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 [...]
On U.S. 64 in Manteo, less than a mile from America’s oldest cultivated grapevine*, a sign reads “543”. It’s a Project as well as the mileage between Manteo and Murphy, the alliterative ends of North Carolina’s longest highway. Those neatly descending digits have inspired Project543.com, a postcard-style website, created by Visit North Carolina, to highlight unique stories on a journey [...]
The start of Summer stokes in all of us a feeling of “vacation time”. Whether it’s the coast or the mountains, we feel the need to get away, to be rejuvenated. Unfortunately, it’s much easier said than done, but it is possible to relax, renew, and have a staycation right here in the Triangle where The Umstead in Cary should [...]
Fredrick Neese, president of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, has announced eight new members who will be inducted during the 54th annual banquet on May 5 at the Raleigh Convention Center. They are the following: Glenn Bass Glenn Bass was an all-star in football and baseball at East Carolina where his 100-yard return is still a school record. [...]
“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 [...]
About 90 minutes from Raleigh, you’ll find the “home of American golf”...Pinehurst. Abounding with more than 41 golf courses, Pinehurst has surprisingly retained its special small-town atmosphere, which it does and does well. Now the secret is getting out as Pinehurst has been growing although not at the rate of cities like Raleigh or Charlotte. This has enabled the [...]
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 [...]
