INC NEWS - ideas Memorial Day weekend

Sat May 28 13:09:22 EDT 2005

> Ideas for Things to do on and over Memorial Day weekend (some lakes open
> specially for Memorial Day:
> 
> Exploris & IMAX 
201 E Hargett St 834-4040 (R)
www.exploris.org/  
www.movies.raleighlist.org/IMAX-Theater-Exploris.htm
<http://www.movies.raleighlist.org/IMAX-Theater-Exploris.htm>
Interactive museum about the world (geared for middle school children). Open
Memorial Day.
An IMAX movie currently playing is called Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey.  The 45
minute film is an exploration of the sights and sounds of
continents and cultures, guided by the internationally acclaimed performers
of the sensational stage show STOMP. Audiences will travel a world
brought brilliantly alive on the large-format screen and will discover the
universal language of rhythm.  Saturdays 11:45
Sundays 2:45

Museum of Life and Science-
433 Murray Ave (between Duke St and Roxboro Rd) 220-5429 (D)
www.ncmls.org <http://www.ncmls.org/>
Butterfly Houses (year round and seasonal,) insectariums, hands-on science
exhibits, animals, ant house, rotating exhibits, train rides and
more.  Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.  Open all other
holidays.  City of Durham residents free Wednesday from 1 to 5.

North Carolina Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Rd   839-6262 (R)
Exhibits and events for children and families.
http://www.ncartmuseum.org/education/children.shtml
There is a sculpture walk with a piece that acts like a pin hole camera.
The sculpture is made out of stones in the shape of a pine cone.
Inside and once your eyes become adjusted to the dark you can see clouds
move across the sky.  To reach pin hole camera one follows a mulch path
passing a number of Clyde Jones wooden sculptures of animals that he has
made using a chain saw. Another highlight is an installation sculpture
formed around trees that you can be walked through.  The sculpture walk is
open daily. Museum is closed on Mondays.

Hard Love
Theatre Or Common Ground
4815-B Hillsborough Rd (Dur) 990-1994  $12  16
www.theatreor.org
Saturday, May 28 8:15, Sunday 2 through May 29
Drama of 2 ultra-orthodox Israelis who divorce when the husband denies his
faith.  (I saw the performance and thought that the play was well acted.  I
think people will like the play no matter what their religious and spiritual
beliefs.)

Boating,Lake Swimming and other Outdoor Activities  (No personal boats
permitted on lakes.)

West Point on the Eno
Roxboro Rd  (across Riverview Shopping Center) (Dur)  471- 623
Hiking trails.  Wafting with guided naturalist (trips in inflated kayaks) on
the flat Eno River. (By reservation.) Fee for wafting.

Lake Michie
(off Roxboro Rd/Hwy 501) 477-3906 (Bahama)
John boats with electric motors and canoes.
Friday  Sunday  6:30 a.m.  6 p.m.    Open Memorial Day   Fee for boating.

Little River Lake
477-7889
John boats with electric motors.
Friday  Sunday  6:30 a.m.  6 p.m.   Open Memorial Day

Lake Wheeler  
6404 Lake Wheeler Rd (Hwy 40, exit right onto Lake Wheeler)   662-5704 (Ral)
www.raleighnc.gov/lakwwheeler
Kayaks, sun fish sail boats (need prior knowledge of sailing, canoes, row
and John boats.  Lessons offered to sail sail boats larger than sun fish.
7 days a week sunrise to sunset.  Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years,
Martin Luther King¹s birthday. Fee for boating.

Sandling Beach
On Kerr Lake  (off Hwy 98, outside of Wake Forest.)  (Wake County)  846-9991
or  676-1027  
Swimming in lake.
 8 a.m.  9 p.m. 7 days a week (beach maybe closing in October) Entrance
fee. 

University Lake
Jones Ferry Rd  (Hwy 54, Jones Ferry Rd exit, left onto Jones Ferry Rd, left
at sign for University Lake)  942-8007 (CH)
Row boating and canoeing.
First Saturday following first day of Spring through second Sunday in
November. Friday  Monday 6:30 a.m.  6 p.m.
Fee for boating. (in 2005 $10 non-orange County resident + $4 each
additional person up to half a day)

Cane Creek Reservoir
(Hwy 54 right into road look for stone pillars on right) (approximately 45
minute drive from Durham) 942-5790 (CH)
Row boating, canoeing and electric motor boats. First Saturday following
first day of Spring through second Sunday in November.
Thursday  Saturday 6:30 a.m.  6 p.m.   Sunday 1  6 p.m.  Open Memorial
Day
Fee for boating. (in 2005 $10 non-orange County resident + $4 each
additional person up to half a day)

Lake Crabtree 
Hwy 40, 1rst exit east of RDU airport, turn right, 1rst left) (Ral)
460-3390  (ext. 285)
Trials for hiking, jogging and bicycling. Canoeing, sail and paddle boating,
kite flying, volley ball and picnic shelters. Sailing lessons.  Fee for
boating and sailing lessons.
Friday -  Sunday 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.  Open Memorial Day

Shelly Lake 
1400 W Milbrook 420-2331 (Ral)
Friday 2 to sunset.  Saturday  Sunday 8 a.m. - sunset.
Trials for hiking, jogging and bicycling, playground.  Canoes, John boats
and paddle boats.  Fee for boating.

Sertoma Park 
(Ral)
Trials for hiking, jogging and bicycling.

>   
Laura Drey

Updated May 28, 2005

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