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It’s “Sweet Spring” For Ladies In Downtown Hillsborough

by Patty Griffin | March 14 2010

It’s Sweet Spring and time again for you girls to hit the town…Historic Downtown Hillsborough that is… for Ladies’ Night Out. On Thursday, April 22nd from 6 to 9 pm, Downtown Historic Hillsborough will come alive with all things spring in celebration of the awakening earth, warmer weather and Mother’s Day.

As you enter the historic district, start your evening by stopping by one of our 4 greeting stations. Here local dignitaries who will hand you a menu of events and specials for the evening will greet you. For the first 300 ladies, we have a special “sweet” gift from Weaver Street Market’s bakery in a fully compostable container with a special surprise from the Burpee Seed Company. Shops will have tastings, demonstrations, pampering, gifts and fun for the ladies centered around the flowering beauty of spring.

Also each purchase you make at participating Downtown businesses during the evening enters you into a drawing to win fabulous prizes from our local businesses. The drawing for these prizes will take place at 10 p.m. at the Blue Bayou before ending the evening with 60’s, 70’s and 80’s dance music. Lantern luminaries will mark participating Downtown businesses.

New to Ladies Night Out this spring, the Triangle SportsPlex will have lively free Zumba demos on the Old County Courthouse grounds throughout the evening and vendors from The Eno River Farmers Market will be located next to Roomscape on North Churton Street selling items to beautify your garden. For more information about Ladies Night Out call (919) 732-2128 or go online to http://www.shophillsboroughnc.com.

Ladies Night Out is sponsored by the Downtown Merchants of Historic Hillsborough, the Hillsborough Tourism Board, and the Burpee Seed Company.

Photo by Jay Booth.

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Pack Kenan Stadium for the UNC Spring Blue-White Football Game

by Patty Griffin | March 14 2010

On April 10th, Carolina Football will host the Blue-White Spring Football Game at Kenan Stadium – a game that will be televised nationally on ESPN at 3 p.m. Attendance is free and the full game features 19 returning starters and several new faces, and many more activities.

Tar Heel Town moves to the Bell Tower and inside Kenan Stadium on beginning at 12 Noon. There is a pregame autograph session with the players and head coach Butch Davis. Enjoy game day and tailgating food offerings as well as Games, football and cheerleading drills for all young Tar Heel fans. Other activities include Live music, Rameses, face painting, Bell Tower climb and more. There will be poster giveaways and fantastic prizes.

Free parking will be available in the Bowles Lot, Manning Lot, Williamson Lot (Disability), Craige Deck, Jackson Deck, and Cardinal Deck. Check http://www.TarHeelBlue.com for more information.

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PlayMaker’s Repertory Performs Oscar Wilde Play

by Patty Griffin | February 24 2010

The most enduringly popular of Wilde’s plays, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” is hailed as one of the funniest comedies in the English language. Wicked wit and dead-on social satire are wrapped in a Victorian confection of dual identities, matters matrimonial and the provenance of a particularly pertinent handbag.

In the words of the playwright himself, “a trivial comedy for serious people.” The New York Times called it “endlessly funny comedy … swift, sardonic repartee (that) ripples through the ages.”

PlayMakers’ production includes a casting treat, featuring company member Ray Dooley as the terrifying, imperious and altogether wonderful Lady Bracknell, a role usually played by great Dames, such as legendary British actresses Edith Evans and Judi Dench.

All performances will be in the Paul Green Theatre in UNC’s Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. Show times will be 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 13, and 2 p.m. Sundays. For a complete schedule, more information and to purchase tickets, call (919) 962-PLAY (7529) or visit http://www.playmakersrep.org. Tickets are $10 to $40.

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State High School Basketball Championships

by Patty Griffin | February 23 2010

The North Carolina High School Basketball Championships return to the Dean Smith Center on the UNC Campus on March 13. The Smith Center will host the 1-A and 3-A classifications. Games are tentatively scheduled for Noon, 2:30 pm, 5pm and 7:30pm. The order at this point is 1-A women, 1-A men, 3-A women and then 3-A men.

The following hotels are offering special rates for the championships: Courtyard by Marriott, Days Inn, The Franklin Hotel, Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn Chapel Hill, Residence Inn by Marriott, Sheraton Chapel Hill Hotel, The Siena Hotel.

It’s not too early to make your travel plans.

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The British Are Coming to Hillsborough

by Patty Griffin | January 22 2010

Information provided by the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough

Continental and British armies occupied Hillsborough during the Revolutionary War. Commanding figures like Horatio Gates, Nathanael Greene, and Lord General Cornwallis headquartered in the town’s inns and taverns. Cornwallis’ ill-spent week in Hillsborough in February of 1781 eventually culminated in his surrender at Yorktown eight months later.

On Saturday, February 20, from 10am-4pm, the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough will hold its Tenth Annual Revolutionary War Living History Day. Continental, British and militia reenactors will demonstrate camp life during the Revolutionary War and commemorate General Cornwallis’ encampment in Hillsborough on the grounds of the Alexander Dickson House (ca 1790), 150 E. King St., Hillsborough, NC. Events include marching drills, musket-firing demonstrations and open-flame cooking.

The Alliance’s Revolutionary War Guided Tours will also be held that day, beginning and 11:00am and 2:00pm. The 60-minute tour showcases Hillsborough’s revolutionary and colonial era sites, while retelling stories of the events that took place in and around the town. Tours cost $5 per person.

For additional information please call the Alliance office at 919-732-7741 or visit their website at http://www.historichillsborough.org.

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