Now, find out what happened “today,” every day!

Working in conjunction with the North Carolina News Network, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources has unveiled a project that focuses on “This Day in North Carolina History.” Brief essays will be posted every day at nchistorytoday.wordpress.com.

From North Carolina leaders, to figures in the arts, to important dates, to historical happenings from the mountains to the coast, “This Day in North Carolina History” tells North Carolina’s story every day.

Contributors include the Office of Archives and History, the Division of State Historic Sites, the State Library of North Carolina, the North Carolina Arts Council and the NCPedia project.

We’ve added links to this project on our Links page and under Resources on the sidebar of the site.

Imaging Specialists, Inc. featured us in an upcoming video for Alleghany Community Television, Imaging Specialists’ Trip to the Museum. Since the Museum’s opening in 2009, a regular feature of our award-winning newsletter has been “What’s New Old at the Museum?”

The current newsletter only reaches members of the Society (membership’s only $10 a year, scheduled to go up next year), and old newsletters are available online.

We wanted to expand on that feature and make information about the Museum available to even more folks. Watch the video below, over on YouTube, or catch it on Alleghany Community Television. ACTV will use the footage as filler between programs, so it will have a huge potential audience- currently around 5000 homes!

We have been getting great feedback from visitors. Several have told us that they found out about the Museum from the segment we did on North Carolina Now.

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.