The tantalizing idea of extracting DNA from an Egyptian mummy has been a little like trying to suck dinosaur DNA out of an insect in amber; however, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has found analyzing mummy DNA is actually scientifically possible in a new field known as archaeogenics. In the process, Johannes Krause discovered a [...]
The Salem Band, whose roots date back to the mid-eighteenth century, is probably the oldest wind band, in the United States. At least, the late Harry H. Hall, music educator and historian, believed so. As he wrote in his 1967 dissertation, “There has emerged from this modest eighteenth-century beginning an unbroken lineage which seemingly establishes the Salem Band of today [...]
A study led by Americans for the Arts and conducted by economists from the Georgia Institute of Technology (GTI) shows that nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in Forsyth County are having a huge impact on the local economy. Randy CohenVice President of Research and Policy at Americans for the Arts, announced the results of the local component of the nationwide [...]
Old Salem Museums & Gardens will present the final two lectures in its series on Moravian history in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Salem. Three leading scholars in the fields of Moravian history and spirituality will take a deeper look into the town and the people who founded it. The lectures will take place in the [...]
After a careful selection process that included public voting for the first time, Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly has been selected as the eighth One City, One Book title, according to Greensboro Public Library Director Brigitte Blanton. The book, also an Oscar-nominated hit movie, is the untold story of three African-American women working at NASA who served as the [...]
“tis a glorious thing to be a pirate king.”* You may not agree with Gilbert and Sullivan, but pirates hold a special place among the swashbuckling figures of English literature. Undoubtedly, the most famous pirate of them all was Blackbeard who has been part of North Carolina maritime lore since his ship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, shipwrecked off the coast [...]
A new exhibit commemorating World War I opened April 6 at the N.C. Museum of History, marking to the day the entry of the United States into the conflict 100 years ago. Its 6500 square feet of exhibit space mark it as probably the largest ever mounted by a state history museum. Visitors are able to experience a little of [...]
It doesn’t matter if it’s Bach, the Beatles, Brad Paisley, or Bruno Mars. Your favorite music likely triggers a similar type of activity in your brain. That’s one of the things Dr. Jonathan Burdette has found in his research at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. “Music is primal. It affects all of us but in very personal, unique ways,” said [...]
If guns could speak, what a story the Confederate Collection at the Greensboro Historical Museum could tell. The exhibit’s’ official name is the Murphy Confederate Firearms Collection, in honor of Dr. John Murphy and his wife, Isabelle Fournier Murphy who assembled the collection. Among its 140 firearms are some of the rarest and finest examples of Confederate longarms in [...]
The pure white clay that made the Wedgwood name synonymous with fine china throughout the world came from the western North Carolina mountains some three centuries ago. How North Carolina became part of Wedgwood’s fame began in 1765 in Staffordshire, England, where a ceramic craftsman named Josiah Wedgwood plied his trade. He was an excellent craftsman and apparently, a shrewd [...]
