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Mill Village Museum closes temporarily, seeks new home
EDENTON — The only museum dedicated to the history of Edenton’s working class has closed — but may reopen if organizers can find a new location for it. The Mill Village Museum, which documents the lives of Edenton’s first factory workers, closed Oct. 10. The museum, housed in the former Edenton Cotton Mill building, closed after the owners of the building sent a letter saying they needed to reclaim the space, said Beth Taylor, who is working to relocate the museum. Taylor said the owners announced their decision by mail. There were no negotiations to keep the museum at its current location. Taylor said the closure was not because the Mill Village Museum Association was facing financial difficulties. The museums collection of photographs, exhibits and historical artifacts has been placed in storage. “The museum items are stored in a very safe storage building,” Taylor said in response to questions from the Chowan Herald. The museum’s announcement said the closure was temporary, but there is no timetable for reopening. Taylor said no suitable replacement building has been located yet. “The museum will be reopened in another building whenever we can locate another building,” Taylor said. The museum documented the preservation of
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Wilson’s Whirligig Festival back for another year
WILSON, N.C. (WNCT) — Wilson’s Whirligig Festival is back for its 21st year! On November 7, from 10 am to 5 pm, and November 8, from 12 pm to 5 pm, Wilson’s Whirligig Park will host about 40 food vendors and family-friendly activities. Visitors can participate in the Whirli-Kidz Zone, Color Circus, art contests and […]
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'No place like home' Smiles and Frowns Playhouse returns to 'Oz' and stages reunion for 40th anniversary
It’s hard to believe that two decades have passed since Brea Glosson starred as Dorothy in Smiles and Frowns Playhouse’s 20th anniversary production of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Since that time, she has appeared on the college stage, moved to New York to pursue a theatrical career, and written and performed in a one-woman show. But next week, she will come back to where she started in Ayden’s Doug Mitchell Memorial Theater. After all, there’s no place like home. Smiles and Frowns will celebrate its 40th anniversary next week with a return to Oz. “The Wizard of Oz” was the first play performed when the children’s theater group organized in 1986. Over the years, the yellow brick road has become a familiar path, one that Smiles and Frowns has gone down for its 20th and 30th anniversaries as well. For Glosson and other former playhouse actors, it’s a road that leads to their first theatrical home. “I’ll be there in November,” Glosson said in a telephone interview from her home in Brooklyn, New York, where she works as an actor, a playwright, a teacher and a drama therapist. “I have my flight booked and my rental car rented.” Following