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 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 – 3:42 pm
(Raleigh, November 3) — William Henry Curry, the North Carolina Symphony’s Resident Conductor, has been invited by the American Institute in Kaohsiung, Taiwan to participate in a landmark program which aims to convey the joy of American music to the people of that city. Curry will conduct the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra, considered one of Taiwan’s [...]
October 30, 2009 – 1:08 pm
RALEIGH – Since 1964, about 250 North Carolinians have received the state’s highest civilian honor, the North Carolina Award. Six outstanding North Carolinians received the award at the ceremony at the N.C. Museum of History on Thursday night. The North Carolina Award, the state’s highest honor, was presented by Gov. Beverly Perdue in [...]
October 29, 2009 – 2:11 pm
(ASSIGNMENT/CALENDAR EDITORS: The North Carolina Awards will be presented at 8 p.m. Thursday Oct. 29, at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. Contact the Cultural Resources Information and Marketing Services Office, (919) 807-7389 or 7385, for additional information and biographical background.)
(RALEIGH) — The North Carolina Awards, the state’s highest civilian honor, [...]