Sociolinguist Walt Wolfram
Receives the John Tyler Caldwell
Award for the Humanities
(Oct. 23, Raleigh, NC) The North Carolina Humanities Council board has selected pioneering sociolinguist Dr. Walt Wolfram to receive the 2008 John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, one of the state’s oldest and most prestigious public humanities honors, on October 23, at 7 p.m. in the
Stewart Theatre at North Carolina State University.
Chancellor James L. Oblinger brought greetings, and President William C. Friday delivered the annual Caldwell Lecture in the Humanities. The award ceremony included the world premier of one Wolfram’s newest documentaries, The Carolina Brogue.
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>> Read more in the press release. |
North Carolina Conversations
Summer 2008 Edition
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New Harmonies NC host sites announced for Smithsonian Exhibit "New Harmonies", part of the Museum
on Main Street program.
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| (see Calendar for more infor.) Road Scholars Events
Nov 21 - Charlotte Ross: Long
Legacies - Remarkable
Stories in Appalachian
Folklife
Madison County
Dec 3 - Tom Magnuson: Trading
Paths - England's
Contact Era in NC
Durham County
Dec 4 - Mary Wayne Watson:
John Charles McNeill -
Poet Laureate's Home
Songs
Wake County
Doug Bulter: Tiebele to
Timbuktu - West Africa's
Tribal Cultures
Wilkes County
EJ Stewart: Forgotten
Rural Black Women
Wake County
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(Oct. 19, Southern Pines, NC) The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inducted three new members into its litany of accomplished writers. James Applewhite, William S. Powell, and Lee Smith received the prestigious honor at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines, NC. |
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Together We Read:
Boone by Robert Morgan
A series of events sponsored by Together We Read to support the seventh-annual Western North Carolina community book-read about historical truth, ecology, European-Indian relations, and African Americans on the frontier. |
Standing on a Box:
Lewis Hine's National Child Labor Committee Photography in Gaston County, 1908 |
Friday, Nov 21, 7pm
Gastonia 1908: Mill Music & Drama
A concert of string band music and dramatic excerpts
Feat. Royce Robinson & Friends and
Possum Hollar Old Time String Band
Fellowship Hall - West Avenue Presbyterian Church
1015 West Franklin Boulevard - Gastonia |
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Matching Grants Awarded to 11 Cultural Projects Across NC |
Over $79,000 in grants was awarded in June to eleven NC cultural and educational organizations to conduct humanities programs. The funded groups match the Humanities Council’s grants with in-kind and cash contributions. “The projects are integral to the Humanities Council’s commitment to vital conversations that nurture the culture and heritage of North Carolina,” says Shelley Crisp, Executive Director. > Read detailed press release. |
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Twilight of a Neighborhood:
Asheville’s East End—1970
An oral history/photography project to be conducted by the Trust Fund
of the Asheville-Buncombe Library System about the East End, a vital African American neighborhood that largely disappeared after urban renewal. |
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As I See It:
Transitioning Back into the Community
A photography/video/writing initiative by the Center for Community Transitions designed to assist ex-offenders re-enter the Charlotte community after incarceration to help reduce recidivism and improve a re-entry client’s quality of life. |
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Medicine in the Roanoke-Chowan Area
— Past and Present
A multi-faceted project sponsored by the Roanoke-Chowan Hospital
to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of hospital and the 160th anniversary of Chowan University. |
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Standing on a Box: Lewis Hine’s National Child Labor Committee Photography in Gaston County, 1908
A multi-part humanities project sponsored by the Gaston County Public Library that focuses on social documentarian Lewis Hine’s investigative photography of child workers in early 20th-century Gaston County textile mills. |
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The Beloved Community—
Third Annual Carolina Mountains Literary Festival
A festival sponsored by the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival Association
in Burnsville designed to bring folks
together to celebrate each other through literature: including novels,
poetry, and children’s stories; book
and paper making; storytelling;
workshops; live music; a hand-made book display; and special exhibits. |
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African American Voices:
Between Two Rivers
An oral history initiative sponsored by the Neuse River Community Development Corporation in New Bern to preserve the legacies of elderly African Americans by sharing their own stories of education, religion, social and economic development, civil rights, and traditional customs. |
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Development of Gumbo Ya Ya
or This is Why We Speak in Tongues
A twelve-week creative workshop sponsored by SpiritHouse for African American women in Durham communities to empower women to speak their truths about ‘lived experiences,’ ‘intimate histories,’ the environment, and personal growth.” |
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Gone to the Poorhouse
A documentary produced by the Yadkin County Historical Society that examines how the definition of poverty has evolved by looking at the history of “poorhouses” in North Carolina, many of which included the mentally ill, disabled, elderly, and orphaned.
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The Legend of Nance Dude
One-woman performances of the play, based on a true story from 1913 that offers a nuanced analysis of the tragic realities of domestic violence and child abuse, by Western North Carolina folklorist Gary Carden, based on the novel by Maurice Stanly and sponsored by the Haywood Arts Regional Theater in Waynesville. |
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A Mind of Her Own: Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World
A six-week, scholar-guided book discussion in the Let’s Talk About It series about Jewish literature, identity and imagination, sponsored by the Durham County Library. |
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