"The Sandhills:
The Comfort of Tradition and Ritual" Lecture
Program by Mary Wayne Watson
First Baptist Church, 200 East New York Avenue, Southern Pines
2:00 pm · Please Use New York Avenue Entrance · No Admission Charge
Got a Scottish ancestor or two? Or is history your "thing"?
"Home-girl" Mary Wayne Watson presents a smorgasbord of colorful Scottish lore and customs that migrated to the Sandhills from the old country 250 years ago and are still going strong.
Longstreet Church and Cemetery Day Tour
Day Tour by Car Caravan
Leaves from the Shaw House at 9:00 am and returns at 1:00 pm
Cost for members $10 per person, non-members $15 per person
Visit the "mother" of all Presbyterian churches in this area: The Longstreet Presbyterian Church organized by Highland Scots around 1756, protected as a National Historic Landmark inside the Fort Bragg Military Reservation.
See a bit of history preserved in the white clapboard structure erected around 1845 that is still used for special memorial services, reunions, and has on the grounds a cemetery where about 30 Confederate soldiers are buried.
Discover Tuscany Italy, Tour Meeting
Presentation by Collette Tours at the Shaw House, 2:00 pm
10-Day Tour Departing the Shaw House on September 30, 2010
Ready for a carefree getaway to one of Europe's most historic and artistically important places? Learn more by attending this meeting.
Palustris Festival
The Palustris Festival is a variety of over 75 events showcasing the performing, literary and visual arts in Moore County. The events run from March 25-28, 2010 and will be held in Pinehurst, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina.
The festival is titled after the Latin name for the longleaf pine, native in the Sandhills of Moore County.
See below for special Historical Association Palustris events. For additional information on all events, locations and ticketing procedures, visit the Palustris website at www.palustrisfestival.com.
March 25-28, 2010 ♥ Palustris Festival
Shaw House Property Tour
Shaw House, 110 Morganton Road and SW Broad Street, Southern Pines, NC
1:00 to 4:00 pm
No Admission Charge
Enjoy a docent-guided tour of the ca. 1820 Shaw House. Home today of the Moore County Historical Association, this antebellum farmstead is the former residence of Southern Pines' first mayor, and was the birthplace of the town. The interior is highlighted by fine detail on two hand-carved fireplace mantels of unusual beauty, and by many outstanding early examples of Moore County pottery and "plain-style" pine furniture. Also on the property are Garner House and Sanders Cabin which were moved to the site from upper Moore County, both of which date from the late 1700s.
March 27, 2010 ♥ Palustris Festival
Greeting the Train with the Sounds of
Southern Pines Memory
Southern Pines Train Depot, 235 NW Broad St., Southern Pines, NC
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
No Admission Charge
Directed and produced by Ray Owen, the program is based on two historical greetings that helped found Southern Pines. In the years of settlement, an African-American choir known as the Singing Society greeted incoming trains, and the letters of town founder John T. Patrick tell of meetings between potential northern settlers and representatives from local Scottish families, arranged in an effort to demonstrate that the native Southerners were kind and hospitable. These two groups--African-American and Scottish-American--were pillars of local society, and with their blessing Southern Pines was settled. The presentation is intended to bear witness to the power of our culture, with roots reaching back for generations.
This event is co-sponsored by the Moore County Historical Association and the Town of Southern Pines in conjunction with the Arts Council of Moore County, the Clan MacKenzie Society in the Americas, Frank Pierce/A Southern Studio, Perry Davis/Davis Video Productions, Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative, Scottish Heritage USA, Sept of Blue Clan MacMillian, The Southern Pines Welcome Center, and Sunrise Theater.
Current participants include:
- Ray Owen- introductory remarks
- Dr. Douglas Kelly, Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC, and President of Scottish Heritage USA - leading the Lord's Prayer in Gaelic
- Dr. Mary Wayne Watson, Humanities Instructor at Nash Community College, Rocky Mount, NC
- Bethesda Presbyterian Church Choir - singing hymns in Gaelic
- The Together-N-Unity Choir - singing traditional gospel hymns
- The St. Andrews Presbyterian College Pipe Band - 3 members providing a bagpipes chorus & drum
- Sept of Blue Clan MacMillian & the Clan MacKenzie Society in the Americas - tartan clad and flag waving
March 27, 2010 ♥ Palustris Festival
Larry McNeely & Friends in Concert
Old Bethesda Church, 1020 Bethesda Rd., Aberdeen, NC
1:30 to 2:30 pm
Children (12+) Welcome
Admission $12 per person
A concert featuring musician Larry McNeely and his band. Larry McNeely is an American five-string banjo player known for his collaboration with Glen Campbell and for recording several soundtracks for different motion pictures. McNeely began playing the banjo in 1961. In the following years, he absorbed both Don Reno's style and the Keith style. He moved to La Folette, Tennessee in 1965 to join the Pinnacle Mountain Boys and soon afterwards, he became a member of "Roy Acuff and his Smokey Mountain Boys". In 1969, he joined the Glen Campbell Show as a replacement for John Hartford. About five years later, he was working with Burl Ives and later with Smothers Brothers. He formed the "Larry McNeely Trio" in 1975. In the fall of the 1970s, McNeely began his career as a studio session player for movie soundtracks. Over the years he's been working with artists such as, Mac Davis, Eddie Kendricks, Percy Faith and Barbara Mandrell. He became a member of "Southern Manor", a progressive bluegrass band in 1984. Within a year he was back, working with Roy Acuff. Larry McNeely lives in Moore County and is married Beth Harris McNeely, who is a Bryant family descendent (the Bryant House). His concert will benefit the Bryant House and McLendon Cabin.
Tickets can be purchased at any FirstBank location in Moore County, at the Shaw House in Southern Pines, or online at the Palustris website.
March 27, 2010 ♥ Palustris Festival
Craig & Patrick Fuller in Concert
Old Bethesda Church, 1020 Bethesda Rd., Aberdeen, NC
3:30 to 4:30 pm
Children (12+) Welcome
Admission $12 per person
Craig Fuller is a founding member of the pioneering Country Rock band, Pure Prairie League. While with PPL, he wrote and sang the band’s most noteworthy song, “Amie” and was the major songwriter on the band’s first two, most highly acclaimed albums. From 1996 to 1997 he recorded two records for United Artists with the band, American Flyer, the first of which was produced by famed Beatles Producer Sir George Martin. In 1978 he recorded the album, “Fuller Kaz” with Eric Kaz . As a member of Little Feat, he was a major writer on Let It Roll; the band’s grammy nominated 1989 album, Representing The Mombo (1991), and Shake Me Up”, (1993). From 1999-2001 Fuller lived in Nashville and wrote for Big Yellow Dog publishing. A father of four, he currently divides his time between Pinehurst, North Carolina and Nashville while performing 25-30 shows a year mostly with PPL but also a Solo act and a guest with Little Feat.
Patrick Fuller is the son of singer songwriter Craig Fuller and Dr. Victoria DeVito, who currently holds an assistant professorship at Vanderbilt University. Patrick has been performing since he was 17 years old and has been writing his own songs almost for as long. Born in Vancouver WA, he has moved around a lot in his early years and has experienced more American culture than most adults twice his age. He has been inflluenced by a wide variety of music and draws on those influences in each of his compositions. Patrick has lived in Pinehurst since 2001 and is currently a sophomore at UNC Chapel Hill.
Tickets can be purchased at any FirstBank location in Moore County, at the Shaw House in Southern Pines, or online at the Palustris website.
March 27, 2010 ♥ Palustris Festival
Tift Merritt in Concert
R.E. Lee Auditorium at Pinecrest High School, Southern Pines, NC
8:00 to 10:00 pm
Children (12+) Welcome
Admission $25 per person
Tift Merritt is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and recording artist whose music defies categorization. Her uniquely satisfying stew of rock and roll, soul, folk and country has record stores scratching their heads and audiences dancing in the aisles and telling their friends. Born in Houston, her family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where Tift grew up. She has released two studio albums—Bramble Rose (2002) and Tambourine (2004); and her third studio album, Another Country, was released in 2008. This event is presented by the Arts Council of Moore County and the Moore County Historical Association and made possible by Merritt's friend and MCHA Board Member, Nancy Blount.
Tickets can be purchased at any FirstBank location in Moore County, at the Shaw House in Southern Pines, or online at the Palustris website.
March 28, 2010 ♥ Palustris Festival
Oldest Living Confederate Widow: Her Confession
Old Bethesda Church, 1020 Bethesda Rd., Aberdeen, NC
3:30 to 5:00 pm
Admission $15 per person
A gritty one-woman play starring Jane Holding, adapted for the stage by Holding and Allan Gurganus from his best selling novel "The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All." A remarkable woman reveals her secrets one by one, in this harrowing and hilarious comedy about wars, both Civil and domestic. The story focuses on Lucy who marries a Civil War veteran. Though the war is long since finished, Lucy's husband remains haunted by it until the end of his life. Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. New York City.
Tickets can be purchased at any FirstBank location in Moore County, at the Shaw House in Southern Pines, or online at the Palustris website.
Clenny Creek Day at the Bryant House
Bryant House & McLendon Cabin, 3361 Mount Carmel Road, Carthage
11:00 am to 4:00 pm
No Admission Charge
The kids, Mom and Dad, can all have fun at the fifth annual Clenny Creek Day at the historic Bryant House and McLendon Cabin.
Games, rides, vendors with crafts and other gifts for sale, music, homemade food, free tours of the homes plus historic reenactments will keep everyone happy.
For further details watch this website or call (910) 692-2051.
Sitting Pretty: A History of the Furniture Industry in North Carolina, 1700 to the Present
Program by Dr. Kenneth Zogry
First Baptist Church, 200 East New York Avenue, Southern Pines
2:00 pm · Please Use New York Avenue Entrance · No Admission Charge
For much of the second half of the twentieth century, the names of North Carolina companies such as Broyhill, Drexel, Henredon, and Thayer-Coggin represented the best in American furniture manufacturing, and High Point earned the title of “Furniture Capital of the World.” But the furniture industry in the state is actually more than 300 years old, and this illustrated presentation follows that history from the early eighteenth century to the present.
This program presents a fascinating array of diverse styles and traditions, from early hand-made pieces by English and Scots-Irish cabinetmakers along the coastal plains and eastern piedmont, to the Germanic influences found in the western piedmont; and from the rural folk traditions of the mountains and foothills to modern manufacturing in towns such as Hickory, Thomasville, and High Point.
The work of several prominent makers is also presented, including the famous “WH” cabinetmaker of the lower Roanoke River Basin during the late eighteenth century, and Thomas Day, the free African American furniture maker and entrepreneur who built a successful business in the late antebellum era.
Dr. Kenneth Zogry is both a public and an academic historian. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from North Carolina State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from UNC-Chapel Hill. Other graduate work includes the Attingham Summer School in England, and the Graduate Institute in Early Southern Material Culture, offered by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and UNC-Greensboro.
Zogry has been in the field of public history for more than twenty years, including positions as assistant curator of Old Salem in Winston-Salem, curator of the Bennington Museum in Vermont, and executive director of the Pope House Museum in Raleigh. He has served as a consultant to historic house museums from North Carolina to Maine, and is certified by the state of North Carolina to write nominations for the National Register of Historic Places. Since 1998 he has served as official historian of the Carolina Inn on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. He has taught courses in American history, North Carolina history, African American history, and museum studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State University, and Peace College. Zogry has written more than a dozen articles and book and exhibit reviews for publications including the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, the Public Historian, CRM: the Journal of the National Parks Service, and the North Carolina Historical Review. He is the author of two books: The Best the Country Affords: Vermont Furniture, 1765-1850, which won the Charles F. Montgomery Award, and The University’s Living Room; A History of the Carolina Inn, which won two awards from the Printing Industry of the Carolinas.
MCHA Annual Meeting
Location to be announced
Time to be announced
Members and Guests Only
For further details watch this website or call (910) 692-2051.
Discover Tuscany Italy, 10-Day Tour
Per Person Rates: Double $3,099; Single $3,399; Triple $3,069
Price Includes Air Taxes and Fees/Surcharges of $140, Hotel Transfers, Round Trip Air from Raleigh Durham International Airport
Take a carefree guided tour of Tuscany, Italy letting Collette Tour take care of the hassles and language gap.
Highlights include Rome, Assisi, Basilica of St. Francis, Montecatini Terme, Florence, Tuscan Feast, San Gimignano, Winery Tour, and Siena.
- Visit the Academy Gallery and Michelangelo's famous statue of "David".
- Sample delectable wines during an included wine tasting in the heart of the Chianti region.
- Visit the breathtaking historic city of Siena.
- Enjoy a guided tour of historic Assisi and visit the Basilica of St. Francis, a World Heritage Site containing famous frescos by world-renowned artists.
- Enjoy a relaxing 6-night stay in Tuscany, the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.
Optional tour packages include: The Vatican Museums and St. Peter's Basilica $80; Villa Pasquini Dinner & Entertainment $70; Pisa & Lucca Tour $90; Tuscan Cooking Class & Dinner in Montecatini $65; Classical Rome $65.
For more information, call Carolyn at (910) 692-8344 or Sarah at (910) 692-2051.
Shaw House Vintage Collectible & Antique Fair
Shaw House, 110 Morganton Road and SW Broad Street, Southern Pines
9:00 am to 3:00 pm
No Admission Charge
Moore County Historical Association is holding the second annual Shaw House Fair, a sale of vintage collectibles and antiques at the Shaw House grounds. The event will be held rain or shine.
Free admission, food, live traditional music, guided tours of the three historic dwellings on the property, gifts and books about local and regional history, and a silent auction promise to make it a fun day for all the family.
Bryant House Holiday Open House
Bryant House & McLendon Cabin, 3361 Mount Carmel Road, Carthage
1:00 to 4:00 pm
No Admission Charge
Get in the Christmas spirit and learn how early Moore County settlers celebrated at the annual free Open House at the historic Bryant House and McLendon Cabin. Both are decorated for the holidays, with refreshments, live music, an historic interpretation, and tours.
Members Holiday Party
Shaw House, 110 Morganton Road and SW Broad Street, Southern Pines
5:00 to 7:00 pm
Members Only, No Admission Charge
Tis the season for yule tide greetings and to say to our members, "thank you for your support." So step back in time and join us in olde holiday cheer.
Shaw House Holiday Open House
Shaw House, 110 Morganton Road and SW Broad Street, Southern Pines
1:00 to 4:00 pm
No Admission Charge
Enjoy old-time decorations, warm apple cider and homemade cookies at the annual Christmas Open House. Tour three house-museums built between the 1700s and 1800s. The event is free to the public to let people see how early Southern Pines and Sandhills residents lived.
