Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Historical Context Roadtrippin' - Fall 2024

As the weather is cooling, it is a great time to get out and explore our beautiful and history state. If you like exploring the past as well as admiring the scenery, be sure to check out the fall schedule of event at the North Carolina Historic Sites webpage.

Check out their calendar now so you can start planning your trips. 

Whether it is cooking receipts from an 18th century German cookbook or the foodways of the Catawba that has you curious,The President James K. Polk State Historic Site in Pineville has you covered. 

18 Century German Cooking, Sep 28 in Pineville

It is not too late to catch an Alamance Battleground tour later this week, or wait a couple weeks and visit Fort Dobbs for a living history illustration of barracks life. 

Find out why blue jeans are blue and all the skilled work that was required to make them blue in the early days at the Brunswick Town site in Winnabow NC. 

Explore 19th Century mourning customs at a monthlong exhibit at House in the Horseshoe. 

Find out how NC women were participating in that  "Tea Party" protest in Historic Edenton.

It's election time (in case you haven't noticed)! Experience an 18th century election. Would you have been able to vote then?

Time travel at Fort Dobbs as you visit with soldiers from many wars and conflicts in our history. 

 You could travel from town to town to revel in the Christmas lights across our state. Celebrate a 1770 German Christmas or find out how citizens made do during a Civil War Christmas at Bentonville.

There is more. I just scratched the surface. 
Bon Voyage. I might see you sometime, somewhere.


 

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