September 30, 2008 – 1:18 pm
WINNABOW—Find out all about how colonial settlers lived at Brunswick Town/Ft. Anderson’s Heritage Days program Saturday, Oct. 4. From 10 a.m.-4 pm., visitors to the site can watch costumed interpreters demonstrating colonial crafts including candlemaking and stenciling. The kids can play with 18th century toys such as buzzsaws, whirligigs, and Jacobs Ladders. Visitors can even [...]
September 29, 2008 – 2:57 pm
ASHEVILLE - The Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site announces three programs in honor of the famous writer’s 108th birthday. On Oct. 3, 9:30 am -10:00 pm “What is this Dream of Time” reading on the front porch featuring performers Charlie Flynn-McIver and Deborah Austin, joined by harpist Maricia deBary, produced in cooperation with WCQS [...]
September 24, 2008 – 1:45 pm
FREMONT - The Charles B. Aycock State Historic Site in Fremont will present its free “Fall on the Farm” fest on Saturday, Oct. 4, bringing the spirit of 19th-century harvest time to the present.
From 12-4 p.m., share an old-fashioned farm experience with costumed interpreters to make candles, shell corn, spin cotton, tour the kitchen or [...]
September 24, 2008 – 1:35 pm
STATESVILLE - Time travel back to late-1700s frontier North Carolina at the fourth annual 18th-Century Trade Faire at Ft. Dobbs State Historic Site in Statesville, to be presented from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4-Sunday, Oct. 5.
At the site where soldiers once defended frontier settlers during the French and Indian War, visitors will have a [...]
August 13, 2008 – 2:00 pm
Passing an afternoon on a front porch has long been one of the pleasures of the South. That tradition continues on Friday, Sept. 5, from 2-4 p.m., with a free performance at one of the most famous porches in Asheville, the “Old Kentucky Home.” Join Buddy Davis, Carol Rifkin and Jamie Soesbee as they present [...]
August 12, 2008 – 1:58 pm
DURHAM—Come visit a typical Confederate recruiting and training camp at Bennett Place State Historic Site in Durham, when Confederate soldiers of the “Old North State” encamp around the historic Bennett Farm on Saturday, Aug. 23, and Sunday, Aug. 24. Some 50 to 75 period-costumed “soldiers” of the 26th and 6th N.C. Infantry reenactment groups will [...]
August 12, 2008 – 9:58 am
DURHAM—Thanks to a Connecticut man who collected 282 old-fashioned spittoons, Duke Homestead State Historic Site will soon display the nation’s largest collection of this vanishing piece of tobacco memorabilia.
The N.C. Historic Sites division has reached an agreement with Jim Kinner of Jewett City, Conn., to buy his brass, glass and porcelain spittoon collection for $6,700, [...]
August 11, 2008 – 4:39 pm
RALEIGH – With back-to-school shopping well underway and the classroom doors swinging open, families in North Carolina can enjoy the last bit of summer fun at the 27 North Carolina State Historic Sites. A six percent increase in visitation in the 2007-08 fiscal year (FY) compared to last fiscal year shows that visitors are maximizing [...]
August 6, 2008 – 12:57 pm
RALEIGH —The walkways crisscrossing the State Capitol grounds in downtown Raleigh are soon slated to get a facelift, but first the N.C. Office of State Archaeology will search to find out more about the original 1920s-era paths.
On Wednesday, Aug. 6, and Thursday, Aug. 7, Assistant State Archaeologist John Mintz and his crew will begin to [...]
SPENCER, NC – Close to 100 Model Ts and their owners from across the region will soon make their way to the North Carolina Transportation Museum to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Ford Model T. The Museum is located at 411 S. Salisbury Ave. in Spencer.
The August 2nd event will feature a host of [...]