August 18, 2009 – 9:10 am
September brings plenty of reasons to visit the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. Start practicing those aarrghs and yo-ho-hos for two programs on Talk Like a Pirate Day on Sept. 19. Plus, dress like a pirate that Saturday, and get free admission to the exhibit Knights of the Black Flag.
During Farm Fresh Family Day [...]
It may not help the heat, but “cool” best describes July programs at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. Talk about cool . . . . Kids can challenge a pirate re-enactor to a sword fight during the program Pirates Ahoy! on July 25. Another program will transport you to the coastal breezes of [...]
Catch a free performance by master blues musician Scott Ainslie on Sunday, June 14, at 3 p.m. at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. With his fiery guitar picking and slide work and a voice filled with power, Ainslie honors the African and American roots of the blues tradition. PineCone
co-sponsors the program, part of [...]
The N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh is home to one of the nation’s largest collections of Confederate flags. However, conservation of these banners requires expensive, specialized textile treatment. To help fund this need, the museum has formed a thriving partnership with the 26th Regiment N.C. Troops, Reactivated, the state’s largest Civil War re-enactment group.
The [...]
The North Carolina Museum of History will present a re-enactment of a historic duel on the State Capitol grounds during the Tar Heel Junior Historian annual conference. Black powder charges (blanks) will be shot between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friday, April 24. The Museum of History will have a weapons expert and a black [...]
RALEIGH – For most North Carolina students prior to the Civil War, education was only available a few weeks or months a year to white children only, if at all. Families often paid for schooling since public schools had limited geographic reach. Only white male property owners could vote or hold office. [...]
You may be surprised at some of the archaeological findings from the shipwreck believed to be Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, which ran aground off North Carolina’s coast in 1718. Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing, director of the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project, will explain what the findings reveal about the ship’s role in colonial America, the [...]
GREENVILLE – Visitors soon will see how researchers figure out what are some of the artifacts recovered from the wreck of the purported Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), Blackbeard’s flagship, found near Beaufort. The loot includes gold dust, cannons, ballast stones, bones, and bells, among more than 100,000 recovered artifacts. Conservators analyze and document the artifacts [...]
“If a fellow farms hard enough to make something out of it, it’s got to be the hardest work a man’s ever done.” — Lloyd Rigsby
Acclaimed photographer and author Tim Barnwell grew up observing the traditional ways of rural farm families in western North Carolina. Church dinners-on-the grounds, country stores and mule-drawn plows were still [...]
RALEIGH – For most North Carolina students prior to the Civil War, education was only available a few weeks or months a year to white children only, if at all. Families often paid for schooling since public schools had limited geographic reach. Only white male property owners could vote or hold office. That and more [...]