late March­ early April REED GOLD MINE. Gold Rush Run: half-marathon, 5- kilometer, and 1-mile fun run. Registration fee about $9.00. 9:00 A.M Spring-fall BENNETT PLACE. Weekend programs dealing with mil­ itary topics will be scheduled from time to time. Re­ enactors will be present. April 5-11 DUKE HOMESTEAD. Spring Living History Week. Activi­ ties by costumed participants on a mid-19th-century farm at planting time April 12 HISTORIC HALIFAX. Halifax Day, 210th anniversary of adoption of Halifax Resolves. Daylong observance of role of Halifax County in North Carolina's history. Revolutionary War military units, living history, crafts April 16-18 IREDELL HousE. Biennial Edenton Symposium. Noted speakers, tours, meals in historic settings. Advance registration. Fee April 20 VANCE BIRTHPLACE. Spring Pioneer living Day. Cooking and other activities around an 1830 mountain home. Costumed guides April 22-24 BRUNSWICK TowN. Heritage Days for eighth-grade stu­ dents. Demonstrations of crafts April 26-27 BENNETT PLACE. 121st anniversary of the surrender. living history encampment with cooking, weapons, and uniform demonstrations late April REED GOLD MINE. Heritage Day. Craft demonstrations. 9:00 A.M .-2:00 PM. May 3-4 ALAMANCE BATTLEGROUND. Eighteenth-century live-in and militia muster. Domestic and military life shown by costumed interpreters FoRT FISHER. living history weekend. Eighteenth N.C. Troops. Small interpretive camp, soldier life, cooking, military demonstrations May 4 DuKE HOMESTEAD. Spring open house. Crafts, clogging, string music, refreshments May 10 BENTONVILLE BATTLEGROUND. Confederate Memorial Day. United Daughters of the Confederacy ceremo­ nies, Civil War reenactment groups FoRT FISHER. Confederate Memorial Day. Placing of wreath by United Daughters of the Confederacy May 13 VANCE BIRTHPLACE. Governor Vance's birthday. Pro­ gram on 156th anniversary of his birth May 16 ALAMANCE BATTLEGROUND. 215th anniversary of battle of Alamance. Alamance County Historical Association's annual flag ceremony, picnic, meeting. 6:00 P.M. May 23 Elizabeth II. Candlelight tour. Costumed guides lead tours of ship. Elizabethan entertainment. 7:00-9:00 PM Fee 50 CAROLINA COMMENTS .