Plans are to have the second DVD, From a Barn to a
County Seat, 1841 - 1861,
completed by the Museum's Open House on October 30,
2011. Main Event Studios in Granite Falls is again doing
the production work.
Caldwell County, formed in
1841, was named for the first president of the
University of North Carolina, Joseph Caldwell. The
county prospered, with some of its rural areas beginning
to acquire their own identities apart from the county
seat, Lenoir. The second DVD covers the twenty years
until the young county, along with the rest of the state,
was drawn into the Civil War.
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In
the Spring of 2010, the Caldwell Heritage Museum's Board
approved the creation of a series of 30 minute DVD's of
Caldwell
County history, to be produced in conjunction with Main
Event Studios in Granite Falls. This project
fits
directly within the Museum's mission to preserve
and teach Caldwell County's history.
Above: DVD
subcommittee at work on January 27, 2011.
Left to right: Bob Booth, Tom Shuford, Betty Buss, Mike Gibbons, and John Hawkins.
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Things are moving forward with
the second DVD. The response
to the request
for funding has been gratifying.
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More than
$6,000 has been received.
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The narrations by
Rock Brooks and Bill Nowin have been recorded.
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Filming of the
commentary with Mike
Gibbons and John Hawkins was done on May 4, 2011.
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Fredel Reighard
was
filmed on May 18.
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Jim Harper will
be filmed in July.
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David Abernathy and Mike
Willis are helping with music.
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Bill Tate and Charles Triplett are working with photographs.
As was the case
for the first DVD,
much of the history
in this DVD is drawn from
Annals of Caldwell County
(1930) by W.W. Scott (who was able to interview some of
the early European settlers) and Nancy Alexander's
Here Will I Dwell (1956) which draws in part
on Scott's work.
Materials from the Museum's collections are featured in
the video, such as those in the the
Museum's
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The first of the DVD's,
From a Wilderness to a Barn: Early Days to 1841,
was filmed over
the summer of 2010, and the release of the finished product
was celebrated at the Museum's Fifth Sunday Open House
on Oct. 31, 2010. It is available for
$14.95 plus tax from the Museum's
gift shop.
This DVD covers the area's early history.
Included are Native American stories, observations from
missionary Bishop Spangenberg’s 1752 journal, and descriptions of daily life
until 1841 when Caldwell County and the county seat,
Lenoir, were incorporated.
More
about the first DVD.
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