INC NEWS - FREE activities: museums, historical places, walking trials, events

[Laura Drey]

Museums 

Cedar Creek Craft Gallery   528-1041   Open 7 days per week 10 - 6. (little
known) 
1150 Fleming Rd. (Creedmoor)
Award winning gallery with pottery, jewelry, glass and wood and small live
plants. Has pottery museum.  Spring and fall studio days with glass and
pottery throwing demonstrations.
Directions: Hwy 85 N, follow signs: cross over lake, exit, turn right, right
at convenience store, 1st left.
<http://www.cedarcreekgallery.com/

* Museum of Life and Science   220-5429  Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Years Day and Mondays through
December 15, 2008. Mondays are open for museum members. (updated)
433 Murray Ave (between Duke St and Roxboro Rd) (D)
Hands-on science exhibits including Magic Wings Butterfly House, Carolina
wildlife, farmyard, aerospace, weather, geology.  Has train rides, changing
exhibits and drumming out of doors, and changing exhibits. Wednesday
afternoons from 1 to 5 p.m. are free for admission for Durham residents with
proof of identification or you may pay what you wish. Train rides are the
only thing with an additional fee for Durham residents on Wednesday
afternoons.
<http://www.ncmls.org>

Nasher Museum of Art   684-5135  (little known)
2001 Campus Dr. (on Duke University¹s Central Campus, at the intersection of
Duke University Road and Anderson Streets, close to Duke Gardens.) (D)
The museum has changing exhibits that focus on modern and contemporary art.
Free for Durham residents with identification.
<http://www.nasher.duke.edu/>

Historical Places

Bennett Place State Historic Site  383-4345   Closed Mondays and state
holidays.
4409 Bennett Memorial Rd (off Hillsborough Rd) (D)
Where the Confederacy signed surrender papers for southern armies in the
Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Has a reconstructed farmhouse, kitchen, and
smokehouse recall the lifestyle of an ordinary Southern farmer during the
Civil War.
(revised description)
Museum open Tuesday ­ Sunday 9 ­ 5. Closed Sunday and Monday, along with
most major holidays.
<http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/bennett/bennett.htm>

Duke Homestead State Historic Site   477-5498
2828 Duke Homestead (between Guess Rd and Duke St) (D)
See the early home, factories, and farm where Washington Duke first grew and
processed tobacco. The tour includes the Duke family's restored and
furnished home, an early factory, a curing barn, and a packhouse. The
Tobacco Museum exhibits traces tobacco history from Native American times to
the present. 
(revised description)
Tuesday ­ Saturday 9 ­5
www.nchistoricsites.org/duke/DUKE.HTM
<http://www.nchistoricsites.org/duke/DUKE.HTM>

Patterson¹s Mill Country Store  493-8149  (little known)
5109 Farrington Rd (between NC Hwy 54 & Old Chapel Hill Rd) (CH)
Has a recreated early 1900s doctor's office, displays nationally recognized
pharmaceutical and commercial tobacco memorabilia, antique farm equipment
and typical items that could have been purchased in the late 19th Century.
Crafts and gifts (including doll house furnishings.)
<http://www.durham-nc.com/planners/group_tours/pattersons_mill.php>

Stagville State Historic Site  620-0120   Closed state holidays. (little
known)
5825 Old Oxford Hwy (7 miles north of intersection with Roxboro Rd) (D)
On this land stand numerous historically significant structures, including
the late 18th-century Bennehan House, four two-story, four-room slave
houses, a pre-Revolutionary War yeoman farmer's house, and a massive timber
framed barn, as well as a modern visitor center and the Bennehan Family
cemetery. Offers tours. (revised description)
Tuesday ­ Saturday 10 ­ 4.
<http://www.historicstagvillefoundation.org/historic_stagville.htm>

West Point on the Eno   471-1623  (little known)
Roxboro Rd  (4 miles N Hwy 85 across from Riverview Shopping Center) (D)
Reconstructed working gristmill, Packhouse & Hugh Mangum Museum of
Photography houses a permanent exhibit of Hugh Mangum
<http://www.enoriver.org/eno/parks/WestPoint/mangum.html> 's images and
equipment, and hosts exhibits by photographers from the region.
McCown-Mangum House, a restored Greek revival farmhouse is furnished and
decorated in a late-nineteenth century style and has anthropological
exhibits. (revised description)
Mid-March through mid-December buildings open Saturday and Sundays 1 ­ 5.
<http://www.enoriver.org/eno/parks/WestPoint/westpoint.html>

Walking Trails

Eno River State Park   383-1686
ils.unc.edu/parkproject/visit/enri/home.html
<ils.unc.edu/parkproject/visit/enri/home.html>

Triangle Greenways
Comprehensive set of Durham, RTP, Raleigh, & Cary greenway and Trail maps.
(Chapel Hill map is coming soon.)
www.trianglegrrenways.org <http://www.trianglegrrenways.org>

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Events

Durham Farmers' Market  667-3099  Rain or shine! www.durhamfarmersmarket.com
<http://www.durhamfarmersmarket.com>
April to end of November. Saturdays 8 am to 12 pm, Winter has reduced days
and hours. 
December to March. Saturdays 10 am to Noon. Closed November 29 & December
27.
May to September. Wednesdays 3:30 pm. ­ 6:30 pm.
Pavilion at Durham Central Park, 501 Foster St. (near Scrap Exchange and
Historic Durham Athletic Park)
More than 50 vendors offer fruits and vegetables, meats, cheeses, eggs, cut
flowers, breads, potted plants, honey, pies, sauces, soaps, cards, candles,
handmade chocolates, preserves, local wines, baskets, pottery, jewelry and
artwork of all sorts and more. All produce and wares are located within 70
miles of the market.

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Saturday, December 6 begin at 4pm

Durham¹s holiday parade will leave from Blackwell and Jackie Robinson
Streets (corner of the Durham Bulls Athletic Park and the American Tobacco
Historic District) and concluding with a Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony at
the CCB Plaza at 5:30 pm.

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Saturday, December 13, at 8:00 pm
Sunday December 14, at 4:00 pm

Christmas Concerts by the Chloral Society of Durham

³Performing Christopher Rouse's KAROLJU, an exciting 1990 choral/orchestral
suite of "Christmas carols" couched in an overall form similar to that of
Carl Orff's wild -n-wacky Carmina Burana, with "texts" written in Latin,
Swedish, French, Spanish, Russian, Czech, German, and Italian . . . . except
that much of each "text" is linguistic nonsense!   ("Translations" will be
provided!)  Rouse says that he intended "to match the sound of the language
to the style of the carol to which it was applied."  This piece, actually,
is a little crazy!  But the music is unforgettable.

And, of course, the 2nd half of the concert will be full of our usual
assortment of beautiful Christmas carols (real ones in the 2nd half!).

Come and find out for yourself.²

Duke Chapel
Duke University
Durham
 
Tickets are $20.  

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For more ideas for things to do you may visit art galleries and go to
<http://www.durham-nc.com/things/>


Laura  


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