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'Family $1 Friday' at SciWorks
Sci Works will hold its final "Family $1
Friday" on the summer on Aug. 8th from 4 - 8 p.m.
Admission will be $1 per person (age 2 and up);
children under age 2 are free.
The current temporary exhibit is "Color Play."
The museum also has an array of other attractions.
Visitors are invited to bring a picnic supper and
enjoy a casual evening out with family and
friends.
SciWorks is a 65,000 square feet facility locat
ed on 30 acres. Its mission is to promote scientif
ic literacy, life-long learning, and an appreciation
of the sciences by providing innovative education
al and recreational experiences for all people
through interactive programs and exhibits, collec
tions, an environmental park and unique facilities.
It is located off University Parkway or
Highway 52 on Hanes Mill Road. Go to
www.sciworks.org or call 336-767-6730 for more
information.
Old Salem receives grant
Old Salem Museums & Gardens has been
approved for a $200,000 grant from the BB&T
Charitable Foundation.
The gift will be applied to Old Salem's $3.1
million fundraising drive to renovate a 10,000
square-foot center, the Old Salem Education
Center, at 901 South Marshall Street. According
to Michelle Speas, vice president for Development
and External Relations, Old Salem has secured
$2,202,800 toward the $3.1 million goal.
When renovated, the Old Salem Education
Center will comfortably accommodate the 50,000
school children who visit Old Salem each year,
including teachers tour groups and families. It
will house orientation, assembly, dining and learn
ing space for schools and tour groups. The space
will also become the site of the planned N.C.
History Teachers' Summer Institute.
Professor Nwankwo features
his own poetry in Nigeria
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Dr. Chimalum Nwankwo,
chair of the department of
English at North Carolina
A&T State University, was a
special guest of the
Christopher Okigbo Poetry
Society in the Nigerian capi
tal of Abuja.
He gave a reading from
his poetry books and took
questions from the audience.
Nwankwo He a*so 8ave a talk at the
University of Nigeria on
June 15 about "Myths and Folktales in African
Literature."
McCain ad attacked by
mother of Paris Hilton
WASHINGTON (AP) - Paris Hilton's mother
doesn't share John McCain's sense of humor.
McCain, the Republican presidential candidate,
said last week that his campaign ad mocking
Democrat Barack Obama with images of Hilton and
singer Britney Spears was part of an attempt to
inject humor into the presidential race.
On Sunday, Hilton's mother, Kathy Hilton, a
McCain donor, registered her disapproval.
"It is a complete waste of the country's time and
attention at the very moment when millions of peo
ple are losing their homes and their jobs," Kathy
Hilton said in a short article posted on the liberal
Huffington Post Web site. "And it is a completely
frivolous way to choose the next president of the
United States."
The ad plays on Obama's popularity by dismiss
ing him as a mere celebrity, like Hilton and Spears.
The Obama campaign has said the ad is proof that
McCain would rather launch negative attacks than
debate important issues.
Kathy Hilton and her husband donated a total of
$4,600 to McCain's campaign earlier this year.
Wake's Wilson to appear on
UNC-TV to promote sadness
In his book "Against Happiness," Eric G.
Wilson argues that melancholia is necessary to any
thriving culture, and that it is the muse of great lit
erature, painting, music and
innovation.
In an all-new episode of
UNC-TV's local literary
series, "North Carolina
Bookwatcl^' with D.G.
Martin, premiering Friday,
August 8, at 9:30 p.m.,
Wilson, chair of Wake Forest
University's English
Department, will share what
Publisher's Weekly calls, Wilson
"sure-to-be controversial
alternative to the recent cottage industry of high
brow happiness books."
Wilson is Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of
English at Wake Forest, and the author of five
books on the relationship between literature and
psychology. An encore episode of the show will air
on Sunday, Aug. 10 at 5 p.m.
Lecture
series is
sold out
Record number of
season passes sold for
Guilford College talks
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Looking to grab tickets for the upcom
ing season of the Guilford College's Bryan
Series?
You may have to look even harder, and
cross your fingers as well.
The school announced last week that
the 2008-09 series of lectures by promi
nent speakers have sold out. There is a
chance that'
some tickets
will become
available two
weeks before
each lecture,
but that is
only if ticket
subscribers
are unable to
attend and
return their
tickets.
The series
will feature
author Khaled
Hosseini on
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CNN's
Christiane Amanpour and her husband,
James Rubin, on Nov. 18; controversial
author Salman Rushdie on Feb. 10, 2009
and author Anna Quindlen on April 14,
2009. NBC's Tim Russert, who died
recently, had been scheduled to giye the
November lecture.
All seats in the 2,400-seat War
Memorial Auditorium in Greensboro are
gone for the series. The upcoming series
sold a record 1,853 season passes for all
four events.
"We are very excited about the
unprecedented response to our season pass
campaign that resulted in a season sellout
nearly three months before the first
event," said Ty Buckner, senior director of
communications and marketing.
The first speaker, Hosseini, is an
Afghanistan-born writer of bestsellers
such as "The Kite Runner" and *kA
Thousand Splendid Suns." Trained as a
physician, Hosseini is now a citizen of the
United States and lives in California.
Guilford College says season pass tick
ets will be mailed to subscribers in
September. Guilford will distribute tickets
to its students and employees three weeks
prior to each event.
Subscribers who cannot attend a par
ticular event are being encouraged to
return their tickets to the college as a tax
deductible, non-cash gift. Unused tickets
from subscribers or the college, if any,
will be placed on saje to the public
approximately two weeks prior to each
event. Single-event sales will be handled
by the Greensboro Coliseum Advance Box
Office and Ticketmaster.
For questions about the series, call
336-316-2,308 or visit
http://www.guilford.edu/bryanseries.
Photo by Jaesoa Pin
Artist Leo Rucker is well-known for his work.
Artist to join bluesman
for unique music event
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
What happens when a noted portrait artist
joins forces with a rockin' blues band? Magic.
Winston-Salem Artist Leo Rucker - well
known for his ftiurals and colorful portraits of
local icons like Big House Gaines - will "paint
the blues" on Thursday, Aug. 14 as he creates
one of his masterpieces as the Steady Rollin'
Bob Margolin Blues Band plays.
The event will take place in Salisbury from
8-11 p.m. under the auspices of the Rowan
(County) Blues & Jazz Society. The concert/ art
demonstration is the first of the Society's
Sneak- A-Peek Preview Concerts.
Margolin gained international attention for
his apperance in the documentary, "The Last
Waltz." In the film 1970s film, he played along
side Muddy Waters and The Band. Margolin
also writes a column for "Blues Revue" maga
zine.
Rucker led a group of young artists in the
creation of the murals that decorate the columns
at the Clark Campbell Transportation Center.
The artists also created the qjural in the lobby of
the Winston Lake Family YMCA. Rucker is
getting much more
public exposure
these days. His stu
dio is located along a
heavily-traveled
stretch of Fourth
Street downtown.
Pedestrians often
stop and watch
Rucker in action.
The concert and
art show will take
place at EastSquare
ArtWorks, 120 E.
Bob Margolin jnnes St., in
Salisbury. Tickets
are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. For tick
ets, go to rbjs@carolina.rr.com or call 704
636-2811.
A&T's Wickham featured in Ebony
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The Institute for Advanced Journalism
Studies at N.C. A&T State University is
making national news again for its col
laborative work with the University of
Pennsylvania and a published report on
the Kerner Commission Report, 40 years
later.
IFAJS Director DeWayne Wickham,
who is also a columnist for USA Today
and the Gannett News Service, has an arti
cle in EBONY Magazine, August 2008
issue, where he discusses the findings
from Kerner Plus 40 Report , he and a
team of journalists worked on and
released in February 2008.
Wickham and Dr. Tukufu Zuberi,
director of the Center for Africana Studies
at the University of Pennsylvania, co-edit
ed Kerner Plus 40 Report, which exam
ines America, 40 years after the 1968
Kerner Commission Report. The project
included extensive reporting in major
American cities by a journalists. The book
is comprised of stories that show America
is still two nations, separate and unequal.
A*T Photo
DeWayne Wickham is best known for his column in
USA Today.
Borders book drive benefits food bank, youths
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Second Harvest Food Bank of
Northwest NC regularly provides
food for tens of thousands of peo
ple, but the agency also wants to
give food for thought to its
youngest clients. This month,
book giant Borders is helping the
agency provide books to children
whom the food bank serves.
Borders customers are being
asked to donate new children and
young adult books to benefit the
program. Borders - and Borders
owned Waldenbooks - have set
up special in-store displays fea
turing books ideal for the food
bank campaign.
Custpmers can simply pick
books from the book drive dis
play, take them to the registers
and let the cashier know that they
would like to donate them.
Customers are also welcome to
choose their favorite age appro
priate children or young adult
book and donate that as well.
Borders and Waldenbooks will
then give the books to the Second
Harvest Food Bank of Northwest
NC. The book drive is set to end
Photo by LmzIo Regon
Both Borders and Waldenbooks will take part in the promotion.
Sept. 1.
In addition to offering its
store as a gathering place for cus
tomer donations. Borders and
Waldenbooks in the Greensboro
and Winston-Salem areas will
donate five percent of its total
sales from the purchase of the
books donated by its customers
between Aug. 1 and Sept. 1 to the
Second Harvest Food Bank of
Northwest NC.
"We are very excited to work
with the Second Harvest Food
Bank of Northwest NC for this
book drive," said Joost Verkerk,
district manager for Borders and
Waldenbooks. "Literacy is a
cause near and dear to us and as a
bookstore, we embrace our role
as a contributing member of the
community. We believe that
every child in need should expe
rience the joy of owning their
own book, to aid in the develop
ment of their imagination and
open up new worlds for them."
The Winston-Salem Borders
in located in Thruway Shopping
Center. There is a Waldenbooks
in Hanes Mall.