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: Thursday. November 19, 1981 I Statewide Christmas Celebrations Set For Historic Sites By Glenn Mays , N. C. Travel Editor The Christmas season is a time for celebration, joy, merriment, music, tradition, hospitality and sharing. As the season approaches, North Carolina again is preparing to share some special traditional cel ebrations with visitors. Attractions in at least 15 cities, towns and com munities will be welcoming thousands of visitors to special programs during the season. From Bath, North Carolina’s oldest town, to Biltmore House, the largest private residence in the world, to McAdenville, which lights up as Christ mastown, U.S.A., Christmas will be a special time for visitors. More than 20 Christmas Carolina Christmas W|E£ $? 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In Chapel Hill the Horace Williams House will be decorated in Victorian fashion for a December 19- 20 event, featuring period costumes and a doll and doll house presentation. Other homes in Chapel Hill will be part of a candlelight house tour December 12-13. At Morehead Planetarium on the campus of the University of North Carolina, the annual presentation of “Star of Bethlehem” will be presented November 16 - January 8. The traditional pageant of the first Christmas is accompanied by a look at astronomical possibilities in the annual search for the Christmas star. Youngsters, 12 and under, will bring their own hand made ornaments tq a Christmas tree trimming party December 5 in the Gaston County town of Dallas. Eighteen homes in Historic Edenton will be featured on candlelight tours December 18-20. On December 7, the sixth an nual “Wassail Bowl Celebration” will be ob served in the historic Iredell House. That event includes caroling and . other traditional music of the season. Six homes in the historic district of Fayetteville will be part of a candlelight tour including special flower arrangements December 6- 7. The first music written in the colonies for Christmas will be part of a celebration at the Schiele Museum of Student Teachers Continued From Page 1-B from 48 counties in North Carolina and six other states. Among the practice teachers is Mary Jill Copeland, Route 1, Edenton, who is assigned to D. H. Conley High School in Greenville where she is teaching health. Dr. Thomas A. Chambliss, director of student teaching, said each practice teacher will conduct regular classes under the direction of a supervisor and will receive a grade for performance. THE CHOWAN HERALD Natural History in Gastonia. The Hearthside Yule and Colonial Candlelight Service at the museum’s 1754 pioneer site on December 20 re-enacts a frontier set tlement’s preparation for Christmas. At dusk the celebration includes a candlelight procession through the forest led by a town crier and pioneer families. The procession is climaxed with the “burning of the green,” a giant holly wreath that’s 50 feet wide. The museum’s planetarium will feature “The Star of Bethlehem” on December 5,6,12,19 and 20, which explores the astronomical events surrounding the birth of Christ. Handmade ornaments will adorn a Christmas tree at the High Point Museum and Historical Park. There will be special tours December 3 of the restored 18th Century Haley House with its traditional decorations and the blacksmith shop and weaving house where crafts will be demonstrated. What began in 1957 as a Christmas project of the McAdenville Men’s Club turns that town, population 948, into “Christmas Town, U.S.A.” Each Christmas Edenton Upholstering and Antiques Quality Workmanship Come In And Browse.... We Buy And Sell tlartfo and Miklos Barath Queen Street Extended U.S. Highway 17 South 482-4844 season more than a million people drive through the lit tle town featuring more than 275 decorated trees and 300,000 lights. The display is highlighted in the center of town with a lighted fountain in the middle of a lake surrounded by Christmas trees. The lights burn December 4-27. In New Bern, Try on Palace will be resplendent in traditional decor December 12-23 as fresh fruits, Christmas trees, ginger cookies and garlands highlight the palace and grounds. Candlelight tours of the palace and five ac companying houses will be conducted December 12, 13, 15 and 17 when costumed hostesses, carolers and harpsichords will greet guests. In Raleigh the Governor’s Mansion will open for Christmas tours December 14, 15, 19 and 20. Nearby Historic Oakwood will ob serve its 10th annual can dlelight tour December 19- 20. Also in Raleigh the second annual madrigal dinner will be offered December 1-6 on the campus of N. C. State University. The event will celebrate Christmas in the Elizabethan tradition with music, jugglers, fencers and an Elizabethan pageant. It also will include dinner dishes such as cornish hen and cheese soup. Chinqua-Penn Plantation House near Reidsville will be decorated in the Christmas tradition of the Thomas Jefferson Penn family December 2-20. Poinsettias and other Christmas flowers grown on the plantation will highlight the decorations. A December 13 concert of Christmas music played on harpsichord and cello will be featured in Tarboro’s first annual candlelight tour. Five homes will be on the tour which will include wassail. Wilmington’s Latimer House will observe its an nual Wassail Bowl celebration December 11. On December 12-13, the warmth and charm of historic Wilmington are accented during the annual candlelight tour of the city. A Salem Christmas will be celebrated December 15 as the sights and smells of the Moravian congregation town of Old Salem are highlighted. Moravian bands play Christmas music from the 18th century as a night watchman blows a 4 FISH MARKET phone > ET CETERA 4822(K,t s A II You Can Eatl | ''Friday Night Special Fried Shrimp r< Choice of Vegetable • Tossed Salad | 5 95 9 Sunday Buffet j Enjoy Three Entrees, Vegetable & Potato 'tf (Areas Best After Church Bargain) 4 NO CHARGE FOR SECONDS O SALAD BAR INCLUDED ■vJ (Twenty-Five Os Your Favorite Items) K FREE COFFEE & TEA _ Vv ■rrrtZZ'- conch shell and calls the hours. The restored area of Old Salem will be decorated in traditional Moravian style December 8-20. Open house will be observed at the Museum of Earl Southern Decorative Arts in Old Salem December 19-20 when the 15 galleries will feature traditional decorations, customs and food. On December 13 the Piedmont Chamber Singers will present two Christmas Candlelight Concerts at Historic Bethabara in the 1788 Moravian Church. Preceding the concerts will be a walking candlelight tour of Bethabara’s restored buildings. The Piedmont Chamber Singers also will perform December 4-5 at the annual Madrigal Dinner Christmas Show in Reynolda Hall on the Wake Forest University campus. The Mozart Club and members of the Winston- Salem Symphony Orchestra will present a Messiah Concert December 6 at Reynolds Auditorium in Continued On Page 11-B Page 7-B Tax Credit *. Noted An employer may now claim the TJTC for a full two-year period on wages paid or incurred to any targeted employee who begins working for the employer before January 1983. For an employer to claim the tax credit, the wages must be paid or incurred to an employee who is certified as a member of a trageted group by a designated local agency. Generally, the Employment Security Commission makes those certifications in North Carolina. In the case of a student in a qualified cooperative education program, the school ad ministering the program issues the certification. For additional in formation concerning eligibility for the TJTC under the new law, an employer should contact the local ESC office or the Teacher-Coordinator for Cooperative Education Programs at the local school or call the IRS toll-free at 1- 800-822-8800.
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