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2011
exhibits:
Mrs. Bill Early and Bill Early Jr.
(also the subject of painting on left)
at the
Jan. 2011 5th Sunday
Open House at the Museum.
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November - December: Christmas
cards from the Museum's collections.
Also, a framed (by
Foothills Framing) set of the
Museum's earlier
Christmas cards.
September - October:
Overmountain
Victory Trail
The Overmountain Victory National
Historic Trail retraces the route of patriot
militia as they tracked down the British during the
Revolutionary War, from Abingdon, Virginia, and ending in the King's Mountain
battle. The trail passes through Lenoir and Fort
Defiance.
More about
Re-enactment memorabilia including brochures, a
Bible carried on the journeys, Bill Early's sketches
of many of the re-enactors, and many photographs.
June - August: from the
collections of Collettsville Historical Society.
Included are old tools
and photographs; a brick from the Edgemont Inn;
drawing of the Dupree Store in Mortimer.
(Click on images for larger versions.)
April - May: Hibriten
High School Southern Culture Class Projects.
(More about these projects
here.)
January - March:
Bill Early's Art. Included are photographs and other
documents from local artist Bill Early's life (1926
- 2002), as
well as a number of his charcoal portraits,
watercolor scenes, and works in oil. From the
Museum's collections.
William Alfred Early Jr. ('48), 76, of
Lenoir, commercial artist;, July 24, 2002. A
former sales manager in furniture manufacturing,
Early was a free-lance artist for the furniture
industry. A Navy veteran of WWII and the Korean
War, Early was a charter member of the Caldwell
County planning board and chaired the Caldwell
County North Carolina 2000 Commission. At UNC
[University of North Carolina Chapel Hill], he
was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma. (UNC General
Alumni Association Class Notes [2002]:
obituaries.)
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