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How To Preserve Your History: New Podcast
For more information contact Joe Newberry at 919-807-7391.
RALEIGH – Experts from the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources share tips on how to preserve your history in a new podcast at www.ncculture.com. Topics cover family memories to archaeological finds to clothing and textiles.
In honor of Archives Week October 23-29, Sarah Koonts, the head of the Collections Management Branch of the North Carolina State Archives, shares tips on care and handling of family papers and photos.
The remaining segments of the podcast also highlight the rich history of the state:
- Fay Mitchell Henderson speaks with archaeologist Mark Wilde-Ramsey and historian Dr. Jeffrey Crow about some of the items being recovered at the site of the presumed wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship the Queen Anne’s Revenge.
- Susan Lamb calls on Louise Benner, N.C. Museum of History curator of costume and textiles, to talk about the museum’s exhibit “What We Wore in North Carolina.” The exhibit will be presented in two rotations. The first selections will be on view until Feb. 19, 2007. The exhibit will reopen March 13, 2007 and will close Oct. 7, 2007.
The podcast closes with a piece performed by N.C. Symphony Harpist Anita Burroughs-Price.
NCCulture.com provides visitors directions on how to retrieve DCR podcasts, which broadcast interviews, up-to-date events information, plus traveler guides to historic sites and museums. Future podcasts also will offer virtual behind-the-scenes tours of DCR archive collections, museum exhibits, libraries and historic sites.
The word podcast is a combination of “broadcasting” and “iPod,” a popular brand of MP3 player. Audio files in a podcast go directly to users’ computers, to then transfer to an MP3 or other audio player software. Cultural Resources launched its podcast service, which contains free, downloadable audio files containing news and information about North Carolina’s performing arts, literature and history, in 2005. The podcasts are available 24/7. For more information, visit www.ncculture.com, or call (919) 807-7385.
A researcher inspects an anchor at the presumed wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Courtesy N.C. Department of Cultural Resources.
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