Monthly Archives: November 2020

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30 November 2020; New Plantings!

The museum hopes everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.On Friday we had a visit from two of our amazing long time volunteers, Anna Meshejlan and Patrick Basloe. They planted several North Carolina wildflowers and shrubs as part of a long-term project for the museum’s Natural History Center..  A buttonbush, elderberry bush, red buckeye, marsh sunflower, rattlesnake […]

9 November 2020; WWI Code Talkers

When US military codes kept being broken by the Germans in WW1 a Native American tribe came to the rescue. They just spoke their own language – which baffled the enemy – and paved the way for other Native American “code talkers” in WW2. It’s an irony that probably didn’t […]