Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site will debut a new family-friendly event on Saturday, Oct. 17, from 6-9 p.m. When the sun sets, “Reed Glow Mine” comes to life with the addition of 25,000 lights around every twist and turn of the property. Ticket sales begin on Sept. 1 and the site anticipates a sell-out event. Reed Gold Mine is administered by the Division of State Historic Sites within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR).
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Experience North Carolina farming culture and history at Duke Homestead’s annual Brightleaf Harvest Day on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. In addition to demonstrating the nearly lost art of tobacco looping, site staff and volunteers will show how tobacco is grown and harvested in the field.
Join the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum (CHB), Planted Soul Life, and the North Carolina Cooperative Extension for “Palmer Presents: Let’s Grow Together,” a fall gardening workshop. This free event will take place at the CHB picnic shelter on Saturday, Aug. 29, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. This immersive experience will also highlight the history and importance of agriculture at Palmer Memorial Institute. CHB is administered by the Division of State Historic Sites within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR).
Join the North Carolina State Capitol during August to revisit a special tour series, “Ancient Inspirations.”
The N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) today announced the appointment of Amy Craft Klassen as the new executive director of Roanoke Island Festival Park. Most recently, Klassen served as the associate director/director of museum operations for the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.
“Amy has diverse experience leading the operations and strategic planning for multi-site properties, historic properties and public programs, making her well-suited to take the reins at Roanoke Island Festival Park,” said DNCR Secretary Pamela B. Cashwell.
The visitor center and exhibits at Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site will undergo a full renovation in the coming months. In preparation for this major project, the site will close the visitor center and gift shop July 28.
While most people think of dusty battlefields when they picture the Civil War, the real game-changing technology was happening on the water. On Saturday, July 11, the CSS Neuse Museum will pull back the curtain on this high-seas drama with its immersive summer program, “Sailors in the Summer: Ironclads and Naval Living History.” From 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., regional history will come alive through interactive exhibits, expert-led demonstrations, and hands-on family activities designed to show exactly what it took to survive as a sailor in the 1860s.
The State Archives, a division of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR), will showcase original state constitutional documents with a July 4 exhibition, “To Preserve the Blessings of Liberty,” at the State Capitol.
Fort Dobbs State Historic site will host Historic Trades Day on Saturday, June 20, from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. The site will come to life with the strike of a blacksmith’s hammer, the rasp of a saw, and snip of a tailor’s shears as it did when Fort Dobbs operated between 1755-65. Rather than a military garrison, the fort will bustle with costumed interpreters and professional historic tradespeople demonstrating the many ways people of colonial America made a living. The event is free and open to the public. Fort Dobbs is administered by the Division of State Historic Sites, within the N.C.
Bennett Place State Historic Site will host “OUT & FREE: African Dance” on Saturday, June 20, from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The free event in collaboration with the LGBTQ Center of Durham will celebrate the Juneteenth holiday and Pride Month and will feature the Harambee Collective, a professional African Drum and Dance company directed by McDaniel Roberts, a founding member of Chuck Davis’s African American Dance Ensemble. Visitors can enjoy a community dance class and “bantaba” celebration, as well as a complimentary popsicle from LocoPops while supplies last.