Press Releases

Help spread some Christmas cheer to our feathered friends this holiday season during the "Christmas for the Birds" program  Saturday, Dec. 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

An eastern Carolina Christmas feast, natural greenery and decorations, and gospel and bluegrass music are a few of the features of the 1870s Christmas at Aycock Birthplace Dec. 8 and Dec. 10.

The CSS Neuse Gunboat Association has agreed to cover the cost of Green Lamp Head Start's Nov. 18 visit to the CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center. As a nonprofit, Green Lamp has a limited fund to cover off-site trips.

Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent evaluator of charities, has awarded the North Carolina Aquarium Society the prestigious four-star rating for good governance, sound fiscal management and commitment to accountability and transparency.

The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) today celebrated the groundbreaking on its Museum Park expansion project. The groundbreaking marks the start to a construction project that includes the creation of tree-lined parking lots, bike and walking paths, and a central elliptic lawn where Museum and community programming will take place.

The tree-lighting tradition at the State Capitol will continue when Gov. Pat McCrory lights the Christmas tree Thursday, Dec. 10.

State officials today announced the award of $6 million in grants through the federal Recreational Trails Program to 38 local governments in 35 North Carolina counties for trails projects.

Learn about the history of toys and games at the North Carolina History Center during the monthly Lunch and Learn lecture series set for Friday, Nov. 20, from noon to 1 p.m. Find out what dolls were really made of, why board games became so popular in the 19th century and more during this month’s lecture. 

The evolution of toys will come to life with the free exhibit “Child’s Play,” opening Saturday, Nov. 21 at the Duffy Exhibition Gallery, located at Tryon Palace’s North Carolina History Center in downtown New Bern.

Edward Vail raised troops to fight in the French and Indian War in 1754, represented Chowan County in the colonial assembly between 1754 and 1774 and served on North Carolina's Committee of Correspondence in the 1760s and 1770s.