RTP-area local music and culture

["Todd Morman" <tmorman AT nc.rr.com>]

 > this one here?:
 >
 > http://www.highpointmuseum.org/index.cfm

That's the one. I think we talked about it here when they were trying to get
sponsors to buy piano keys. High Point has finally gotten around to doing
right by the guy; there's a commemorative marker near his boyhood home
there, too. There's also a neat graffiti-esque exhibit at SECCA right now:
http://www.secca.org/exhibitions.html, including 'Motion Barn' by the
Barnstormers. High Point also has Mendenhall Plantation, a Quaker stop on
the underground railroad that bills itself as part of "'The Other South' of
19th century dissenters" - http://www.mendenhallplantation.org/. I wouldn't
mind seeing what's probably NC's only remaining fake-bottom wagon for
transporting escaped slaves:
http://www.mendenhallplantation.org/More%20on%20Wagon.htm.

That's probably enough to start things off, but if anyone has other
suggestions for cool things to see around that part of the state, feel free.
I figure we can take a Saturday or Sunday, leave the Triangle early and
wander, hitting as many of those as we can before heading home that night.
Anyone else up for something like that? Weather's perfect for it.

todd we will of course be stopping at the world's largest chest of drawers
morman