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  • From: David Menconi (News - Features) <dmenconi AT newsobserver.com>
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  • Subject: Re: Day trippin to Coltrane's house
  • Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 12:09:59 -0400

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.




if you're in the vicinity of Kernersville, Koerner’s Folly would be worth a look/see if it's open. Mitch Easter, whose studio is also in Kernersville, describes KF as "a big ol' house of great oddness." it's this freaky-looking 22-room gothic mansion with lots of odd angles & things jutting off of it. looks like something out of the pages of "Dr. Seuss."


David Menconi/Raleigh (NC) News & Observer
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http://blogs.newsobserver.com/beat/index.php
http://www.OffTheRecordBook.com


p.s. a story that might be of interest to denizens here:

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/439524.html



  • Re: Day trippin to Coltrane's house, News - Features, 05/17/2006

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