MAMRH - Mount Airy Museum of Regional History

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Changing Exhibits

The Yadkin Valley Craft Guild Show - October 1 through December 31, 2011 in the 3rd floor Changing Exhibits Gallery.

African American Builders and Architects in North Carolina Exhibit - September 17 through mid January 2012 in the 3rd floor Temporary Exhibits Gallery.

Upcoming Events

Sat Jan 28 @10:00AM - 05:00PM
White Liquor and Dirt Tracks: Biographies
Sat Jan 28 @ 6:00PM -
Annual Robert Burns Dinner
Thu Feb 02 @ 7:00PM - 08:30PM
Mike Wiley presents A Game Apart: The Life of Jackie Robinson
Fri Feb 03 @10:00AM - 11:00AM
Storybook Museum

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Mount Airy Museum of Regional History

Ours is an all American story - typical of how communities grew up all across our great nation. While our story takes place in the back country of northwestern North Carolina at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, it is likely to bear many similarities to the development of crossroads, towns, and cities throughout America.

It had taken little more than 100 years for the corridors along the coastline of this still-new continent to overflow. As tensions grew and conflicts flared, the pioneer spirit set in. Families literally packed up everything they owned and headed into the unknown-searching for the "promised land."

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Mount Airy Museum Of Regional History

White Liquor & Dirt Tracks

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Coming Soon:
White Liquor and Dirt Tracks - Biographies
January 28, 2012 
 
The launch event for the new exhibit White Liquor and Dirt Tracks - Biographies will be held on Saturday January 28, 2012 from 10am until 5pm.  Admission is just $5
 
Scheduled activities include:
10:00am
Vintage race car and hot rod cruise in starts; museum and exhibit opens to the public
 
10:30 - 12:30
Old-Timer's Panel Discussion and meet and greet, including Rex White, Don Johnson, Jerry Hatcher, Chris Fleming from Madhouse, 2012 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee Dale Inman and other participants TBA
 
1:00pm
Program on Moonshining in Western North Carolina presented by Dr. Dan Pierce, UNCA
 
Concurrent autograph sessions with panelists
 
2:00pm
Virginia Tech professor Brian Katen program on early racing and tracks in Southwest Virginia
 
3:00pm
NASCAR Hall of Fame Historian Buzz McKim program on the roots of NASCAR
 
All Day Activities
Exhibit
Pin Striping Demonstrations
Book Signing with Margaret Sue Turner Wright, daughter of Curtis Turner
  
Preregistered racers and display car owners, plus one guest each, will receive free admission to the event. 
 
For further information, call the museum at 336-786-4478.
 

Museum's Holiday Open House

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In a day and age when finding something free to do is hard to come by, the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History opened its doors on Sunday afternoon for its annual Holiday Open House.

There was free music and food at the event, which is always well attended, according to the museum’s Executive Director Matt Edwards.

Read more: Mount Airy News - Visitors from near and far attend Holiday Open House at museum

Museum hosts lecture on tobacco and culture

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With the Autumn Leaves Festival as a backdrop, history buffs and festival attendees gathered in the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History courtyard Sunday afternoon to hear Billy Yeargin deliver a lecture about tobacco and American culture.

Yeargin, a professor with extensive knowledge of the history of the tobacco industry, was the guest speaker for the October “History Talks” program at the museum. He spoke at 2 p.m. on Sunday about tobacco’s impact on Amerian society over the years.

Though the event was originally scheduled to be held inside the museum, organizers decided to move it outside to the courtyard where many festival-goers sat throughout the weekend to eat and socialize. Some people who visited the courtyard on Sunday were surprised to find that a lecture was taking place there, and they stopped to listen while they ate festival treats. Others came specifically to hear the presentation.



Read more: Mount Airy News - Museum hosts lecture on tobacco and culture

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