Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies

Federation Bulletin

September 2012 Volume 32, no. 3

The Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies Discover the Cultural Roots of North Carolina is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the pursuit of local history at Annual Meeting and Conference in North Carolina through existing and future local he Federation and the N.C. Liter- A brochure and registration infor- and regional historical T ary and Historical Association mation will be mailed to Federation organizations, societies, and invite you to their joint annual meeting, members later this fall. commissions; to foster which is being held in conjunction with cooperation between such organizations, societies, the conference “New Voyages to Carolina: Please note that another “New Voyages and commissions and the The Cultural Roots of North Carolina.” to Carolina” conference will be offered Office of Archives and This conference is one of a series this fall, from October 11 to October 12 History to the mutual benefit sponsored by the North Carolina Depart- at UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina of all; and to promote and ment of Cultural Resources, Office of Central University. The theme of this support history education Archives and History, and participating conference will be “Defining the Contours through sponsorship of the universities. of the Old North State,” with sessions on National History Day program and other appro- education, gender ,and race. A brochure priate activities. “Discovering the Cultural Roots of about this conference will also be North Carolina” will be held from mailed to Federation members. The Federation Bulletin is Thursday to Friday, November 15 to published quarterly. Submis- 16, at UNC-Asheville. The annual As stated by the conference organizers, sions for the Bulletin should meeting for the Federation and the both of these conferences are “designed be sent to the address at the to encourage the fresh examination of bottom of this page and should N.C. Literary and Historical Association be received by November will take place that Friday evening at important topics and issues in North 1, February 1, May 1, and the Hilton Doubletree Hotel at Biltmore. Carolina’s history. Some of the topics August 1. Please note that the Friday evening have been studied many times, whereas portion of the meeting will include a others have eluded historical research Inside this issue: dinner and the presentation of awards and analysis. The purpose of the but no keynote speaker; instead, the conferences is to foster new and original keynote speaker will talk on Thursday understanding of North Carolina’s Federation News 2 night, at the opening of the conference. past to chart a general reinterpretation of the state’s history.” Member News 11 Speakers will talk about North Caroli- na’s literature, music, religion, and We hope to see you in Asheville for an Grant Opportunities 16 heritage, with presenters such as informative conference about North William Ferris talking of “Memory and Carolina’s cultural roots and for the History Help 19 Sense of Place in Southern Music;” annual meeting of the Federation. Margaret Bauer talking of “The Liter- Calendar of Events 23 ary Renaissance in North Carolina;” Dan Fountain describing “African Exhibits 34 American Religion in Civil War and Reconstruction;” Brent D. Glass of the Workshops and 36 National Museum of American History Conferences talking about “The State of History,” and more. New Publications 43

Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, 4610 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4610, (919) 807-7280 Web page: www.fnchs.org Editor’s email: [email protected] SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 2 FEDERATION NEWS

About the Federation Members of the Federation Advisory Board

he Federation of North Caro- Through 2012 T lina Historical Societies is a coalition of societies, associations, C. Rudolph Knight Dr. Benjamin Speller and commissions throughout the Perry-Weston Institute Historic Stagville state that are dedicated to Jeff Pruett Leigh Strickland preserving and promoting history Gaston County Museum of Art and Gov. Charles B. Aycock Birthplace in North Carolina. An advisory History board made up of members of historical organizations oversees Through 2013 the work of the Federation. Ernest Dollar John Woodard The Federation sponsors work- Preservation Society of Chapel Hill Historic Murfreesboro shops and meetings; offers loans to members for the creation of January Porter Monika Fleming Lincoln County Historical Association Edgecombe County Community College historical publications, historical/ educational videos or cds, and Through 2014 special events; offers technical assistance to members who contact Bob Crowley Patricia Hughey the Federation with questions; North Carolina Railroad Museum Onslow County Museum and more. For more information, visit the Federation’s Web page at Betsy Shaw www.fnchs.org. Raleigh City Cemeteries Preservation Group Celebrate Your Accomplishments! Apply for a Newsome Award ould you like your organization to be recog- organization’s accomplishments over the past twelve W nized for its recent achievements in preserving to eighteen months. Pictures or other supporting local history? Then consider nominating your group documentation are welcome but not required. Nomi- for the Albert Ray Newsome Award. nations are due by October 1. Please send your nominations to: Each year the Federation recognizes up to two organi- zations that have made significant contributions to Laura Ketcham the preservation and promotion of local history. Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies Award winners receive a framed certificate and a 4610 Mail Service Center $250 cash prize. Raleigh, NC 27699-4610

The award generally recognizes work that has taken Recipients will be announced on November 16, during place in the last 12 to 18 months. Even if your organi- the annual meeting of the Federation. For more infor- zation has won before, you can apply again, as long as mation, please call (919) 807-7395. you have not won the award in the previous two years.

You can download the guidelines and application forms from the Federation’s web site at www.fnchs.org/fund/newsome-award.htm. If you do not have access to the web, please call (919) 807-7395 to ask that the forms be mailed to you.

In addition to submitting nomination forms, please write a one- to five-page narrative describing the SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 3 FEDERATION NEWS C2C Workshops Across the State Focus on Disaster Prepared- ness, Collections Care, Archival Care, and Art Conservation he Department of Cultural Resources’ Connecting “Most cultural heritage collections T to Collections (C2C) program is offering a variety of workshops this fall to help you care for your archives include at least a few paintings, yet and your artifacts. historians and archivists rarely know

Collections Care and Disaster Preparedness how to care for framed works of art. Come to the Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton Perry Hurt, associate conservator at on September 10 for this joint workshop, which will the N.C. Museum of Art, will help fill feature experts familiar with historic structures and C2C’s collections care and disaster preparedness this void by teaching participants a trainers to assist institutions that operate in historic variety of techniques to improve structures. Exhibiting and storing collections in historic structures lead to extra headaches when your preservation during the ‘Preventive largest artifact is your structure! Learn techniques to Conservation for Visual Arts’ work- balance the needs of your building and the needs of shop.” your collections as we help navigate environmental controls, exhibition issues, pest management, disas- ter planning, and storage concerns. Registration costs Historic Sites and collections manager John Campbell of $20 and includes lunch and refreshments. To register, the N.C. Museum of History. The workshop will cover visit www.surveymonkey.com/s/C2CCareandDisaster the basics of collections management, including PrepEdenton. collections management policies, collections gift and loan agreements, facilities reports, and other docu- Preventative Conservation for Visual Arts ments necessary to manage artifacts. Registration Most cultural heritage collections include at least a costs $10 and includes lunch and refreshments; to few paintings, yet historians and archivists rarely register, visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ know how to care for framed works of art. Perry Hurt, C2CCollectionsManagementHighPoint. associate conservator at the N.C. Museum of Art, will help fill this void by teaching participants a variety Disaster Planning Workshop Series of techniques to improve preservation. Hurt’s presen- This two-part workshop will walk participants tation will include information on paintings conserva- through the creation of a disaster plan and will tion treatments and point out the problems that include peer review of the drafts developed during the require a conservator’s consultation. The session will workshop to ensure that a comprehensive plan has include hands-on training in cutting and installing been created. This workshop is geared for those insti- archival backer boards for framed works of art, frame tutions that have yet to create any written disaster padding, and hardware installation. This workshop plan for their museum, library, historic site, or archive. will be held on September 17 at the Oteen Center at Participants will have pre-workshop “homework” to the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources’ Western gather information needed to begin writing a plan. Office in Asheville. Registration costs $20 and includes Following the first day-long workshop, to be held on workshop supplies, lunch, and snacks. To register, November 5, participants will then have additional visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ “homework” to complete their plan. A second meeting C2CVisualArtsAsheville. will take place in small groups and will review drafts one-on-one with Disaster Preparedness Coordinator Collections Management Boot Camp Matthew Hunt. Part I of the workshop will be held at Come to the High Point Museum on October 22 for the Rowan Museum in Salisbury. Registration costs this “boot camp” for staff, board members, and volun- $20 and includes lunch and snacks. To register, visit teers who are interested in improving their collections http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ management policies and procedures. The workshop C2CDisasterPlanningSalisbury. will be led by curator Martha Jackson of N.C. State SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 4 FEDERATION NEWS Apply to the Southeast Museums Conference’s Jekyll Island Management Institute he Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) “Located on historic Jekyll Island, T proudly announces the 13th annual Jekyll Island Management Institute (JIMI 2013). Scheduled for Georgia, this highly successful training January 22 to 29, JIMI is specifically designed for program provides a unique eight-day administrators from new and emerging museums and for museum professionals with subject area expertise immersion for museum professionals desiring knowledge of general museum administration seeking the opportunity to learn and operations. management, personnel, and interpre-

Located on historic Jekyll Island, Georgia, this highly tive skills from leading experts.” successful training program provides a unique eight- day immersion for museum professionals seeking the JIMI alumni will have a reunion meeting at the opportunity to learn management, personnel, and annual SEMC meeting, which is being held in interpretive skills from leading experts. Sessions Williamsburg, Virginia, from November 7 to 9. In include leadership and management styles, admin- addition, members of the JIMI Class of 2012 will lead istration and trusteeship, strategic planning, fund- a session to discuss their experiences and answer raising and marketing, financial management, questions about the JIMI program. developing exhibits, public relations, collections management, disaster preparedness, interpretation, For additional information, contact Martha Battle volunteer management, and museum ethics. Jackson, JIMI administrator, at (919) 733-7862, ext. 236, or by email at [email protected]. Tuition for JIMI is $650 for SEMC Members, $700 for non-members and includes all materials, continental breakfasts, refreshment breaks, and the final banquet. Rooms have been reserved at the beautiful seaside Beachview Club on Jekyll Island, GA. Single rooms will be approximately $85-$105/per night, and suites are approximately $120/per night, including taxes.

Through the generosity of friends and colleagues of the late Peter S. LaPaglia, the Southeastern Museums Conference and the Jekyll Island Management Institute are pleased to offer one Peter S. LaPaglia JIMI Scholarship to cover the cost of tuition. Several state associations, including the North Carolina Museums Council, also offer scholarship and travel assistance to its members.

Applications for JIMI and the Peter S. LaPaglia JIMI Scholarship are currently available at www.semcdirect. net, with a November 15, 2012 deadline for submitting applications. JIMI is an SEMC program sponsored by Goosepen Studio & Press, Inc., Jekyll Island Museum and Historic Preservation, LaPaglia Compa- nies, and North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites and Properties. We gratefully acknowledge sup- port from Gaylord Brothers, Inc. for JIMI 2012.

SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 5 FEDERATION NEWS “Getting Ready to Go” Workshops Will Assist Cultural Repositories

By Andrea Gabriel, Supervisor, Resource Management Branch, State Archives of North Carolina

orth Carolina’s State Historical Records Advisory “ ‘Getting Ready to Go’ workshops are N Board (SHRAB) will present a series of fall workshops that train and educate the staffs of cultural intended to help archives, libraries, repositories how to create the infrastructure critical historical and genealogical societies, to institutional success and longevity. “Getting Ready to Go” (GR2G) workshops are intended to help archives, museums, and other repositories of libraries, historical and genealogical societies, museums, records and archival materials gauge and other repositories of records and archival materials the effectiveness of their internal gauge the effectiveness of their internal practices, policies, and procedures when preparing to seek outside practices, policies, and procedures when funding. Typically, private funding organizations and preparing to seek outside funding.” government granting agencies require that internal policies and practices governing the preservation of and access to the collections be in place along with State Archives of North Carolina (www.archives. evidence of institutional financial accountability. In ncdcr.gov/default.htm) after September 10. For more short, GR2G workshops will prepare cultural reposi- information about this program, contact Andrea Gabriel, tories to manage their collections effectively, promote State Archives of North Carolina, at (919) 807-7326, their holdings, and seek additional funding support. or at [email protected].

Training will be delivered through six regional workshops and are planned for Asheville, Lincolnton, Greensboro, Southern Pines, New Bern, and Elizabeth City from October through December.

Specific details about these workshops will be announced on the websites of the SHRAB (www.history.ncdcr.gov/SHRAB/default.htm) and the N.C.’s National Register Nominations Now Available Online

he North Carolina State Historic Preservation nesses that used the buildings. In the nomination T Office has now made available online all of the forms you can also find pictures of the building as nomination forms for the state’s approximately 2,800 well as references to useful secondary sources. National Register listings. You can find a list of North Carolina’s National Register properties, divided Please note that nomination PDFs for listings made by county, as well as PDF’s of the nominations at since 2006 are created from digital nomination files www.hpo.ncdcr.gov/NR-PDFs.pdf. and include color digital photographs. PDFs of nomi- nations prior to 2006 are made from scans of paper These nomination forms can be a great source of photocopies of nominations. All are searchable insofar information if you are conducting research on a historic as possible, though some PDFs made from scans of building in your community that is listed on the older, lower quality photocopies may not be fully National Register. Nominations include information searchable. about the architecture and history of the buildings and often have information about the people or busi- SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 6 FEDERATION NEWS Western Regional Archives Now Open in Asheville

he N.C. Division of Archives and Records’ new complete list of the collections available at this facility, T Western Regional Archives (WRA) opened to the visit the State Archives blog, http:// public in August. Last year, the Division’s Western ncarchives.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/moving-records Office was moved to the former Oteen Veterans -and-expanding-our-storage. Administration Hospital in Asheville; the building’s third floor was designated for use as archives. Normal operating hours are 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays; 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesdays through Fridays; The WRA collects, preserves, and makes available to and all other times by appointment. The WRA is the public archival materials related to western closed on state holidays. North Carolina. Its collection includes private papers, organizational records, and photographs. Among the For more information about the WRA, visit the collections are the Black Mountain College Papers as website for the State Archives of North Carolina at well as private collections relating to the college; the www.archives.ncdcr.gov or call archivist Heather Blue Ridge Parkway Photograph Collection; the South at (828) 296-7230, ext. 240. Appalachian National Park Association Papers; and some microfilmed western county records. For a

IMLS Restructures Several Grant Programs for Museums

he Institute for Museum and Library Services final, revised guidelines; they should be posted by T (IMLS) announced that it has recently restruc- November 15. tured some of its grant guidelines and categories in an effort to make the grant application process easier IMLS has also revised its National Leadership and more accessible for museums of all kinds and Grants (NLG) for Museums program, which will now sizes. include funding for the activities and projects that were supported previously under 21st Century Museum The Museums for America grant program now will Professionals. The deadline for the National Leadership include funding for the activities and projects that Grants is also January 15, 2013. were supported previously under Conservation Project Support. The Museums for America grants range According to IMLS, “National Leadership Grants from $5,000 to $150,000 and have a one-to-one matching (NLG) support projects that address current and future requirement, though this match can be met by in-kind needs of the museum field and that have the potential to contributions such as staff time. According to the advance practice in the profession so that museums draft guidelines, museums now can apply for a can improve services for the American public. Successful Museums for America grant in one of three categories: proposals will generate results such as models, new  Learning Experiences: education, research, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or exhibits, website, social media, publications alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or  Community Anchors: strategic planning, staff replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal training, financial management, technology investment.” enhancements, community programming  Collections Stewardship: collections management, You can learn more about both of these grants at conservation, cataloguing, rehousing, surveys, www.imls.gov. Be sure to visit the website later in and environmental improvements. the fall for the revised guidelines on how to apply for these grants. Please note that IMLS will allow museums to submit more than one grant application to the Museums for America program. IMLS has not yet posted its SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 7 FEDERATION NEWS Call for Nominations: 2013 National Medal for Museum and Library Service

he Institute of Museum and Library Services A complete application will include a five-page, T (IMLS) is inviting outstanding museums and single-spaced narrative; financial statements for the libraries to nominate themselves for the National past two fiscal years; and up to three letters of support. Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation’s Nominations should describe the population served highest honor for exemplary museum and library and community needs; the institution’s programs, community service. The National Medal honors services, and partnerships; impact and evaluation of museums and libraries that make extraordinary programs; and financial sustainability. civic, educational, economic, environmental, and social contributions. Medal winners receive a $10,000 For more information and to access the nomination award and are honored at a National Medal award form, please visit www.imls.gov/about/medals.aspx. ceremony held in Washington, D.C. Nominations must be postmarked by October 15.

Any individual, including a museum or library employee, may nominate a museum or library in the United States and its territories for the National Medal. Public or private nonprofit museums, including zoos, art, history, science and technology, children’s, and natural history museums; historic houses, nature centers, and botanical gardens; and all types of nonprofit libraries, including public, school, academic, research, and archival, are eligible to receive this honor.

American Historical Association Selling New Collection of Essays on American History

he American Historical Association has the Civil War, and Reconstruction”; “The Possibilities T announced that is now selling an “informative, of Politics: Democracy in America, 1877-1917”; “The up-to-date collection of 18 essays that examine new Interwar Years”; “The Uncertain Future of American historiographical developments in every major field of Politics, 1940-73”; “1973 to the Present”; “The United American history. With an entirely new group of States in the World”; “The ‘Cultural Turn’ ”; “American authors, the series challenges prevailing assumptions Religion”; “Frontiers, Borderlands, Wests”; “Environ- in earlier scholarship, analyzes new burgeoning fields mental History”; “History of American Capitalism”; of study—such as environmental history, American “Women’s and Gender History”; “Immigration and religion, and capitalism—and provides new approaches Ethnic History”; “American Indians and the Study of to the study of established fields such women’s history, U.S. History”; and “African American history.” African American history, and immigration history. American History Now is an invaluable resource for Each pamphlet in this series is $7 (AHA members students, teachers, and everyone interested in learning receive a 30% discount). For more information on more about the American past.” these and other titles and to purchase them, visit the AHA Publications Store at www.historians.org/ The essay topics include “Squaring the Circles: The pubshop. Reach of Colonial America”; “American Revolution and Early Republic”; “Jacksonian America”; “Slavery, SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 8 FEDERATION NEWS N.C. African American Heritage Commission Wins IMLS Grant he N.C. African American Heritage Commission, “The Commission will use the grant T which is affiliated with the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, has won an IMLS Museum Grant money to fund the Gathering Place for African American History and Culture. The Project, a training and outreach Commission will use the grant money to fund the Gathering Place Project, a training and outreach initiative that will provide statewide initiative that will provide statewide assistance to assistance to African American African American cultural institutions. A series of cultural institutions. A series of regional workshops on collections care and museum education concepts will be held at locations through- regional workshops on collections out the state. care and museum education concepts

The Gathering Place Project is designed to improve will be held at locations throughout the the knowledge and skills of staff and volunteers at state.” African American museums. In partnership with the International Civil Rights Museum, Historic the civil rights movement; and other periods of the Stagville, Fayetteville State University, and Bennett African American diaspora. Nonprofit organizations College, the project will offer professional development whose primary purpose is to support museums identi- opportunities for students from North Carolina’s fied above may also apply. Historically Black Colleges Historically Black Colleges and Universities. or Universities (HBCUs) are also eligible.

Information about the Gathering Place Project and For more information about Museum Grants for the workshops will be posted on the N.C. Department African American History and Culture, visit of Cultural Resources website later this fall. In the www.imls.gov and search for the grant by name. meanwhile, for more information about this project and the workshops, please email Michelle.Lanier@ ncdcr.gov.

Information about IMLS’ Grant Program Museum Grants for African American History and Culture are intended to build professional capacity in the African American museum community. The program provides opportunities for the staff of African American museums to gain knowledge and abilities in the areas of management, operations, programming, collections care, and other museum skills identified as a high priority by applicants. It provides an oppor- tunity for African American museums to design projects that will enhance institutional capacity and sustainability by utilizing professional training, technical assistance, internships, outside expertise, and other tools.

The next deadline to apply for a Museum Grant for African American History and Culture is January 15, 2013. Eligible applicants include museums whose primary purpose is African American life, art, history, and/or culture, encompassing: the period of slavery; the era of Reconstruction; the Harlem renaissance; SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 9 FEDERATION NEWS N.C. Students Shine at National Contest of National History Day

he Federation extends congratulations to all 66 “The North Carolina students were T North Carolina students who participated in the national contest of National History Day in Maryland among more than 2,000 students from in June. The Federation, the Office of Archives and across the country and from schools History, the North Caroliniana Society, and the N.C. Society of the Cincinnati all help sponsor National overseas who participated in the History Day in North Carolina. national contest. All the students

The North Carolina students were among more than enjoyed a valuable learning experience, 2,000 students from across the country and from and several North Carolina students schools overseas who participated in the national finished in the top 14 of the country.” contest. All the students enjoyed a valuable learning experience, and several North Carolina students finished in the top 14 of the country. tition. She won for her senior individual exhibit, “Jonestown: World Reaction.” She attends North Adam Dietrich of Greenville placed third in the nation Brunswick High School in Leland; her teacher is and won a bronze medal for his individual perfor- Leigh Robinson. mance, “The Homestead Rebellion: A Revolution in American Labor.” Adam attends St. Peter’s Catholic In addition, Becka Lynn Pittard, from E.B. Frink School in Greenville; his teacher is Joe Hughes. Middle School in Goldsboro, won a Salute to Freedom Award. This award was offered by the National World Four other North Carolina students placed in the top War II Museum and National History Day to bring 14 in the nation. Reuben Chemmanam and Jeff Roop one NHD student from each state and Washington, placed fourth for the junior web site, “Satyagraha: D.C. to New Orleans for the Grand Opening of the Gandhi’s Alternative Approach to Revolution.” They museum’s latest expansion, The U.S. Freedom Pavilion: attend St. Peter’s Catholic School in Greenville; their The Boeing Center. Each student and one chaperone teacher is Joe Hughes. will receive an all-expense-paid trip to New Orleans in January 2013 to represent his or her state at the Chemmanam and Roop also won the Outstanding opening. State Entry Award at the junior level for North Caro- lina. (National History Day offers two “Outstanding During the national contest, some North Carolina Entry” awards per state, one each at the junior and students were already talking about project ideas for senior level, for outstanding projects from each state.) 2013, when the national theme will be “Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events.” Like these Baylea Williams placed eighth in the nation for her students, the Federation is also looking forward to senior individual performance, “Won the War, Not National History Day 2013. To learn more about this the Battle: Blacks Fight for Freedom during the important academic program, please visit American Revolution.” She also won the Outstanding www.nchistoryday.org or call (919) 807-7395. State Entry Award at the senior level for North Caro- lina. She attends J.H. Rose High School in Greenville; her teacher is Abby Soffe.

Davis Combs placed 12th in the nation for his junior research paper, “Davidson College: A Deliberate Inte- gration.” He attends Woodlawn School in Moores- ville; his teacher is Beth Robinson.

Alexandria Szalkiewicz won the “History of Congress” award, one of the special awards given at the compe- SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 10 FEDERATION NEWS AASLH Gives Awards of Merit to N.C. Museum of History and Author Betty Jamerson Reed

he American Association for State and Local For more information about the North Carolina T History (AASLH) has announced that the N.C. Museum of History, call (919) 807-7900 or visit http:// Museum of History in Raleigh and author Betty ncmuseumofhistory.org. Jamerson Reed are recipients of an Award of Merit from the AASLH Leadership in History Awards. The Betty Jamerson Reed was recognized for her book Museum of History won for its exhibit The Story of School Segregation in Western North Carolina: A North Carolina, and Dr. Reed won for her book History, 1860s-1970s. During her research, Dr. Reed School Segregation in Western North Carolina: conducted more than 100 interviews with former A History, 1860s-1970s. principals, teachers, and students; consulted nearly 100 books; and read through large numbers of prima- “The North Carolina Museum of History is honored to ry sources such as legal cases, newspaper articles, receive this award for its most important exhibit, The reports, letters, and school board minutes. Reviewers Story of North Carolina,” said museum director Ken have praised the book for its depth of research and for Howard. “Years of planning and many long hours of telling a previously untold story that is linked to a work by the museum staff have gone into creating larger national history. As one reviewer stated, the this permanent and extensive exhibit on the state’s book shows how the 28 western counties of North history. To have finally completed this exhibit and Carolina were “a microcosm for the national story of then receive this type of recognition is a proud moment segregation” and that the book “vividly recounts how in our museum’s own history.” a national movement played out in Appalachia.”

The Story of North Carolina is the largest exhibit ever The AASLH Leadership in History Awards, now in produced at the N.C. Museum of History. The perma- their 67th year, is the most prestigious recognition for nent exhibit traces life in North Carolina from its achievement in the preservation and interpretation of earliest inhabitants through the 20th century. More state and local history. This year, AASLH will confer than 14,000 years of the state’s history unfold 59 national awards honoring people, projects, exhibits, through fascinating artifacts, multimedia presentations, books, and organizations. The winners represent the dioramas, and hands-on interactive components. best in the field and provide leadership for the future Additionally, two full-size historic houses and several of state and local history. Presentation of the awards re-created environments immerse museum visitors in will be made at a special banquet during the 2012 places where North Carolinians have lived and worked. AASLH Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Yet the heart of The Story of North Carolina focuses on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. To learn more about the Leader- the people—both well-known and everyday citizens— ship in History Awards, contact AASLH at (615) 320- who shaped the Tar Heel State. 3203 or go to www.aaslh.org.

Latino Youth Leaders Offer Input to N.C. Museum of History

ore than 100 Latino youth leaders in the Juntos To better serve all North Carolinians, specifically the M Summer Summit, a program operated by the state’s growing Latino community, the N.C. Museum N.C. Cooperative Extension, visited the N.C. Museum of History has embarked on a wide-reaching initiative of History on July 6 to offer feedback on aspects of the to incorporate Latino history and culture into its ongoing Latino Outreach Initiative at the museum. exhibits, programs, and collections and to create The students toured the exhibit The Story of North more accessibility for to Latino visitors. Carolina and then participated in discussion and evaluation sessions about how to make the exhibit and the museum more accessible to Latino visitors. SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 11 MEMBER NEWS Preservation Society of Chapel Hill Uses DNA and Genealogy Research in Effort to Save Historic Home

he Preservation Society of Chapel Hill has DNA test of the two families. The Hogan family had T launched a campaign to save the Hogan-Rogers collected over 60 DNA samples from various family House from demolition. Located at 1614 Purefoy members as part of their own genealogical research. Drive in Chapel Hill, the house is slated for demolition But to find an adequate African American Hogan in the fall of 2012. Working with the St. Paul A.M.E. descendant to test, a male with a Y chromosome had Church, Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association, to be found. After more investigation, Green-Campbell and Habitat for Humanity, the Preservation Society found a distant cousin in Brooklyn, New York, to is raising awareness for the house’s preservation and provide a DNA sample for the test. Haywood Hogans, restoration as part of a community mitigation settle- ironically named after the child of Harriett and W. J. ment with Orange County and the cities of Chapel Hogan, had lost track of his Southern family and was Hill and Carrboro due to environmental damage from shocked to get the call from his cousin in Atlanta. The a landfill. The proposed plan calls for the moving and family had lost touch after moving to Goldsboro reuse of the Hogan-Rogers House as a community immediately after the Civil War. center for this predominately African American neighborhood. The test, which required a simple cheek swab, tested 37 genetic markers, and after a six-week wait for the The home was built around 1845 by Thomas Lloyd results to return from FamilyTreeDNA, indicated Hogan, a descendent of early Orange County settlers that there is 78.50% certainty that six generations who fought in the American Revolution. While ago Haywood Hogans shared a common ancestor with researching the history of the Hogan-Rogers House, the Hogan family of Orange County. For ten generations, the Preservation Society discovered evidence of the percentage of shared ancestor jumps to 94.79%. enslaved African Americans living and working in the Expanding the numbers of markers tested could home’s basement. After publishing the findings, the strengthen the connection between the two families. Preservation Society was contacted by a descendant living in Atlanta, Georgia. “It was exciting to get the results back and deliver them to Deardra in person in Atlanta,” Dollar said, “I was shocked to publish the article online and get a adding, “Not only does it help her in her family’s phone call a week later from someone claiming to be search for answers, but also shows the community a descendant of the family slaves,” said Ernest Dollar, that this house is important and needs to be saved.” the Preservation Society’s Executive Director. Green-Campbell echoed those sentiments. “Connecting The call was from Deardra Green-Campbell, who had with the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill has been stumbled across the article on the Preservation Society’s a significant breakthrough in my family research. website while looking for genealogical resources Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be able to about her family in antebellum North Carolina. She see and touch documents and structures pertaining to suspected that “Harriett”—who was mentioned in the my enslaved ancestors. On top of that, to be able to article as being willed, along with the house, from participate in the efforts to preserve the house in Hogan to his son—might have been her great-great- which my 3rd great-grandmother was a slave has been great-grandmother, Harriett Hogan. Exchanging an overwhelmingly emotional part of my journey,” historic information, Dollar and Green-Campbell she said. surmised that Harriett was indeed the same woman. For more information about the efforts to save the Oral tradition passed down in Green-Campbell’s Hogan-Rogers House, visit http:// maternal family held that Harriett’s son had been chapelhillpreservation.com/preservation-efforts/lloyd- fathered by a man named W. J. Hogan. Further rogers-house or call (919) 942-7818. research revealed that he was the son of Harriett’s white master, Thomas Lloyd Hogan. To confirm this story, the Preservation Society sponsored a comparative SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 12 MEMBER NEWS

Cooleemee Historical Association and Its Partners Receive Grant to Help Renovate Former Cotton Mill

he Cooleemee Cotton Mill Project was recently cotton mill and to develop architectural visions of T awarded two federal grants that will enable how the renovated building will look. Community the Design Phase of the project to begin in the fall. members will also be invited to discuss what types of The project is a partnership of the Cooleemee Historical businesses they would like to see in the mill. Association, Davie County, the Davie County Economic Development Commission, and the Town of Cooleemee. The town hopes that the renovated mill will become a new town center and a vibrant economic engine for The Historical Association was awarded an NEA the former mill town’s future. Design Grant, and the Town of Cooleemee was awarded an EPA Brownfields Grant. The money from the grants will be used to evaluate the physical, environmental, and business reuse potential of the Operation North State Plans Annual Christmas Gift Box Drive for Deployed Troops

n 2011, Operation North State (ONS) shipped Peanuts, North Carolina Sportsman Magazine, North I 1,400 Christmas gift boxes to North Carolina’s Carolina Wildlife Magazine, N.C. Travel Guide from deployed troops. As reported by ONS, “The project the N.C. Department of Tourism, Billy Graham Evan- was a huge success. The ‘one-of-a-kind’ project which gelistic Association, Petty’s Garage (Richard Petty), provided North Carolina products/goodies/messages Charlotte Motor Speedway, The Peanut Roaster, a to North Carolina’s deployed troops was a welcomed NC decal, a wooden toy/puzzle from Walnut Hill surprise to our troops. The troops and their loved- Crafts, a pre-paid phone card, a deck of North Carolina ones have since told ONS that the gift boxes made playing cards, a North Carolina Christmas card created them feel a little closer to home last Christmas. And, by grade-school students from around the state, and the gift boxes were such heart-felt gifts for the troops special messages from Governor Perdue, Senator Kay knowing that folks back in the home-state were Hagan, and Senator Richard Burr. thinking of them and had committed both their time and money to make their Christmas away from home How You Can Help and family a little more special. Visit Facebook: Operation North State welcomes donations of items Operation North State and view ‘Photos’ for over- or financial contributions, which are used to help cover views of the products and messages, packing parties product purchases and shipping costs. Information on and thank you letters.” how to make financial contributions is available on the website www.operationnorthstate.com, or you can This year, due to the increase in demand, Operation mail to checks to Operation North State, 151 North State’s goal is to send 1,500 gift boxes. The Windemere Court, Winston-Salem, NC 27127. 2011 Christmas gift boxes featured 36 top-quality North Carolina-related items. The following North How To Submit Names of Troops to Receive Boxes Carolina companies, brands and products were repre- Operation North State will begin accepting names for sented in the Christmas gift box: HanesBrands, Thorlo the recipients of the Christmas gift boxes on September Socks, Mt. Olive Pickles, Lance Crackers, Texas Pete 1. There is no charge to submit the name of a North Hot Sauce, Bojangles’, Dewey’s Moravian Sugar Carolina deployed troop, and you can submit multiple Cookies, Redbird Candy, Duchess Honey Buns, recipients if you would like. All Christmas gift boxes BB&T, High Point Bank, Cheerwine, JournalBooks, will be shipped to the deployed troops by December 10. S&D Coffee, Our State Magazine, Hampton Farms SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 13 MEMBER NEWS Ceremony and Reception Honors Teachers of the Edgecombe County Rosenwald Schools

n May 26, the Perry-Weston Institute and the “North Carolina was home to 789 O Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners held a ceremony and reception honoring the teachers Rosenwald schools, more than any of Edgecombe County Rosenwald Schools and other state in the country, with 26 commemorating the history of the Roberson School. The schools located across Edgecombe ceremony also featured a book signing by the authors of The Education of a Generation: The Rosenwald Schools County.” and Other African-American Schools in Edgecombe County, A Preliminary History. The ceremony, musical selection was rendered by members of the attended by more than 100 persons, was held at the Conetoe Alumni Choir under the direction of Linda Roberson Center for Educational Achievement. Joyner. The members of this ensemble are Johnny Gray, James Vines, Robert Slade, Roosevelt Higgs, Honored were Ellsworth B. Barnes, Mary Joyner Beverly Vines, Rosa Joyner Steels, and Fostina Cobb Barnes, Mary Belle Freeman Bullock, Julia Parham Lynch. Catering was by Four Seasons of Rocky Mount. Foster, Dorothy B. Gilliam, Mary Battle Odom, Jessie Wimberly Parker, Lucille Allen Quinichett, Evelyn Authors C. Rudolph Knight and Lawrence W. S. Joyner Reeves, V. Elaine Barnes Tyson, Dr. Frank B. Auld, Ph.D., signed copies of the recently published Weaver, Queen Lewis Weaver, and Erma Bulluck The Education of a Generation: The Rosenwald Wilkins. Edgecombe County Commissioners Leonard Schools and Other African-American Schools in Wiggins and Viola Harris presented certificates of Edgecombe County, A Preliminary History during the appreciation to the honorees on behalf of the county, reception. The Education of a Generation (170 pages) and Dr. Lawrence Auld and C. Rudolph Knight describes the African-American schools in Edgecombe presented each honoree with a copy of their new book. County from 1869 to 1970. Special emphasis is placed on the 26 Rosenwald Schools that were in the county. The county commissioners had previously proclaimed The book includes many pictures of buildings, teachers, the month of May 2012 Edgecombe County Rosenwald and students. (The Perry-Weston Institute is now School Month, and on May 7 they issued a proclama- selling copies of this book for $20 plus $6 shipping tion that honored the history of the Rosenwald School and handling; to order, call (252) 823-0275.) Building Program. This school program, which began in 1912, provided seed grants for the construction of Sponsors were Baker Funeral Home, Conetoe Alumni more than 5,300 buildings in 15 states, including Association, Dickens Funeral Service, Edgecombe schools, shops, and teachers’ houses built by and for County Board of Commissioners, G. W. Carver Alumni African Americans. North Carolina was home to 789 Association, Hemby-Willoughby Mortuary, North Rosenwald schools, more than any other state in the Carolina Association of Black High Schools, Perry- country, with 26 schools located across Edgecombe Weston Institute, Thorne Drug Company, and W. A. County. These schools served African American Pattillo Alumni Association. students from the time of the schools’ construction until they were replaced by consolidated schools in The Perry-Weston Educational and Cultural Institute, the late 1940s and early 1950s. Inc., a co-sponsor of this event, promotes African American history, genealogy, culture, and arts, The speaker for the May 26 occasion was Dr. Benja- particularly in Edgecombe County and North Carolina. min F. Speller, Jr., retired professor and former dean The Institute also promotes the conservation and of the School of Library and Information Sciences at preservation of selected African-American buildings, North Carolina Central University. The invocation sites, and records. The Institute sponsors classes, for the occasion was given by Rev. Roosevelt Higgs, lectures, exhibits, demonstrations, publications, and and ushers were Jetta Knight and Lamont Wiggins, special projects and programs. For more information Esq., with closing remarks by Evelyn Wilson, Vice- and/or to schedule a presentation, contact (252) 823- Chair of the Edgecombe County Public Schools. A 0275.

SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 14 MEMBER NEWS Focus on a Federation Member: The North Carolina Presbyterian Historical Society

By Joy Heitman, Awards Chair, North Carolina Presbyterian Historical Society

hat does the North Carolina often include nearby historic sites (910) 428-4165 for more infor- W Presbyterian Historical as well. We always have a local mation, or visit the website at Society have to offer? church historian tell us about the www.ncphsociety.org. history of the church and events Members include anyone interested such as the Revolutionary War, In April we were in Charlotte, and in North Carolina church history, Civil War, or rapid urban develop- next April will find us in the in church architecture, in historical ment that have affected their con- Tarboro area. graveyards, and in meeting people gregation. Lately, the economic with similar interests. You do not downturn was evident in commu- I invite you to visit our webpage have to be Scottish or Scotch-Irish nities we visited. (www.ncphsociety.org) to read or even Presbyterian to come! about future trips and sample our On October 13 we will be at the past journeys. If you know of any Since 1964 we have been meeting Scottish Heritage Center at St. recent books or projects on Pres- twice a year. Our spring Tour of Andrews University in Laurin- byterian history, suitable for our Historic Churches is on a Friday burg, where Director Bill Caudill awards, please write us at North and Saturday, usually the weekend will talk about the Gaelic-speaking Carolina Presbyterian Historical after Easter. In the fall we have a communities that lingered in NC Society, P.O. Box 20804, Raleigh, one-day meeting at a Presbyterian into the 19th century. We invite NC 27619-0804. church or college, with a guest you to join us; please call the speaker on a related topic. We program chairman Sam Martin at

Apex Historical Society and Matthews Historical Foundation Celebrate 25 Years

he year 2012 marks the 25th anniversary of two the website (www.apexhistoricalsociety.com) for T Federation members, the Apex Historical Society updates. and the Matthews Historical Foundation. The Matthews Historical Foundation is also celebrating The Apex Historical Society is celebrating its 25th its 25th year. A short article on the Foundation’s anniversary with a special program each month. The website, www.matthewshistoricalfoundation.org, Society is kicking off its yearlong celebration this traces some of its accomplishments over the years. October, with a Founders’ Day program at the historic These accomplishments include the restoration of Halle Center on Sunday, October 14, from 3 p.m. to the 1890 Reid House and the Massey-Clark House, 5 p.m. Plans for the program include a history of the which will hold the future Matthews Heritage Museum; Society’s beginnings and recognition of charter the publication of Matthews Memories in 2009; the members, former officers, and those who played a annual awarding of the Fullwood Restoration part in the organization. An AHS time line will be Award, given to a Matthews homeowner who has displayed in “Studio A,” which will also feature a restored his or her property; and more. reception after the program. The Federation extends congratulations to these two Future programs and events are being planned and historical organizations on reaching their 25th anni- include speakers talking about the Civil War, telling versary! stories about old Apex, and more. Be sure to check SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 15 MEMBER NEWS Member News Briefs

The ALLEGHANY HISTORICAL The CHATHAM COUNTY HISTORI- Sr., a man who escaped slavery MUSEUM was featured in the TV CAL ASSOCIATION reports that and who in 1863 enlisted in what Show North Carolina Now in the the cleaning and rebuilding of the eventually became the 25th Unit- spring. A link to the segment has historic county courthouse in ed States Colored Troops. After been posted on the website of the Pittsboro are on schedule. The the ceremony, participants laid Alleghany Historical-Genealogical courthouse had been damaged by wreaths at three local cemeteries Society at www.ahgs.org. a devastating fire in March 2010; to honor Confederate, Union, and the rebuilding should be completed U.S. Colored Troops. The BELMONT HISTORICAL SOCI- by December 2012. ETY has added a slide show that The WAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL runs continuously at its museum; HISTORIC FLAT ROCK held a SOCIETY has replaced the picture the slide show depicts more than successful Designer Showcase this of Rachel Bauer on her tombstone 200 pictures of Stowe Park in the summer, benefitting from the help in Raleigh’s Oakwood Cemetery. late 1950s and 1960s. Sample of more than 350 volunteers during Rachel Bauer was the wife of photos can now be seen on the the 16-day event. Aldolphus Bauer, a famous archi- society’s Facebook page. tect in Raleigh during the 1880s As part of the 150th anniversary of and 1890s. When Rachel died in The CARTERET COUNTY HISTORI- the Civil War, the NEW BERN childbirth, Aldolphus Bauer erected CAL SOCIETY reports that its HISTORICAL SOCIETY and three a nine-foot tombstone in her honor, summer intern, Elizabeth McDon- other local historical groups held but the original tile image on the ald, has been studying and catalog- a “Civil War Veterans Recognition tombstone became damaged over ing the DuBois Family Collection, Day” in May, during which they time. The historical society which includes documents and recognized Union and Confederate contacted Rachel Bauer’s great- archives donated by the DuBois soldiers who fought and died in granddaughter to request a photo- family, longtime residents of the conflict. During the ceremony, graph and found a tile-maker to Morehead City. Ms. McDonald they honored a local resident with put her picture on a new tile. plans to write a mini-biographical a remarkable connection to the account of the DuBois family, based Civil War: Luke Martin, Jr., is the on her work with the collection. 95-year-old son of Luke P. Martin, Renowned Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to Speak at Old Salem

ld Salem Museums & Gardens will present “The Lyndon B. Johnson, the Kennedy Family, Franklin O Lessons of History: Doris Kearns Goodwin on Roosevelt, and Ken Burns’ The History of Baseball. the American Presidents” on Wednesday, September In 1995, her book, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and 26, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Goodwin will present a Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Homefront During lecture followed by a question-and-answer session at World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. the Stevens Center of the University of North Caro- Her most recent book, Team of Rivals: The Political lina School of the Arts at 405 West 4th Street in Genius of Abraham Lincoln, has also won numerous Winston-Salem. Proceeds benefit Old Salem Museums awards. Godwin is currently at work on a new book & Gardens. about the Progressive Era.

Goodwin received her Ph.D. in Government from Tickets for the lecture are $46 for the lower level of Harvard University, where she taught courses on the Stevens Center and $31 for the balcony. For more government, including a course on the American information or to purchase tickets, visit oldsalem. Presidency. She is the author of several books and org/dkgoodwin or call Stevens Center Box Office at was an on-air consultant for PBS documentaries on (336) 721-1945. SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 16 GRANT OPPORTUNITIES Grants from Public or Museum-Related Organizations

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF management, technology enhance- purpose is African American life, MUSEUMS ments, community programming); art, history, and/or culture, Museum Assessment Program and Collections Stewardship encompassing: the period of slavery; Deadline: Dec. 1, 2012 (collections management, conserva- the era of Reconstruction; the The Museum Assessment Program tion, cataloguing, rehousing, Harlem renaissance; the civil (MAP) is designed to help small surveys, and environmental rights movement; and other periods and mid-sized museums assess improvements). As stated by IMLS, of the African American diaspora. their strengths and weaknesses “MFA grants support activities Nonprofit organizations whose and plan for the future. Museums that strengthen museums as active primary purpose is to support complete a self-study and receive resources for lifelong learning, as museums identified above may also a visit from a peer reviewer who important institutions in the apply. Historically Black Colleges created a customized report. MAP establishment of livable communi- or Universities (HBCUs) are also can help museums develop ties, and as good stewards of the eligible. Grants awards range strategies for improved operations, nation’s collections. MFA grants from $5,000 to $150,000 and must planning, staff and board education, can fund both new and ongoing have a one-to-one match. (This and fundraising. Museums can museum activities and programs.” match may include in-kind contri- request one of three assessments: Please note that IMLS will allow butions, such as staff time, that organization, collections steward- museums to submit more than one support project activities.) For more ship, and community engagement. grant application to the Museums information, visit www.imls.gov. The program is free for the smallest for America program. IMLS has museums. Other museums pay a not yet posted its final, revised National Leadership Grants small fee scaled to their operating guidelines; they should be posted Deadline: Jan. 15, 2013 expenses. Visit www.aam-us.org/ by November 15. For more infor- Please note that the National map for more information about mation, visit www.imls.gov. Leadership Grants (NLG) for MAP, or call (202) 289-9118. Museums program now includes Museum Grants for African funding for the activities and INSTITUTE FOR MUSEUM AND American History and Culture projects that were supported LIBRARY SERVICES Deadline: Jan. 15, 2013 previously under 21st Century Museums for America Museum Grants for African Museum Professionals. According Deadline: Jan. 15, 2013 American History and Culture are to IMLS, “National Leadership As reported on page 6 of the intended to enhance institutional Grants (NLG) support projects Bulletin, the Museums for America capacity and sustainability through that address current and future grant program now includes funding professional training, technical needs of the museum field and for the activities and projects that assistance, internships, outside that have the potential to advance were previously supported under expertise, and other tools. Success- practice in the profession so that the Conservation Project Support ful proposals will focus on one or museums can improve services for program. The Museums for Amer- more of the following three goals: the American public. Successful ica grants range from $5,000 to developing or strengthening proposals will generate results $150,000 and have a one-to-one knowledge, skills, and other such as models, new tools, research matching requirement, though expertise of current staff at African findings, services, practices, and/ this match can be met by in-kind American museums; attracting or alliances that can be widely contributions such as staff time. and retaining professionals with used, adapted, scaled, or replicated According to the draft guidelines, the skills needed to strengthen to extend and leverage the benefits museums can apply for a Museums African American museums; and of federal investment.” IMLS is for America grant in one of three attracting new staff to African seeking projects that show broad categories: Learning Experiences American museum practice and impact, innovation, and collabora- (education, research, exhibits, web- providing them with the expertise tion. For more information, visit site, social media, publications); needed to sustain them in the www.imls.gov. Community Anchors (strategic museum field. Eligible applicants planning, staff training, financial include museums whose primary SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 17 GRANT OPPORTUNITIES Grants from Private Organizations

BLUE RIDGE NATIONAL program are provided by the federal and procedures that relate to and HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP government through the National affect collections care, including Grant Program Park Service. Grant awards of up storage and exhibition conditions; Deadline: Dec. 14, 2012 to $24,000 are available for regional museum environment; fabrication The Blue Ridge National Heritage or multi-county projects; awards and condition of structures housing Area Partnership offers matching of up to $18,000 are available for collections; museum staffing and grants to provide and leverage local projects. Applicants must training; and policies and proce- funding for innovative projects provide at least a one-to-one dures concerning the use of across the region which preserve, match. The following types of collections. Though the program protect, and promote the rich his- organizations serving the 25-county allocates money to help cover the torical, cultural, and natural her- Blue Ridge National Heritage Area costs of the assessors, museums itage of Western North Carolina region are eligible to apply: units need to be prepared to pay any while stimulating economic oppor- of state and local government; costs above that allocation. tunity. Grants are available for federally-recognized Indian tribes; (Heritage Preservation estimates the preservation, interpretation, academic institutions; and non- that these costs could be between development, and promotion of profit organizations with 501(c)3 $400 and $1,000, depending on heritage resources in five thematic or 501(c)6 tax-exempt status from how many assessors are assigned, areas: agricultural heritage; the Internal Revenue Service. their fees, travel cost, etc.) Appli- Cherokee heritage; craft heritage; cations will be available on Heritage music heritage; and natural herit- HERITAGE PRESERVATION Preservation’s website, www. age. These distinctive facets of Conservation Assessment heritagepreservation.org, on Western North Carolina’s herit- Program Monday, October 1. Heritage age were the basis for the Blue Deadline: December 3, 2012 Preservation evaluates CAP appli- Ridge National Heritage Area (Note: Heritage Preservation cations in the order in which they designation in 2003. Of particular encourages early applications.) are received, so museums are interest to the Blue Ridge National Heritage Preservation and IMLS encouraged to submit their Heritage Area are projects that provide the Conservation Assess- completed applications as soon as are regional or multi-county in ment Program to help museums possible. For more information, scope; involve active partnerships care for their collections. As the call (202) 233-0800 or email between organizations; and lever- Web site states, “CAP provides a cap@heritage preservation.org. age substantial matches from general conservation assessment project participants and other of your museum’s collection, envi- ReCAP grantors. In the 2012 Grant Cycle, ronmental conditions, and site. Deadline: December 3, 2012 the Blue Ridge National Heritage Conservation priorities are identi- Museums previously awarded an Area Partnership has a special fied by professionals who spend two IMLS-funded conservation assess- interest in supporting projects days on-site and three days writing ment may be eligible to update that are focused on the region’s a report. The report can help your their CAP report if seven years music heritage. Such projects may museum develop strategies for have passed since the original include business/marketing/ improved collections care and assessment. By participating in hospitality training for traditional provide a tool for long-range ReCAP, your museum will receive music venues and facility upgrades planning and fund-raising.” Please a new conservation assessment to at traditional music venues that note that CAP only provides general identify new collections care are managed by a local government conservation assessments. It does priorities and goals. Does your or nonprofit entity. BRNHA is not provide an object-by-object museum need to update its assess- currently working with the North survey, conservation treatment or ment? The needs of museums Carolina Arts Council to revitalize supplies, building preservation vary; however, you might want to and expand the Blue Ridge Music projects, or general operating consider ReCAP if your museum: Trails in Western North Carolina. costs. Instead, a general conserva- accomplished most of the recom- Funds for the Blue Ridge National tion assessment is a broad study mendations from the original CAP Heritage Area’s matching grants of museum conditions, policies, report; would like to supplement SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 18 GRANT OPPORTUNITIES Grants from Private Organizations the original CAP report and your previous CAP report, CAP tion in western North Carolina. measure how well your preserva- staff can retrieve your report from For more information and to tion projects have progressed; storage for a fee of $30. If you download an application, visit underwent major institutional have any questions regarding www.wellsfargo.com/ changes since the first assessment, CAP, please call (202) 233-0831 or privatefoundationgrants/ferebee. such as changes in mission, (202) 233-0832. governance, administration, or funding; acquired or changed PERCY B. FEREBEE ENDOWMENT facilities; changed the direction of Grant Program the scope of collections; signifi- Deadline: Sept. 30, 2012 cantly expanded its collections; or This endowment, which is admin- suffered a significant loss by reason istered through Wells Fargo, has of fire, flood, or other disaster. as its mission to support charitable, Applicants are required to report scientific, and literary projects, on their preservation efforts and and in particular, governmental the need for a new assessment in and civic projects designed to the ReCAP Supplement portion of further the cultural, social, eco- the application. Heritage Preser- nomic, and physical well-being of vation suggests you consult your residents of Cherokee, Clay, institution’s original CAP report Graham, Jackson, Macon, and when filling out the ReCAP Swain counties of North Carolina Supplement. If you cannot locate and the Cherokee Indian Reserva-

Encourage Schools to Apply for Grant to Visit Your Site re schools struggling to find funds to visit your first register online at the website. Only one application A museum or historic site? If so, be sure to tell per individual educator can be accepted. Target does your local school officials about Target Corporation’s encourage early application to avoid high traffic on Field Trip Grants. the website as the deadline approaches.

Target is offering 5,000 field trip grants of up to $700 To help non-profit groups spread the word about this each to teachers. All educators, teachers, and principals grant opportunity, Target has posted on its website a wishing to plan a field trip for students are eligible to poster that you can download, print, and post at your apply. Funds may be used to cover field trip-related site; a web banner that you can add to your website; costs such as transportation, ticket fees, resource and an email template describing the program that materials, and supplies. Criteria for selection of grant you can send to your local educators. recipients include the applicant’s description of the field trip and its objectives; benefits to the students, In the 2011-2012 school year, more than 150 schools including overall student learning experience, in North Carolina received a Target Field Trip grant. relevance to curriculum, and number of students who may benefit from the grant; and proposed use of For more information, visit www.target.com/ funds. Field trips must take place between January 1, fieldtrips. 2013 and the end of the 2012/2013 academic year (May/June 2013).

Applications are due by September 30, 2012. Please note that only online applications will be accepted, and that school educators who plan to apply must SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 19 HISTORY HELP African American Genealogical Research: Preserving the Legacy, Shaping the Future

By C. Rudolph Knight and Lawrence W. S. Auld, Ph.D., Perry-Weston Institute he basic processes and strate- “The basic processes and strategies for tracing the T gies for tracing the genealogies of European Americans are well genealogies of European Americans are well known. . . . known. Tracing the genealogies of A different strategy is needed when a forebear is persons whose ancestors came from other parts of the world known to have lived and worked in an area, but for requires different strategies. The whom there is no trail of official documents. This is strategies used by African Ameri- the case for African Americans, particularly for those cans are outlined below. whose ancestors were enslaved.” Regardless of our background, we typically begin a genealogy with a by name and value and and some of their slaves. single person, often oneself. We sometimes include physical Parish records (christening, quickly add parents, siblings, and descriptions, ages, and gender. baptism, confirmation, and children and then begin the death and burial) may include search for grandparents, great-  Land records, in the Register the slave’s given name and grandparents, and as many others of Deeds office, can be helpful her/his owner’s name. After as we can determine and document. in locating the slave owner’s the American Revolution, the This process works well as long as property(ies). Methodists and the Baptists there is a trail of birth and death actively recruited black mem- certificates, marriage licenses,  A bill of sale was created bers. Don’t forget the five-mile census records, and other official when personal (non-real es- rule: most activities, including documents. tate) property was exchanged. church attendance, occurred The sale of a slave, an item of within a five-mile radius, the A different strategy is needed when personal property, would be practical limit for walking to a forebear is known to have lived recorded in the Register of an event and returning home and worked in an area, but for Deeds office. These records, before dark. whom there is no trail of official and copies, are kept in both documents. This is the case for the local Register of Deeds  Records of manumission, the African Americans, particularly offices and in the State freeing of slaves, are kept in the for those whose ancestors were Archives. Register of Deeds office and enslaved. State Archives. They are often  Tax digests are annual lists of attached to a slaveholder’s will. Pre-Civil War Resources tax payers with their amount The first step in this strategy is to and value of both real and  Cemeteries are variously determine the identity of the personal properties, including owned by churches, individu- enslaved person’s master or owner. land, residences, and econom- als, and funeral homes, and, Among the slaveholder’s papers ic status. The initial acquisi- when they exist, the records may be estate records, land records, tion of a slave and the number (including maps, the names of bills of sale, tax digests, church of slaves owned each year can plot owners, and the names of records, manumission records, be traced. persons buried) are similarly cemetery records, plantation distributed. Again, don’t records, and military records.  Before 1865, the membership forget the five-mile rule. Some of the local churches (Catholic, genealogical societies have  Estate records (wills and pro- Baptist, Methodist, and Epis- created cemetery maps and bate records) may list slaves copal) included both whites layouts. SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 20 HISTORY HELP

African American Genealogical Research(continued)  Some plantations and farms “Additional types of resources are useful in tracing kept detailed account books year by year in which every post-slavery African Americans, including the transaction, however minor, records of churches, the American Missionary was recorded. Others were Association, and the Freedmen’s Bureau; newspapers; less systematic. When extant (and pages have not been cut birth, death, marriage, and divorce records; and, of out), these records can reveal course, the U. S. Census.” a surprisingly complete picture of daily life, including the purchases, sales, births, The African Methodist Amistad Research Center at deaths, and runaways of Episcopal Zion Church: Tulane University. The slaves. Such records may be Reality of the Black records include the names of found in local history library Church, by William J. many individuals contained in collections and archives or Walls. Charlotte, NC: missionary and annual school may still be held by family A.M.E. Zion Pub. House, reports, lists of teachers, and descendants. 1974. letters.

 Military records include both Biographical Directory of  The Freedmen’s Bureau, free and enslaved blacks by Negro Ministers, by Ethel 1865-1871, worked with freed name, age, birthplace, resi- L. Williams. Metuchen, slaves during Reconstruction. dence, and occupation at NJ: Scarecrow Press, The Bureau’s work included time of enlistment. These 1970. obtaining employment records include the Revolu- through contracts with former tionary War, the War of 1812, Cyclopaedia of African slave owners; establishing the Mexican-American War, Methodism, by Alexander schools; feeding, clothing, and and the Civil War. W. Wayman. Baltimore: obtaining medical treatment; Methodist Episcopal Book locating separated family Post-Civil War Resources Depository, 1882. members; legalizing marriages; Additional types of resources are and investigating claims of useful in tracing post-slavery Who’s Who Among North brutality. The records are African Americans, including the Carolina Baptists with a kept in the national and state records of churches, the American Brief History of Negro archives. Missionary Association, and the Baptist Organizations, by Freedmen’s Bureau; newspapers; M. W. Williams and  Black-owned national newspa- birth, death, marriage, and George W. Watkins, 1940. pers included The Chicago divorce records; and, of course, the Defender, The Pittsburgh U. S. Census. Who’s Who Among the Courier, The New York Age, Colored Baptists of the and The Journal and Guide  Following the Civil War, United States, by Samuel (Norfolk). Also many local church members gradually W. Bacote. New York: newspapers included a negro divided into separate white Arno Press, 1980, ©1913. section. and black congregations, and their records became separate  The American Missionary  Nearly four dozen African in this process. Biographical Association, founded in 1846, American newspapers have information for many individ- was active throughout the been published in North Caroli- uals can be found in such United States, particularly in na over the years, some for works as the following: the South. The Association’s only short periods of time, papers are kept at the others with longer runs. The SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 21 HISTORY HELP

African American Genealogical Research (continued)

UNC North Carolina Collec- alogical guidance. Among these, including charts listing descend- tion has a list of these news- the following may be helpful: ants; biographies of notable (or papers, with bibliographic not so notable) forebears (written details and information about  African American Genealogical in plain simple language); and their availability; this list can Sourcebook, edited by Paula stories about these people, their be viewed at www.lib.unc.edu/ K. Byers. New York: Gale families, their work, and their ncc/ref/study/africanamerican Research, 1995. accomplishments. Include the newspapers.html. sources of your information so  “African American Slavery that others who follow you can  Birth and death certificates and Bondage” includes a build on your work. were begun in North Carolina substantial section on ante- in 1913. They are kept by the bellum plantation records that Also, enhance your family history Register of Deeds. The names can be accessed at https:// with pictures whenever possible. of parents are included, when familysearch.org/learn/wiki/ An ancestor’s name doesn’t mean known. enAfrican_American_Slavery_ much by itself, but s/he can come and Bondage. alive when you connect her/his  Marriage and divorce records, name with an image. when recorded, extend into  Afro-American Genealogy the middle of the 19th centu- Sourcebook, by Tommie M. By tracking your genealogy, you ry. The marriage records Young. New York: Garland, can strengthen your self identity typically include the names 1987. by learning who your ancestors and ages of the husband and were, where your ancestors lived, wife; the names of the parents,  A Genealogist’s Guide to their occupations, and their fami- witnesses, and minister; and Discovering Your African- ly relationships. You may also the location. American Ancestors: How to gain valuable information about Find and Record Your Unique genetic traits and health issues.  The U.S. Censuses for 1850 Heritage, by Franklin C. Whatever you gather, genealogy and 1860 includes “Slave Smith and Emily A. Croom. can be fun and productive! Schedules” with the names of Cincinnati: Betterway Books, owners and, for each owner, a 2003. list of slaves by first name C. Rudolph Knight is a Tarboro only. Beginning with the 1870  Generations Past: A Selected native, a retired community Census, all citizens, including List of Sources for Afro- college educator, and a research former slaves, are listed by American Genealogical historian. Lawrence Auld, Ph.D., surname followed by given Research, by Sandra M. is a retired librarian and educator. name. Lawson. Washington: Govern- Questions may be addressed to ment Printing Office, 1993. [email protected].  And don’t forget family and community oral history both  Slave Genealogy: A Research as a starting point and as a Guide and Case Studies, by help when you have reached David H. Streets. Bowie, MD: what appears to be a dead Heritage Books, 1986. end. The details may or may not be correct, but, if nothing  Writing Family Histories and else, they may be indicative Memoirs, by Kirk Polking. and help point the way. Cincinnati: Betterway Books, 1995. For More Information Beyond this brief article, there are Once collected, one’s family can be many sources for additional gene- presented in many different ways SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 22 HISTORY HELP Useful Resources

In this section, we review museum or history-related that women make up half of the human race and that sites that might interest you. We welcome your every historic site contains elements of men’s and suggestions as well. women’s history, the NCWHS reviewed numerous nominations and selected five sites that are not seen Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina primarily as “women’s history” sites but that do accu- http://docsouth.unc.edu/commland/ rately and effectively reflect women’s history. NCWHS This digital collection by UNC-Chapel Hill enables staff visited the site, gathered information, evaluated users to visualize and analyze the historical memory them, and conducted interviews with site staff members. of the state of North Carolina by viewing famous and Finally, they identified practical lessons applicable little known sites of memory on modern and historic elsewhere. The NCWHS notes that there are many maps. Commemorative sites (monuments, shrines, and benefits in sites exploring and revealing women’s public art) are linked to a wide variety of resources— history at their sites: in addition to more accurately postcards, photographs, printed publications, newspaper reflecting life in the past, historic sites that explore clippings, and manuscript materials—that reveal when, women’s history can also attract more visitors. As the how, and where North Carolinians have commemorated publication notes, “Because women often plan family their past. The collection also encourages users to trips, finding ways to attract more women is key to reflect on what parts of their history North Carolinians increasing visitation.” have elected not to commemorate as well as how the commemorative landscape of the state is likely to Standards and Best Practices of Museum change in the future. Please note that this website is Volunteer Programs an ongoing project. It began with a survey of twenty- www.aamv.org/resources/standards-and-best- five Piedmont counties, from Rowan to Cumberland practices counties, and will continue to grow as more counties The American Association for Museum Volunteers are added. Be sure to check back for updates. (AAMV) developed these standards with the hope of helping museums evaluate their volunteer programs Teaching with Primary Sources Journal to determine areas in need of expansion. AAMV www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/journal identifies 13 basic elements of a successful program, Though this journal, developed by the Library of then explores each element in more detail. For instance, Congress, is intended for teachers in K-12 classrooms, under the standard “Recruiting is done in a fair manner museum and historic sites educators may find it of so that information about volunteer opportunities is interest as well. Each issue focuses on a different topic accessible,” AAMV explores such topics as the and includes information about Library of Congress importance having volunteers that reflect the diversity primary source materials related to that topic; of the community a museum hopes to serve; using summaries and links to research and current thinking diverse methods to recruit; evaluating recruitment about that topic; and sample lesson plans and learning methods; and providing clear application information activities. Recent issues have focused on teaching the and position descriptions to potential volunteers. Civil War across disciplines; using primary sources with elementary school learners, supporting inquiry learning through primary sources; helping students develop historical thinking skills; and more.

Revealing Women’s History: Best Practices at Historic Sites www.ncwhs.org/images/stories/revealing-womens- history.pdf The National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (NCWHS), in partnership with the National Park Service Northeast Region, offers five case studies of historic sites that exemplify ways to best preserve and interpret the past of women and girls. Noting SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 23 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

APEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY Buy a chance to win a beautiful, Community www.apexhistorical.com homemade crazy quilt with the Thanksgiving theme “Winding through Ashe.” Feast Founder’s Day The quilt features pieces of cloth Sunday, Nov. 18, Sunday, Oct. 14, 3 p.m.-5 p.m. that were donated by local families; 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Come to the historic Halle Center each piece has a story associated A traditional in downtown Apex to kick-off the with it. Tickets are now being sold turkey dinner is yearlong celebration of the 25th for the raffle of the quilt and the provided by some of the area’s anniversary of the Apex Historical scrapbook of stories about each finest restaurants. Served at the Society. The program will include quilt piece; tickets cost $1 each or Beaufort Historic Site, dinners a history of the Society’s begin- 6 for $5. Proceeds will benefit the are available for take-out or to nings and recognition of charter Museum of Ashe County History. enjoy under our tent. Admission members, former officers, and The raffle will be held on October fee. those who played a part in the 27. organization. An AHS time line * * * * * * * will be displayed in “Studio A,” * * * * * * * which will also feature a reception BENTONVILLE BATTLEFIELD after the program. BEAUFORT HISTORICAL STATE HISTORIC SITE (Four Oaks) ASSOCIATION (Beaufort) www.nchistoricsites.org/bentonvi/ Holiday House Tour www.beauforthistoricsite.org bentonvi.htm, (910) 594-0789 Sunday, Dec. 2, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. (800) 575-7483 It’s not too early to start thinking Fall Festival and Living History about the holidays! The Historical Carteret County Arts & Crafts Saturday, Oct. 20, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Society’s annual house tour will Coalition Fall Show Bring the family and celebrate fall feature homes all within walking Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 1-2 at Bentonville Battlefield! Activi- distance of downtown. For the Enjoy this juried sale of arts and ties include hayrides, carnival first time, the Halle Center, with crafts of coastal artisans held games based on 19th-century its annual Christmas tree display, three weekends a year. Held at games, corn shucking contest, will be included on the tour. Be the Beaufort Historic Site, this is townball (19th-century baseball), sure to visit the website for more the perfect occasion to browse and and more. Also during the festival, details later in the fall. buy the work of coastal artists visitors to Bentonville will learn and craftsmen. about 19th-century farm life, and * * * * * * * the chores that women and children Fall Fundraising Party were suddenly responsible for ASHE COUNTY HISTORICAL Saturday, Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m. during the Civil War. Costumed SOCIETY (Jefferson) Held at the new residence of Eva civilian re-enactors will also discuss www.ashehistory.org and Tom Higgins on Front Street, how their lives changed at the this party will feature lively music, outbreak of war and the general Monthly Meetings beautiful artwork by Mary 19th-century civilian lifestyle. Mondays, Sept. 10, Oct. 8, and Rountree Moore, and delicious Demonstrations include open Nov. 12 gourmet food. hearth cooking, games, spinning, Come to the Museum of Ashe sewing, and more. County History for these monthly Jumble Sale meetings of the Ashe County Histor- Saturday, Nov. 17, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. * * * * * * * ical Society. The public is welcome. The Beaufort Historic Site turns Please note that the September into a community market with CALDWELL HERITAGE MUSEUM meeting starts at 6:30 p.m., but art, handmade crafts, holiday gifts, (Lenoir) the October and November pre-loved treasures, antiques, www.caldwellheritagemuseum.org meetings start at 5:30 p.m. clothing, food, and much more. No (828) 758-4004 admission fee. Vendor information Crazy Quilt Raffle is available. Sunday Open House Saturday, Oct. 27 Sunday, Sept. 30, 2 p.m.-5 p.m. SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 24 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Enjoy refreshments and tour the www.thehistoryplace.org more—are all furnished, and museum during this open house. (252) 247-7533 around 220 volunteer artisans You can also buy the 2013 Town- demonstrate the period techniques ship Calendar, which will feature Montford Point Marines of flax breaking and hackling, North Catawba Township on the Sunday, Sept. 23, 3 p.m. spinning, weaving, herb dying, cover. Ron Bowers will offer an illustrated open-hearth cooking, broom and talk on the history of the Montford shoe making, shingle riving, * * * * * * * Point Marines, formerly a segre- wheelwrighting, tinsmithing, and gated unit of African American moonshining. Visitors from across CAPE FEAR MUSEUM OF HISTORY servicemen in Jacksonville. the country attend the one-day AND SCIENCE (Wilmington) event, some inspired by the three- www.capefearmuseum.com * * * * * * * part series The 1840 Carolina (910) 798-4362 Village that airs on PBS stations. CATAWBA COUNTY HISTORICAL Tickets ($25 each) go on sale at Science Spooktacular ASSOCIATION (Newton) 9 a.m. on October 1. They may be Saturday, Oct. 20, 6 p.m.-10 p.m. www.catawbahistory.org purchased in person at the Catawba Unleash your (828) 465-0383 County Museum of History in inner mad Newton or over the phone, with a scientist to Harvest Folk Festival credit card, at (828) 465-0383. explore concoc- Saturday, Sept. 29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Groups consisting of 15 or more tions that and Sunday, Sept . 30, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. may purchase tickets in advance bubble, glow, or Come to Murray’s Mill for this from Sept. 1 to Sept. 15 by calling even smoke! festival, which celebrates Catawba (828) 322-2990. Please note that The Museum County’s agricultural heritage with tickets are limited and are sold on will be filled an array of exhibits, craftsmen, a first-come, first-served basis. with eerie exper- and activities, including petting Tickets must be purchased in iments and strange sights, so get zoos, antique cars, tractors, and advance and will not be available ready for a fun-filled night! Cost: farm machinery, and traditional to purchase at the entrance gate. $3 for members; $6 for non- food preparations such as molasses members. making. Enjoy bluegrass, country, * * * * * * * and gospel music as well as a tour * * * * * * * of the mill, whose original French CHATHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL buhr millstones produce bags of ASSOCIATION (Pittsboro) CAPITAL AREA PRESERVATION flour, a prized and usable souvenir. www.chathamhistory.org (Raleigh) Admission is $5, free for children www.cappresinc.org under age 10. War of 1812 200th Anniversary (919) 833-6404 Program Hart Square Sunday, Oct. 7 Anthemion Awards Saturday, Oct. 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Join Robert Barnes, professor of Monday, Sept. 17, 5:30 p.m.- For more than thirty years, history at Central Carolina 7:30 p.m. Dr. Robert Hart of Hickory has Community College, as he talks Celebrate the winners of Capital rescued and restored Carolina life about Chatham County’s connec- Area Preservation’s Anthemion of the nineteenth century, recreat- tions to the War of 1812. Learn Awards, who have all made notable ing an entire village, Hart Square— about county citizens who took contributions to the preservation the largest collection of original part in the war, and learn more of Wake County’s architectural historic log buildings in the United about Captain Johnston Blakely, landscape. States. Each year on the fourth who was lost at sea with his sloop Saturday in October, Dr. and Mrs. Wasp. Time and location of the * * * * * * * Hart open this restoration project program will be announced; be to the public. Dating from 1782 to sure to check the website for more CARTERET COUNTY HISTORICAL 1873, the seventy log structures— information. SOCIETY (Morehead City) chapels, barns, houses, shops, and SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 25 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

COOLEEMEE HISTORICAL members of the Bill Leslie is an Emmy award- ASSOCIATION Old Baldy winning journalist who anchors www.TextileHeritage.org Foundation the morning and noon newscasts will travel from for WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Textile Heritage Festival Bald Head Carolina. He is also known as a Saturday, Sept. 29, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Island to tell new age record artist who performs Come to the Zachary House the story of how they are bringing traditional as well as Celtic fusion grounds to enjoy this annual back a Fresnel Lens to the island; music that he composed. Bill has festival, whose theme this year this lens was once part of the also composed music featured on will be “Passing the Torch.” See Cape Fear Lighthouse, which two albums by Bragh Adair. displays that focus on “Old Toys” stood on Bald Head Island and Tickets cost $15 and may be and “Discovering Our Heritage,” protected sailors from Frying Pan purchased at the Cary Arts Center hear music by Greenville, South Shoals from 1903 to 1958. In Octo- box office; online at eTix.com; or Carolina’s Textile Heritage Bank, ber, local author Elaine Henson by phone at (800) 514.3849. Please and enjoy popcorn, funnel cakes, will discuss her picture history of note that you can also buy season and other great food. the building of the Intracoastal tickets for $60 for all four winter Waterway from Wrightsville concerts: Bill Leslie (Nov. 11), * * * * * * * Beach to the South Carolina line. Little Windows (Dec. 16), Jon In November, author and local Shain (Jan. 20), and Brian Reagin DUKE HOMESTEAD STATE historian Jack Fryar will talk (Feb. 24). HISTORIC SITE (Durham) about the Yellow Fever epidemic www.nchistoricsites.org/duke/ that hit Wilmington in 1862. * * * * * * * duke.htm, (919) 477-5498 * * * * * * * GASTON COUNTY MUSEUM Harvest and Hornworm Festival (Dallas) Saturday, Sept. 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. FRIENDS OF THE PAGE-WALKER www.gastoncountymuseum.org In the morning, see demonstrations HOTEL (Cary) (704) 922-7681 of historic tobacco harvesting, www.friendsofpagewalker.org, stringing, and curing. In the after- (919) 460-4963 Blues Out Back: John Dee noon, hear the sounds of the only Holeman and Tad Walters tobacco auction left in Durham. More Mysteries and Secrets: Friday, Sept. 14, 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Throughout the day, enjoy the Exploring Cary-Area Cemeteries Enjoy this free performance by hornworm race, MoonPie eating Tuesday, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m.- John Dee Holeman and Tad Walters contest, musical entertainment, 9:30 p.m. on the lawn behind the museum. craft vendors, refreshments, and There’s something mysterious Bring along blankets, lawn chairs, more. Free! about cemeteries. As we pass and a picnic for an evening of them, our thoughts begin to fly: great music with friends and * * * * * * * Who rests there? What joys and family. sorrows surrounded their lives? FEDERAL POINT HISTORIC Where are their families—with * * * * * * * PRESERVATION SOCIETY them, or far, far away? Join the (Carolina Beach) Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel GREENSBORO HISTORICAL www.FederalPointHIstory.org as they explore the mysteries and MUSEUM (910) 458-0502 secrets held by local cemeteries, http://greensborohistory.org identifying the resting places of (336) 373-3681 Membership Meetings historic figures and bringing to Mondays, Sept. 17, Oct. 15, and light the more obscure facts and 5 by O. Henry Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m. questions from both prominent and Thursdays-Fridays, Sept. 6-7 and The public is welcome to these well-hidden local burial grounds. Sept. 13-14, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, free meetings, which feature Sept. 8 and Sept. 15, 3 p.m. and interesting speakers focusing on Winter Concert Series: Bill Leslie 7:30 p.m.; and Sundays, Sept. 9 historical topics. In September, Sunday, Nov. 11, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. and Sept. 16, 3 p.m. SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 26 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Enjoy five heartwarming short The event is made possible by O. HISTORIC BETHANIA stories by O. Henry adapted for Henry Magazine and Quaintance- www.townofbethania.org the stage by playwright Joseph Weaver Hotels and Restaurants. (336) 922-0434 Hoesl, plus live performances of For information and tickets, call vintage American music. The stories O. Henry Magazine at (336) 617- Black Walnut Festival featured this year will be: “The 0090. Saturday, Sept. 29 Last Leaf,” “The Count and the Join us for a day of food, live music, Wedding Guest,” “Jeff Peters as a Smithsonian Magazine Museum and family fun in the historic town Personal Magnet,” “A Poor Rule,” Day Live! of Bethania. and “Telemachus, Friend.” Tickets Saturday, Sept. 29, 10:30 a.m.- cost $15 for general admission 12:30 p.m. * * * * * * * and $12 for members, seniors, and What do O. Henry and a brown students and can be purchased by bag have in common? Great fun! HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE calling Triad Stage at (336) 272- Draw a cartoon and write a very, LOWER CAPE FEAR (Wilmington) 0160, by visiting www.triad very short story! Stop by anytime http://hslcf.org, (910) 762-0492 stage.org/tickets, or by visiting the between 10:00 and 5:00 p.m. to Museum Shop. enjoy exhibits (and a 10% Muse- Secret Garden Tour um Shop discount!). Friday-Saturday, O. Henry: His Surprise Sept. 14-15 Endings—and Beginnings * * * * * * * See beautiful private gardens Tuesday, Sept. 11, 5:30 pm during this annual tour, Dr. Elliot Engel offers the life story HENDERSON COUNTY GENEALOG- whose proceeds benefit the of Will Porter, who wrote under ICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Historical Society. For more the pen name of O. Henry, with (Hendersonville) information, please call the the same humanity and wit found www.hcghs.com, (828) 693-1531 society or visit the website. in O. Henry’s own tales. Once you hear Dr. Engel, you’ll want to read Member Meetings * * * * * * * O. Henry’s stories for the first Saturday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m. time—or again and again, but this The public is welcome to these HISTORIC HOPE PLANTATION time, with a fresh perspective. bi-monthly meetings, which include (Windsor) Enjoy a reception at 5:30 pm a program or guest speaker with www.hopeplantation.org followed by Dr. Engel’s lecture at varied topics of local historical/ (252) 794-3140 6:30 pm. Dr. Engel will be availa- genealogical interest. Meetings ble for book signings after the are held at 400 N. Main Street in Living History Day lecture. Reservations are required. the second floor Gallery and Friday, Sept.14, 3 p.m.-8 p.m. Please contact Mary Allen at Meeting Room. Learn more about life in the early ( 336) 373-2982 by September 4 to 1800s during this living history register. * * * * * * * day.

A Gala Celebration of William HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL Mile Long Garage Sale Sydney Porter’s 150th Birthday SOCIETY Saturday, Oct. 6, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, September 21, 6:30 pm www.highlandshistory.com Visit antique vendors, arts and The O. Henry Hotel will host a (828) 787-1050 crafts vendors, and more during gourmet dinner from America’s this community sale. Proceeds Gilded Age with music and charac- Highlands’ 2nd Annual Dahlia will go toward the preservation ters from O. Henry’s most beloved Festival and upkeep of the Mansion and short stories. Enjoy Saturday, Sept. 15, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. other properties on the Hope

this unforgettable Come to the Highlands Recreation campus. evening whose Center to celebrate the beauty of proceeds benefit the gorgeous dahlias, which grow Talk by Dr. Heather Andrea the Greensboro so well in the mountains. Free. Williams Historical Museum. Saturday, Nov. 17 SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 27 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Come to this book signing and JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE appraisals will be non-binding reading by Dr. Heather Andrea (Raleigh) and are verbal-only estimates. Williams, professor of history at www.joellane.org, (919) 833-3431 Fee: $20 for a non-binding, verbal UNC-Chapel Hill. Her latest book, appraisal for up to 3 items. Help Me to Find My People: The “Why Would a Southern Lady Advanced appointments and African American Search for Marry a Yankee General?” advanced purchase are required. Family Lost in Slavery, uses slave Thursday, September 13, 7 p.m. Please call (919) 833-3431 with narratives, letters, interviews, Join author Suzy Barile as she your MasterCard or Visa, or mail public records, and diaries to discusses her family’s history that a check to PO Box 10884, Raleigh guide readers back to devastating she wrote about in Undaunted NC 27605. moments of family separation Heart: The True Love Story of a during slavery when people were Southern Belle and a Yankee Antiques: Fake, Fraud, or the sold away from parents, siblings, General. Barile discovered the Real Thing? spouses, and children. Williams letters from Ella Swain Atkins to Thursday, Oct. 18, 7 p.m. explores the heartbreaking stories her parents in a box of books and Join us as Ed Willer of separation and the long, usually papers left to her by her great- takes you through unsuccessful journeys toward uncle and first wrote about them what to look for in reunification. Examining the in a news story in 1994. Ella quality antiques as interior lives of the enslaved and Swain wanted nothing to do with well as what may be freedpeople as they tried to come the young Yankee general whose a fake or later repro- to terms with great loss, Williams soldiers had been assigned to duction. Willer will grounds their grief, fear, anger, protect and occupy her hometown present a slide show longing, frustration, and hope in of Chapel Hill as the Civil War of the Joel Lane the history of American slavery was coming to an end. But when House furniture and discuss the and the domestic slave trade. she was introduced to him, “they pros and cons of interesting pieces. More details about Dr. Williams’ changed eyes...and a wooing He will also discuss the risk of talk will be announced on Historic followed.” What influenced her to fakes and outright fraud for which Hope Plantation’s website and its take such a bold step? Barile will the antiques business is known. Facebook page. also speak about Ella’s Revolu- Ed Willer’s has a lifelong interest tionary War-era ancestors. in making furniture and is a charter * * * * * * * Admission: $15 for the general member of the Society of American public, $10 for members of the Joel Period Furniture Makers, an HISTORIC RICHMOND HILL LAW Lane Historical Society. Seating is organization which is dedicated to SCHOOL SITE AND NATURE PARK limited, and advanced payment is the preservation and reproduction (Boonville) required. Please call (919) 833- of American period furniture. 3431 with your MasterCard or Admission: $15 for the general Guided Tours Visa, or mail a check to PO Box public, $10 for members of the Joel Sundays, Sept. 16 and Oct. 21, 10884, Raleigh NC 27605. Be sure Lane Historical Society. Seating is 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m. to include the names of all in your limited, and advanced payment is Enjoy docent-guided tours of this party; nametags will serve as required. Please call (919) 833- beautiful location. The estate tickets. 3431 with your MasterCard or features a ca. 1860 brick home, is Visa, or mail a check to PO Box listed on the National Register of Antiques Appraisal Fair 10884, Raleigh NC 27605. Be sure Historic Places, and is on the N.C. Saturday, September 29, 10 a.m.- to include the names of all in your Civil War Trail system. Primitive 4 p.m. party; nametags will serve as walking nature trails are available. Join us for the Joel Lane House’s tickets. Admission is free but donations own version of a popular television are always appreciated for show as Claire Fraser from Leland Beyond the Gate: Stories of preserving the site. Group tours of Little Antiques and Estate Sales Historic Oakwood Cemetery the house can be scheduled by and C. Edward Alexander examine Sunday, Nov. 4, 2 p.m. calling (336) 473-1853. your beloved objects and tell you if Join Historic Oakwood Cemetery’s they are treasures or trash. Their executive director, Robin Simonton, SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 28 CALENDAR OF EVENTS for a lively talk about some of the Tours begin and end at Old the bare essentials, starting with permanent residents at this North State Winery, 308 N. Main his Lordship’s own baggage. 143- year-old site. Officially incorpo- Street. Wear comfortable shoes, Cornwallis meant to move fast to rated in 1869, Historic Oakwood and bring your camera and catch the ragtag Southern Depart- Cemetery began the re-interment umbrella, if needed. Tickets are ment of the Continental Army and process of Confederate dead in $10, and pre-paid reservations are crush them in a final, decisive 1867 but is the final resting place required. battle. When he heard what of North Carolina citizens that Cornwallis had done, General date as far back as the 1700s. It Oakdale Cemetery Tour Nathanael Greene, his quarry and has available burial space for the Saturdays, September-October, foe, is supposed to have said, next 200 years. If you’ve ever 10:30 a.m. “Then he is ours.” What followed wandered through an old cemetery, Take a walking tour of Oakdale was dubbed “the Race to the Dan,” examining the stones and wonder- Cemetery and learn more about when two armies raced each other ing about the meaning of their the history of the cemetery and across the North Carolina Piedmont symbols, don’t miss this interactive the people buried there. Tickets: in an effort that would lead, less and informative session. We’ll $10. Please call the museum to than a year later, to Cornwallis’s discuss what the stories behind purchase your ticket. surrender at Yorktown. Though a those symbols are and talk about retreat by the Continentals, the burial customs in America from History Talks: General Henry Race to the Dan would prove to be our early days to today. Admission: Wolfe Butner the undoing of Cornwallis’s army $15 for the general public, $10 for Saturday, Sept. 8, 2 p.m. and the British “Southern strategy” members of the Joel Lane Historical Local historian Marion Venable to defeat the American rebellion. Society. Seating is limited, and will speak about WWI United advanced payment is required. States Army General Henry Wolfe Casino Royale Fundraiser Please call (919) 833-3431 with Butner, born in the Shoals Friday, October 19, 7 p.m.-11 p.m. your MasterCard or Visa, or mail Community in Surry County. Come to the Cross a check to PO Box 10884, Raleigh General Butner was the command- Creek Country club NC 27605. Be sure to include the ing officer at Fort Bragg from for this fundraiser, names of all in your party; name- 1928 to 1929, and Camp Butner, a which will feature tags will serve as tickets. US Army installation in WWII, casino-style gaming, was named after him. History a “Bond/Bond * * * * * * * Talks are free to the public and Girl” Look-a-Like are held in the Museum Conference Contest, music, a MOUNT AIRY MUSEUM OF Room. silent auction, and REGIONAL HISTORY more. For tickets or more infor- www.northcarolinamuseum.org History Talks: Race to the mation, call the Museum at (336) (336) 786-4478 Dan—The Retreat that Won 786-4478. the American Revolution Historic Mount Airy Ghost Saturday, Oct. 13, 2 p.m. Boo Bash Tours North Carolina Humanities Road Saturday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m.-11 p.m. Friday and Saturdays, September- Scholar Ed Southern will give a Enjoy this Halloween party at Old October, 8 p.m. talk about the “Race to the Dan— North State Winery. The party Join us for an exciting, 90-minute, The Retreat That Won the Revolu- features music, a costume contest, lantern-lit walking tour through tion.” Lord Cornwallis—the and prizes as well as a special Mount Airy’s streets and its commander of the British Army in Historic Mount Airy Ghost Tour. historic past. You the South—built a bonfire in Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at will hear about February 1781. Mustering his men the door. All ticket proceeds will thirteen of from their camp at Ramseur’s Mill benefit the museum. our “less mortal” in the North Carolina backcountry, friends and some he ordered them to burn every- History Talks: Fire Up the of Mount Airy’s thing: creature comforts, extra Stills: The Rise and Fall of the resting places. rations, even their rum—all but Moonshiners in Nineteenth- SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 29 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Century Appalachian North will come “alive” with ghosts and Templar in Medieval England. Carolina goblins as we recount the numerous This unique subject gives many Saturday, Nov. 10, 2 p.m.-5 p.m. stories of ghosts who haunt our insights into the spread of early This talk by author and Appala- local homes and graveyards. For Christianity and medieval life. chian State University history more information, contact the Please call the Historical Society professor Bruce Stewart will be Historical Association. to make your reservation. Prices based on his book Moonshiners are $15 for members; $17 for non- and Prohibitionists: The Battle Soup & Sandwich Day members. Lunch and Learn Over Alcohol in Southern Appala- Tuesday, Nov. 13, 11 a.m.- programs begin at 11:30 am and chia and will detail moonshining 1:30 p.m. are held at the Chelsea Restaurant, in western North Carolina during Come to the in New Bern. the 19th century. Learn why alco- Murfree Center hol production was important to for a delicious Ghostwalk: Spirited through the region and why many mountain pimento cheese Time residents opposed federal liquor sandwich and Thursday-Saturday, October 25-27 taxation after the Civil War. The vegetable beef Meet ghostly characters during role that the Moonshine Wars of soup with ice tea and a homemade this 22nd annual Ghostwalk and the 1870s played in the construction dessert—all for only $7.00 per enjoy entertainment at the Athens of the myth of violent Appalachia person. Theatre and the Masonic Theater. will also be discussed, along with There will also be activities for why many mountain residents * * * * * * * children of all ages. Tickets cost began to demonize alcohol distillers $15 through October 24 and $20 by the turn of the twentieth NEW BERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY starting on October 25, with lower century. Free. (New Bern) costs for active duty military and www.newbernhistorical.org their dependents, students, and * * * * * * * (252) 638-8558 children 12 and under. The tickets are valid for all three nights. MURFREESBORO HISTORICAL Lunch & Learn Please note that the tickets will go ASSOCIATION Thursdays, Sept. 13 and Nov. 7, on sale on September 15. www.murfreesboronc.org 11:30 a.m. (252) 398-5922 Come to the Chelsea Restaurant The Lost Light for a delicious lunch and interesting Sunday, November 18, 2 p.m. 225th Gala Celebration talks on different historical topics. Hear author Kevin Duffus describe Saturday, Sept. 15 On September 13, Nelson McDaniel the extraordinary odyssey of the Join the Murfreesboro Historical will talk about William Gaston, Hatteras lens. The lecture location Association as we celebrate the one of New Bern’s greatest and is to be determined. Please contact Town of Murfreesboro’s special most accomplished citizens. Gaston the society for more information. 225 anniversary at the Roberts- won elective office on several Vaughan House. For more infor- occasions, even though the Consti- * * * * * * * mation, please contact the Histori- tution of North Carolina seemed cal Association. to prohibit it, as Gaston was a NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF Roman Catholic. He was largely HISTORY (Raleigh) Civil War Living History/ responsible for removing official www.ncmuseumofhistory.org Reenactment discrimination against Catholics (919) 807-7900 Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 13-14 from North Carolina law. Judge (All programs are free. For a See a wide variety of demonstra- Gaston also wrote our state song, complete list of events, please call tions and reenactments during The Old North State, and perhaps or visit the website.) this event. Cost: $5. Nelson will sing a bit of it for us. On November 7, New Bern At the Movies: Gone with the Ghost Walk Historical Society member and Wind Friday, Oct. 26 author Chip Chagnon will present Saturday, Sept. 8, 1 p.m.-5:30 p.m. The Murfreesboro Historic District a program exploring the Knights Enjoy this classic film on the large SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 30 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

screen in Daniels Auditorium. professor of communications at N.C. RAILWAY MUSEUM Museum staff will give a brief the University of Tennesee- (New Hope) introduction about the movie. Chattanooga and author of www.nhvry.org, (919) 362-5416 Memory and Myth: The Civil War Curator’s Choice Tour: Real to in Fiction and Film. A book signing Train Rides Reel: The Making of Gone with will follow the program. Copies Sundays, Sept. 2 and Oct. 7, the Wind are available for purchase in the 11 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22 Museum Shop. 2:45 p.m., 4 p.m. and Sept. 23, 1 p.m.-1:45 p.m. Come experience the thrill of riding James Tumblin, owner of the 17th Annual American Indian the rails—see, hear, and feel rail- Gone with the Wind memorabilia Heritage Celebration road history. Tickets cost $10 for featured in the exhibit, will lead Saturday, Nov. 17, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. adults and for children ages 13 this special tour. Hear the stories Catch the excitement of the year’s and up, $7 for children 2 to 12. behind his extensive collection. largest event at the N.C. Museum Tumblin is the former head of the of History. Musicians, dancers, Halloween Express Universal Studios makeup and artists, storytellers and authors Saturday, Oct. 20 and Oct. 27, hair department. from North Carolina’s eight state- 4 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 6:30 p.m., and recognized tribes will gather for 7:45 p.m. The South and American this popular family event. With Get in the mood for Halloween Popular Culture something for all ages, the cele- during this spooky train ride. Sunday, Sept. 23, 2 p.m. bration is a firsthand opportunity Tickets: $10. Join Karen Cox, professor of history to learn about the state’s Indian at UNC-Charlotte, as she describes culture, past and present. The * * * * * * * how ad agencies, filmmakers, fiction day’s activities will include craft writers, the travel industry, and demonstrations, hands-on activities, OLD SALEM (Winston-Salem) others created a romanticized food, and much more. www.oldsalem.org, (888) 653-7253 vision of the “Old South.” The (For a complete listing of events, author of Dreaming of Dixie: How * * * * * * * please visit the website.) the South Was Created in American Popular Culture will sign books N.C. PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL Garden Workshops after the program. Copies are ASSOCIATION (Raleigh) Sept. 11, Sept. 15, Oct. 2, Oct. 6, available for purchase in the www.ncphsociety.org Oct. 11, Nov. 8, and Nov. 10, noon- Museum Shop. 1 p.m. Fall Meeting Come to these free, lunchtime ¡Celebración! Saturday, Oct. 13 workshops, presented by Old Salem Saturday, Sept. 29, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. The North Carolina Presbyterian Museums & Gardens Department You’re invited to celebrate Hispanic Historical Society invites you to of Horticulture. On September 11 Heritage Month with music and come to its fall meeting at the the topic will be fall lawn care; on dance performances, craft demon- Scottish Heritage Center at St. September 15 participants will strations, hands-on activities, and Andrews University in Laurinburg. discover how to use herbs to create more at this fun-filled free family Director Bill Caudill will speak to simple, great tasting, and healing event! For more information visit us about Gaelic-speaking commu- teas; on October 2 you can learn ncmuseumofhistory.org/latino. nities that lingered in North Caro- about native plants for Triad lina into the 19th century. The gardeners; on October 6, you can The Civil War in Fiction and meeting will include a tour of the learn about the American chestnut Film center, lunch, and an opportunity tree, the blight- Sunday, Oct. 7, 2 p.m. to visit Old Laurel Hill church resistant Dunstan How have fiction and film manip- nearby. We hope you will join us! Hybrid, and High ulated memories of the Civil War For more information, please con- Rock Farm Chest- and reinterpreted its history? tact Program Chairman Sam Mar- nut Orchard while Find out during this program tin at (910) 428-4165, or check the sampling chestnut presented by David Sachsman, website at www.ncphsociety.org. flour cake and SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 31 CALENDAR OF EVENTS roasting fresh chestnuts; on Octo- Join silver experts as they examine historic district ber 11 participants will explore recent discoveries in southern where you will cooking with herbs; on November silver. The seminar will include hear tales of 8 the topic will be wildlife friendly object examination and discussion local ghostly landscaping; and on November 10 of silver identification and the legends, or interact participants will learn about cook- viewing of MESDA’s newly installed with a person from ing with lavender. These work- Metals Gallery. Author Catherine the past. You shops are free, but donations of B. Hollan will also be signing copies might even catch a glimpse of a non-perishable food items for the of her book Virginia Silversmiths. ghost or two among our historic Second Harvest Food Bank are The seminar concludes with a buildings! Tours are scheduled appreciated. Please call (336) 721- visit to Replacements Ltd., including every 15 minutes and last 45 7357 for more information or to a reception and the special oppor- minutes to one hour. Participation register tunity to visit Replacement Ltd.’s is limited, and reservations for facilities for silver restoration, tour times are recommended. The Lessons of History: repair and cleaning. Cost: $65, Open spaces will be filled each Doris Kearns Goodwin on the ($55 for Friends of MESDA); cost night on a first-come, first-serve American Presidents includes all sessions, seminar basis. Tours may be cancelled for Wednesday, Sept. 26, 7 p.m. materials, and lunch. Space is lim- heavy rains or thunderstorms. Doris Kearns Goodwin, a world- ited, and pre-registration is For light rain or drizzle, just bring renowned historian, will present a required. To register or to receive an umbrella or raincoat. Tour lecture on the American Presidents a brochure, please call (336) 721- content is suitable for all ages, but followed by a question and answer 7360 or email MESDAPrograms@ does require extensive walking on session at the Stevens Center of oldsalem.org. streets and uneven brick sidewalks. the University of North Carolina Cost: $20 for adults, $15 for School of the Arts in Winston- Harvest Day: Pigs and Pippins children, with reduced price for Salem. Proceeds benefit Old Salem October 20, 2012, 9:30 a.m.- Friends of Salem. Pre-registration Museums & Gardens. Goodwin 4:30 p.m. is required; please call (800) 441- received her Ph.D. in Government Join Old Salem for 5305 to register. Participants under from Harvard University, where Harvest Day when the age of 18 must be accompanied she taught courses on government we celebrate two by a registered adult. including a course on the American classic German Presidency. She is the author of favorites: pork and * * * * * * * several books, and her most apples. Enjoy hands- recent work, a monumental history on activities, puppet PRESERVATION NORTH of Abraham Lincoln entitled Team shows, historic CAROLINA (Raleigh) of Rivals: The Political Genius of demonstrations, and more! Harvest www.presnc.org, (919) 832-3652 Abraham Lincoln, joined the best- Day activities are included seller lists on its first week in with the purchase of an All-In- Edgecombe County Preservation publication and received numerous One ticket. Friends of Old Salem Celebration awards. Tickets for the lecture are enjoy free admission. Sunday, Oct. 7 $46 for the lower level of the Join us for a brunch-time tour of Stevens Center and $31 for the Halloween Twilight Tours three outstanding eastern North balcony. For more information or Friday-Saturday, Oct. 26-27, Carolina homes: Piney Prospect, to purchase tickets, visit oldsalem. 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Myrtle Grove, and Bracebridge org/dkgoodwin or call the Stevens Are you afraid of the dark? Come Hall. Brunch will be served until Center Box Office at (336) 721- find out by joining a Legends & 2 p.m., and the buses will circu- 1945. Lanterns walking tour at Old Salem late throughout the event. We are if you dare! Once on the other working to arrange for hot-air MESDA Saturday Seminar: side, a costumed guide will light balloon rides later in the afternoon, “As good as sterling”: New the way by lantern through allowing an aerial view of the Findings in Southern Silver Salem’s nighttime streets. Visit connection of these houses to the Saturday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. several haunting stops in the river. As with our highly success- SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 32 CALENDAR OF EVENTS ful event at Grimesland last fall, music by Liquid Pleasure, and an This Place this Preservation Celebration will auction. Tickets: $125. Matters! Art help support PNC’s work in eastern Contest North Carolina through its North- Walk This Way: Old Chapel Saturday, Oct. 27, east Regional Office based in Hill Cemetery Tour 9 a.m.–11 a.m. (Art Edenton. Sponsorships will help Sunday, Sept. 23, 2 p.m. Submission); noon– us make this event a financial Learn about the final resting 2 p.m. (People’s Choice Judging) success and encourage an excellent place of many of Chapel Hill’s Drop off art at Marbles Kids turnout. The brunch will be $35 most interesting and influential Museum at 201 E. Hargett Street per person, and we hope to raise people. The tour begins at the and participate in a people’s $20,000 from the event. To buy cemetery gazebo and lasts about choice selection process. Juried art tickets or to learn more about 90 minutes. Suggested donation: contest will occur simultaneously. being a sponsor, please visit the $5 per person. All winners will be announced at website or call the society. RHDC’s November First Friday Voices from the Grave birthday bash. * * * * * * * Friday-Saturday, Oct. 19-20, time TBD RHDC: It’s Déjà New! THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF The spirits of the Old Chapel Hill Friday, Nov. 2, 6 p.m. CHAPEL HILL Cemetery come alive in this theat- During First Friday, come to www.chapelhillpreservation.com rical production. Tours begin at Marbles Kids Museum to join the (919) 942-7818 the cemetery gazebo. Flashlights community in celebrating the art are recommended. Tickets: $15 in contest winners and RHDC’s 50th Walk This Way: The Fact and advance, $20 the weekend of the anniversary. Enjoy art, the Rainbow Folklore of Franklin Street tour. Dance Company dancers, great Sunday, Sept. 9, 2 p.m. food, and more. Meander along beautiful Franklin * * * * * * * street while learning the history * * * * * * * and mythology of its residents. RALEIGH HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT The tour begins at the Horace COMMISSION ROWAN MUSEUM (Salisbury) Williams House and lasts approxi- www.rhdc.org, (919) 996-4478. www.rowanmuseum.org mately 90 minutes. Suggested (704) 633-5946 donation: $5 per person. Children’s Art Contest The Raleigh Historic Development GermanFest Art Openings Commission (RHDC) poses the Saturday, Sept. 15, 5 p.m.-9 p.m. Sundays, Sept. 9 and Oct. 7, question “What is your favorite Enjoy a dinner featuring German 2 p.m.-4 p.m. OLD building in Raleigh?” In fare, beer, live music, and tours Meet the artists at these art open- cooperation with Arts Together and historical interpretation of ings. In September, meet Ralph and Marbles Kids Museum, colonial life and heritage in Rowan. Wileman, whose needlepoint will RHDC will host a children’s and Tickets cost $25 for adults, $15 for be on display through September. teen’s art contest, inviting Raleigh’s students and must be purchased On Oct. 7, meet Harry Taylor, youth to answer that question. in advance. Please contact the whose ambrotype and tintype Please mark your calendars with museum for tickets. photography will be on display following dates: through October. 59th Annual Antiques Show Create Together: Open Studios Friday, Nov. 9, 40th Anniversary Celebration Saturday, Sept. 29, 9 a.m.–noon, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 10, Friday, Sept. 14 and Sunday, Oct. 7, 2 p.m.–5 p.m. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The Preservation Society is turning Come to Arts Together at 114 North Carolina’s longest continu- 40 and you’re invited to celebrate Saint Mary’s Street and join the ous running Antiques Show is with us! Come to the Horace community in creating works of coming soon! Come to the Civic Williams House for food catered art to be entered in the contest. Center in Salisbury to shop for by the Durham Food Company, fine estate furniture, porcelains, SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 33 CALENDAR OF EVENTS jewelry, art, oriental rugs, linens Titanic. And on October 2, Shanna Chief of the Nation, a visit to the and prints. Food is also available Daniels will offer the talk, Museum of the Cherokee Indian, for purchase. Proceeds benefit the “Exploring the Sea’s Mysteries: a talk by a tribal member on the Rowan Museum. Tickets: $5 in A Glimpse at the Queen Anne’s oral history of the people, a tradi- advance, $6 at the door. Revenge Shipwreck Project.” tional Cherokee dinner (lunch), an overview of Cherokee culture, and * * * * * * * * * * * * * * a visit to the Oconaluftee Indian Village and the Annual Southeast WAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Tribes Festival. A talk on contem- SOCIETY (Raleigh) HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION porary issues will conclude the day. www.wakehistory.com (Asheville) The tour will depart the Smith- www.wnchistory.org McDowell House at 7:30 a.m. and Tour of City Cemetery (828) 253-9231 return by approximately 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 3, 10 a.m. to Asheville. Tickets: $75 for Come to Civil War Comes to the WNCHA members, $90 for non- Raleigh’s City Mountains members. For more information or Cemetery, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2 p.m. to reserve a place on the trip, which was Join Dr. Gordon McKinney as he please call (828) 253-9231. established in talks about Governor Zeb Vance 1798, for this and the role he played in North * * * * * * * tour, hosted by Carolina and the Civil War. Vance the Wake was an activist governor who WILLIAM P. CUMMING MAP County Historical Society. The sought to support the civilian SOCIETY cemetery is on the corner of New population during war time, www.ncmaps.org Bern Avenue and East Street; provided supplies for North Caro- attendees should meet at the East lina regiments, and tried to Using GIS Technology to Help Street Gate. The public is welcome protect state government from the Search for Colonial Roads to join this free tour. encroachment of Confederate forces Saturday, Sept. 15, 9:45 a.m. and the incursions of Federal Come to the Museum of Early * * * * * * * forces. The lecture will be held in Southern Decorative Arts the Manheimer Lecture Room at (MESDA) in Old Salem for this WAYNE COUNTRY HISTORICAL the Reuter Center on the North meeting, which will feature a ASSOCIATION (Goldsboro) Carolina University-Asheville lecture, lunch, and tour. Longtime www.waynecountyhistoricalnc.org campus. The program is open to WPC Map Society member Dale (919) 734-5023 the public and is free of charge to Loberger will share his research WNCHA members. A donation of on colonial roads with his talk, Tuesday Evening Programs $5 for non-members is suggested. “Using Geographic Information Tuesdays, Sept. 4, Sept. 25, and Reservations may be made by Systems Technology to Help Oct. 2, 7 p.m. calling (828) 253-9231 or by Search for Colonial Roads in the Come to the Wayne County emailing [email protected]. Carolinas Backcountry.” Daniel Museum for these free talks Ackermann, associate curator of about interesting historical topics. “A Day with the Eastern Band the MESDA Collection, will provide On September 4, join Morris Bass, of Cherokee Indians” an overview of the MESDA’s site manager of the CSS Neuse Educational Tour superb collection of maps and will Historic Site and Governor Saturday, Sept. 15, 7:30 a.m. lead a tour of the collection. Regis- Caswell Memorial, as he talks Join the Western North Carolina tration is $20, which includes a about the history of the CSS Historical Association for this morning coffee and sugar cake, a Neuse and its recent move to a educational tour to Cherokee, box lunch, and the guided tour new facility in Kinston. On N.C., to explore the history and through the MESDA collection. To September 25, Charles Ivey will the culture of the Eastern Band of register, please contact Martha talk about Charles Cresson Jones, Cherokee Indians. The tour will Ashley at (336) 721-7360 or email who died during the sinking of the include a meeting with the Principal her at [email protected]. SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 34 NEW EXHIBITS In-State Exhibits

Hospital. This outpouring of ASHE COUNTY HISTORICAL matchbooks, bumper stickers, community service and the SOCIETY (Jefferson) yard signs, and even a thimble www.ashehistoricalsociety.org that encouraged voters in 1964 to phenomenal opening of a specialized pick Dan Moore as North Carolina’s hospital in less than 3 days, led to Over Here, Over There: governor. See how political the “The Miracle of Hickory.” See Exploring Ashe County’s paraphernalia has changed over artifacts from the time and how Contributions to World War II the years. the community helped make the Opens in October hospital successful in its fight to This exhibit features stories of the * * * * * * * stop polio. experiences of Ashe County resi- Soldiers and Scribes: Catawba dents during World War II, looking CATAWBA COUNTY HISTORICAL County in the Civil War at experiences in war and on the ASSOCIATION (Newton) home front. www.catawbahistory.org Through December 2012 (828) 465-0383 The exhibit, housed in a first-floor * * * * * * * gallery of the Catawba County Runnin’ to Racin’ Museum of History, is based upon letters and correspondences in the CAPE FEAR MUSEUM OF HISTORY Through September 2012 CCHA’s archives from soldiers AND SCIENCE (Wilmington) Come to the Hickory History Center www.capefearmuseum.com in Hickory for this exhibit, which native to Catawba County who (910) 798-4350 takes a deeper look into the history fought in the Civil War. The letters of automobile racing in Catawba and associated artifacts display Fragments of War County. The exhibit includes an the daily life of the soldier in Opens Oct. 5 overview of the background of camp, the impact of disease and This exhibit explores the local what we now know of as NASCAR, injury on the troops, requests for experiences of the Civil War and the legendary drivers who once food and clothing from home, through the artifacts and docu- called Catawba County “home.” instruction for the management of ments that have survived to help For more information, call (828) family business and farms they us imagine what life was like 324-7294. left behind, as well as the struggles during the conflict. Visitors will and sacrifices faced by both the see rare items from the collection, The Miracle of Hickory: The soldiers and those on the home as well as military commissions, 1944 Emergency Polio Hospital front. letters, period images, and other Polio was a greatly feared, five- artifacts that help tell our region’s letter word that swiftly shattered * * * * * * * stories. the quiet community of Hickory in June of 1944. Within days of the GASTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF Cape Fear Treasures: Hickory Daily Record reporting ART AND HISTORY (Dallas) Campaigning the first case of polio on June 7, www.gastoncountymuseum.org Through January 13, 2013 that one case rapidly turned into (704) 922-7681 Enjoy a break from partisan politics an epidemic. Charlotte Memorial at Cape Fear Museum. Just in Hospital was forced to shut its The Osborne Collection time for the Presidential election doors to new polio patients, and Through Oct. 6, 2012 season, glimpse a selection of all families could do was wait for This show includes pieces that Cape Fear Museum’s campaign a miracle. Bravely, the community have been collected over a period materials. The museum’s collection of Hickory and the surrounding of time, ranging from glass to includes more than 400 artifacts Catawba County communities wood to paintings. This collection that span local, state, and federal joined together, and in an aston- is diverse in both subject matter races. View a selection of those ishing 54 hours, completed and medium. The collector, Andy artifacts, including photographs, construction on the Hickory Osborne, was born in New York badges, posters, postcards, buttons, Emergency Infantile Paralysis City and moved to Gastonia at a SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 35 NEW EXHIBITS In-State Exhibits very young age. He has been a collection. Several exhibit-related important engagement early in member of the Board of the Gaston programs will take place this fall. the Civil War. Despite Confederate County Museum of Art and History See Gone with the Wind on a large efforts to defend the island, the since 2005. screen, hear two lectures, and join Union victory meant control of the an exhibit tour led by Tumblin. waterways in northeastern North Moonshine For exhibit and program details, Carolina. Roanoke Island became Sept. 18, 2012-March 9, 2013 go to ncmuseumofhistory.org/film. home to thousands of freedom Learn more about the history of seekers, who escaped slavery and moonshine in this exhibit. North Carolina and the Civil flocked to the area for protection. War: The Raging Storm, 1863 * * * * * * * Opens Friday, Nov. 16 * * * * * * * The second exhibit in the Civil War NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF series examines the tumultuous THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF HISTORY (Raleigh) year 1863, which saw tremendous CHAPEL HILL www.ncmuseumofhistory.org losses for North Carolina troops. www.chapelhillpreservation.com (919) 807-7900 (919) 942-7818 (All exhibits are free.) * * * * * * * Work by Ralph Wileman Real to Reel: The Making of OUTER BANKS HISTORY CENTER Sept. 9-Sept. 30, 2012 Gone with the Wind (Manteo) See needlepoint by Wileman, and Aug. 31, 2012-Jan. 13, 2013 www.obhistorycenter.ncdcr.gov meet the artist at a reception on Step behind the scenes of one of (252) 473-2655 September 9 from 2 p.m.-4 p.m. the most famous films in Hollywood history. Showcasing authentic The Civil War Comes to Roanoke Photos by Harry Taylor memorabilia—costumes, scripts, Island: Fishers, Fighters, & Oct. 7-Oct. 31, 2012 screen tests, scene props, Vivien Freedmen Enjoy the ambrotype and tintype Leigh’s Academy Award, and Through Dec. 30, 2012 photographs by Harry Taylor, and more—the exhibit offers a rare This exhibit tells the story of a meet the artist at a reception on opportunity to see more than 120 sparsely populated Roanoke Island October 7 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. items from the James Tumblin and how it became the scene of an

Out-of-State Exhibits

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (Washington, D.C.) SOUTH CAROLINA STATE MUSEUM (Columbia) www.npg.si.edu, (202) 633-8300 www.museum.state.sc.us, (803) 898-4921

1812: A Nation Emerges The Life and Times of Congressman Robert Smalls June 15, 2012-Jan. 27, 2013 Through Jan. 6, 2013 This exhibition tells the story of the war that one Robert Smalls was born an enslaved person on April historian called, “the second American Revolution.” 5, 1839, in a small cottage in Beaufort, South Caroli- Through portraits and objects, it explores key people na. By the time he died in 1915, Smalls had served who influenced the turn of events, including President five terms in the United States Congress. Visitors to James Madison and Dolley Madison, General Andrew this traveling exhibit will learn about his heroic exploits Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and the during the Civil War and be inspired by his legacy of powerful Indian leader Tecumseh. The exhibition also bravery, leadership, and public service to all Americans. follows the stories of soldiers, slaves, financiers, Admission to the museum is $7 for people ages 13 to industrialists, artists, architects, Native Americans, 61, with lower costs for seniors, children ages 12 and and women. younger, and military personnel.

SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 36 WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES Workshops

In-State Workshops training in cutting and installing geared for those institutions that archival backer boards for framed have yet to create any written CONNECTING TO COLLECTIONS, works of art, frame padding, and disaster plan for their museum, N.C. DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL hardware installation. This work- library, historic site, or archive. RESOURCES shop will be held at the Oteen Participants will have pre-workshop Collections Care and Disaster Center at the N.C. Department of “homework” to gather information Preparedness Cultural Resources’ Western Office needed to begin writing a plan. Monday, Sept. 10, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. in Asheville. Registration costs Following the first daylong work- Come to the Chowan County $20 and includes workshop supplies, shop, participants will have addi- Courthouse in Edenton for this lunch, and snacks. To register, tional “homework” to complete their joint workshop, which will feature visit www.surveymonkey.com/s/ plan. A second meeting will take experts familiar with historic C2CVisualArtsAsheville. place in small groups and will re- structures and our collections care view drafts one-on-one with Disas- and disaster preparedness trainers Collections Management Boot ter Preparedness Coordinator Mat- to assist institutions that operate Camp thew Hunt. Part I of the workshop in historic structures. Exhibiting Monday, Oct. 22, 9:30 a.m.- will be held at the Rowan Muse- and storing collections in historic 3:30 p.m. um in Salisbury. Registration costs structures lead to extra headaches This workshop, to be held at the $20 and includes lunch and when your largest artifact is your High Point Museum, is designed snacks. To register, visit http:// structure! Learn techniques to for staff, board members, and www.surveymonkey.com/s/ balance the needs of your building volunteers who are interested in C2CDisasterPlanningSalisbury. and the needs of your collections improving their collections manage- as we help navigate environmental ment policies and procedures. EDGECOMBE COMMUNITY controls, exhibition issues, pest Martha Battle Jackson, curator of COLLEGE (Tarboro) management, disaster planning, N.C. State Historic Sites, and John Historic Preservation Trades and storage concerns. Registration Campbell, director of collections Courses costs $20 and includes workshop for the N.C. Museum of History, Edgecombe Community College is supplies, lunch, and snacks. To will cover the basics of collections offering a variety of preservation register, visit www.surveymonkey. management, including collections trades workshops this fall. On com/s/C2CCareandDisasterPrep management policies, collections Saturday and Sunday, September Edenton. gift and loan agreements, facilities 8 and 9 and September 15 and 16, reports, and other documents from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Jason Ecker Preventative Conservation for necessary to manage artifacts. and Benjamin Curran will lead Visual Arts Registration costs $10 and includes the class “Mill Work: Windows Monday, Sept. 17, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. lunch and snacks. To register, visit and Doors.” Participants will Most cultural heritage collections www.surveymonkey.com/s/ learn how to repair and make include at least a few paintings, C2CCollectionsManagement parts of windows and door frames; yet historians and archivists HighPoint. cost: $120. On Saturday, October rarely know how to care for framed 6, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., during works of art. Perry Hurt, associate Disaster Planning Workshop the “Blacksmithing” workshop, conservator at the N.C. Museum Series Amos Tucker will teach participants of Art, will help fill this void by Monday, Nov. 5 (Part I); Part II to how to operate a forge and how to teaching participants a variety of be scheduled after Nov. 5 make basic ironwork items; cost: techniques to improve preservation. This two-part workshop will walk $65. On Saturday, October 6, from Hurt’s presentation will include participants through the creation 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monika information on paintings conser- of a disaster plan and will include Fleming will offer “Researching vation treatments and point out peer review of the drafts developed Historic Property,” in which partici- the problems that require a during the workshop to ensure pants will learn how to do a house conservator’s consultation. The that a comprehensive plan has history using deeds, tax records, session will include hands-on been created. This workshop is census records, and other related SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 37 WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES Workshops resources; cost: $65. On Friday, through the college for $6 per structures will be reviewed. October 12, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., semester. Seniors 65 and over can Participants will learn about and on Saturday, October 13, from take one free class per semester. appropriate techniques for handling 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., the “Cemetery Students must pre-register for all and storing collections along with Preservation” workshop will review classes. For more information or recommended sources for supplies. N.C. laws concerning cemeteries, to register for any of these courses, Additional considerations for offer guidelines on recording and contact Monika Fleming at (252) exhibiting costumes and textiles reporting cemeteries, and share 823-5166, ext. 241, or at flemingm will also be discussed. Registration suggestions on cleaning and restor- @edgecombe.edu, or contact costs $65 for Museumwise ing damaged stones; cost: $65. On Benjamin Curran at (252) 823- members, $85 for non-members. Saturday, October 27, from 8 a.m. 5166, ext. 219, or at curranb To register, visit to 5 p.m., Monika Fleming will @edgecombe.edu. www.museumwise. org/forms/new- teach “Intro to Genealogy,” a short care-and-handling-costumes-and- course in how to begin genealogy Online Workshops textiles. research. The class will cover census records, county records AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR Collections Management 101 such as marriage and death certif- STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY Oct. 1-Nov. 9 icates, wills, other sources including The Basics of Archives Collections Management 101 is Internet sites, Bible records, and October 29-November 30 designed for staff and volunteers oral histories. Cost: $65. On The Basics of Archives online at small and mid-size organizations. Saturday and Sunday, October 27 course is designed to give organi- The course content was initially to 28, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., students zations and individuals who are created by conservator Gwen Spicer in the “Plaster Repair” workshop responsible for the care of historical and collections specialists Joann will learn how to mix lime plaster records an introduction to the core Lindstrom, Patti Ford, and Linda and do a three-coat repair on holes aspects of managing and protecting Norris. This offering will be facili- and cracks in existing plaster walls. historical records collections, using tated by Sarah LeCount, collection They will also learn the basics of appropriate principles and best coordinator for the Rochester installing lath and plaster to repair practices. The course is made up Museum and Science Center, and larger sections of walls. Cost: $65. of five lessons: Archives and will feature weekly live chat On the weekends of November 3 Archivists; Acquiring Your Collec- sessions. Course materials are to 4 and November 10 to 11, tions; Processing Collections; designed to help you focus on your participants in the “Carpentry: Housing Your Collections; and own organization, with assign- Making Wood Work” class will Access and Outreach. The course ments relating to real-life issues learn how to construct work takes 15 to 20 hours to complete, and problems. Topics to be covered benches using traditional joinery. and you may finish the course over a six-week period include: Cost: $120. On Saturday, November anytime during the four-week Mission and Collecting Plans; 3, the all-day workshop “Intro- course period. Cost: $85 for Collections Management Policies; duction to Historic Preservation” members, $160 for non-members. Insurance, Ethics and Museum will provide an overview of historic www.aaslh.org/ Law; Accessioning and Cataloging; preservation laws on state and basicsofarchives.htm. Security and Disaster Planning; and national levels, guidelines for Housekeeping, IPM, and Artifact setting up historic districts, an MUSEUMWISE Handling. The cost to participate overview of the National Register Care and Handling of in Collections Management 101 is of Historic Places, and discussion Costumes and Textiles $150 for Museumwise Members of tax credits for renovating Sept. 3-Sept. 28 and $250 for non-members. To historic properties. Cost: $65. This 4-week online course will register, visit www.museumwise. Please note: For all hands on provide an introduction to the org/forms/collections-management courses using tools, students will factors affecting the preservation -101. need to sign a liability waver with and care of textiles and costumes. an option of purchasing insurance An overview of fibers and fabric SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 38 WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES Workshops

If you have any questions about include collections development, Tuesday-Friday, Sept. 18-21 either workshop, please contact registration and record keeping, Come to the Chattahoochee River the Museumwise office at (800) and the development of collection National Recreation Area 895-1648, send an email to policies, procedures, and forms. (CRNRA) in Georgia for this [email protected], or visit the We also discuss what it means to workshop. The Certified Interpre- website. be intellectually and physically tive Guide Training Workshop is a responsible for museum objects. professional certification course for NORTHERN STATES CONSERVA- The overall assignment for this individuals who will be delivering TION CENTER class is to develop a draft collec- interpretive programs, have public The Mission Statement: tions policy for your museum. contact at interpretive sites, or Is It Really that Important? Required text: Registration Methods would like to build their skills and Monday-Friday, Nov. 12-16 for the Small Museum, 4th Edition. resume. The program combines The heart of every museum is its Workshop fee: $210. For more both the theoretical foundations of collection, and a mission statement information and to register, visit the profession with practical is critical to preserving that www.smallmuseumpro.org. skills in delivering quality inter- collection. Participants in this pretive programming to visitors. workshop will discuss their mission Out of State Workshops This 32-hour course includes such statements and whether they really topics as the history, definition, make a difference. Instructor IMAGE PERMANENCE INSTITUTE and principles of interpretation; Peggy Schaller has seen and Sustainable Preservation making your programs purposeful, heard it all as a consultant to Practices for Managing Storage enjoyable, relevant, organized, small and large museums. She Environments—Series II and thematic; using tangible will help you figure out ways to Wednesday-Thursday, Sept. 12-13, objects to connect audiences to make your mission statement 9 a.m.-5 p.m. intangible ideas and universal work for you. Workshop partici- This workshop, presented by the concepts in interpretive programs; pants will read literature and Image Permanence Institute and presentation and communication participate in two one-hour chats funded by the National Endowment skills; certification requirements to discuss how a museum’s mission for the Humanities, is designed to (open book exam; program outline; statement may or may not impact enable collections care and facilities 10-min. presentation); and all the daily operations. Each student staff in cultural institutions to materials, workbook, and CIG should read course materials and work together to achieve an optimal course textbook. For more infor- prepare questions or comments to preservation environment—one mation and to register, visit share with the other students in that combines the best preservation www.interpnet.com/certification/ the chat. This is a mini-course of collections with the least possible workshops/CIG-2012-07- and takes no more than 10 hours consumption of energy possible, Georgia.shtml. of a student’s time. Registration: and one that is sustainable over $99. To reserve a spot in the time. Participants will receive two course, please pay at www. full days of practical, understand- collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html. able information and a copy of IPI’s Sustainable Preservation SMALL MUSEUM PRO Practices guidebook. These work- Collections Management: shops are offered free-of-charge. Managing and Organizing To register, visit http:// Museum Collections ipisustainability.org. Oct. 15-Dec.7 This course provides an introduc- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR tion to the professional principles INTERPRETATION and practices for the management Certified Interpretive Guide of museum collections. Topics Training Workshop SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 39 WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES Conferences

In-State Friday evening at the Hilton B. Vance’s 1862 campaign for Doubletree Hotel. Federation Governor; William Jennings Bryan’s N.C. DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL members will receive a brochure 1896 Presidential campaign; RESOURCES later this fall. W. Kerr Scott’s 1948 campaign for New Voyages to Carolina: Governor; Luther Hodges’ 1952 Defining the Contours of the N.C. CENTER FOR NONPROFITS campaign for Lieutenant Governor Old North State www.ncnonprofits.org and 1956 campaign for Governor; Thursday-Friday, Oct. 11-12 (919) 790-1555 Reginald Hawkins’ 1968 campaign This conference, to be held at Transforming Times: 2012 for Governor; the 1972 Holshouser/ UNC-Chapel Hill and North Caro- Statewide Conference for Bowles Gubernatorial Race; and lina Central University, will N.C.’s Nonprofit Sector Isabella Cannon’s 1977 campaign explore education, gender, and race Thursday-Friday, Sept. 13-14 for mayor of Raleigh. In addition, in North Carolina. Sample topics Come to the Research Triangle on Friday evening there will be a include “African American Women Park for this annual conference, moderated discussion at the in Slavery, Civil War, and where you can attend useful Carolina Inn between Republican Reconstruction,” “New Directions sessions; talk with experienced strategist Carter Wrenn and in Women’s History,” “Original consultants about issues in your Democratic political consultant Intent: Early Opposition to Jim daily work; have lunch with Gary Pearce. These N.C. political Crow,” “Lumbee Indians in the grantmakers; and more. Full-day veterans will share insights about Age of Jim Crow,” “The Idea of workshop topics include “2012 strategies for current races and Public Education,” “Mid-Twentieth Legal Update: Better Safe than swap war stories from past Century Student Activism at the Sorry,” “Expect the Unexpected: campaigns. First State University,” and more. Prepare for the Worst and Hope A brochure about this conference for the Best,” “Racial Equity: A In conjunction with the conference, will be mailed to Federation Path to Community Change,” and Wilson Library will feature An members this fall. “Social Media: Your On-Ramp to Appeal to the Voters of North Future Fundraising.” Full confer- Carolina: Racial Rhetoric in New Voyages to Carolina: ence registration costs $299 by Campaign Literature, 1868-1972. The Cultural Roots of North September 4 for members of the The exhibition will explore how Carolina N.C. Center for Nonprofits, $765 racial rhetoric has been used to Thursday-Friday, Nov. 15-16 for non-members, with lower polarize and, at times, galvanize Come to UNC-Asheville for this costs for one-day registrations. North Carolina voters. Conference conference, which will feature For more information, visit the fee is $10 per person. Friday night talks about North Carolina’s liter- website or call the Center. event is an additional $50 per ature, music, religion, and heritage. person. Pre-registration is required. Topics include “Memory and Sense NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION, Please address check to the North of Place in Southern Music;” “The UNC-CHAPEL HILL Carolina Collection, PO Box Literary Renaissance in North “To Gain Attention to Their 8890,University of North Carolina Carolina;” “African American Reli- Various Claims”: Historic at Chapel Hill, CB#3930, Chapel gion in Civil War and Reconstruc- Political Campaigns in North Hill, NC 27515-8890. Please include tion;” “The State of History,” and Carolina an email address and phone more. The Federation of N.C. Friday-Saturday, Sept. 14-15 number for confirmation of your Historical Societies and the N.C. Come to Wilson Library at UNC- registration and additional confer- Literary and Historical Association Chapel Hill for this conference on ence details. For more infor- are holding their joint annual significant political campaigns in mation, visit www.lib.unc.edu/ meeting in conjunction with this North Carolina history. Speakers blogs/ncm/index.php/events/, call conference, with the majority of will address such topics as (919) 962-1172, or email the annual meeting and presenta- William A. Graham’s 1852 Vice [email protected] tion of awards taking place on Presidential campaign; Zebulon SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 40 WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES Conferences

NORTH CAROLINA PRESERVA- PRESERVATION NORTH CAROLINA Reservations are required. Please TION CONSORTIUM Annual Conference call (828) 253-9231 or email Preserving Digital Heritage Wednesday-Friday, Sept. 19-21 [email protected] to register. Collections Visit “the biggest small town Friday, Nov. 2, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. you’ll ever see” with us as we WILLIAM P. CUMMING MAP Come to the N.C. Museum of learn from keynote speakers SOCIETY History in Raleigh for this confer- Stephanie Meeks (president of the Using GIS Technology to Help ence to see exciting applications of National Trust) and Kim Trent Search for Colonial Roads digital technology to education, (executive director of Knox Herit- Saturday, Sept. 15, 9:45 a.m. research, and cultural enrichment, age), participate in field sessions, Come to the Museum of Early and to hear about best practices and have fun socializing in beauti- Southern Decorative Arts for preserving digital collections. If ful downtown Asheville. Session (MESDA) in Old Salem for this our digital heritage is to survive topics include “The Impact of Tax meeting, which will feature a into the next century and beyond, Credits,” “The How-Tos of Tax lecture, lunch, and tour. Longtime memory institutions—libraries, Credits,” “Planned Giving at a WPC Map Society member Dale archives, and museums, and conser- Nonprofit,” and more. For more Loberger will share his research vation centers—must overcome information, visit on colonial roads with his talk, the challenges of sustainable digital www.PreservationNC.org. “Using Geographic Information preservation by embracing digital Systems Technology to Help curation and digital conservation. WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA HIS- Search for Colonial Roads in the We live in a digital age with TORICAL ASSOCIATION (Asheville) Carolinas Backcountry.” Daniel works of art created with digital Change and Tradition: Ackermann, Associate Curator of technology; laser scanning of Exploiting Western North the MESDA Collection, will provide historic sites and monuments to Carolina an overview of the MESDA’s create digital models; photographs, Friday-Saturday, Oct. 26-27 superb collection of maps and will films, and recorded sounds created Come to the Manheimer Room at lead a tour of the collection. with electronic devices; and digital the Reuter Center at UNC- Registration is $20, which includes visualization that brings material Asheville for this symposium, a morning coffee and sugar cake, culture from the past to the which features a keynote speaker a box lunch, and the guided tour present. These technology wonders on Friday night and four in-depth through the MESDA collection. all speak to the need for new lectures on Saturday. On Friday To register, please contact Martha strategies to assure that digital at 7 p.m., Dr. Ron Eller from the Ashley, of MESDA’s Horton heritage of enduring value is University of Kentucky will discuss Museum Center, at (336) 721- preserved for future generations. “Changes in Industry, Labor, and 7360 or email her at mashley@ Early Bird registration (received Environment in Western North oldsalem.org. before October 5) is $50 for NCPC Carolina.” Please note that this members, $75 for non-members. presentation is free and open to Online After October 5, registration is the public. On October 27, well- $60 for NCPC members, $85 for known historians will explore AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR non-members. The registration fee such topics as tourism; deforesta- STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY for graduate students in collections tion of western North Carolina; Online Conference programs such as library and the coming of the railroad; and Can’t come to Salt Lake City but information science, public history, the federal presence in western still want to attend the AASLH museum studies, and conservation North Carolina. Registration is Annual Meeting? AASLH invites is $40. Registration fees provide $75 for WNCHA members, $90 for you to join the Online Conference for lunch, refreshments, and non-members, and includes a box through which you can “virtually” materials. For more information lunch and refreshments on Satur- attend six topic sessions from and to register, visit day and a cocktail reception at the 2012 Annual Meeting, plus hear www.ncpreservation.org/ Smith McDowell House Museum featured speakers Laurel events.html. following the Saturday lectures. Thatcher Ulrich and Will Bagley. SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 41 WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES Conferences

You can participate in live presen- “Best Practices for Slavery Inter- black life, but here their strivings tations of the sessions by listening, pretation,” and “Connecting Visitors have often escaped the gaze of the asking questions, and making to Your Site through Inspired public and hence their history is comments from your computer. Front-Line Staff,” while dozens of too little known. Registration for Participants will have access to all sessions during the conference the conference by Sept. 22 is $450 session handouts, online recordings, will explore issues relating to for members, $500 for non- and other podcasts for six months working with boards, grant oppor- members, with additional costs after the broadcast through tunities through IMLS, using for registering for a tour. For LearningTimes. The six sessions reproductions, meeting community more information and to register, available online include “Too needs, welcoming younger audi- visit http://asalh.org/ Important to Fail! Historic House ences, and more. Registration: annualconvention.html. Museums Meet Communities’ $290 for members, $405 for non- Needs,” “Bad Boards, Bad Boards, members, with additional costs for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR What’cha Gonna Do: Strategies any pre-conference workshops or INTERPRETATION for Fixing Poorly Functioning tours. For more information, visit Chesapeake Reflections Museum Boards,” “Localizing www.aaslh.org/am2012.htm. Monday-Saturday, Nov. 12-17 Difficult Histories,” “The Changing Come to the NAI’s national Web: The Future of the (History) ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF conference in Hampton, Virginia, Website,” “Yield to On-Coming AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND to reflect on the resources of the Traffic: No Stopping Strollers and HISTORY Chesapeake, to see how interpreters Small Feet,” and “What Do History Annual Convention: Black meet the challenge of integrated, Museums Really Need to Know Women in American Culture diverse, and constantly changing About Their Visitors’ Experience?” and History resources, and to take home new Registration costs $55 for individual Wednesday-Sunday, Sept. 26-30 ideas on how to overcome these AASLH members, $95 for a group, Come to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, challenges with your own resource. and $115 for a group with multiple for this conference focusing on With over 100 concurrent sessions, log-ins; for non-members, regis- black women in American culture field experiences, and special tration costs $105 for individuals, and history. From the American events, you will have many oppor- $145 for groups, and $175 for Revolution to the present, African tunities to taste history, witness groups with multiple log-ins. For American women have played a the bounty of one of the country’s more information, visit myriad of critical roles in the most fragile ecosystems, and be a www.aaslh.org/online2012.htm. making of our nation. In slavery part of stories that connect them and freedom, their struggles have all. Sample pre-conference sessions been at the heart of the human include “Stories That Must Be

Out of State experience, and their triumphs Told: Interpreting African Ameri-

over racism and sexism are a can and Native American History AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR testimonial to our common human and Culture,” and “Social Media STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY Annual Meeting: Crossroads: spirit. The accomplishments of for Interpreters.” Sample session Exploring the Vibrant these exceptional women are the topics include “Oh Those Connections Between People expressions of a vibrant culture in Preschoolers! Is Your Interpretive and Place which African American women Program Age Appropriate?” Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 3-6 play a singular role. The labors, “Reaching the New World with Come to Salt Lake City, Utah, for struggles, organization, and sacri- Free New Media Tools,” this conference, which will focus fices of common women have made “Interpreting for the Military on the theme “Crossroads: Explor- possible the prominence of heralded Community,” “Freedom is Coming: ing Vibrant Connections Between individuals. In churches, commu- Using Songs to Interpret the People and Place.” Pre-conference nity groups, literary societies, African American Experience in workshops will examine such topics sororities, and advocacy organiza- the Civil War,” “Age Appropriate as “Interpretive Exhibits: Telling tions, African American women Self-Guided Media: Books, Back- Our Stories on a Shoestring,” have been the core of organized packs, Flipbooks and Audio-Tours,” SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 42 WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES Conferences

“Who’s Still on FIRST? A Study of Dominion: The Re-Evolution of taste, and wealth, and have func- the Recent Trend of Living History Museums tioned at the nexus of artistic, Sites Use of First-Person Inter- Wednesday-Friday, Nov. 7-9 economic, and political achieve- pretation,” “Planning for Success: Walk into the American Revolution ment in human culture. As trade Creating Practical, Achievable, and experience the re-evolution of goods, creative medium, and social and Useful Interpretive Plans,” Museums at SEMC 2012 Annual artifact, textiles have been instru- and much more. Registration Meeting! The conference features mental in generating, supporting, costs $470 for NAI members, $540 more than 50 sessions and work- and challenging political power. for non-members, with lower rates shops on interpreting historical This year’s symposium will feature for single-day registration. For figures, emerging museum 200 presentations on all aspects more information, visit technologies, beginning with eval- of textiles, including juried papers, www.interpnet.com/workshop. uation, protecting your collection, films, and artist demonstrations, exploring multisensory exhibits, as well as behind-the-scenes access PRESERVATION TRADES NETWORK emerging museum professionals, to textile collections at DC-area Cornerstones: Collaborative and making trustees fundraisers. museums through site seminars Approaches to Preservation The conference also includes three and tours, exciting hands-on Sunday-Wednesday, Sept. 30-Oct. 3 evening events in Colonial Williams- workshops, and ample collegial Come to Charleston, South Caroli- burg, Jamestown Settlement, and time at evening receptions and na, for the International Preserva- Historic Jamestowne; private events. Session topics will address tion Trades Workshop (IPTW), walking tours of Colonial Williams- worldwide aspects of textile history. which is open to modern-day arti- burg’s historic areas and immersion Sample topics that relate to Ameri- sans and others from around the in Revolutionary City; town hall can history include “ ‘Without world who are interested in sharing discussion with leaders in African Being Obliged to Send 3000 Miles preservation and traditional American interpretation; off-site for the Cloth’: The American Wool trades techniques, tools, materials, tours and workshops at DeWitt Industry, 1789-1815;” “ ‘A wide and practices. IPTW regularly Wallace Conservation/Collections and disgraceful significance’: pulls together hundreds of the Building, Costume Design Center, Shoddy in the American Civil best preservation and traditional and the John D. Rockefeller War;” and “ ‘We, the Under- trades craftspeople, as well as Library’s Special Collections, and signed, Employees of the Salem preservation architects, preserva- more. Registration: $275 if received Linen Mills, Want to Work:’ The tion consultants, and building by October 17, $300 if received by Role of Politics in the Decline of trades contractors. This year will October 31, and $350 for on-site Oregon’s Linen Industry, the be special for several reasons, registration. For more information, 1940s.” To learn more, visit including that IPTW will run in visit www.semcdirect.net. www.textilesociety.org/ parallel with the Association for symposia_2012.htm. Preservation Technology Interna- TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA tional (APT) annual conference for Textiles & Politics the first time ever. The parallel Wednesday-Saturday, Sept. 19-22 conference with APT will intermix Come to Washington, D.C., for the often with IPTW for educational Textile Society of America’s biennial and social events. Registration: symposium, which will focus this $375 for Preservation Trade year on “Textiles and Politics.” Network members, $425 for non- Throughout human history and members, with lower costs for across the globe, whether as inti- single-day registration. For more mate artifacts of interpersonal information, visit http://ptn.org. relations or state-level monumental works, textiles have been imbued SOUTHEASTERN MUSEUMS with political importance. Textiles COUNCIL can communicate and construct New Directions in the Old status, ethnicity, gender, power, SEPTEMBER 2012 Federation Bulletin PAGE 43 NEW PUBLICATIONS

The DAVIE COUNTY HISTORICAL Staff members of the JOHNSTON The PERRY- AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COUNTY HERITAGE CENTER have WESTON EDUCA- announces the publication of compiled a book of Johnston TIONAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTE Davie County in World War County marriage records for the announces the publication of The One, by Marie Benge Craig Roth. years 1867 to 1900. Data in the Education of a Generation: This book uses World War I draft book was compiled from microfilm The Rosenwald Schools and registrations, honorable discharges, and other materials on file at the Other African-American the 1930 Census, the Davie County Heritage Center and then checked Schools in Edgecombe County, Cemetery book, the online death against original handwritten A Preliminary History, by record, and the 1921 WPA project marriage registers kept in the C. Rudolph Knight and Lawrence of Service Cards to give a bio- Johnston County Register of Deeds W. S. Auld, Ph.D. This 170-page graphical sketch of each of the Office. The Johnston County book describes the African- 670 men and three women from Marriage Register, 1867-1900 is American schools in Edgecombe Davie County who served in World the second in a series produced by County from 1869 to 1970. Special War I. The book also includes 361 the Heritage Center’s staff. An emphasis is placed on the 26 photographs, interviews, letters, earlier volume covers Johnston Rosenwald Schools that were in local newspaper articles of the County marriages during the the county. The book includes time, a description of training years 1901 to 1920. The Marriage many pictures of buildings, camps, and an extensive index of Register books may be purchased teachers, and students. The 3,112 names. The book costs $40, for $40 each (sales tax included) Education of a Generation costs which includes tax; postage is $5. at the Heritage Center, located at $20 per copy, plus $6 shipping For more information or to order, 241 E. Market Street in downtown and handling; to order, call (252) email [email protected]; Smithfield, or ordered through the 823-0275. write to 225 New Hampshire center’s online bookshop at Court, Mocksville NC 27028; or www.jcheritagecenter.org. call (336) 745-5537.

New Publications from Other Publishers

This is a selection of new books by other publishers UNC PRESS that may interest Federation members. We welcome www.uncpress.unc.edu, (800) 848-6224 your suggestions as well. The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway & the LEFT COAST PRESS Slaves’ Civil War, by David S. Cecelski, $30 www.lcoastpress.com, (925) 935-3380 (hardcover). As stated by the publisher, “Abraham H. Galloway Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a (1837-70) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical aboli- User-Generated World, edited by Bill Adair, Benjamin tionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to Filene, and Laura Koloski, $29.95 (paperback or become one of the most significant and stirring black eBook) leaders in the South during the Civil War. Through- According to the publisher, “Letting Go? investigates out his brief, mercurial life, Galloway fought against path-breaking public history practices at a time when slavery and injustice. This riveting portrait illuminates the traditional expertise of museums and historical Galloway’s life and deepens our insight into the Civil institutions is constantly challenged by evolving War and Reconstruction as experienced by African trends in technology, community-based programming, Americans in the South.” Please note that the book oral histories, and contemporary art. . . . [The essays] will become available at the end of September. A book address questions of ownership in the world of Web launch will be held at the State Capitol in Raleigh on 2.0 and social media—can everyone be a storyteller or September 29 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., with a book sign- curator?—and explore the implications of 21st-century ing and reception to follow. audiences that create, rather than just receive, historical interpretation.”