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An occasional list of exhibits, programs, and events at North Carolina museums. Sponsored by the North Carolina Museums Council.

Monday, February 20, 2012

NCMC Events From Around the State… February 20, 2012

*NCMC announces its 2012 conference to be held in Asheville, NC, on March 18 and 19. Registration is in process and can be done on-line or by mail. The conference theme is “Elevating Expectations.” Visit www.ncmuseums.org to register and for more information…

1). Fort Dobbs State Historic Site (www.fortdobbs.org) will offer a glimpse of the harrowing days of the 18th century Cherokee War on Feb. 25-26. The 252nd anniversary program will feature living history interpreters who will portray provincial soldiers and Cherokee warriors, present musket and cannon firing demonstrations, and ongoing demonstrations of 18th century military and American Indian camp life. The free programs will run 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sunday. A special evening firing will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday.

2). Cape Fear Museum (www.capefearmuseum.com) presents “Explore the Civil War” on Saturdays, March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 1-4pm. Free for members or with Museum admission. What was life like in the 1860’s? Investigate the contents of a Civil War soldier’s haversack and consider how the items compare to your own daily life needs. Learn how to create and crack secret codes. Try on reproduction Civil War clothing and play a Blockade Runner board game.

3). Preservation Society of Chapel Hill (www.chapelhillpreservation.com) presents a Black History Month Film Series, “Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery”. “Africans in America” examines the economic and intellectual foundations of slavery in America and the global economy that prospered from it. And it reveals how the presence of African people and their struggle for freedom transformed America. Episode Four, "Judgement Day: 1831-1865" on Wednesday, February 22nd at noon. Free admission but donations welcome.

4). Cameron Art Museum (www.cameronartmuseum.com) The Cameron Art Museum’s 7th Annual Civil War Living History Weekend will be held on Saturday, Feb. 25th from 9:00 am (grounds open) to 5:00 pm and Sunday, Feb. 26 9:00 am (grounds open) to 2:00 pm (museum remains open until 5:00 pm). This celebrated event is free and open to the public. Reenactors, Battle of Forks Road skirmish both days, sutlers, period music, 2nd Annual Ghost Walk with Halyburton Park and more. The weekend’s activities also include an opening ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 25 at 10:30 am.

5). Reynolda House Museum (www.reynoldahouse.org) will host a talk titled “The Olmstedian Influence on the Reynolda Landscape,” given by Camilla Wilcox, longtime curator of education at Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University. Co-sponsored by Reynolda Gardens, Wilcox’s talk will be held on Feb. 21 at 5:30 p.m. and will highlight the museum’s spring exhibition, “A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era,” which is on view Feb.18 through Aug. 5, 2012.

6). Joel Lane Museum House (www.joellane.org) Elliot Engel will speak on ”Sir Walter Raleigh: Beyond the Muddy Cloak” on Friday, February 24, 2012, at 7 pm at the Visitors Center at Long View Center, 118 South Person Street, Raleigh, NC, 27601. General admission tickets will be $25 per person. Advanced purchase is strongly recommended. Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, Dr. Engel now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he has taught at the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State University, and Duke University. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at UCLA. While at UCLA he won that university’s Outstanding Teacher Award.

7). Port Discover
(www.portdiscover.org) Let’s explore the H2O Cycle! Learn how this important cycle makes a difference in our daily lives during “Water Works,” Port Discover’s Afterschool Science, Thursday, February 23, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Port Discover educators will make models that demonstrate several types of water cycles. Afterschool Science is Port Discover’s free, interactive science program featuring a different and timely topic each month. Afterschool Science is made possible thanks to the City of Elizabeth City.

8). Bellamy Mansion (www.bellamymansion.org) presents “Monday's at the Mansion” series featuring “African American Troops in the Revolutionary Era” with Tom Massey, History Instructor of CFCC on Monday, February 27. 2012 -7:00 pm. "Give me liberty or give me death" is a cry of defiance that has been credited to Patrick Henry, a slave-owning American patriot from Virginia. It is a cry that affected many people during the Revolutionary Era. It greatly affected the American colonists as well as African Americans, those who were free as well as those who were slaves.

9). Weatherspoon Art Museum (http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/) presents a new exhibition: "Telling Tales: Narratives from the 1930s", opening: Saturday, Feb 25th. Artists of all periods have used narrative imagery to teach, enlighten, and/or inspire viewers. Derived in the past from literature, Biblical scripture, mythology, or history, narrative art created during the 1930s continued to record these themes as well as the dramatic economic, social, and political changes that were taking place across the nation.

10). Hickory Museum of Art (http://www.HickoryArt.org) will host a gallery talk on Thursday, February 23 at 6:30 PM with Matthew Good on the art of making oil paint. Doors open at 6 PM for light refreshments and the opportunity to view some of the Museum’s Hudson River School era masterpieces. The event is free and open to the public. Good will demonstrate an approach the Hudson River School painters might have used more than 150 years ago to make oil paint. Attendees will have opportunity to mull fresh oil paint.

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