Historical Sites Audio Tours :

• Tryon Palace (Click here for full tour)
  • Introduction
  • Palace First Floor
  • Palace Second Floor
  • Kitchen Office
  • Cloth Making and Spinning
  • Gardens and South Law
• Thomas Wolfe Memorial (Click here for full tour)
  • Introduction
  • First Floor
    • Entrance, Dining Rooms
    • Kitchen, Julia Wolfe’s Bedroom, Back Porch
    • Downstairs Bedrooms, Sunroom, Parlors
  • Second Floor
    • Stairs, Sleeping Porch, First Bedroom
    • Hallway Bedroom, Ben’s Room
    • Second Hallway, Bedroom Four, Sleeping Porch
    • Tom’s Writing Room and End of Tour
  • The Fire
  • The Angel of “Look Homeward Angel”

Lectures:

• Dr.Billy Oliver -- Cultural Resources archaeologist Dr. Billy Oliver speaks to a gathering of mystery writers about the field of forensic archaeology.
• Museum Talk -- N.C. Museum of Art Curator Dennis P. Weller discusses the exhibition “Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt’s Etchings.”
• 13th Amendment -- Dr. Jeffrey Crow discusses the importance of the 13^th Amendment to the Constitution.
• J. Walker Smith -- Dr. J. Walker Smith of Yankelovich, Inc., discusses the changing marketplace in the cultural world.