NCMC Events From Around the State… July 6, 2015

1). The Greensboro Historical Museum (www.GreensboroHistory.org) announces a Roaring 20s Flashback on Saturday, July 11 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Greensboro Historical Museum dates to the Roaring 20s, having its founding in 1924 and opening day in 1925, so the celebration will be full-on. Highlights include vintage cars from the Piedmont Car Club, Wally West and the Gate City Hot 5 Jazz Band, and silent film comedies from Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Mack Sennett. Youngsters will get a kick out of making and wearing pencil-thin moustaches and bow ties, flapper headbands and bracelets. You can visit with costumed interpreters and take part in an old-fashioned cakewalk. It’ll be the bees knees, promise.

2). The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History (www.northcarolinamuseum.org)  invites you to explore the Darker Side of Mayberry on tours held at 7 p.m. every Friday through the end of October.  Mount Airy’s history as “Little Chicago” has been swept under the rug a long time ago as the city turned to cleaning up its’ image in the 60s.  This 45 minute walking tour of our downtown area will take you to the areas where murder, mayhem and moonshine were prevalent.  Tickets are $11 per person.   Historic  Downtown Mount Airy Ghost Tours are held at 8 p.m. every Friday and Saturday through the end of October.  Join us for an exciting 90 minute, lantern-lit walking tour through Mount Airy's streets and its historic past.  You will hear about 13 of our "less mortal" friends and some of Mount Airy's final resting places.  Wear comfortable shoes and bring  your camera and umbrella, if needed.   Tickets are $13 and pre-paid reservations are required.  Also join them for  Summer Storytelling Saturday at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 11^th.  This storytelling program is FREE to the public and features storytellers from Surry Storytellers! who will tell tall tales and spin many yarns.  Mark Brown will be this month’s storyteller.

3). Hands On! (www.handsonwnc.org), a Child's Gallery in Hendersonville, invites you to join the educators at Hands On for a summer of S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) classes to engage young minds. On Tuesday, July 21^st from 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. young minds (ages 7-11) are invited to May the Forces & Motion be with you! Engineer catapults from craft sticks, rubber bands, duct tape, and more. $34 non-members/$26 members. Pre-registration required. Call 697-8333 to register.

4). North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (www.naturalsciences.org) invites you to look at neutrinos, dark matter, and research one mile underground! Join the N.C. Museum for Natural Sciences for Neutrino Day  on Saturday, July 11^th from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and celebrate the great achievements and bright future of science performed a mile underground.  At this event, you will learn about neutrinos and dark matter, how important they’ve been to our past and will be to our future, and why scientists need to go to such remote locations to study them. You will also be able to talk live with a physicist in the underground lab about what it’s like to do science a mile deep. In the time surrounding the talks, there will be interactive displays related to neutrinos, radioactive decay and cosmic rays. All talks will be held in the Museum’s SECU Daily Planet Theater. Visit www.naturalsciences.org for the complete schedule of events.

5). The Asheville Art Museum (www.ashevilleart.org) is excited to present Heritage & Home: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm, an exhibition featuring approximately 40 images, as well as a selection of historic photos and artifacts, from photographer Ken Abbott’s Hickory Nut Gap Farm Project. The exhibition runs from July 18 through October 11. Opening Reception + Gallery Talk will take place on Friday, July 24^th, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Visit www.ashevilleart.org to learn more about the exhibit and to see a complete schedule of related events.

6).  Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex (www.ncdcr.gov/ncmcf) and its 1897 Poe House will once again serve as the backdrop for another Sweet Tea Shakespeare performance. The Tempest will run July 16-19 and 23-26 at 7p.m. nightly. Come at 6:15 p.m. for What You Will, the preshow entertainment, food, and fun. Audiences should bring their own seating, including camping or other outdoor chairs and blankets.

Tickets are available as follows: $12 – General Admission, $10 – Senior Citizens/Military, and $6 – Students and Children 6-12 years.  Children under 5 are free.  Tickets may be reserved at www.sweetteashakespeare.com/tickets and purchased onsite via cash, credit, or debit card. Food, beer, and wine are available for purchase onsite. Alcohol sales benefit the Fayetteville Animal Protection Society. Outside food and drink are not permitted.

7). Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (www.secca.org) invites you to a Ladies Night! Fundraiser Event on Thursday, July 16^th from 6:00 – 9:30 p.m. Hangout with your girlfriends, meet new ones, network, and support SECCA! Join us and enjoy delicious food catered by Jeffrey Adams, an open bar, and a ticket to see the classic film noir film The Killing, the last film in our Film Noir Screening Series. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased online or at the door.

8). Museum of the Albemarle (www.museumofthealbemarle.com) invites you to a tropical bonsai workshop with Randy McKinney on Saturday, July 11^th from 10 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Prepare two tropical plants with one being a ficus and the other to be announced in this one day Bonsai Workshop. Discussion will include style, wiring, pruning instructions along with horticulture techniques. Limited space and supply fee required. $70 per person and $65 for members. Pre-registration required. Visit www.museumofthealbemarle.com for more information.

9). The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum (www.ncmaritimemuseums.com)  invites you to their next Salty Dawgs Lecture Series, Talkin’ Tar Hel, on Tuesday, July 14^th at 2:00 p.m.  Renowned linguist, Walt Wolfram, co-author of Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue, has co-authored an exciting new book: Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina. Wolfram will be on hand to talk about and sign his new book!  For more information, call 252-986-2995, email maryellen.riddle@ncdcr.gov  or visit www.ncmaritimemuseums.com.  Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, N.C. 27943.

10) Tryon Palace (www.tryonpalace.org) announces that World War I will take over Tryon Palace on July 17^th and 18^th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This first-time event invites visitors to discover the stories of World War I through artifacts, photos, reenactors and exhibits.  WWI collectors will fill Mattocks Hall, showcasing their rare and interesting collections that include weapons, uniforms, photos and many more one-of-a-kind items from The Great War. North Carolina in the Great War, an exhibit in the Duffy Exhibition Gallery, will also be open and full of artifacts, photos and uniforms documenting North Carolina's contributions to the war effort. One of the highlights of the exhibit is a life-size model trench like the ones that used on the battlefields of WWI. For more information call 252-639-3500 or visit www.tryonpalace.org.