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“GOLD”, or L’or in French, is an exciting
exhibition from France that premieres at
Discovery Place May 28, 1988, and runs
through September 5, 1988.
This glittering exhibit will allow you to
follow the trail of our most precious metal
from its point of discovery to the shining
metal’s industrial, artistic and economic
applications. Valued at more than SI million,
“GOLD” is touring selected science museums
across the country. Discovery Place is the
only museum in the southeast to host this
fascinating display.
Discovery Place
301 North Tryon
Street, between 6th
and 7th Streets, in
uptown Charlotte.
Easy access from 1-77
and 1-85
HOURS
Weekdays 9-5 (Sept-
May)
9-6 (June-
Aug)
Saturdays 9-6
Sundays 1-6
For more information
on “GOLD” and our
many other programs,
activities and exhibits,
call 704-372-6261. To
schedule group visits
of 15 or more, call
704-372-0471.
ADMISSION
Members Free
Adults (19-59) .$3.00
Students (6-18) $2.00
Senior Citizens
(60 + ) $2.00
Children
(3-5 w/parent). $1.00
Children
(under 3 w/parent)
Free
During your visit to “GOLD”, try your luck
panning for gold in a running-sluice salted
with 11,000 worth of gold flakes or get a
close-up look as operators melt a $16,000
gold ingot and re-pour the bright, yellow
liquid. Yes, you can even hold the ingot once
it cools. A rare collection of gold coins, minted
more than 100 years ago right here in Charlotte,
enhance this once in a lifetime experience.
By Mike Blanton
Events Writer
CHARLOTTE-—One ounce of
this precious metal can be ham
mered Into a sheet so thin that It
covers 100 square feet, or It can
be stretched Into a wire nearly
50 miles long. North Carolina
was the first documented site In
the United States to produce
what is now one of the most val
uable substances on Earth—-
GOLD!
"GOLD", a spectacular traveling
exhibit from France, opens at
Discovery place on May 28,
1988, and ^11 be open through
September
5, 1988. This glittering exhibit,
valued at more, than $1 million,
will allow visitors to follow the
trail of our most precious metal
from Its point of discovery to its
present Industrial, artistic and
economic applications.
Visitors to the "GOLD" exhibit
can try their luck panning in a
running sluice salted with
$1,000 worth of gold flakes or
get a close-up look as operators
melt and re-pour a $16,000 gold
Ingot. Many shimmering sam
ples of gold's breathtaking
beauty are included In this exhi
bition.
How is gold formed In the
Earth's crust? Where Is it
found? How Is gold recovered?
All these answers and more can
be found during a visit to "GOLD"
at Discovery Place.
An added attraction to the
"GOLD" exhibit is a rare collec
tion of gold coins that were
minted at the Charlotte Mint
more than 100 years ago. A dis
play of gold nuggets valued at
more than $30,000 has been
losmed to Discovery Place by the
Norwest Bank in Helena, Monta
na, for the duration of the exhib
it.
In an effort to highlight the Im
portant role of gold in the Caro-
llnas. Discovery Place and the
Reed Gold Mine have combined
efforts to emphasize the Impor
tance of gold to the area's devel
opment. At the height of North
Carolina's gold production,
there were more than 200 work
ing mines scattered throughout
the state. Much of uptown Char
lotte's business district Is locat
ed on top of abandoned mine
shafts. To this day, gold nug
gets found In Cabarrus County
streams are considered to be
among the purest In the country.
Authorities at Reed say they are
98 percent pure compared to an
average of 92 percent purity for
nuggets found in California.
The first documented discov
ery of gold In the United States
occurred in 1799 when John
Reed's 12 year old son, Conrad,
found a 17-pound nugget while
playing in Little Meadow Creek
on the family farm near Con
cord, N,C. Neither young Reed
nor his father realized the sig
nificance of the find so the nug
get was used as a door stop
for several years at the Reed
home. John Reed eventually
sold the nugget to a jeweler In
Fayetteville, N.C., for $3.50. Its
actual cash value at that time
was approximately $3,600. Reed
Gold Mine is now a state historic
site which is open to the public.
"GOLD" is being brought to
Discovery Place by WSOC-TV,
Channel 9, Brownlee Jewelers,
Inc., Piedmont Mining Company,
Inc., and the Ceramic and Gold
Dental Laboratory. "GOLD" is be
ing sponsored in the United
States by the Science Museum
Exhibit Collaborative. Other
museums scheduled to host the
exhibit include COSI, Ohio's
Center of Science and Industry,
the Franklin Institute (Philadel
phia), Museum of Science (Bos
ton), Museum of Science and
History (Fort Worth), Pacific
Science Center (Seattle), Oregon
Museum of Science and Industry
(Portland), Science Museum of
Minnesota (St. Paul), Orlando
Science Center (Orlando, FL),
California Museum of Science
and Industry (Los Angeles), and
the Museum of Science and In
dustry (Chicago).
Discovery Place, one of the top
ten science and technology mu
seums In the nation, is located
at 301 North Tryon Street in up
town Charlotte. The museum is
open Monday-Saturday from 9-
6, and Sunday from 1-6. Admis
sion is $3 for adults, $2 for stu
dents and senior citizens, $1 for
children 3-5 with parent, and
children under 3 with parent are
free. Museum members are free.
For more fnformation on the
exciting "GOLD" exhibit or other
programs, workshops and ex
hibits at Discovery Place, call
704-372-6261 during weekday
hours. To schedule group visits
of 15 or more people, cil 704-
372-0471.
HAMPTON/from 1B
Dionne Warwick's eighth Eilbum
for Arista Records.
The 1979 album sold well over
a million copies and enabled
Dionne to become the first wom
an to win simultaneous Grammy
Awards in both Pop and R&B
categories. Then came "No Night
So Long, Hot! Live and Other
wise," (a live LP) and "Friends in
Love" (featuring her first duet
with Johnny Mathis on the title
hit).
In 1983, she celebrated the
20th anniversary of her first
chart hit, and that career mile
stone coincided with the release
of an album, 'Heartbreaker", that
became' a musical sensation.
Produced by Barry Gibb, Karl
Richardson and AIbhy Galuten,
the LP sold millions of copies
around the world and topped the
charts in Great Britain, the
Netherlands, Germany, Canada,
Australia and the United States,
The title song was a smash sin
gle; and the follow-up 'Take The
Short Way Home", became the
50th single to make the charts.
In 1983, Arista released "How
Many Times Can We Say Good
bye", produced by Luther Van-
dross and in early 1985, "Finder
of Lost Loves", the album was
produced by Barry Manllow, the
song was written and produced
by Burt Bacharach and Carole
Bayer Sager.
Bom Dionne Marie Warwick,
the singer grew up in a gospel
family: her mother was a man
ager of the famous Drinkard
Singers, a church choir group
that gave Dionne her first musi
cal experience as organ accom
panist and occasional vocalist.
Together with her sister and her
cousin, Dionne went on to form
her own trio. The Gospelalres,
while stud3dng under a scholar
ship at the Hartt College of Mu
sic. Doing background singing
in New York City, she caught the
ear of then fledgling composer
Burt Bacharach in 1960, on a
session for the Drifter's song
titled "Mexican Divorce", written
by Bob Hilliard and Burt Bacha
rach. As Bacharach told EBONY
"I couldn't help noticing her.
Dionne had something — it was
there when I first met her: a
kind of elegance, her flow and
feeling for the music,"
Warwick started cutting demos
of the songs that Bacharach and
his lyricists-partner Hal David
were writing, and the threesome
wound up with a Scepter
Records contract. In December,
1962, "Don't Make Me Over" be
came a top 10 hit, the first of a
breathtaking catalog of smash
records.
"Anyone Who Had A Heart",
'Walk On By", 'You'll Never Get to
Heaven", "Reach Out For Me", "A
House Is Not A Home", were all
hit singles in just the first two
years of this producing-writing-
slnging partnership. She was
personally introduced at the
Olympia Theatre in Paris by
Marlene Dietrich, named the top
R&B singer of 1964 by the music
trade magazines, (this at the
height of the British Invasion in
rock and roll), and crossed the
categorical borders between
Pop, R&B, Gospel, Blues and
Jazz audiences. The emotional
ly and technically demanding
ballads that Bacharach and Da
vid provided for her to sing were
among the most sterling record
ed performances of the era.
The triumphs continued in se
quence. Following her Philhar
monic Hall debut in 1966, THE
NEW YORK POST raved, "Her
technique is so remarkable that
it almost defies description.
With enormous range and dex
terity, her voice is pulsing, veer
ing, zigzagging current, but al
ways sure, on the button, now
light, now dark, now bloodied,
now whole," More hits: "Message
to Michael", "Trains and Boats
.md Planes", "Alfie", "(Theme
from) Valley of the Dolls", "Do
You Know the Way to San Jose",
By the end of 1966, she had sold
more than 12 million records,
and by that time her accom
plishments had included a four
month European tour, numer
ous TV shows (Hullaballoo 6
times. The Tonight Show, a Eu
rovision Special, Ed Sullivan.
Kraft Music Hall.) For "San Jose",
she won a Grammy Award, and
highlights of 1968 included a
Copacabana booking, an atten
dance record set at the Newport
Jazz Festival, and filming her
screen debut in the film, "Slaves."
After more successful records
for Scepter ("Promises. Promis
es", "This Girl's In Love With
You", "I'll Never Fall in Love
Again") and impressive honors
such as being invited to the
Apollo II astronauts' celebra
tion in Houston, being the first
singer ever to be named "Woman
of the Year" by Harvard's Hasty
Pudding Club, another Grammy,
and an NAACP Image Award,
Dionne spent much of the sev
enties as a recording artist for
W2umer Brothers. During this
tenure, she cut albums with
such excellent producers as
Bacharach, Thom Bell, and
Steve Barri and Michael Omar-
tlan, but except for "Then Came
more HAMPTON/p. 5B
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