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We hope you and your students enjoy these virtual programs and performances.

Do you know your “warp” from your “weft?” Watch experts practice the craft of handweaving and spinning. Listen to their stories and talk with them about their works in progress.

Craftspeople will be demonstrating most Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon. 

Do you know your “warp” from your “weft?” Watch experts practice the craft of handweaving and spinning. Listen to their stories and talk with them about their works in progress.

Craftspeople will be demonstrating most Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon. 

Do you know your “warp” from your “weft?” Watch experts practice the craft of handweaving and spinning. Listen to their stories and talk with them about their works in progress.

Craftspeople will be demonstrating most Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon. 

Do you know your “warp” from your “weft?” Watch experts practice the craft of handweaving and spinning. Listen to their stories and talk with them about their works in progress.

Craftspeople will be demonstrating most Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon. 

Do you know your “warp” from your “weft?” Watch experts practice the craft of handweaving and spinning. Listen to their stories and talk with them about their works in progress.

Craftspeople will be demonstrating most Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon. 

In 1946, Jane Pratt—a Capitol Hill secretary—became the first congresswoman to represent North Carolina, something she managed with just a $100 campaign budget.

Do you know your “warp” from your “weft?” Watch experts practice the craft of handweaving and spinning. Listen to their stories and talk with them about their works in progress.

Craftspeople will be demonstrating most Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon. 

Do you know your “warp” from your “weft?” Watch experts practice the craft of handweaving and spinning. Listen to their stories and talk with them about their works in progress.

Craftspeople will be demonstrating most Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon. 

At the 1912 Summer Olympics, American Indian Jim Thorpe won the decathlon and pentathlon and became a sports legend. After officials discovered Thorpe had played minor league baseball in North Carolina, they stripped him of his victories. Matthew Andrews, a teaching associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recounts this early sports scandal and Thorpe’s struggle to regain his gold medals.