NCMC Events From Around the State… March 2, 2015

1). The High Point Museum (www.highpointmuseum.org) announces the showing of High Point: A Memoir of the African American Community on Saturday, March 7^th at 10:30 a.m. The documentary is presented by Yalik's Modern Art and Custom Media Solutions Production. High Point Museum, located at 1859 E. Lexington Ave. For more information, call 885-1859 or visit our website www.highpointmuseum.org.   

2). Cowan Museum of History and Science (www.cowanmuseum.org) presents “Old Rocks, Young Minds,” February 13 – April 13, 2015, an exhibit developed by students of the Duplin Early College High School and James Kenan High School. The show explores the layered evidence of the earth’s rocks, minerals, and fossils, which can be read almost like pages in a book when one understands the different types of rocks and how they form and continually change. Visitors may make their own fossil impression to take home. The Museum is open Tue. – Sat., 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Admission is free.

3). The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History (www.northcarolinamuseum.org) presents the second program in a sports related series of History Talks: Mike Wiley in “A Game Apart – A glimpse into the life of Jackie Robinson” on Saturday, March 7^th at 2 p.m.   This sports History Talks series will be held on Saturdays during the Smithsonian exhibition of Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America.  For more information, visit www.northcarolinamuseum.org.    All History Talks are FREE to the public.  Also happening this weekend at the Museum, the first of two Batik Easter Egg Workshops for adults. This first workshop will take place on Saturday, March 7^th from 1-4 p.m. The second workshop will be on Saturday, March 21^st.  $10 for museum members, $15 for non-members.  Preregistration is required.  Call 336-786-4478.

4). The Museum of the Albemarle (www.museumofthealbemarle.com) invites you to have history for lunch!  Their next History for Lunch program is Wednesday, March 4^th at 12:15 p.m. and will be presented by Dr. Glen Bowman on “A Look Back to 1915: Prominent African-American Baptist Educators from northeastern North Carolina.”  Dr. Bowman’s presentation will address Calvin Scott (C.S.) Brown and Waters Normal Institute, which he founded in Winton; Peter Weddick (P.W.) Moore, founding principal of the Elizabeth City State Colored Normal School (in 1915 called State Normal School, now Elizabeth City State University), and Elizabeth City’s Roanoke Institute, which was founded as a private secondary school in 1896 on what is today Roanoke Avenue.  This presentations will be supported by photos and documents that were located at the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh, the Jackson Davis Papers at the University of Virginia, and the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill.   This is a free program.  For more information call 252-335-1453.

5). Kings Mountain Historical Museum (www.kingsmountainmuseum.org) invites you to celebrate National Women’s History Month in March with a riveting program by award-winning author, storyteller, and Road Scholar Randell Jones. “Famous and Infamous Women of North Carolina” lecture & book signing by Randell Jones, will take place on Wednesday, March 4 at 6:00 p.m.  North Carolina has been home to many notable women who have made their mark on history.  This program will draw audiences into extraordinary and fascinating tales about some of these women, including a child bride, a Confederate soldier, a pirate, and a pioneering parachutist. This will be the second program in Kings Mountain Historical Museum’s 2015 Women’s History Lecture Series, in conjunction with their new Pioneering Women of Cleveland County exhibit.  The exhibit is open Tuesdays - Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 pm, from now until May 23^rd.

6). The Matthews Heritage Museum (www.matthewsheritagemuseum.org) announces its next exhibit, Widgets and Thing-a-ma-Jigs: An Exhibit of the Mostly Unknown.  It will be on display until April 18, 2015.  Have you ever come across an object and didn’t know what it is?  A tool from another time, no longer used by the general public?  Well, The Matthews Heritage Museum has a whole exhibit of items that might stump even antique lovers!  We hope you can learn about some of these tools of yesteryear and come to recognize some useful utensils with which our ancestors were familiar.  The items will be on display without benefit of a label in order to challenge your knowledge.  However, a key with a description of each item and how it was used will be provided for those interested.  Those guessing all items correctly will be entered into a drawing from which one will be chosen to receive a free membership to the Matthews Historical Foundation for a year that includes free entrance to the museum among other benefits. This is an excellent exhibit for school children, home schoolers, scouts and senior groups.  Matthews Heritage Museum is open to the public Thursday – Saturday from 10 to 4:30.  A small admission fee is charged.  Children under 10 are free.  The first Saturday of every month is Free for all.

7). The Asheville Art Museum (www.ashevilleart.org) is thrilled to be hosting an exciting lecture on landscape architecture on Thursday, March 5^th, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Diana Wortham Theatre. The lecture will illustrate the role landscape architecture plays to reveal, frame, and sustain the powerful forces of ecology and culture that shape our world. This event is FREE for Museum members and students with ID, but you must call the Museum at 828-253-3227 to RSVP for the event. Non-member tickets are $5 and may be purchased online at www.ashevilleart.org or by calling the Museum.

8). Joel Lane Museum House (www.joellane.org) is proud to present a lecture by Mike Helms, "Evolution of Firearms from the Late 1700s to the Civil War " on Thursday, March 5^th at 7 p.m. Admission will be $16 for the general public and $11 for members of the Joel Lane Historical Society. Refreshments will be served. Seating is limited, and advanced payment is required. Please visit Eventbrite.com to purchase tickets. 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.  For more information: tel: (919) 833-3431; email: joellane@bellsouth.net; Website: www.joellane.org

9). Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum (www.ncmaritimemuseums.com) announces On Stage: The Suloide, Door Handle and Plate, March 1^st – 31^st. The Suloide met its fate March 26, 1943 off Bogue Banks. The transport steamship was loaded with manganese and on its way to New York. Visit the Museum to see a door handle and plate from the vessel, and discover why it never made it to its destination.  For more information, call the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum at 252-986-2995 or visit www.ncmaritimemuseums.com. Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, N.C. 27943.

10). New Winston Museum (www.newwinston.org) invites you to come out on Thursday, March 5th at 5:30 p.m. for “Tobacco Unionism and Civil Rights”. Local expert Will Cox and former State Senator, Earline Parmon, will discuss the links between Winston-Salem’s tobacco Unionism and the growth of political & Civil Rights activism that followed.  Event is free and open to the public. Overflow parking is available at the Old Salem Visitors Center and on Marshall Street. For more information please visit our Web site at www.newwinston.org or call 336.724.2842 ext. 101.  Admission to the New Winston Museum is free; Donations are greatly appreciated.