RTP-area local music and culture

[David Menconi (News - Features) <dmenconi AT newsobserver.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.




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

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