NCMC Events From Around the State… January 6, 2014
1). Hands On!, the children’s
museum in downtown Hendersonville,
invites you to visit them Tuesday, January 7th – Friday, January 10th to celebrate
World Braille Days @ Handay On! World
Braille Day is celebrated each year on Jan. 4th. Learn to write your name in
Braille, experience Braille books and see how 6 dots changed the world – all
day on each of the days. Play Braille Twister Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. and
Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.. All ages. Sponsored by Drs. Alison & Richard Reid,
Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics. Free with $5 admission/free for
members.
2). The Museum of the Albemarle invites you to join them for a new lecture series, “Back to the Past”, every
first Tuesday of the month at 10 a.m. The Museum begins the new lecture series
on Tuesday, January 7th at 10:00 a.m. with “Looking Back Farm in Perquimans County”.
A member of the Haines family will answer your questions about organic
farming. The Haines have been farming
organically since 1987. The family
manages 350 acres in Perquimans
County. In 2011, with support from a grant, the
Haines family created a mobile organic feed mill that supplies local livestock
farms with bagged organic corn and wheat feed. It is the first source of
organic feed in his region. Through this community endeavor, they are
demonstrating the viability of organic agriculture.
3). Tryon
Palace invites you to the
newest traveling exhibit in the Duffy Gallery that features the artifacts for
Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge. This rare exhibit gives you a chance to see actual
treasures, including weapons, nautical tools, and personal artifacts recovered
from the shipwreck (found near Beaufort in 1996). The exhibit will be on
display at Tryon Palace until February 15th. Special programming will be held in conjunction
with its visit; including “Pancakes and Pirates” on Saturday, January 11th from
8:00 -11:00 a.m. "Pancakes and Pirates" invites children ages 10 and
under to join the infamous pirate, Blackbeard, for his favorite meal ...
pancakes! While devouring breakfast, they'll enjoy sea chanteys, chatting with
pirates and building their very own treasure chest! Seating is limited
for this event and preregistration is required by noon on Friday, Jan.
10. Children ages 10 and under will eat for free, thanks to a generous
donation from Bob and Carol Mattocks. Tickets for adults wishing to join them
will be $10 each. The fun continues that same day from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00
p.m. with "Pirates in the Palace." Visitors of all ages will enjoy a
day filled with crafts and lessons from pirates, all in an effort to teach the
skills needed to join Blackbeard and become one of his buccaneers! A treasure
map will lead you all over the Palace grounds, and if you be a true sea rover
you'll find Blackbeard's booty!
4). The Asheville Art Museum invites you to
visit them for FREE on Wednesday, January 8th
from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. as a New Year’s gift to the community. For the
remainder of 2014, the Museum will continue to offer this free admission
afternoon on the first Wednesday of each month from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Visitors
can enjoy several exhibitions currently on view at the Museum, including Cityscapes by Ben Aronson; Lasting Gifts; Rebels with a Cause; Selections from the Permanent Collection: 140 Years of American Art; Josef Albers: Experiments in Color; Esteban Vicente: The Art of Interruption
- Painting, Drawing, Collage; Cycle: Hoss
Haley; and Robert and Ingrid Wiegand:
An Electronic Medium.
5). North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort
invites you to “Brown Bag Gam: U.S.
Lifesaving Service in North Carolina” on Thursday, January 9th, 12:00 – 1:00
p.m. Pack a lunch for the Brown Bag Gam during your lunch hour and join
Associate Museum Curator Benjamin Wunderly for an informal discussion on the
history of the United States Lifesaving Service in North Carolina. The small
crews of this service, the predecessor to the United States Coast Guard,
rescued hundreds of sailors in a time when most people traveled by water. Gam is defined as a friendly conversation
between whalers or to visit with another ship while at sea. Free Admission. Reservations preferred. 252.728.7317.
6). High Point Museum invites you
to Bread & Butter Making in the Historical Park on Saturday, January
11th, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Come see our costumed interpreters bake bread
and make butter in the Hoggatt House. All ages welcome. FREE. Drop-in.
7). The New Winston Museum presents “History Lessons at Camp
London” on Tuesday,
January 14th at 5:30 p.m. In partnership with the Colonel Joseph Winston
Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR),
we present Stokes
County educator Eric
Marshall. Mr. Marshall has been featured on the CBS Evening News and in Our
State Magazine for his passionate and innovative approaches to educating his
fifth grade students about the Civil War. The Colonel Joseph Winston
Chapter of the NSDAR will present Mr. Marshall with a certificate recognizing
him as the chapter’s selection as an Outstanding Teacher of American History;
Marshall has also just been confirmed as the statewide NCSDAR winner of the
Outstanding Teacher of American History award and will be nominated for the
national award, to be announced in June 2014. New Winston Museum
has invited Mr. Marshall to share his experiences and approaches to providing a
meaningful history education.
8). Joel Lane Museum House presents a lecture on "Elizabeth Keckly: Thirty Years a Slave and Four
Years in the White House" by Rebecca Ryan on Thursday, January 16th at
7:00 p.m. at the Visitors
Center of the Joel Lane
Museum House. Admission will be $15 for the general public and $10 for members
of the Joel Lane Historical Society. Refreshments will be served. Seating is
limited, and advanced payment is required. Please call 919-833-3431 with your
MasterCard or Visa, or mail a check to P O Box 10884, Raleigh NC 27605,
or go to the Eventbrite website. Be sure to include the names of all in your party;
nametags will serve as tickets. Tickets are non-refundable unless we must
cancel the event.
9). Discovery Place will bring the
interaction of history, science, creativity and innovation into sharp focus for
visitors with a thrilling, multi-sensory experience, 101 Inventions That
Changed The World, coming February 2, 2014. Advance tickets are now on
sale. The exhibition will be appearing in the U.S. for the first time since its international debut in Salt Lake City earlier
this year. With more than 6,000
different video files, 40 projectors and floor-to-ceiling walls that display
crystal clear images, the experience delivers a multi-sensory presentation to
take audiences on a spectacular journey of inventions – from stone tools to the
birth of the Internet. Advance tickets are now on sale now. 101 Inventions That
Changed the World will be on exhibition until April 21, 2014.
10). Cape Fear Museum announces that
the “Big Read Greater Wilmington” continues its Big Read celebration of The Things They Carried with a keynote
presentation and book signing by the book’s author and Vietnam veteran Tim
O’Brien, on Wednesday, January 15th at
7:00 p.m. at Kenan Auditorium on the campus of UNC Wilmington. The
Things They Carried is semi-autobiographical account of a young platoon on
a battlefield without a front, dodging sniper fire and their own misgivings.
O’Brien will discuss The Things They Carried and about the process of
transforming actual experiences and events into fiction. He will read excerpts
from the book and share personal anecdotes.
Tickets to O’Brien’s keynote presentation are free (limit four per
person) and can be obtained at the Kenan Auditorium Box Office. More
information: www.uncw.edu/arts/boxoffice.html.
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