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Education Packet.Pub Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Tour/Site Tour EDUCATION PACKET Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace State Historic Site 911 Reems Creek Rd. Weaverville, North Carolina 28787 (828) 645-6706 Fax (828) 645-0936 [email protected] Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 2 Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 57 Department of Cultural Resources The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources was formed in Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace 1971 to serve North Carolina’s citizens State Historic Site across the state in an outreach to 911 Reems Creek Rd. broaden minds and spirits, preserve Weaverville, North Carolina 28787 history and culture, and to recognize (828) 645-6706 and promote our cultural resources as an essential element of North Carolina’s economic and social well-being. It was the first state organization in the nation to include all agencies for arts and culture Welcome: under one umbrella. Thank you for your interest in the Zebulon B. Cultural Resources serves more than 19 million people annually through three major areas: The Arts, The State Library of North Carolina and Archives and His- Vance Birthplace State Historic Site. The site preserves tory. the birthplace of North Carolina’s Civil War Governor, and The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources includes the State Library, the State Archives, 27 Historic Sites, 7 History Muse- interprets 18 th and 19 th century history through the lives ums, Historical Publications, Archaeology, Genealogy, Historic Preser- vation, the North Carolina Symphony, the North Carolina Arts Council, of Zebulon B. Vance and his family for the education of and the North Carolina Museum of Art. present and future generations. We hope this educational The department is comprised of the Office of Archives and History and the Office of Arts and Libraries. Through these offices, the department packet will enhance your understanding of this site, the addresses a wide range of interests and provides assistance to North Carolina’s residents and visitors to the state. Vance family, and life in the backcountry of North Caro- http://www.ncculture.com/ for more information Friends of the Vance BirthplaceBirthplace————TheThe mission of the Vance lina. Birthplace Support Associates is to provide assistance for the educational and interpretive programs offered by the This packet may be used by children of various Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace State Historic Site. Primary assistance for programming offered will be from funds ages, although it was compiled by elementary school gathered by the associates through donations, funding raising, and grants. Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 56 Page 3 Price List as of January 2011 Books: TAR HEEL JR. HISTORIANS All items $1.25 are also 5 for $5.$5. teachers. We encourage you to adapt the materials to Boy Soldiers $8.00 Balls $1.25 Blue Ridge Parkway $9.95 Bonnets $5.00 your specific classroom requirements. Answers to the Dry Ridge $15.00 Button Puzzle $1.25 worksheets are provided at the end of this packet. You Fear in NC $29.95 Candles $1.25/each First Ladies $28.00 Church Babies $3.00 may wish to consider printing this packet in black and Medicine of the Civil War $ .25 Cup & Ball $1.25 white to reduce ink expenses as there is a number of Mountain Masters $18.00 Drop Spindle $3.50 The Scattered Nation $6.00 Fixed Heddle Loom $1.25 color pictures included. If you have any questions please Vance Biography $49.00 Frogs $1.25 contact us at the phone number listed above or by e-mail Vance Letters Vol. I $15.00 Heart Puzzle $1.25 at [email protected]. We look forward to your Vance Letters Vol. II $35.00 Hear Pin Cushion $1.25 Souvenirs: Mountain YoYo’s $1.25 visit. Currency $2.00 Magnets $ .50 Flags $2.00 Ox & yoke Puzzle $1.25 Patches $2.50 Ring Knitters $2.25 Tammy Walsh, Historic Interpreter I Post Cards $ .25 Purse /Reticule $1.25 Vance Birthplace State Historic Site Scenic Note Cards (snow) $6.00 Sachet Rabbits $1.25 [email protected] Quill Pens $2.00 Spinning Buttons $ .50 Facebook: Zebulon Baird Vance Vance Birthplace Prints $5.00 Spool Knitters $2.25 Vance Note Cards (ink) $7.50 Thanatropes $1.25 Walnut Ink $1.25 Page 4 Page 55 Suggested Resources Films Gift Shop Foxfire (8-12) Going to Cades Cove (7-12) Children of the Colonial Frontier (4-6) Colonial Children (1-6) Colonial Life in the South (5-8) A Pioneer Journey Across the Appalachians (5-12) Appalachian Woodcrafters (4-12) Hansel and Gretel – Appalachian Style (K-12) Books American Girl Series of Books the Kirsten and Felicity Series. Pleasant Com pany. 1991—Present Camp, Cordelia . Governor Vance: A Life for Young People . Raleigh, NC: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1980. Caney, Steven. Steven Caney’s Kid’s America . New York: Workman Pub., 1978. Chase, Richard. Singing Games and Playparty Games . New York: Dover Publications, 1967. Coates, Albert. Three North Carolinians who have stood up to be counted for the Bill of Rights: Sam Spencer 1760’s, Zebulon Baird Vance 1860’s and Sam Ervin 1960’s and 1970’s. 1973 Cooper, Richard. Zeb Vance: Leader in War and Peace 1985 Dowd, Clement. Life of Zebulon B. Vance . Charlotte, NC: Observer Printing And Publishing House, 1897. McKinney, Gordon B. Zeb Vance: North Carolina’s Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Mobely, Joe A. War Governor of the South: North Carolina’s Zeb Vance in the Confederacy (new Perspectives on the History of the South. 2005 Szittya, Ruth. Man to Match the Mountains: The Childhood of Zebulon B. Vance . Asheville, NC: Hexagon Co., 1980. Tucker, Glenn. Zeb Vance: Champion of Personal Freedom . Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965. Tunis, Edward. Frontier Living . Cleveland: World Publication Co., 1961. During your visit you and your students are invited to check out the Wigginton, Eliot, et al., ed. Foxfire . 12 Vols. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books Gift Shop located in the Visitor Center. 1972-2004. Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House in the Big Woods . New York: HarperCollins, 1987. Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie . New York: HarperCollins, Whether or not your class visits the gift shop is entirely up to the indi- 1953. Yates, Richard E. The Confederacy and Zeb Vance . Tuscaloosa, AL: vidual teacher; however the proceeds from the gift shop do go to sup- Confederate Pub. Co., 1958. port the Vance Birthplace. All Items include Tax. Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 54 Page 5 Web Sites Vocabulary continued Zebulon Baird Vance www.vancebirthplace.nchistoricsites.org backcountry – a term of the 1700s used to refer to the area west of the fall line. The fall line divides the Coastal Plain from the Piedmont. http://www.heritagewnc.org/WNC_biography/vance_gov_zebulon_baird.htm It runs in an irregular north/south direction west of Wilson in Wilson County and east of Sanford in Lee County. http://www.heritagewnc.org/WNC_biography/default_biography.htm migrate – to move from one place and settle in another. http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/nc/bio/public/vance.htm oral history – the spoken recollections of people about historical http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/31328619/Zeb- Vance-North-Carolinas-Civil-War-Governor-and-Gilded-Age-Political-Leader events in which they participated or a time period in which they lived. Oral histories are usually preserved on tape. http://thomaslegion.net/governor_zeb_vance.html preserve – to keep, save or protect from change. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-civilwar/5461 writ of habeas corpus – a written order requiring that prisoners be http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/bios/pn0001702_bio.html brought before a judge or into court or decide whether they are being held lawfully. This is to protect against unjust imprisonment. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000021 http://treasuresofnorthcarolinamasonry.org/017-zebulon.html Vance Speeches http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/vance_scattered_nations/ default_vance_scattered.htm Oral Histories http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/SHRC/gaston_dorothy.pdf Other http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/sondley_f_a/ sondley_chapter_06.htm www.learnnc.org (Search for themed lesson plans and informational sites) http://www.nchistoricsites.org/vance/main.htm http://www.phigam.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1193 http://www.mountainx.com/news/2003/0507vance.php http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2010/05/27/tom-dula-and-zeb-vance/ Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 6 Page 53 Legacy There are several monuments dedicated to Vance: Vocabulary List • An obelisk dedicated to Vance in Pack Square, Asheville archaeology – the systematic recovery and study of material evidence • A statue on the south grounds of the North Carolina State Capitol remaining from past human life and culture, such as graves, build- in Raleigh ings, tools and pottery. • A bronze statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Wash- ington, D.C. architecture – the art and science of designing and erecting buildings; a style and method of design and construction. • A small monument located where his post-war home once stood (1865–1894), at Sixth and College Street, in Charlotte artifact – anything made by human skill, especially a tool or a weapon • One of the administrative buildings at the University of North that is located in a museum. Carolina at Chapel Hill is named Vance Hall in his honor. • A portrait of Vance hangs behind the President's chair of The Dia- history – a narrative of events or a story; a chronological record of events of the life or development of a people or an institution, often lectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Caro- including an explanation or commentary on those events; the brand lina at Chapel Hill.
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