In this Issue…
The Greensboro Historical Museum holds many treasures, but none are more historically interesting than the 140 rifles in the Murphy Collection, the largest collection of Civil War long arms in the world. The exhibit will be dismantled come summer, but the museum plans to keep a small display on permanent display.
North Carolina’s mountains offer far more than scenic beauty. A fine white clay, discovered and mined over three centuries ago, helped make Wedgwood china world famous and the dining choice of kings and queens.
Blackbeard, the most notorious of all pirates plaguing the sea 300 years ago, left his mark (and his ship) off the Carolina coast near Beaufort. In celebration of the Blackbeard Tri-centennial, the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources has launched a new feature, Blogging Blackbeard, which records artifacts from the shipwrecked vessel and suggests the daily life of his crew.>
Also in this issue, AARP’s Doug Dickerson writes about identity theft, Prince Deese introduces Kate Talmadge who exercises regularly and leads a busy life at 100 years of age, and much much more.