Americans and women is depicted in the “Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory: Civil War Sesquicentennial Photography [...]
On Saturday, July 14, the Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex will open the exhibit It’s Electrifying! This traveling exhibit from the North Carolina Museum of History highlights how the distribution of electric power changed lives throughout the state in the early twentieth century. Electric power impacted the lives of North Carolinians during the [...]
WINSTON-SALEM - Curtis Mann’s photography transports you to memories of news reports from international war zones. Yet, when you study the images, you find a new mystifying narrative opens up. The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) will be opening a new photography exhibition Curtis Mann: Modifications on June 28. The show will be on view [...]
RALEIGH – The Civil War savaged lives yet secured the future of generations in North Carolina and the rest of the nation, and altered the course of American history. The injustices faced by African Americans were some of the most significant factors leading to the American Civil War (1861-1865). The fight for liberation is just [...]
WILMINGTON – Noted as Coastal Living’s 10 Spots to Celebrate the Fourth and recent recipient of Southeast Tourism Society‘s award of Top 20 things to due in July, the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA, U.S. Cellular and the City of Wilmington present the 2012, 16th Annual Battleship Blast Fireworks Show sponsored by WECT TV-6 and 102.7 WGNI on Wednesday, July [...]
The following events are being held at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in July and August. SECCA is an affiliate of the N.C. Museum of Art, within the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. SECCA is located at 750 Marguerite Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27101. *Tickets are available to purchase at www.secca.org Events: Film @ [...]
ROANOKE ISLAND – The exhibit, Workboats and Watermen in the Civil War, honors the State of North Carolina’s Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the Civil War. It can be seen daily at Marshes Lighthouse located on the Manteo Waterfront through September 4, 2012. The Battle of Roanoke Island, fought on February 8, 1862, was part of the Burnside [...]
RALEIGH – A nuclear near-catastrophe is the subject of a new N.C. Highway Historical marker . The latest marker in the popular program will be dedicated on Friday, June 29, in at the intersection of Main Street and Faro Road in Eureka, N.C., at 11 a.m. In January 1961, a plane crashed in rural Wayne County at the height [...]
ROANOKE ISLAND - East Carolina University will present the production in the Indoor Theatre at Roanoke Island Festival Park June 26, 27, 28 at 10:30 a.m. Seven in One Blow is a contemporary fantasy based on the old Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale. Tickets are $5 for all 6 years old and older. 5 and under are [...]
MANTEO – East Carolina University returns to Roanoke Island Festival Park with the well-known production “Our Town” on June 26, 27, 28 at 7 p.m. in the Indoor Theatre. First produced in 1938, the Pulitzer-Prize winning play has become an American stage treasure and is Thornton Wilder’s most renowned and frequently performed play. Tickets are [...]
This year, join Tryon Palace in commemorating the birth of our nation with special fun-filled programming that has a little historical something for everyone. Start the celebration off early on the evening of Tuesday, July 3 with a rousing concert of patriotic music and popular songs. Pack a picnic and join your family and friends [...]
RALEIGH – Ella Baker grew up in Halifax County and dedicated her life to advancing civil rights for African Americans. She had a “habit of pushing the boundaries of acceptable behavior for a respectable, middle-class, married woman during the 1940s,” according to biographer Barbara Ransby. Her life’s work is being recognized with the dedication of [...]
BEAUFORT – In a free daylong conference marking its bicentennial, “America’s Forgotten War,” the War of 1812, will be remembered at the N.C. Maritime Museum-Beaufort on June 29. Speakers will examine the conflict that resolved issues remaining from the American Revolution. The symposium will focus upon the naval war, one that strengthened the young United States and firmly established [...]