| FUNDED PROGRAMS |
Dates
|
Program Title |
Sponsor/Location |
County |
Project Director |
Coming Fall 2008! |
Carolinian Immigrants: Historical and Literary Perspectives |
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
|
Guilford |
Andreas Lixl |
| LET'S TALK ABOUT IT |
Dates |
Series Title and Works |
Location |
County |
Project Director |
New Let's Talk About It series coming soon! |
TEACHERS INSTITUTE (for public school educators; by application only) |
Dates |
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Scholars |
26-27 September |
|
Greensboro |
Dr. Mary Ellis Gibson, UNCG;Authors including Randall Kenan,
Lynn York and Jennifer Grotz
|
24-25 October |
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Dr. Magdalena Maiz-Peña, Davidson; Dr. Sally Peterson,
NC Arts Council; Ms. Anne Sutton, Union County Schools
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Start Date |
Time |
Scholar / Title |
Sponsor / Location |
County |
Project Director |
| August |
| 6-Aug |
11:30 AM |
Kevin Duffus: War Zone-World War II Off North Carolina's Outer Banks |
Friends of Fort Macon |
Carteret |
Gwen Towles |
| 8-Aug |
10:00 AM |
EJ Stewart: Writing in the Familiar |
YWCA of the Triangle |
Wake |
Eloise Best |
| 10-Aug |
3:00 PM |
Tom Magnuson: Trading Paths and England's Contact Era in North Carolina |
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Museum |
Cabarrus |
Vicki Isenhour |
| 14-Aug |
6:30 PM |
William McNeill: Tango! The Song! The Dance! The Obsession! |
Alban Elved Dance Company/Cameron Art Museum |
New Hanover |
Karola Luttringhaus |
| 15-Aug |
7:30 PM |
Sharon Raynor: Debunking Sinister Myths-Women's Literature Celebrates Wild Woman and Bad Girls
|
Carol Woods Retirement Community |
Orange |
Marcia Hellerman |
| 18-Aug |
6:00 PM |
Randell Jones: Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State |
First Presbyterian Church: Prime Timers Seniors Group |
Forsyth |
Georgia West |
| 18-Aug |
6:30 PM |
Lynn Salsi: Appalachian Story Quilt |
Alleghany County Public Library |
Alleghany |
Debbie Brewer |
| 18-Aug |
7:30 PM |
David LaVere: North Carolina Indians Before the English |
Federal Point Historic Preservation Society, History Center |
New Hanover |
Rebecca Taylor |
| 20-Aug |
7:00 PM |
Margaret Hoffman: Blackbeard! The Man Behind the Legend |
Lewisville Public Library |
Forsyth |
Diane Bauman |
| 20-Aug |
7:00 PM |
William McNeill: Tango! The Song! The Dance! The Obsession!
|
Carteret Arts Forum |
Carteret |
Sharon Owens |
| 21-Aug |
10:30 AM |
Lynn Salsi: NC Alive |
Summerfield Senior Outreach Program |
Guilford |
Agnes Dixon |
| 25-Aug |
7:00 PM |
Anne Rogers: Native Americans and Their Use of the Environment |
Native American Studies Group/White Hart Woods Center for Cultural Arts & Leadership |
Ashe |
Ken Rogers |
| 27-Aug |
11:00 AM |
Kevin Duffus: Lost Light-The Mystery of the Missing Cape Hatteras Fresnel Lens |
Ashe County Public Library |
Ashe |
Jacqueline Wolff |
| September |
| 2-Sep |
7:00 PM |
Betty Smith: Women in Traditional Song-What the Songs Say About Women and the Women Who Sang Them
|
American Association of University Women |
Gaston |
Carol Reinhardt |
| 3-Sep |
11:30 AM |
Ben Casey: Life Along the Waterways-Exploring North Carolina Rivers
|
Friends of Fort Macon |
Carteret |
Gwen Towles |
| 8-Sep |
TBA |
Sylvia Payne: We Have Stories to Tell-Family and Personal Stories |
Transylvania County Library |
Transylvania |
Rebecca Suddeth |
| 9-Sep |
6:30 PM |
Anne Rogers: Native Americans and Their Use of the Environment |
Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies, Mars Hill College |
Madison |
Leslie Burrell Smith |
| 9-Sep |
7:00 PM |
Randell Jones: Scoundrels, Rogues & Heroes of the Old North State |
Arbor Acres Retirement Community |
Forsyth |
Janice Lutz-Vanhoy |
| 11-Sep |
7:00 PM |
David Carr: Remembering What to Remember |
Cameron Village Regional Library |
Wake |
Clare Bass |
| 18-Sep |
3:00 PM |
William Adam: Frederick Law Olmstead-
The Father of American Landscape Architecture |
Sandhills Community College |
Pinehurst |
Teresa Reynolds |
| 20-Sep |
10:00 AM |
Sharon Raynor: Debunking Sinister Myths-
Women's Literature Celebrates Wild Women and Bad Girls |
Micajah Bullock Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution/NC State Faculty Club |
Wake |
Ann Harper |
| 22-Sep |
7:00 PM |
Anne Rogers: Cherokee Ceremonial Practices in the 1800s |
Native American Studies Group/White Hart Woods Center for Cultural Arts & Leadership |
Ashe |
Ken Rogers |
| 23-Sep |
6:30 PM |
William Anderson: Cherokee Removal |
Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies, Mars Hill College |
Madison |
Leslie Burrell Smith |
| 23-Sep |
7:30 PM |
Lynn Salsi: NC Alive |
Haw River Historical Society |
Alamance |
Gail Knauff |
| 28-Sep |
2:00 PM |
William Anderson: Cultural Impacts:Native Americans in America and Europeans among the Cherokee |
Schiele Museum of Natural History |
Gaston |
Tony Pasour |
| 28-Sep |
2:00 PM |
Billy Stevens: Sincere Forms of Flattery-Blacks, Whites, and American Popular Music |
New Bern Historical Society/Scottish Rite Temple |
Craven |
June Dunleavy |
| 28-Sep |
2:30 PM |
Randell Jones: Scoundrels, Rogues, and Heroes of the Old North State |
Watauga County Public Library |
Watauga |
John Blake |
| October |
| 6-Oct |
10:15 AM |
Anne Mitchell Whisnant: Grandfather Mountain & the Blue Ridge Parkway-the Untold Story |
Osher Lifelong Learning/
Blowing Rock Conference Center |
Watauga |
Marvin Teer |
| 6-Oct |
2:00 PM |
Charlotte Ross: Social Function of Narrative in Appalachian Society |
Osher Lifelong Learning/Blowing Rock Conference Center |
Watauga |
Marvin Teer |
| 6-Oct |
7:30 PM |
Tom McGowan and Orville Hicks: Mule Egg Seller and Appalachian Storyteller |
Osher Lifelong Learning/Blowing Rock Conference Center |
Watauga |
Marvin Teer |
| 7-Oct |
6:30 PM |
Sharon Raynor: Breaking the Silence and Healing the Soul - The Oral Histories of Vietnam War Veterans of North Carolina |
Mauney Memorial Library |
Cleveland |
Margot Plonk |
| 10-Oct |
7:00 PM |
Bill Anderson: Cherokee Removal |
Caldwell County Historical Society |
Caldwell |
Barbara Watson |
| 10-Oct |
8:00 PM |
Joe Cole: A just war? Ethical Issues In the War on Terror |
Well-Spring Retirement Community |
Guilford |
Lindsay Arnold |
| 14-Oct |
12:30 PM |
Margaret Hoffman: Blackbeard! The Man Behind the Legend |
Wilmington Downtown Rotary/ Coastline Convention Center |
New Hanover |
Joe Owen |
| 15-Oct |
10:00 AM |
Walter Ziffer: Lost in Translation-When Holy Writ Become Wholly Wrong |
Chautauqua AVE/United Methodist Church |
Cherokee |
Ann Tatum |
| 16-Oct |
3:00 PM |
Richard Starnes: The Confederate Dilemma-The Divided Mind of Civil War North Carolina |
Chautauqua AVE/
Valleytown Cultural Arts Center |
Cherokee |
Ann Tatum |
| 17-Oct |
TBA |
Anne Whisnant: Super-senic Motorway-the Blue Ridge Parkway Nobody Knows |
Society of NC Archivists/
Belk Library, ASU |
Watauga |
Karen Paar |
| 17-Oct |
8:00 PM |
Sharon Raynor: Breaking the Silence and Healing the Soul-The Oral Histories of Vietnam War Veterans of North Carolina
|
Well-Spring Retirement Community |
Guilford |
Lindsay Arnold |
| 19-Oct |
TBA |
Walter Ziffer: Lost In Translation-When Holy Writ BecomeWholly Wrong |
Levine Sklut Judaic Library |
Mecklenburg |
Talli Dipold |
| 19-Oct |
2:00 PM |
Randell Jones: In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone |
Rural Hall Historical Society/
Lutheran Church of the Epiphany |
Forsyth |
Dorothy Mathews |
| 21-Oct |
7:00 PM |
William McNiell: Tango! The Song! The Dance! The Obsession! |
Cumberland County Library |
Cumberland |
Jillian Lashmet |
| 24-Oct |
8:00 PM |
Richard Starnes:
The Confederate Dilemma: The Divided Mind of Civil War North Carolina |
Well-Spring Retirement Community |
Guilford |
Lindsay Arnold |
| 27-Oct |
7:00 PM |
William Anderson: Cultural Impacts-Native Americans in America and Europeans Among the Cherokee |
Native American Studies Group/
White Hart Woods Center for Cultural Arts & Leadership |
Ashe |
Ken Rogers |
