RALEIGH — As part of the popular 2nd Saturdays program, the State Library’s Government and Heritage Library will host its very first Family History Fair, featuring speakers, exhibitors, and genealogy experts, on Saturday, Aug. 11. The free event, which is also part of the State Library’s ongoing 200th birthday celebration, will be held in the [...]
RALEIGH — The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded 80 Our Town grants totaling $4.9 million across the country including projects in Charlotte, Kinston and Star, North Carolina. The Our Town program supports creative placemaking projects that help transform communities into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at the core. Projects [...]
WINSTON-SALEM - Deborah Randolph has joined the staff of the Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art (SECCA) as Curator of Education. 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 and is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday. SECCA’s Executive Director [...]
SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. - The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission‘s Management Plan is available for public review and comment through Aug. 17, 2012. Management plan copies can be viewed electronically at libraries throughout the Corridor. The long-awaited document is 272- pages, with a CD of appendices. It provides a description of Gullah Geechee people and [...]
MIDLAND – Visitors to Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site in Cabarrus County will see a fee increase for panning for gold effective Aug. 1. The current price is $2 per pan for individuals and $1.50 for scheduled groups. The new prices will be $3 for individuals and $2 for scheduled groups. The fee increase [...]
Get ready to go back to school by taking a trip to a schoolroom of the past. In conjunction with the Museum of the Albemarle’s “Under Both Flags: Civil War in the Albemarle” and “Discover the Civil War through Photography” we will give a glimpse of a school day during the 1860s. Explore the difference [...]
Winner of 10 Academy Awards, Gone with the Wind remains popular decades after its 1939 premiere. Hollywood’s highly romanticized movie of the “Old South” is based on Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The true story of how Mitchell’s book became a record-breaking film is revealed in Real to Reel: The Making of Gone with the [...]
Wells Fargo has made a grant in support of Tryon Palace‘s “History is My Story”, a program of Education and Interpretation that brings history to life through a variety of mediums for visitors of all ages. The grant, in the amount of $5,000, will be used to fund frontline historic interpreters whose one-on-one encounters with visitors educate [...]
RALEIGH—The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) have announced plans to expand the NCMA’s Museum Park trail system with the Blue Loop, a one-mile, multiuse trail on the Museum’s 164-acre campus. Part of a larger gift of $550,000 to the Museum, the $400,000 grant from [...]
NEW BERN – Back by popular demand! Tryon Palace is offering a second opportunity this July for visitors to create their own unique prints during entertaining and instructive workshops with artist-in-residence Julie Niskanen. A professional printmaker and teaching artist based in Raleigh, Julie specializes in mezzotint and etching techniques to closely observe and record the [...]
ELIZABETH CITY – Determination, commitment and pride are among many characteristics of North Caroliniansdepicted in theFreedom, Sacrifice, Memory: Civil War Sesquicentennial Photography Exhibit . The exhibit commemorates North Carolina’s role in the Civil War (1861-1865). It will visit the Pasquotank-Camden Library at 100 East Colonial Avenue, Elizabeth City, from Aug. 5-29. A Tea Social, on [...]
SANFORD - See one of America’s most authentic Revolutionary War re-enactments on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 4-5, at the House in the Horseshoe State Historic Site. The event was chosen as one of America’s Top 20 events for August in the southeastern U.S. by the Southeast Tourism Society. While the event is free, donations are gratefully accepted. The battle re-enactment [...]
WINSTON-SALEM - SECCA is getting its groove back. More and more people from the community are visiting SECCA’s ever changing exhibits and bringing friends with them. The result is a spike in attendance of 25 per cent increase in visitors between January and the end of June compared with the same time period last year. SECCA, located [...]
SHELBY – Determination, commitment and pride are among many characteristics of North Carolinians depicted in the Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory: Civil War Sesquicentennial Photography Exhibit. The exhibit commemorates North Carolina’s role in the Civil War (1861-1865), a defining period in United States history. It will visit the Cleveland County Library from Aug. 1-29. “The Civil War [...]
RALEIGH – During World War II, the arrival of the North Carolina Civil Air Patrol (CAP) dramatically reduced the German sinking of American vessels off the North Carolina coast. In recognition of the valuable service the Civil Air Patrol provided, a N.C. Highway Historical Marker will be dedicated on Saturday, July 21, at 10:30 a.m., [...]