N.C. Department of Cultural Resources

Gennifer L. “Genn” Reiter, an award-winning park ranger in South Carolina, has been selected as the new Director of Fort Dobbs State Historic Site in Statesville, N.C.

Cultural Resources and archaeologists will be on hand Saturday in Cary, in connection with the “Pirates!” musical program planned by the N.C. Symphony, to show artifacts from Blackbeard’s shipwreck, the Queen Anne’s Revenge.

To commemorate the courage of equal rights protesters in 1963, a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker will be dedicated in Williamston on Sunday, July 10, at Green Memorial Church.

Nearly 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 family Bible records in the State Archives collections are now accessible online , and the documents represent all but four of North Carolina's counties.

The N.C. State Capitol is now a "Blue Star" site, offering free admission and a special gift to all active duty military personnel and their families through Labor Day 2011.

From all over the world, a tide of more than 12,000 fans swept through the North Carolina Maritime Museum doors in just seven days to experience the new “Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge 1718” exhibit in Beaufort .

The statewide traveling photo exhibit "Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory," commemorating the Civil War 's 150th anniversary, is in the King Public Library from July 2-29 and the Harnett County Public Library in Lillington from July 5-29.

The State Archives and State Library will reduce Saturday hours to 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Archives and History-State Library Building in Raleigh, effective July 9, in response to state budget restrictions.

“Farming Dissenters: The Regulator Movement in Piedmont North Carolina,” by Dr. Carole W. Troxler, focuses on settlers dissatisfied with local government who risked activism that has often been cited as a prelude to the American Revolution.

The N.C. Transportation Museum, a state historic site, will transition to a self-funded operation beginning July 1, 2011, as directed in the state budget adopted this week by the General Assembly.