Raleigh may have been a sleepy southern town surrounded by farmland, but it was also the state's capital city and a teaming hub for business and trade - business and trade of all kinds! Come down to the City of Raleigh Museum, bring your lunch, and learn all about the history of Raleigh's red-light district!!!
In a Preserving Our Voices session, students gather to listen to a historian share firsthand knowledge about significant historical events, deepening their understanding of the past. As they engage, they […]
Discover the stories that shape our community in a special four-part conversation series! Hosted by the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough and the Telling the Full Story committee, each session dives into the history of local sites from our interactive map, with engaging video presentations and oral histories that bring these places to life. Join us […]
Free outdoor Shakespeare comes to Raleigh’s Fletcher Park! The “green-ey’d monster” rears its ugly head in William Shakespeare’s classic tale of jealousy, power and prejudice. Noble Moorish general Othello, secretly […]
Free outdoor Shakespeare comes to Raleigh’s Fletcher Park! The “green-ey’d monster” rears its ugly head in William Shakespeare’s classic tale of jealousy, power and prejudice. Noble Moorish general Othello, secretly […]
Get ready for a night of hypnotic rhythms, high-energy beats, and amazing eats! Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba are bringing their electrifying fusion of Senegalese Mandé traditions and contemporary sounds […]
Free outdoor Shakespeare comes to Raleigh’s Fletcher Park! The “green-ey’d monster” rears its ugly head in William Shakespeare’s classic tale of jealousy, power and prejudice. Noble Moorish general Othello, secretly married to his beloved Desdemona, chooses his friend Cassio for a promotion rather than his trusted but duplicitous ensign, Iago. Enraged, Iago weaves a complex […]
Free outdoor Shakespeare comes to Raleigh’s Fletcher Park! The “green-ey’d monster” rears its ugly head in William Shakespeare’s classic tale of jealousy, power and prejudice. Noble Moorish general Othello, secretly married to his beloved Desdemona, chooses his friend Cassio for a promotion rather than his trusted but duplicitous ensign, Iago. Enraged, Iago weaves a complex […]
PTSD: The Invisible Enemy is a 60-minute documentary about the effects post traumatic stress disorder is having on our military veterans. More than 31,000 Global War on Terror veterans have taken their own lives. United States combat fatalities in the war were 7,000. The film is narrated by Joe Mantegna, best known from the television […]
May 21, 10-11 a.m., Documenting the Disaster: Facilitating Community-Driven Archiving in the Wake of Hurricane Helene. Katherine Calhoun Cutshall, Manager of Buncombe County Special Collections (and SHRAB member), will discuss both process and content for a project to collect community memories after Hurricane Helene, Come Hell or Highwater. Library staff created a repository for digital materials in direct response to ways […]
Discover the stories that shape our community in a special four-part conversation series! Hosted by the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough and the Telling the Full Story committee, each session dives into the history of local sites from our interactive map, with engaging video presentations and oral histories that bring these places to life. Join us […]
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