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Recently, Heather Burgiss of the NC Public Television  series, North Carolina Now, visited the museum and interviewed us for the show. No stranger to the Blue Ridge, Heather and her family have been coming here for years. Her father-in-law is Sam Burgiss, a cousin of Tom Burgiss of Thistle Meadow Winery, in Laurel Springs.

Pauline Jolly on the UNC-TV program, North Carolina Now

The episode aired May 1st and is (tentatively) scheduled to re-air on North Carolina Weekend, June 28.

Click here to see the entire episode at the UNC TV site. Alleghany History Museum starts about 5 minutes in.

Thanks, Heather, for including us in this great, statewide broadcast!

April – June 2012, the exhibit at the Alleghany Historical Museum will be called Faith of Our Fathers, Living Still. It will feature the churches and other places of worship in Alleghany County.

If you have artifacts suitable for display with this exhibit, please bring them to the Museum by the end of this month.

The Museum is open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10 am – 5 pm. Volunteers at the Museum will be able to accept your loan or donation during those times.

Remember, there is no admission charge to visit the Museum, and group tours can be arranged at other times.

The theme for the Alleghany Historical Museum’s fourth quarter exhibit is Harvest and Holidays. We wanted to re-capture the atmosphere of a traditional, mountain autumn focusing on activities that were once common, here.

Our last exhibit featured agriculture, so it was only fitting that this one celebrates the harvest. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year have themes familiar to each of us. But how did our families celebrate these seasons, if they did at all?

In this modern age, we think we’re rushed, but with hog killing, molasses making, corn-cutting, haying, canning, drying apples, drying beans for “leather britches”, gathering walnuts and chestnuts- the list of traditional chores seems endless.

The exhibit will last through the end  of the year. As always, if you have items or stories to share, contact us!

The Sesquicentennial Committee has donated to AHGS the commemorative fiddle, originally won but donated back to the committee by Billy Noah of Mount Airy. The fiddle was created by David Joines and has the Sesquicentennial Seal carved into it by Gracen Lucas. We have temporarily loaned it to the Alleghany Jubilee for display until it has a permanent home in a future historical museum.

Before the closing of the Sparta Teapot Museum on January 31st, we had asked them for the loan of a 20”x 20” pedestal to display the fiddle. They responded by giving us the pedestal. Continue reading