The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County has launched its 2016 Annual Campaign and publically introduced its two co-chairs. Leading the campaign this year will be prominent local civic leaders, Marybeth Wallace, special assistant to President Nathan Hatch at Wake Forest University, and Leslie Hayes, Executive Vice President at Wells Fargo & Company and Business Banking Division Manager for [...]
Speedy New Lift and New Tube ParkElevate NC Winter Sports Season As temperatures drop, the action heats up at winter resorts in the North Carolina mountains. The 2015-16 season opens with a new tubing park at Beech Mountain Resort, a new high-speed, six-seater chairlift at Sugar Mountain Resort and other improvements on and off the slopes. “Every year brings new [...]
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) will open two exhibitions on March 19: American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals and Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. American Impressionist features 39 oil and watercolor paintings created by Childe Hassam on the Isles of Shoals, while Marks of Genius includes drawings, watercolors, [...]
Fares on round-trip tickets can depend on where you start which further adds to the confusion over air fares. An example: The average price paid for a Los Angeles-Honolulu round-trip ticket was $614, which is 7.5 percent higher than the $571 average ticket price if purchased in Honolulu. according to a study commissioned by The Wall Street Journal. Between New [...]
The centennial celebrations of the National Park Service and the North Carolina State Park System are featured in the Official 2016 North Carolina Travel Guide, just published by the North Carolina Department of Travel and Tourism. The 176-page guide comes with a choice of covers:one featuring Mount Mitchell, the highest point east of the Rockies or another of hang gliders [...]
Enjoy a little history with your lunch at noon on the second Wednesday of each month at the North Carolina Museum of History. History à la Carte offers a series of 50-minute informal lectures about a variety of historical topics – the Civil War, North Carolina pottery, the lost colonists, famous North Carolinians, etc. You bring your lunch; the Museum [...]
PineCone and the North Carolina Museum of History are partnering to present Music of the Carolinas, a series of free concerts on the second Sunday of each month from January through June. The series, performed in Daniels Auditorium, features some of the state’s finest folk musicians with program notes, and lecture-demos. On Sunday, February 14, Amythyst Kiah will perform at [...]
It was at Lake Junaluska in 1977. Howard Lee, who headed the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, addressed the Fourth National Trails Symposium at the invitation of a small group charged with advising the state on the matter of trails. “I want our State Trails Committee to look at recommending a trail that would give North Carolina and [...]
Biltmore, the unique 8,000 acre estate nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, has been a location for weddings and romantic getaways since George and Edith Vanderbilt married in 1898. From February 12 – July 4, to celebrate this history, the estate is hosting “Fashionable Romance: Wedding Gowns in Film”, a costume exhibition of wedding dresses and attire from major motion [...]
Brian & Mary Ann Guinn enjoyed a wine tasting at Elkin Creek Vineyard in 2013. It’s that time of year again, when the Surry Wineries host the Winter Wine Passport. Brian and I have attended this event since it was Deck the Halls. A few years ago our pictures were taken at a winery and we have been the poster [...]
