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Take a trip through Kentucky history and explore the roots of what makes The Bluegrass State so great. From historic sites and monuments to museums and reenactments, the whole family can enjoy an historic experience. Visit to find a Kentucky history museum, historic sites and other history-related attractions.
Meet the Smith Dairy Farm Family of North Carolina
The business of running a dairy farm is changing, and George Smith believes the next generation of farmers is poised to embrace it. “As dairy farming has progressed over the years, we rely more on technology and less on manual labor,” said Smith, a second-generation dairy farmer near Lexington, N.C. “Obviously, it still requires a good bit of manual labor, but I have been very fortunate to have a lot of good employees.” George said his father started their dairy back in 1950 with five Guernsey cows. His dad joked that he might eventually milk 10 cows, but no more than 15. At the time, Smith’s dad didn’t realize how much technology would advance to make milking easier and more efficient.
Smith eventually took over operations of his family’s farm in 1980 after graduating from North Carolina State University with a degree in animal science and technology. He said he was excited about the prospects of not only managing and operating the family farm, but expanding it as well.
“Over the years, I have had to adapt to all the changing technology and it has been amazing how it has improved the efficiencies with farming,” said Smith, who today milks about 350 cows on 800 acres of land.
The Year at Duke in Photographs (2012)
A look back at 2012 with photographs of memorable Duke moments.
2012 was a memorable year for Duke University. An early highlight was January's Winter Forum, where more than a hundred Duke students explored what it means to be a refugee.
Hundreds of other students from Duke and North Carolina Central University came together to package meals for an organization that fights hunger.
At the end of January, the Duke community gathered to celebrate the life of Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, who gave so much to the university, the arts and North Carolina.
In February, the walls of the Nasher Museum of Art lit up during a festival that highlighted digital technologies that are transforming the arts and humanities.
And in college basketball's greatest rivalry, the clock ticked down in February as Duke's Austin Rivers took a shot just before the final buzzer. Yes! Blue Devils 85, Tar Heels 84.
Spirits soared that night. But the human spirit thrives in many ways across our campus. At the medical center, Duke dedicated a magnificent new center for cancer patients.
In March, Duke students celebrated what has become a colorful campus tradition: Holi, the Hindu festival of colors.
Throughout the year, some of the world's most prominent leaders came to Duke. In April, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with political science professor Peter Feaver.
A few days later, Duke broke ground on its new Environmental Hall, which will be home to the Nicholas School and among the most energy-efficient buildings on campus.
Duke named Paula McClain, a professor of political science and public policy, as the new dean of its graduate school.
In May, thousands of students and their cheering families gathered in Wallace Wade Stadium for the university's annual commencement ceremonies.
Also in the spring, Duke announced the first of several initiatives to offer free online courses to people around the world, as with this neuroscience course taught by Professor Len White.
During the summer, Duke's Coach K led the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team to another gold medal. Two Duke students also won Olympic medals: divers Abby Johnston and Nick McCrory. Go Duke!
And speaking of Go Duke, the newest members of our community, the class of 2016, gathered in August for their official class photo on East Campus.
As they and other students arrived on campus, they found a former laundry warehouse had been converted into a wonderful new space for dancers and artists.
Duke converted another campus facility, too, although only temporarily. It kicked off its new development campaign, Duke Forward, inside Cameron Indoor Stadium.
A few days later, the university named the Rev. Dr. Luke Powery to become the new dean of Duke Chapel.
The good news continued when Duke's Robert Lefkowitz received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, sharing the award with his former Duke collaborator.
And then ... ding, ding, ding. Duke's football team rang the victory bell after defeating UNC in a thriller. For the first time in nearly two decades, the team was also invited to a bowl game.
2012 brought plenty of competition in politics, too. Duke students stayed up late on election night in November to watch President Obama win re-election.
And as the year came to a close, Duke began a celebration of the 50th anniversary of black students integrating its campus. Stay tuned for more on that, and for everything else that lies ahead for Duke in 2013. It's been a great year. Go Duke!
1 minute ride On The BUSTED! On The GAL Hydruallic Elevator At NC Museum Of Art, Raleigh NC
Kentucky fan gets National Champs tattoo BEFORE Tournament
A University of Kentucky basketball fan from Louisville decided to get a UK National Champs 2015 tattoo before the first tip off in the NCAA tournament. His new tattoo also claims a 40-0 perfect season.
21c Museum Hotel | NC Weekend | UNC-TV
This popular downtown Durham night spot offers cutting-edge galleries of 21st-century art, plush guest rooms and suites, and skillfully prepared meals and cocktails at the Counting House restaurant.
WNR Films - Elizabeth McCaw Dillard Reynolds and RJ Reynold
Original 16mm Film produced and directed by R. J. Reynolds, Jr. Dick 1935 (nephew of William Neal Reynolds of Tanglewood Farm in Forsyth County, NC.) Filmed on location at the Red Mile in Lexington, KY. Mrs. Reynolds Blitz rides one of the trotting horses as the track is groomed for the next race.
(c)1934 R. J. Reynolds, Jr. (c) 2007 William N. Reynolds
native americans cave painting in Kentucky
Asphlt Rock pictographs site overlooks the Green River valley in middle of 3 rock shelter.
Hoffman Hotel: Gaston County Museum of Art & History Otis Series 1 Elevator
This is a very unique museum to learn & explore. It is free admission & also has a gift shop. A special thanks to Jeff Pruett for allowing us to come and film this elevator which is all we were allowed to film actually inside as there is no video/photo taking allowed in the Museum and Carriage House. You can visit the Gaston County Museum of Art & History's website for more info at & You can check out my Facebook Page of the pictures we did take outside of the museum which also includes the Anne Biggers Furr Learning Station (Old Train Depot Station) which has a red caboose train car on display right beside it.
Noah's Ark Replica, Kentucky - virtual tour 2016
This video contains a virtual tour of the inside (and the outside) of the Ark Encounter, a Noah's Ark replica, which opened this summer (2016), in Williamstown, Kentucky.
Thomas Day: The Man, The Maker, The Mogul
John Franklin, senior program manager, National Museum of African American History and Culture, moderated a discussion about Thomas Day, craftsman, architect, and businessman. Donna Day, a descendant of Thomas Day, joins James L. Roark, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of American History at Emory University, and Michael A. Ausbon, associate curator of decorative arts at the North Carolina Museum of History, as they share insight into Thomas Day's life, work, and historical impact.
May 10, 2013
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky is a public co-educational university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by Isaiah Giles as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities, the largest college or university in the state, with 29,385 students as of Fall 2013, and the highest ranked research university in the state according to U.S. News and World Report.
The institution comprises 16 colleges, a graduate school, 93 undergraduate programs, 99 master programs, 66 doctoral programs, and four professional programs. The University of Kentucky has fifteen libraries on campus. The largest is William T. Young Library, a federal depository, hosting subjects related to social sciences, humanities, and life sciences collections. In recent years, the university has focused expenditures increasingly on research, following a compact formed by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1997. The directive mandated that the university become a Top 20 public research institution, in terms of an overall ranking to be determined by the university itself, by the year 2020.
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Haunted Places in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman, Broken Arrow, Lawton, and many more! The Sooner State is overflowing with terrifying history and spooky hauntings. Check out The Speakeasy's picks for the most haunted places in Oklahoma! Enjoy!
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MOOC | The Labor' Question | The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1865-1890 | 3.2.5
Learn about the political, social, and economic changes in the Union and the Confederacy and the Civil War’s long-term economic and intellectual impact.
In The Unfinished Revolution: Reconstruction and After, 1865-1890, Professor Eric Foner examines the pivotal but misunderstood era of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War, the first effort in American history to construct an interracial democracy. Beginning with a discussion of the dramatic change in historians’ interpretations of the period in the last two generations, Foner goes on to discuss how Reconstruction turned on issues of continued relevance today. Among these are: who is an American citizen and what are citizens’ rights; what is the relationship between political and economic freedom; which has the primary responsibility for protecting Americans’ rights – the federal or state governments; and how should public authorities respond to episodes of terrorism? The course explores the rewriting of the laws and Constitution to incorporate the principle of equality regardless of race; the accomplishments and failings of Reconstruction governments in the South; the reasons for violent opposition in the South and for the northern retreat from Reconstruction; and the consolidation at the end of the 19th century of a new system of white supremacy.
This course is part of the series, The Civil War and Reconstruction, which introduces students to the most pivotal era in American history. The Civil War transformed the nation by eliminating the threat of secession and destroying the institution of slavery. It raised questions that remain central to our understanding of ourselves as a people and a nation — the balance of power between local and national authority, the boundaries of citizenship, and the meanings of freedom and equality. The series will examine the causes of the war, the road to secession, the conduct of the Civil War, the coming of emancipation, and the struggle after the war to breathe meaning into the promise of freedom for four million emancipated slaves. One theme throughout the series is what might be called the politics of history — how the world in which a historian lives affects his or her view of the past, and how historical interpretations reinforce or challenge the social order of the present.
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of the most prominent historians in the United States. Professor Foner is the author or editor of over twenty books concentrating on the intersections of intellectual, political and social history and the history of American race relations. His recent book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. He is the author of Give Me Liberty!: An American History, a widely-used survey textbook of U. S. history published by W. W. Norton. Additionally, he is the recipient of the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching from Columbia University. He is one of only two persons ever to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, and Society of American Historians. As co-curator of two award-winning historical exhibitions, and through frequent appearances in newspapers and magazines and on radio and television discussion programs, he has also endeavored to bring historical knowledge to a broad public outside the university.
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State of the State 2014
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley delivers her fourth State of the State Address. Governor Haley's speech is followed by the Democratic response read by state representative James E. Smith.
UNCA Celebrates Black History Month
UNC Asheville will celebrate Black History Month throughout February with a series of events including film screenings, lectures and a step show. The following Black History Month events at UNC Asheville are open to the public, and free unless otherwise indicated: February 4 - Film screening: The Great Debaters - Denzel Washington directed and stars in this drama based on a true story from the 1930s, set against the backdrop of Jim Crow and lynchings, of the formation of a debate team at historically black Wiley College. The team's success led to a debate against Harvard. 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Highmsith University Union, Alumni Hall. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the UNC Asheville Black Student Association. February 7 - Art opening reception - Valeria Watson-Doost - An exhibition of Watson-Doost's Affrilachian works, in celebration of Black History Month, opens at UNC Asheville's Intercultural Center in Highsmith University Union. Light refreshments will be served. 7-9 p.m. February 8 - Film screening: 40 Years Later - Now We Can Talk? - This documentary tells the story of the first African Americans to integrate a white Mississippi high school in the late 1960s and features reflections from the students, black and white, 40 years later. The film's researcher and producer, Lee Anne Bell, Barnard College Barbara Silver Horowitz Director of Education, will lead a discussion after the screening. 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union, Mountain Suites. February 13 - Film screening: Ghosts of the South - This film depicts a dance performance by two Asheville women - Valeria Watson-Doost and Julie Becton Gillium - and recalls the African Americans displaced from Asheville neighborhoods. Watson-Doost will discuss the performance and issues raised in the film following the screening. 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Highsmith University Union Intercultural Center, Room 114. February 21 - Alex Kotlowitz: The Things They Carry: Growing Up Poor in the World's Richest Nation - Kotlowitz, award-winning journalist and author of the bestselling There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, speaks about race and poverty at 12:15 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Highsmith University Union Mountain Suites. February 21 - Film screening: The Interrupters, followed by QA with co-producer Alex Kotlowitz - This documentary about three Chicago neighborhood violence interrupters has garnered numerous awards and is a Sundance Festival selection. Kotlowitz, author of the bestselling There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, who co-produced the film along with director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) will discuss the film after the screening, which begins at 7 p.m. at UNC Asheville's Highsmith University Union, Alumni Hall. February 22 - Homecoming Step Show - Five step teams from around the state will perform as part of UNC Asheville Homecoming at 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium. Tickets at the door, $8. The university's Office of Multicultural Student Programs has also organized Black History Month events for students only, including a trip to the International Civil Rights Center Museum in Greensboro. For more information, please contact Lamar Hylton, UNC Asheville Office of Multicultural Student Programs director, at 828/251-6585
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Sorry about That, Gloria: Southern Living Encounters the Women’s Movement by Melissa Blair
In this presentation, Dr. Blair examined how the iconic Birmingham-based magazine, Southern Living, reacted to the feminist movement of the 1970s. Bursting into the nation’s consciousness just a few years after Southern Living’s first publication in 1966, feminism had the potential to disrupt the vision of the prosperous, suburban world of luncheon parties and elaborate gardens that the magazine promoted. By focusing on a regular column that profiled “distinctive” Southerners, including many women who broke glass ceilings in a variety of traditionally male fields, Blair’s talk explored how Southern Living navigated a rapidly-shifting political terrain. Given the tremendous success of the magazine in those years, exploring how Southern Living reacted to political changes reveals much about the South at a critical moment in the region’s history.
Dr. Melissa Estes Blair is a native of Lexington, Kentucky. She earned her B.A. in history and English from the University of Kentucky and her Ph.D. in American history from the University of Virginia. Before joining the faculty of the history department of Auburn University in the summer of 2015, she taught for six years at Warren Wilson College, a small liberal-arts college in Asheville, NC. She is the author of Revolutionizing Expectations: Women’s Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics, 1965-1980, published in 2014 by the University of Georgia Press. She is currently working on a book exploring how twentieth-century presidential campaigns sought female votes.
Admission to Food for Thought presentations is always FREE. The public is invited to bring a brown bag lunch. For additional information call (334) 353-4689. Food for Thought 2018 is sponsored by the Friends of the Alabama Archives and made possible with support from the
daughters of Judge Alex A. Marks, in his memory.
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Regular Size Otis Elevator at the Turchin Center of the Visual Arts in Boone, NC
This is the regualar size elevator that is located in the other building of the museum which is actually located just inside the lobby area of the front desk. We kind of forgot to get cab view of this elevator but you can get a glimpse of it as we enter the elevator. Check out the other video I uploaded of the HUGE elevator that we got permission to ride even though that building was closed off today. Thanks again to the wonderful staff at this neat museum.
Victor Hammer, Artist & Craftsman
Paul Evans Holbrook discussed the work, influences and methodologies of Victor Hammer. A printer, typographer, painter and sculptor, Hammer was perhaps better known in Europe for his portrait painting and sculpting. He also designed a chapel, built a printing press, printed books and created, among others, the often-used American Uncial type font. While artist in residence at Transylvania University, he refined Uncial and designed the logo for the city of Louisville, Kentucky. Support materials for the lecture can be found in the Hammer Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Speaker Biography: Paul Evans Holbrook is director for the King Library Press of the University of Kentucky.
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