Bag Lunch Talk series
Transylvania County Library
Brevard. NC

Helping celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment for Women’s Suffrage, award-winning author and storyteller Randell Jones will share stories from 400 years of North Carolina history about some of the notable and colorful women of the state’s history. March is National Women’s History Month.

Friends of the Madison County Library
Hot Springs Welcome Center
Hot Springs, NC

Helping celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment for Women’s Suffrage, award-winning author and storyteller Randell Jones will share stories from 400 years of North Carolina history about some of the notable and colorful women of the state’s history. March is National Women’s History Month.

This presentation is funded by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council.

Mary Slocumb Chapter, DAR
Mooresville Public Library
Mooreville, NC

“Other Lives of Daniel Boone—a wife, a daughter, a granddaughter” reveals some surprising stories of three women in Daniel Boone’s life across three generations. Through a host of images, we look also at the ways America has embraced, celebrated, and commemorated America’s pioneer hero through the years This focus is especially appropriate during 2020 as we celebrate the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment securing women’s suffrage and also because Daniel Boone passed away 200 years ago this fall a few weeks shy of his 86th birthday.

This presentation is open to the public as it is funded by a grant from the NC Humanities Council.

Stanly County Historical Society
First Baptist Church
202 N. Second St., Albemarle, NC

Helping celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment for Women’s Suffrage, award-winning author and storyteller Randell Jones will share stories from 400 years of North Carolina history about some of the notable and colorful women of the state’s history. March is National Women’s History Month.

This presentation is funded by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Outer Banks
831 Herbert Perry Rd, Kitty Hawk, NC

Helping celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment for Women’s Suffrage, award-winning author and storyteller Randell Jones will share stories from 400 years of North Carolina history about some of the notable and colorful women of the state’s history. March is National Women’s History Month.

This presentation is funded by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council.

Mecklenburg Genealogical Society
Aldersgate Retirement Community
3500 East Shamrock Drive, Charlotte, NC

Helping celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment for Women’s Suffrage, award-winning author and storyteller Randell Jones will share stories from 400 years of North Carolina history about some of the notable and colorful women of the state’s history. March is National Women’s History Month.

This presentation is funded by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council.

Fireside Chats Series - Saturday evenings in February - Join us for "A Taste of the Frontier" as your evening meal and then enjoy a first person historical character presentation.  Taste of the Frontier served 5:30PM - 6:15PM, Fireside Chat at 6:45PM. The 18th Century Tavern blockhouse will also be open prior to the chat and up until about 6:30PM. Reservations required and there is limited seating.  Call (859) 527-3131 and if no answer please leave your name and phone number. ($)

Saturday February 29th - Maggie Delaney - Indentured Servant

For more information and to confirm event:

https://parks.ky.gov/parks/recreationparks/fort-boonesborough/

https://www.fortboonesboroughlivinghistory.org/

http://www.fortboonesboroughfoundation.org/

Helping celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment for Women’s Suffrage, award-winning author and storyteller Randell Jones will share stories from 400 years of North Carolina history about some of the notable and colorful women of the state’s history. March is National Women’s History Month.

This presentation is funded by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council.

Fireside Chats Series - Saturday evenings in February - Join us for "A Taste of the Frontier" as your evening meal and then enjoy a first person historical character presentation.  Taste of the Frontier served 5:30PM - 6:15PM, Fireside Chat at 6:45PM. The 18th Century Tavern blockhouse will also be open prior to the chat and up until about 6:30PM. Reservations required and there is limited seating.  Call (859) 527-3131 and if no answer please leave your name and phone number. ($)

Saturday February 22nd - Life and Times of Daniel Trabue - Early Kentucky pioneer

For more information and to confirm event:

https://parks.ky.gov/parks/recreationparks/fort-boonesborough/

https://www.fortboonesboroughlivinghistory.org/

http://www.fortboonesboroughfoundation.org/

Fireside Chats Series - Saturday evenings in February - Join us for "A Taste of the Frontier" as your evening meal and then enjoy a first person historical character presentation.  Taste of the Frontier served 5:30PM - 6:15PM, Fireside Chat at 6:45PM. The 18th Century Tavern blockhouse will also be open prior to the chat and up until about 6:30PM. Reservations required and there is limited seating.  Call (859) 527-3131 and if no answer please leave your name and phone number. ($)

Saturday February 15th - Col. John Holder - Early Kentucky Pioneer and Entrepreneur

For more information and to confirm event:

https://parks.ky.gov/parks/recreationparks/fort-boonesborough/

https://www.fortboonesboroughlivinghistory.org/

http://www.fortboonesboroughfoundation.org/

Re-enactors in period dress from the Revolutionary War era greet the public and demonstrate the technologies, arts, crafts, foods, and medicines of the late 18th Century. Soldiers will muster, drill in formation, and fire volleys (black-powder only). Other demonstrations include open-hearth and campfire cooking.

The event takes place on the lawn surrounding the historic Alexander Dixon House at 150 E. King Street, Hillsborough, NC

Fireside Chats Series - Saturday evenings in February - Join us for "A Taste of the Frontier" as your evening meal and then enjoy a first person historical character presentation.  Taste of the Frontier served 5:30PM - 6:15PM, Fireside Chat at 6:45PM. The 18th Century Tavern blockhouse will also be open prior to the chat and up until about 6:30PM. Reservations required and there is limited seating.  Call (859) 527-3131 and if no answer please leave your name and phone number. ($)

Saturday, February 8th - Daniel Boone - portrayed by Kevin Hardesty, official Daniel Boone of the Kentucky Humanities Council

For more information and to confirm event:

https://parks.ky.gov/parks/recreationparks/fort-boonesborough/

https://www.fortboonesboroughlivinghistory.org/

http://www.fortboonesboroughfoundation.org/

Alliance for Historic Hillsborough holds its annual Revolutionary War Living History Day on February 15. Although occupied by General Lord Cornwallis in 1781, This colonial town was the war-time capital of North Carolina. But it now has Revolutionary War history to celebrate it is just now discovering. On Feb. 4, award-winning author and storyteller Randell Jones shares new scholarship about the Battle of Kings Mountain (Oct. 7, 1780) which places events in Hillsborough at the beginning and the end of this surprising battle 150 miles distant from Hillsborough, a battle which “turned the tide” of the American Revolution in the South.

Orange County Main Library, 137 W. Margaret Street, Hillsborough, NC
Presentation supported by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council.