RTP-area local music and culture

["Margaret Campbell" <margaretc AT gmail.com>]

I would probably be in--haven't been to SECCA since I went to see Bob
Moog....


On 5/17/06, Todd Morman <tmorman AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
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