The new guidebook, “Homegrown Handmade: Art Roads and Farm Trails,” is getting rave reviews and flying off the shelves. The book, produced the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources and N.C. Cooperative Extension, features 16 self-directed driving trails in 76 mostly rural North Carolina counties that have loads of opportunities for “staycations.” Each multi-county section has [...]
SPENCER, N.C. – The North Carolina Transportation Museum will host a celebration of the Ford Model T, Saturday, Aug. 2, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in combination with the Museum’s annual All-Ford Show. This is one of the only Model T centennial celebrations in the Southeast, and is one of a series of regional [...]
SPENCER – This year get dad in motion for Father’s Day. The perfect gift is to make dad “Engineer for an Hour” at the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer. The “Tracks of an Engineer” program is ideal for dads and rail fans everywhere. Let dad control the throttle of a full-sized diesel locomotive.
A 45-minute training [...]
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SPENCER – Lipstick and curls didn’t diminish the hardships faced by Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. Imagine flying the planes towing targets for other pilots to practice shooting down. A group of these women based at Camp Davis, near Wilmington, N.C., did that, and were among the country’s first female military [...]
SPENCER, N.C. – On Friday, Feb. 8, the North Carolina Transportation Museum will open a temporary exhibit that tells a story of segregation and entrepreneurial spirit in North Carolina. Artifacts tracing the history of Safe Bus Company, the only African American-owned city bus company in the nation that ran a fixed route for the general [...]