North Carolina offers some special opportunities to veterans, active military, their families and the public over the Veterans Day weekend. Attractions within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources will welcome all.
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The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting the right of women to vote.
The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, which manages the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, requests the public’s help in locating a missing highway historical marker. The marker was related to Torhunta, a Tuscarora Indian community destroyed in 1712.
The North Carolina Government and Heritage Library will host the last event in their fall #EverythingNC: Author Series Saturday, Nov. 16 at 11 a.m. with a discussion and book signing with Dr. Lea E.
Friday, Nov. 22 from 6-7 p.m., join the Cherokee Chamber Singers at the N.C. State Capitol! For one hour, these middle and high school students will perform the program “Si Otsedoha,” which translates from the Cherokee language as “We’re Still Here.”
The secrets or celebrations of families are a thread running through the 2019 North Carolina Book Awards that will be presented to recipients Thursday, Nov. 7 at the DoubleTree Hotel Raleigh on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh.
In the port city of Wilmington, the “Daily Record,” a black-owned newspaper, was burned by an angry white mob Nov. 10, 1898.
The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources is pleased to announce that seven individual properties across the state have been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The North Carolina Historical Commission will meet at 10 a.m. Wed., Oct. 30 in the Administrative Conference Room of the North Carolina Museum of History, 5 East Edenton St., Raleigh. The meeting is open to the public.
The North Carolina Arts Council will offer a series of free readings across the state to spotlight the talents of literary artists who work in fiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting and creative non-fiction.