Thursday. March 4. 1982
Special Events Set For March
March will be a busy
month in North Carolina as.
far as festivals, concerts
and other special events are
concerned.
College basketball
tournaments, golf and auto
racing will be among the
major events of the month.
The Atlantic Coast Con
ference Basketball Tour
namnet taps off in Green
sboro’s Coliseum March 5
with the finals scheduled for
March 7.
The Mid Eastern Athletic
Conference Tournament
takes place March 4-8 down
the road in the Winston-
Salem Coliseum.
As for other major sports
events, the Tournament
Players Association makes
its annual stop at the
Greater Greensboro Open
on the Forest Oaks Country
Club March 30-April 4 with
some of the world’s leading
golfers competing in the
event. This year’s event will
feature two celebrity pro
am tournaments instead of
the usual one.
The fifth annual Spring
Sprints, a series of short
auto races for both amateur
and professional drivers,
1 will be run over the
Charlotte Motor Speedway’s
2.25 mile asphalt road
course corpora ting the 1.5
mile high banked oval track
along with a serpentine
course on the track infield.
Civil War history comes to
life in March at Bentonville
Battleground, scene of a
tactical demonstration of
Civil War warfare. More
than 300 Union and Con
federate soldiers will par
ticipate in the event on the
battlefield in Johnston
County.
March too will see
Caro winds near Charlotte
begin a new season March
20. This year the park will
feature a new ride - the Rip
1 Roarin’ Rapids. The park
will be open on weekends
only until June 5 when
fulltime operations begin.
Festivals will span the
state in March too. On
March 13 the 300-year-old
legend of “Old Quawk’’ will
be celebrated in Carteret
County. The observance
celebrates the legend of a
grumpy and stubborn
shipwrecked mariner to
shake off the gloom of
winter and to welcome
spring and the opening of
the fishing season.
Charlotte celebrates St.
Patrick’s Day March 7 with
its traditional parade down
Tryon Street. Also in
Charlotte on March 19-21
ham radio enthusiasts will
gather at the Civic Center
for the Charlotte Hamfest.
The Raleigh Civic Center
will be the scene of the N. C.
Sports Exposition March 25-
28 featuring sports clinics,
guns, fishing, outdoor
recreation, boats and other
activities.
Louisburg College’s 12th
annual Folk Festival is set
for March 26-27 on the
college campus. Coupled
with that event will be the
18th annual Franklin County
and Louisburg College Art
Show which will run March
26-April 8.
The Capitol Area Gem and
Mineral Show March 26-28
at the State Fairgrounds in
Raleigh will being together
rockhounds from several
states.
The 42nd annual Old Time
Fiddlers and Bluegrass
Convention will be staged
March 27 by the Mooresville
Lions Club at the Roland R.
Morgan Auditorium in
Mooresville.
About 50 young women
from all over North Carolina
will compete in ths Miss
North Carolina • U.S.A.
Pageant in Winston-Salem
March 5-6 in Reynolds
Auditorium.
The beauty and adventure
of the underwater world
comes to life March 12-14 in
Raleigh in the second an
nual Southeastern Atlantic
States Underwater Con
ference and Film Festival.
Noted scuba diver Stan
Waterman will highlight the
event which is scheduled for
Holiday Inn North, Sheraton
Higbwoods and Enloe High
School Auditorium.
Plenty of music, art and
dance will be evident across
the state in March.
The Ciompi String Quartet
performs at Duke
University March 1. Hie
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Canadian Brass will present
a concert March 10 in the
High Point Theater and
Exhibition Center. Duke
University’s Chorale offers
its spring concert March 16
while the Duke Symphony
Orchestra performs March
23 on the Durham Campus.
Duke’s Music Department
presents “St. John Passion”
March 28 in Duke Chapel
and the Duke Wind En
semble’s Spring Concert is
set for March 30.
The North Carolina Dance
Theater performs across the
state during the month.
March 1-2 the dancers will
perform in Wilmington at
UNC-W, March 6 in
Charlotte’s Ovens
Auditorium, March 9 at
South Stokes High School in
Walnut Cove, March 11 at
Wake Forest University in
Winston-Salem and March
25 at the Caswell County
Civic Center in Yanceyville.
The American Camellia
Society and the Men’s
Camellia Club of Charlotte
will sponsor a flower show
March 4-6 at Charlotte’s
Eastland Mall. The Moore
County Hunter Trials are set
for March 6 in Southern
Pines.
March too will be for cats.
They will come from all
over the United States for
the annual Triad Tar Paws
Cat Show in Jamestown’s
City Lake Gym March 13-14.
The Men’s Piedmont
Camellia Club presents its
24th annual show March 13-
14 at Greensboro’s Four
Season’s Mall. In Cary on
March 7 the annual Cary
Road Race will feature a
10,000 meter event and a
one-mile fun run.
The 25th annual Antiques
Fair is set for March 19-20 in
Southern Pines at the
National Guard Armory.
Chapman’s Antique Show is
scheduled March 19-21 in the
Benton Convention Center in
Winston-Salem.
The Kinston-Lenoir
County Creative Arts and
Crafts Show will be March
20 in Fairfield Community
Center. A custom car
show will be staged at
Raleigh’s Civic Center
March 20-21 and a Spring
Craft Show is set for March
27-28 at the Cleveland
County Fairgrounds in
Shelby.
Stage productions will
include “Finian’s Rainbow”
March 4-13 in the College
Community Center in
Salisbury sponsored by the
United Arts Council;
“Evening of One-Acts” by
the Montford Park Players
in Asheville March 12-14,
“Frankenstein” by the
North Carolina Playmakers
in Chapel Hill March 13-
April 1; “Whose Life Is It
Anyway” by the Winston-
Salem Little Theater March
19-21; and “Mad Woman of
Chaillot” at the College-
Community Center in
Salisbury March 30-April 3.
There will be other music
too. Michael Ponti performs
in Salisbury March 14; the
Greensboro Symphony
Orchestra plays March 23 in
Greensboro; Jack Daniels
Silver Cornet Band appears
at High Point Theater and
Convention Center March
25; the Ciompi Quarter
plays at Duke University
March 27; the Salisbury-
Rowan Symphony Or
chestral Choral Concert is
scheduled March 28 in
Salisbury; the Winston-
Salem Symphony presents
its opos concert March 28 in
Reynolds Auditorium in
Winston-Salem; Bill Gaither
Trio Gospel Concert is set
for March 30 in Winston-
Salem; 1000 Years of Jazz
will be performed March 31
in the High Point Theater
and Exhibition Center.
A children’s theater
festival will feature
musicians, mime, puppets
and a host of other activities
for youngsters in Tryon
March 20. The Southern
Living Show continues
through March 7 at the
Charlotte Merchandise
Mart.
Blandwood, the restored
19th century home of N. C.
Governor John Motley
Morehead, will observe its
spring open house March 31-
April 3 in Greensboro. And
in Beaufort, Hampton
Mariner’s Museum will
sponsor a birding field trip
March 16.
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