Press Releases

The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission will hold its quarterly business meeting Saturday, Sept. 17, from 9 a.m. to noon at Mount Carmel AME Church, 507 N. Lord St., Southport, N.C.

A replica of the original yacht that started the America's Cup tradition in 1851 is coming to Beaufort.

Come to Bennett Place Sept. 24 and 25 and watch as members of the 6^th and 26^th North Carolina Reenactment groups demonstrate some of the basic rudimentary drills that every soldier needed to learn. 

For many, an introduction to nature and the outdoors came from a doting grandparent or other older relative. To honor those connections for National Grandparents Day, North Carolina State Parks is offering special programs Sept. 9-11 to encourage youngsters and their grandparents or surrogate grandparents, to rediscover the outdoors and each other.

Folks from across the state will be searching for gold in them hills at Reed Gold Mine Sept. 10. The 27^th Annual Pan-O-Lympics, also known as the North Carolina Open Gold Panning Competition, will be under way. There will be fun, prizes and activities for young and old.

Travel back in time at the Duke Homestead and join costumed interpreters as they harvest, loop and cure tobacco to celebrate North Carolina's farming history and culture with the annual Harvest & Hornworm Festival. Taking place Saturday, Sept. 10, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.