Month Long Events
Cumberland County Goes to War
Tuesday January 1, 2013 - Tuesday December 31, 2013
Fayetteville Area Transportation and Local History Museum
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Visit the Fayetteville Area Transportation and Local History Museum to experience “Cumberland County Goes to War,” an exhibit commemorating the sesquicentennial anniversary of the American Civil War. This exhibit features artifacts, pictures, documents, and educational panels which explore Cumberland County’s war experience both on the battlefield as well as the sacrifices made on the home front.
Read MoreThe Photography of Lewis Hine: Exposing Child Labor in North Carolina, 1908 - 1918
Saturday August 31, 2013 - Sunday January 5, 2014
Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Forty images appear in, The Photography of Lewis Hine: Exposing Child Labor in North Carolina, 1908-1918. Peering from across a century, many of the children look much older than their actual years. Hine captured the harsh realities of their mill village lives in Cabarrus, Gaston, Lincoln, Rowan and other Tar Heel counties. His compelling photographs range from girls running warping machines in Gastonia to boys covered in lint after long hours as doffers and sweepers in a Hickory mill.
In 1908 the National Child Labor Committee hired photographer Lewis Hine to document the horrendous working conditions of young workers across the United States. That same year, he began visiting North Carolina’s textile mills, where about a quarter of all workers were under age 16. Some were as young as 6.
A Victorian Christmas
Tuesday November 26, 2013 - Sunday January 5, 2014
Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex
See description for details
Be sure to enhance your holiday season with a tour of the 1897 Poe House and its Victorian decorations. Decorated with a big tree in the parlor, long hallways and tall windows decked with greenery, and the splash of red berries from holly sprigs will give your Christmas spirit a boost. You’ll also come to know and appreciate how people from the 1900s celebrated the traditions that so many hold dear today.
Hours: Tuesday through Friday at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3; Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on the hour, and Sunday 1 - 4 p.m. on the hour.
Task Force Ranger and the Battle of Mogadishu
Friday October 11, 2013 - Saturday October 31, 2015
Airborne and Special Operations Museum (ASOM)
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and 12 - 5 p.m.
Visitors can walk through a mock up of a street in Mogadishu as they read information boards about the battle and actions taken by the US Army's units there. This temporary exhibit will have displays of donated items from the Soldiers involved in the battles that they used there as well as artifacts recently recovered from Mogadishu. A video will play explaining the missions in the words of the Soldiers involved from interviews with them.
Read MoreEnding This Month
Igneous Expressions
Thursday October 24, 2013 - Thursday December 12, 2013
David McCune International Art Gallery
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
David McCune International Art Gallery presents an exhibition of studio glass by twenty-six artists from western North Carolina. There will be an opening reception at 6:30 p.m. on October 24 showcasing more than 60 different pieces of glass art.
Read MoreUpcoming This Month
Haymount Lights
Monday December 9, 2013 - Wednesday January 1, 2014
Haymount Historic District
All Day
Come see the first annual Haymount Lights! Join us as we begin a magical Fayetteville family tradition celebrating the holiday season with a tour through the city's beautiful Haymount Historic District.
“Happenin in Haymount” is a local community based organization that was created for the coordination of community activity and to foster a stronger neighborhood identity through active partnership and social engagement.
Preschool Pals
Tuesday December 10, 2013
Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex
10 - 10:45 a.m.
Gather up your preschooler for a morning of fun at the Museum of the Cape Fear for the Preschool Pals program. Through games and activities, story or song, it is a fun and educational way to spend the morning with your youngsters.
The program is geared toward children ages 3 to 5 the second Tuesday of each month. Children are provided with all craft material and supplies. To ensure enough supplies are on hand, please call to register.
A Victorian Era Christmas in Fayetteville
Tuesday December 10, 2013 - Saturday January 4, 2014
Fayetteville Area Transportation and Local History Museum
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
This "Tiny Tim" sized exhibit highlights the history of some of our most beloved Christmas traditions and how Fayetteville celebrated the holidays in the late 19th century.
Read MoreTwelve Nights of Glowing
Wednesday December 11, 2013 - Sunday December 15, 2013
Cape Fear Botanical Garden
6 - 9 p.m.
Cape Fear Botanical Garden's present the annual Holiday Lights in the Garden, "12 Nights of Glowing."
Thousands of lights decorating plants, trees and structures while illuminating the landscape will showcase the Gardens winter beauty and delight the young and the young at heart! On select evenings, music will fill the air as choral and instrumental groups perform concerts. Come and embrace the outdoors while creating a new holiday tradition with family and friends.
Army Ground Forces Band
Thursday December 12, 2013
Crown Theater
7 p.m.
The US Army Forces Command presents The Army Ground Forces Band. They will perform a holiday concert series featuring the concert band, jazz band, rock band and more!
Read MoreGingerbread House Workshop
Thursday December 12, 2013
Fascinate-U Children's Museum
6 - 8 p.m.
Chef Sarah Bogan from the Whisking Apprentice will be conducting a fun and delicious class where kids will be constructing their own Gingerbread house to take home! All supplies will be included in the cost. The workshop is for children that are in 2nd Grade and up.
There will only be a maximum of 10 children so hurry up and make your reservations now!
Santa's Journey Around The World
Thursday December 12, 2013
1960 Coliseum Drive, The Crown Center Theatre
7 p.m.
Join us for our holiday concert series featuring the concert band, jazz band, rock band and more surprises with the Army Ground Forces Band!
A Christmas Carol
Friday December 13, 2013 - Sunday December 15, 2013
Gilbert Theater
8 p.m. and 2 p.m.
The classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, a hard-hearted miser visited by a series of spirits who take him through time and Victorian London to learn about humanity and the Christmas spirit. Season tickets are available for purchase if you just can't get enough of one show!
Read MoreThe SantaLand Diaries
Friday December 13, 2013 - Saturday December 14, 2013
Cape Fear Regional Theatre
9:30 p.m. (Dec. 13, 14) and 8:30 p.m. (Dec. 20, 21)
This year we also have a holiday treat for the adults. David Sedaris’ wickedly funny The Santaland Diaries will play for a limited time as a late night performance.
Sedaris’ account of his time working as a Macy’s Santaland elf is irreverent and hilarious, and this one man show will feature our very own Michael Thrash in a role he was born to play.
Christmas Lights at Denton Ridge
Friday December 13, 2013 - Sunday December 15, 2013
10501 Ramsey St, Linden, NC
6 - 9 p.m.
Christmas music fills the air and lights line the path as you ride a tram to a quaint village nestled on a ridge among oak & hickory trees adjoining the Lower Little River in Linden, NC. The first stop is a live nativity scene featuring the Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph, with live animals. Then on to the country store, where you can enjoy old-timey Christmas candy and bottled drinks.
Santa will be here every night in the primitive one-room school house. Bring cameras or cell phones for FREE pictures with Santa.
