July 2012
Mus Roc
Vol. II, No. 2
MARC NEWS
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& A rchi o ves f king ham C o u nty
A quarterly publication of the Rockingham County Historical Society Museum & Archives
Your Museum is Ready for YOU!
IN THIS ISSUE Feature Article
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Letter from the Director
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Soldier’s Perspective
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Tobacco--the Way It Was
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Recent Events
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Journey Stories
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Journey Stories
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225 Year Old Mystery is Solved
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Upcoming Events
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Recalling the Reidsville Racetrack
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Chinqua Penn
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MARC your Calendar
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Due to the rising costs of paper, prin2ng, and postage, we print eight pages of the twelve-‐page newsle8er. Pages 5 thru 8 are not included in the print version. Please remember that
the full-‐color, twelve-‐page version is available on-‐line at rockinghamcountyhistory.com If you have missed any of the previous issues, you can find them there, too.
With opening renova.ons completed, the historic courthouse in Wentworth once again displays its original architectural features and beauty. Research and exhibit designs are done and high tech gallery ligh.ng is installed. The Museum and Archives of Rockingham County (MARC) is ready for YOU! Opening day on August 11 will be a fes.ve celebra.on, including the Opening Ceremony at 10am and ac.vi.es on the museum green. We invite you all to aJend! In conjunc.on with unveiling the first phase of local exhibits and an exhibi.on of photographs by Carol Highsmith (a Library of Congress photographer with local .es), we are honored to be one of only six sites in North Carolina selected to host the Smithsonian Ins.tu.on’s Traveling Exhibit, Journey Stories. This exhibit from the Smithsonian’s much acclaimed Museum on Main Street program spotlights the na.on’s defining stories of immigra.on, transporta.on, and the personal journeys of Americans. It is rare for a brand new museum to host such a pres.gious program. Our selec.on as a host site is tes.mony that MARC Execu.ve Director Kim Proctor and the MARC Board of Directors have developed a plan for a first-‐class museum. Now it’s .me for all the ci.zens of Rockingham County and the Triad region to help make the MARC successful. The MARC can’t be your museum un.l you make yourself part of the MARC. Come and see; share your knowledge, experiences and ar.facts; and, support the MARC with your con.nued visits, .me, talents and financial resources. By working together for the MARC, we can share our heritage with the Rockingham County genera.ons to follow. Get on your MARC, get set, GO! Journey Stories has been made possible by the MARC and the North Carolina HumaniOes Council. Journey Stories is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboraOon between the Smithsonian InsOtuOon and State HumaniOes Councils naOonwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.
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Volunteer Guild Members Needed!
Letter from the Director When I arrived in the fall of 2010, opening a county-‐wide museum was the goal. As I reflect, I find it hard to describe the last year and a half. Words like upliIing, fulfilling, surprising, challenging, exhaus2ng, nerve-‐wracking, and overwhelming come to mind. Always, I have been surprised by the excellent work of the Historical Society over the last five decades. The organiza2on was ahead of its 2me! I have been upliIed by the support of the Board of Directors, so many good partners, and so many generous people. I have been challenged daily and pleased as those challenges are met. I have been fulfilled by the opportunity to use my skills and be part of a project that will bring something very special to the people of Rockingham County. Some2mes, I have been exhausted by the constant ac2vity. I have felt that nerve-‐wracking concern that things would not go as planned, and I’ve been overwhelmed by the never-‐ ending piles of work that clu8er my desk. AIer all, I’m just human. But every morning when I get up and every night before I go to sleep, I am grateful for the opportunity to share my passion for history and make a difference for genera2ons to come. I’m simply thrilled to be here in Rockingham County and working on this project. Now, it is my great pleasure to announce that the Museum & Archives of Rockingham County (MARC) will open to the public on Saturday, August 11, 2012. The ribbon cu[ng ceremony will start at 10am and the museum will be open un2l 4pm. There will be ac2vi2es to enjoy on the museum green all day, reminiscent of the days of old when court was in session and everyone came from miles around to the county seat of Wentworth. I hope you’ll join me at the MARC on the 11th. It won’t be the same without you. And I promise, it will be a day to remember!
Kim Proctor, Execu.ve Director
When we open the MARC on August 11th, we’ll need all the help we can get to keep the doors open. Manning an historic complex requires lots of hands and minds to provide a meaningful and memorable experience for visitors. Over the last several months, many of you have expressed an interest in helping. I’m sure others have been wai2ng for the 2me to grow nearer to throw your hat in the ring. Now is that 2me! If you believe in the importance of preserving our history, if you enjoy working with people, if you have some spare 2me, and if you’re looking for a way to make a difference, we have the perfect opportunity for you to serve our community and enjoy yourself at the same 2me. Beginning August 11th, the MARC will be open Wednesday through Friday from 2pm un2l 8pm and Saturday from 10am to 4pm. Each day we will need help in numerous areas. I have listed some of those posi2ons below.
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Office Recep2onist Museum Recep2onist GiI Shop A8endants Gallery Hosts Tour Guides at the MARC Tour Guides at Wright Tavern Hospitality Providers Program Assistants School Group Tour Guides Data Entry Assistants Ar2fact Accession Assistants
Ideally, we would like volunteers to commit six to eight hours per month in two or four hour blocks. If you have addi2onal 2me, we’ll be glad to have you as oIen as you like. You won’t be leI on your own. You will be trained and friends will be available to help when you are at the MARC. You will be provided with a training manual that will prepare you for your assignments and familiarize you with the exhibits at the MARC and Wright Tavern, as well as a tour at both the museum and the historic site. Our first training session will be held Tuesday, July 31st from 6-‐8:30pm, Saturday August 4th from 10am-‐1pm, and Tuesday, August 14th from 2-‐4:30pm. Volunteers are required to aaend at least one training session. If you are interested in joining the Volunteer Guild, please call the office at 336-‐394-‐4965 or e-‐mail us at MARCconnecOon@gmail.com. Include the days and Omes that you are available and your area of interest. All of us at the MARC appreciate your considera2on and hope you choose to join us as we share Rockingham County’s history with the public.
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Soldier’s PerspecOve of WWII Leads to Photography Career By: Jean Bullins
When Pete Comer was dra^ed into the Army at the age of 18, he could hardly imagine the life-‐long journey upon which he was embarking. This journey took him to places in the United States, to Europe, and back to Madison, North Carolina for a remarkable career. Pete first reported for duty at Fort Bragg on June 28, 1945. A^er the ini.al processing he traveled to LiJle Rock, Arkansas and Fort PickeJ, Virginia to complete his basic training. The soldiers were transferred between bases by train. He recalled the thick black soot from the train engines that covered their uniforms as it blew through the open windows of the cars. On March 6, 1946, Pete traveled to New Jersey to board the USS George Washington, a transport ship bound for Europe. Once in Europe, Pete’s vantage point of World War II changed dras.cally. He was assigned to the Signal Corps and trained as a mo.on picture photographer. This duty allowed him to know in advance when important events were going to happen, and he became a witness to historic events. He also gained experience in a photo processing lab in Munich, Germany. Films from loca.ons all over Germany were brought there for processing and then transported to fighter planes for delivery back to Washington, where they s.ll remain in military archives. Pete Comer is posing with two of his favorite photographs. The portrait A^er his military discharge, GI Bill benefits of Ollie Tatum won several first place prizes in trade shows. The picture enabled Pete to begin photography school in Kansas on the right captured Pete at work for the army during World War II. City in 1948, and he opened Comer’s Studio in Madison in 1952. As the business grew Pete’s wife, Jackie, joined him to handle customer service du.es while Pete concentrated on the photography and prin.ng opera.ons. Pete says, “The business evolved and grew through the years. People were so great to support us.” The truth, however, is that Pete’s sole ambi.on was to make the best photographs he could make, and he was rewarded for his work ethic by the trust and patronage of his clients for 54 years. Pete made educa.on a life-‐.me commitment by par.cipa.ng in con.nuing educa.on and conven.on seminars throughout his career. He has aJended every mee.ng of the Professional Photographers of North Carolina Conven.on since 1950. Through his leadership in Combat Airmen/Joshua’s Troops of Mayodan, Pete ac.vely seeks to preserve and share the experiences of former soldiers. This group, organized in 2006, meets monthly at the Dan Valley Community Center. All branches of the military except the Coast Guard are represented, and the membership includes par.cipants in all United States conflicts from World War II to the war in Iraq. In addi.on to sharing their stories at schools and churches, members worked with local author, Marilyn Swinson, to publish “Scars of War,” a book based on interviews with more than 40 members of Joshua’s Troops. We are most grateful for Pete’s interest and support for the Museum and Archives of Rockingham County. Historical photographs he has taken are already a part A Jou rne of the Special Collec.ons at Rockingham Community College. Recently, he donated y much of his equipment to us. MARC Execu.ve Director, Kim Proctor, said she is “excited ArO Storie s cle about the opportuni.es equipment of this quality will provide for the museum. Photographs and photography are both integral parts of the museum archival process.” Rockingham County Historical Society Museum & Archives, P. O. Box 84, Wentworth, NC 27375 www.rockinghamcountyhistory.com | (336) 394-‐4965 | MARCconnecOon@gmail.com
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Tobacco—the Way It Was: “Laying by” Ome By: Dr. Donald W. Haynes
As the young tobacco plants took root and began to grow, so did the grass! My Daddy would say, “The lower terrace is looking ‘wooly.’” So out came the three-‐foot cul.vators and old Maude, the sorrel mare who never stepped on a plant, swung around without promp.ng at the end of each row, and obeyed voice commands. Daddy trusted her so much that the reins (we called them “lines”) were around his neck.
Journ A ey St o “Layi ArOcle ries ng To bacco ”
A good cul.vator, plowing a half row at a .me, would leave about four inches at the top of the “list” or ridge that had to be “smacked off” with a hoe. Hoeing was also an art. You flaJened the list both pulling the hoe and pushing it, coming ever so close to the plant but not daring cut it off. If you were a careless older child, that was invita.on for a whipping! If you were a devious one, you stuck the plant back in the ground in hopes your Daddy would think it vic.m to a cut worm! Your last lick with the hoe was to pull some dirt around the plant. The sun was hot and the rows were long, but looking back on a newly hoed row of tobacco plants was a preJy sight. Now it was ready to “take off.”
A^er about three plowings with the cul.vator, the tobacco was “laid by.” This was done with a very wide cul.va.ng point called a “sweep.” It made a furrow in the middle of the row and threw loose soil around the base of the plants. Any ambi.ous crab grass that could be covered with dirt would die; crab grass must have light to live. However, if you were cursed with Bermuda grass in your tobacco fields, it would climb out from under a virtual mountain of dirt! This some.mes requiring “chopping” on the day of laying the crop by. No respectable farmer would have a grassy tobacco Don Haynes is a Rockingham County naEve. He patch. is a reEred Methodist minister and currently serves as an interim pastor at Kellum Grove The tobacco plant blooms more by age than by height; so the fear of ChrisEan Church in the western part of the every farmer before the days of irriga.on was that the plants would county. “buJon out” before they got sufficient height and leaves. Seeing
blossoms in waist high plants was a sickening sight; seeing them when tobacco was about 54-‐60” high was a beau.ful sight.
If the blooms were not snapped off, the top leaves of the plant would never grow large; so every plant had to be “topped.” Topping tobacco was fun; you pulled with your fore finger and middle finger and pushed with your thumb and heard the succulent stem snap. Looking back the en.re field began to take on a level look as, ideally, every plant was topped at about 20-‐22 leaves and, with some July rains, every leaf would mature as it ripened, making even the “.ps” weigh in good on the warehouse floor! The week of July 4 o^en gave a brief respite; therefore lots of churches had homecomings or revival mee.ngs that week. There were also horse shows, baseball games, and picnics. But the fun and frolicking would be short-‐lived. Tobacco was relentless in its demand for back-‐breaking labor. Once the plants were topped and could not grow up, some of the energy was diverted to growing “suckers.” Suckers were miniature plants which grew out from the stalk just where the leaves were aJached—all twenty of them! The “ground suckers,” if le^ neglected would grow all the way up through the plant and basically ruin it, plus making the leaves difficult to prime. The top suckers would make the plant top heavy and suscep.ble to wind and rain in summer storms. LiJle was more sickening that to go out one morning a^er a storm during the night to see your precious livelihood lying prostrate on the ground. Emergency! “Today, we got to set up tobacco.” This had to happen quickly before the leaves began to turn up to the sun.
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Recent Events Journey Stories Keep Flooding In
Spring FesOval
By: Fletcher Dalton
Ci2zens of Rockingham County are responding enthusias2cally to our request for stories to supplement the forthcoming Smithsonian Ins2tute Journey Stories Exhibi2on, which opens at the MARC on August 11. Some stories have come by mail and email, some on tape, and some as personal interviews with MARC staff and volunteers. Even youngsters have remembered significant life-‐stretching events and shared them with us. There is s2ll 2me to share your school experiences, courtships, cross-‐county travels, tobacco jobs, factory tales or other life memories. We want to preserve your stories and to laugh with you, cry with you, shiver at your scary stories, watch you learn how to ride on horseback or in an automobile, or understand your challenges in the face of modern progress.
Wanda Moyer, of Stoneville, selected two hats from her collecEon of more than 100 hats for the Easter Parade at Wright Tavern in April. Wentworth Presbyterian Church joined the MARC to sponsor a Spring FesEval to provide an opportunity for people to come together as a community to celebrate spring tradiEons such as the hat parade, egg decoraEng, cake walks, and an egg hunt.
Your stories help us to weave the fabric of life in Rockingham County, North Carolina, and every story is a memory to be treasured. Let us hear from you soon!
July 4 CelebraOon is a Sizzling Success
Despite a week of record-‐ breaking heat, more than 500 people By: Jean Bullins ventured out to par2cipate in the July fourth celebra2on sponsored by the Museum and Archives of Rockingham County, the Town of Wentworth, and Rockingham Community College. The aIernoon event, held at the Historic Village at RCC, provided the perfect blend of patrio2sm and pizzazz. The presenta2on of the Declara2on of Independence was a memorable highlight of the day. Elected officials and ci2zens from across all of Rockingham County took turns reading aloud por2ons of the document which was the very heart of the first Independence Day celebra2on. Judge Ed Wilson, who a8ended with his family, was exactly right when he said, “This is the way to spend the Fourth of July!” Visitors of all ages enjoyed a8ending Ward Triche’s class at the Village Schoolhouse and experiencing school with the atmosphere and resources – or lack of resources – that our grandparents oIen described. The Rockingham County Mineral Club’s sluice was another favorite a8rac2on among the youngest guests. Of course, with the temperature approaching 100 degrees, a water slide and free snow cones provided both fun and relief from the heat.
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A Jo u Visi rney S t exh the J tories our Ar2 ibi2 n on at t ey Sto cle h ri lear n m e MAR es C to ore .
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225 Year Old Mystery Is Solved By: Charles Rodenbough
On April 11, 1787, Governor Richard Caswell wrote to ex-‐Governor Alexander MarDn from Kinston, I have “forwarded TesDmonials under seal of the state to the papers relaDng to estates of Messrs Farley.” Martin had just been appointed by Caswell as one of the five delegates from North Carolina to the ConsDtuDonal ConvenDon in Philadelphia and he was shortly to leave for that city. What these tesDmonials were and to whom MarDn was presumably directed to carry them, has conDnued to be a mystery. On March 1, after 225 years, they were found by Charles Rodenbough when he and Bob Carter made a research trip to the Virginia State Archives in Richmond, Virginia. They were located in a document file box with papers concerning a US Circuit Court Case in 1805, Dinwiddie, Crawford & Co. vs. Henry Skipwith, et. al. The soluDon to the mystery of the “lost tesDmonials” is that they were a copy of the will of Francis Farley, late of AnDgua. Francis died April 1, 1779 at sea, having just le^ AnDgua on his way to Virginia. His ship was being pursued by a French warship and had to duck into Guadalupe where he was buried. A copy of his will, certified by Thomas Shirley, Governor of the Leeward Islands, had been sent to Rockingham County where Farley owned the 26,000 acres known as the Sauratown or Land of Eden. Rockingham County had been formed from Guilford as of 1785 and Thomas Henderson, brother-‐in-‐law of Alexander Martin, had been Clerk of Court in Guilford and now held the same office in Rockingham. In Virginia, Francis Farley’s daughter-‐in-‐law, widow of his son, James Parke Farley (died May 1, 1777) had just married Rev. John Dunbar, an Irish Priest. Dunbar was in the process of having himself declared administrator of the Estate of Francis Farley and James Parke Farley in Virginia and North Carolina and guardian of the four minor daughters of James Parke Farley. For that purpose Dunbar had made Alexander Martin his attorney, and appointed the famous Anti-‐ federalist legislator, Willie Jones, as his surety at £50,000. The cerDfied copy of the Francis Farley Will was sent to Henderson from AnDgua. He certified it as Clerk and sent it along with the surety, administration, and guardian documents to Governor Caswell who placed the Great Seal of the State upon them. Returned to Rockingham County, these were the “testimonials” that Governor Caswell was requesting Governor Martin to deliver to Rev. Dunbar and the Farley heirs in Richmond, Virginia. In later years, that family had reason to use these same documents in other cases at law including the Dinwiddie, Crawford case in 1805. That is how these papers got into the Archives at Virginia. Missing from Rockingham County are pages 40, 41 of Deed Book A (just before a recording of the appointment of James Taylor as Steward of the Sauratown) and a copy of the Francis Farley Will which is believed to have once been among the recorded Wills in Rockingham. All these papers have now been copied, along with many other documents found in the US Circuit Court case and they are being deposited as part of the newly established Rockingham County Archives.
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Upcoming Events New Website!
By: Ginger Waynick Coming August 3 www.themarconline.org Even before the museum doors open to the public, you can get a glimpse of all the good things happening with the Rockingham County Historical Society Museum and Archives. On August 1, we will debut our new website at www.themarconline.org to keep you informed of MARC news and informa.on! Designed by local webmaster Roy Sawyers, the site will feature news and events at the historic complex, including copies of the MARC newsleJer; on-‐line access to the historical collec.ons in the archives; ac.vi.es and resources for families, students and teachers; and resources for genealogists. The site, which also features site search and email func.ons, is part of the con.nuing effort to raise the museum's profile and provide interac.on between site visitors and the museum and its ar.facts. MARC Execu.ve Director Kim Proctor views the new web presence as part of the logical progression in the development of the new organiza.on. "Now that we're closing in on our Grand Opening," she noted, "we want to have an absolutely state of the art website." Publicity Chair Ginger Waynick explained, “We plan to make more and more documents and informa.on available on-‐line and to make them more easily accessible.” No website is ever finished, and our goal is to provide the resources that site visitors need as the museum and the website con.nue to evolve. The new website provides access for the museum staff to do constant updates to insure that it will always be up-‐to-‐date. With all that is happening at the MARC, you will surely want to bookmark www.themarconline.org on your Internet browser and visit there o^en!
MARC HOURS Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 2 pm to 8 pm
MARC ADMISSION Adults ...................................$5.00 Students & Senior Ci.zens ....$3.50 Children (ages 4-‐12) ..............$2.50 Maximum cost per family....$20.00
Saturday 10 am to 4 pm
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Recalling the Reidsville Racetrack By: Ginger Waynick
Jimmy Waynick, born in 1920, lived in the "racetrack" neighborhood at the corner of Northup Street and Pennrose Drive in Reidsville, NC. His father, Fletcher Watson Waynick, ran a blacksmith and machine shop there and the family lived alongside the shop on Northup Street. The Waynick shop was later moved to the current golf course and used as a maintenance shed. Jimmy explained, “By the Dme I was born it (the track) was abandoned. I don’t even know what kind of races they held there.” Other Reidsville sources indicate that trojng horses were raced at the track. The only race Jimmy saw there was at the Harvest FesDval in the fall of 1926. He recalled, “All the grandees of the town with horses would mount holding long poles (lances). Several poles were placed along the track with a ring on each pole, and the grandees raced down the track to try to spear a ring." The story Jimmy was told about the eventual bankruptcy of the track was, "that the great Dan Patch (a record breaking stallion) was scheduled to race there and when all the preachers found out, they got together and prayed for rain. It rained for the enDre week and that was the end of racing in Reidsville." Eventually the abandoned track was used as a dumping site for local residents. Jimmy noted that "neighborhood kids found a lot of abandoned toys there." According to Waynick, the old grandstand was on the back of what is now South End School. Jimmy also remembered when, in 1930, local developer, Charlie Penn, developed the site for American Tobacco Company foremen housing and built the golf course and Pennrose Park Country Club where they sDll stand. Jimmy and the local kids watched as the Park was being built, and he said, “While black men with mules and drag pans were used to level the property, the Waynick and Miller homes across Northup Street were saved. Kids got cement off the construcDon site and built roads under the Miller house for our toy cars."
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Chinqua Penn Will Not Be Forgoaen By: Kim Proctor The MARC is pleased to offer you the opportunity to preserve, in your name, one or more of the treasures we acquired from the Chinqua Penn aucDons. We hope you will find the items of interest to you and that you will pledge your support to the MARC, so it can be a secure and accessible permanent home for this collecDon. Each item is available for you to sponsor in the Chinqua Penn exhibit at the MARC. We request that you underwrite a value for your selecDon by pledging an annual contribuDon over the next five years. There are 30 items for which sponsorships range from $200 per year to $750 per year. The sponsorships for the remaining 14 items range from $1,000 to $10,000 per year. You will be idenDfied as the contributor for the item you select. Your annual sponsorship contribuDons will automaDcally include your historical society membership dues, as well. We are hopeful that a posiDve result from the regrenul demise of the Penn estate will be a renewed sense of interest in historic preservaDon among Rockingham County ciDzens. The purpose of the MARC is to collect, preserve and share the rich and diverse history of Rockingham County. No doubt, there are collecDble items of interest in every home in the county. We need the MARC to educate ciDzens about the stories these items represent and the value of preserving them. And, we need the museum faciliDes to insure that the history of this county is known in generaDons to come. Insuring the long-‐term success of the MARC requires significant financial support. It is a huge undertaking to build a first class museum, but with your assistance it can be done. We are grateful to our first sponsors, Skip and Tilda Balsley, Sunshine Bishopric, and Tom and Gloria Butler, for sharing our vision and invesDng in the future. If you are interested in seeing the Penn collecDon and making a contribuDon, please contact Dan Mosca at 336.656.0028 or 336.587.7332 (cell) to schedule an appointment.
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Contact Us at (336) 394-‐4965 or by email at MARCconnecOon@gmail.com Visit us on the web at www.rockinghamcountyhistory.com
Opening August 11, 2012
FROM: ROCKINGHA M COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY M U & ARCHIVES SEUM P. O. BOX 8 4 WENTWOR TH, NC 273 75
Return Service Requested Kim Proctor
ContribuOng Editors:
Lucy Berry Jean Bullins Rebecca Cipriani Fletcher Dalton Robbin Dodson Judy Wall Brenda Ward Ginger Waynick
ContribuOng Photographers:
Robbin Dodson Kim Proctor
County Historian:
Bob Carter
Design, Layout:
Rebecca Cipriani
Printed by:
Twin Rivers PrinOng & Graphic Arts, Inc. Madison, NC
August 3: debut of new website at www.themarconline.com August 11: 10 am, GRAND OPENING August 16: 7-‐8:30pm, BaReau NavigaEon on the Dan River -‐ Lindley Butler, Ph.D. August 26: 2-‐3pm, Sauratown (Land of Eden) -‐ Charles Rodenbough September 7: 6-‐8pm, Our Stories, Ourselves -‐ Lorenzo “Logie” Meachum September 14: 7-‐8:30pm, Freedom under ConstrucEon: Building Blocks of the Civil Rights Movement -‐ Panel discussion and tour of the exhibit September 17: 7-‐8:30pm, Tobacco: the Backbone of Rockingham County Economy -‐ Bob Carter, Rockingham County Historian September 20: 7-‐8:30pm, The Significance of Churches to African Americans during ReconstrucEon -‐ Dr. Reginald Hildebrand Watch the website for event addi2ons and updates
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