November 6, 2009 – 5:24 pm
Project includes new building and landscape design, major growth in collection
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA)—one of the most important and distinguished museums in the South—is in the final stage of a three-year expansion and will reopen to the public in April 2010, following a seven-month closure. The completed expansion will dramatically transform the [...]
November 6, 2009 – 3:11 pm
RALEIGH, N.C. – The North Carolina Symphony today announced the release of its internationally distributed recording featuring pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, the second of two compact discs with renowned Scandinavian classical music label BIS Records.
Recorded in Meymandi Concert Hall at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh, the CD features works by [...]
November 5, 2009 – 12:26 pm
Editor’s note: Stories on Blackbeard’s November ties are welcome now. This event is for the media only. It will review work on artifact investigation from the presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck, Blackbeard’s flagship.
GREENVILLE – November was a big month for the pirate Blackbeard. He captured the vessel La Concorde in November [...]
November 5, 2009 – 11:54 am
The music and folklore of Russia comes to the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh on Sunday, Nov. 8, from 3 to 4 p.m. As part of the 2009-2010 Music of the Carolinas series, Moscow Nights, an internationally renowned trio of Russian musicians, will perform pieces from Russian folklore, representing the diversity of Russian culture [...]
November 4, 2009 – 5:01 pm
RALEIGH – Historian David Cecelski will discuss the search for Abraham Galloway in the State Archives, Bland Simpson will explore North Carolina’s sound country and inner islands, and books about unruly women will take top prizes at the North Carolina Book Awards. The presentations will be part of the Nov. 13-14 joint meeting of [...]
November 3, 2009 – 5:22 pm
Scouts will camp at the museum, learn about railroading and earn their Railroading Merit Badge
SPENCER, N.C. – More than 400 Boy Scouts will spend a busy and fun-filled weekend at the N.C. Transportation Museum during Rail Camp, Nov. 6-8. Troops will spend Friday through Sunday at the museum, the site of the former Spencer [...]
November 3, 2009 – 5:18 pm
RALEIGH – The book recounting the only known coup d’état in American history is now available.
“A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot,” by LeRae Umfleet, is published by the Historical Publications Section of the N.C. Office of Archives and History and the African American Heritage Commission, and is available through Historical Publications.
“On Nov. [...]
November 3, 2009 – 5:08 pm
Dr. Sharon Raynor will share Vietnam War veterans’ memories of sacrifice, pride, disappointment, honor and recovery in her presentation “Breaking the Silence and Healing the Soul: The Oral Histories of Vietnam War Veterans of North Carolina.” The Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex will host Raynor, a N.C. Humanities Council Road Scholar, on Sunday, [...]
November 3, 2009 – 4:33 pm
RALEIGH – A fresh look at people and places in North Carolina is found in the “Telling Our Stories” Photography Exhibit Nov. 6-25, at H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library in Henderson. The best among North Carolina’s professional and amateur photographers are showcased in a traveling exhibit organized by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. In [...]