Topic “Historic”

The  26th annual Hillsborough Candlelight  Home Tour is Sunday, December 2 from Noon –  6  pm.  The tour showcases numerous residences including historic colonial homes, restored mill homes and others “West of Churton Street”, the main North-South thoroughfare through town.

Join the Burwell School Historic Site on Saturday December 1, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. for cider, cocoa, children’s activities and crafts provided by Ebenezer Baptist Church before the Annual Hillsborough Holiday Parade.

Set your chairs and blankets on the front lawn of our historic site and watch marching bands, floats and the cheery old man from way up north as the parade route passes the Burwell School.

The Burwell School Historic Site will be displaying a festive collection of artwork during the 2012 Holiday season. On loan from Hillsborough resident Nancy Campbell, the collection consists of various paintings featuring a most beloved character: Santa Claus. Painted every year by Nancy’s father Philip G. Metz as a family Christmas present, he completed many unique Santa paintings to create an impressive Holiday collection.                   

Guided walking tours will depart from the Alexander Dickson House (150 E. King Street - next to the Post Office!) at 10am and 2pm.  Come enjoy a 90-minute walking tour of Hillsborough's historic district.  The cost is $5 ages 12+.  For more information please call the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough at 919-732-7741

Tickets for the 4^thAnnual “Home for the Holidays” are now on sale at the Orange County Historical Museum.  One of the “Five Must-Do Events for Fall 2012,” as noted in Chapel Hill magazine, this evening of popular storytelling brings together some of North Carolina’s most renowned writers sharing favorite holiday stories. 

Mark your calendars for a multi-author reading of 27 Views of Durham:The Bull City in Prose & Poetry on Wednesday, November 14th, 7PM at the Burwell School Historic Site. 

Contributing authors Jean Anderson, Margaret Rich and others will read their works from the new book all inspired by the beautiful city of Durham, North Carolina.

Join the Burwell School Historic Site and St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church for the 11^th year ofAllan Gurganus’ and Michael Malone’s performance of Charles Dickens' timeless Victorian tale, "A Christmas Carol!"

Two performances of this exciting Hillsborough holiday tradition will be held on Thursday,December 13 and Friday, December 14, at 7:30pm. Both performances will be at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, 210 St. Mary's Rd., Hillsborough.

Join the Burwell School Historic Site and St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church for the 11^th year ofAllan Gurganus’ and Michael Malone’s performance of Charles Dickens' timeless Victorian tale, "A Christmas Carol!"

Two performances of this exciting Hillsborough holiday tradition will be held on Thursday, December 13 and Friday, December 14, at 7:30pm. Both performances will be at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, 210 St. Mary's Rd., Hillsborough.

Guided walking tours will depart from the Alexander Dickson House (150 E. King Street - next to the Post Office!) at 10am and 2pm.  Come enjoy a 90-minute walking tour of Hilslborough's historic district.  The cost is $5 ages 12+.  For more information please call the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough at 919-732-7741.

The Orange County Main Library will host North Carolina Humanities Council Road Scholar, lecturer and musician Billy Stevens as he presents "Sincere Forms of Flattery: Blacks, Whites, and American Popular Music."  Come learn how historic interactions between African Americans and European Americans shaped the volution of American popular music, with its roots in slavery and the fusion of musical traditions brought from both Africa and Europe.  Everyone is invited to the Main Library for this free, public event.