RELATED PROGRAMS

Time for Tots: Painting Dreams
Tuesday, Feb. 3, or Tuesday, Feb. 10
10:00 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
Ages 3-5 with adult
To register, call 919-807-7992.

Learn about North Carolina artist Minnie Evans, whose paintings were inspired by her dreams. Then make your own piece of “dreamy” art to take home.

African American History Tour
Saturday, Feb. 7, 14, 21, and 28
1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.

Explore the lives and accomplishments of North Carolina African Americans from the antebellum period to the Civil Rights era.

Music of the Carolinas: The Golden Echoes
Sunday, Feb. 8
3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle follows the Landis family of Granville County, who has been singing gospel music as the Golden Echoes for generations. Watch clips from the film and hear the current group perform live in concert. PineCone cosponsors the program.

History à la Carte: Breaking the Silence and Healing the Soul
Wednesday, Feb. 11
12:10 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Bring your lunch; beverages provided.

Sharon D. Raynor, Director, Honors Program, Johnson C. Smith University

Raynor will share excerpts of oral history interviews with North Carolina Vietnam veterans, photographs and newspaper articles, and war memorabilia. This presentation is made possible through a grant from the N.C. Humanities Council’s Road Scholars Speakers Bureau.

Appraised, Bartered, and Sold: The Value of Human Chattels
Thursday, Feb. 19
7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
$5 (free to Associates members)
To register, call 919-807-7847.

Daina Ramey Berry, Professor of History, Michigan State University

Professor Berry will discuss slave prices in the antebellum South, exploring both planters’ criteria and slaves’ perceptions of their value. Examining the conflicting motives of owners, traders, and slaves, Berry’s research reveals interesting patterns with contemporary relevance to slave insurance claims and reparations. A reception follows the program.

Make It, Take It: Acrostics
Saturday, Feb. 28
1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. (drop-in program)

Learn about George Moses Horton, an enslaved African American who became North Carolina’s first professional poet. Then create an acrostic poem of your own.

1960
Saturday, Mar. 21
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.

Members of the Burning Coal Theatre Company will read excerpts from the play 1960, which tells the story of a meeting in a Raleigh school auditorium that changed the city’s history and sparked its participation in the Civil Rights movement.

  Program of interest to children or families