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Now/Then: Funeral Practices in Greensboro

Tuesday, October 8, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

From home embalming to ambulance services, the kinds of work funeral homes have done has changed over the last 100 years. “Now/Then: Funeral Practices in Greensboro” features a conversation with Al Lineberry Jr. and Neil Whitaker of Hanes Lineberry Funeral Home, who will share their knowledge and personal experiences of these changing practices and traditions. […]

Good Works Wednesday at Natty Greene’s

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 @ 11:30 am - 11:30 pm

Natty Greene’s Pub & Brewing Co. will donate 10% of total sales all day Wednesday, October 9, to the nonprofit GHM Inc. as part of its Good Works Wednesdays. What a tasty way to support the Greensboro History Museum's exhibitions, collections and programs! Natty Greene’s is located at 345 S. Elm Street in Greensboro.

Good Works Wednesday at Natty Greene’s

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 @ 11:30 am - 11:30 pm

Natty Greene’s Pub & Brewing Co. will donate 10% of total sales all day Wednesday, October 9, to the nonprofit GHM Inc. as part of its Good Works Wednesdays. What a tasty way to support the Greensboro History Museum's exhibitions, collections and programs! Natty Greene’s is located at 345 S. Elm Street in Greensboro.

GHM Inc. Annual Dinner with Special Guest Smithsonian Costume Conservator Sunae Park Evans

Thursday, October 17, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Save the date for the GHM Inc. Annual Dinner. The event is supported by the prestigious O.Henry Hotel and held in their beautiful Caldwell Room. This year’s very special guest speaker is Sunae Park Evans, Senior Costume Conservator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Tickets $65 for GHM members ($75 for guests). Click below […]

Mill Day Oral History at Revolution Mill

Saturday, October 19, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Curator of Community History Glenn Perkins talks with former Cone Mills employees and mill village residents about life and work in Greensboro's textile mills. Part of Mill Day 2019 at Revolution Mill 

Museum Guild Meeting: Green Hill Cemetery

Monday, October 21, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Ann Stringfeld discuses the "plants and the planted" of Green Hill Cemetery. Social time begins at 10, with the program at 10:30. Guests welcome. For more information, call Sandra Canipe at 336.273.6491.

The Cone Sisters and Greensboro

Tuesday, October 22, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Modern Visions, Modern Art: The Cone Sisters in North Carolina, a new exhibition at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, highlights art collectors Claribel and Etta Cone’s contributions to and experiences in North Carolina. Co-organizers Dianna Cameron, Curator at Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, and Carrie Streeter, historian and Cone scholar, share stories […]

History & Reconciliation: A Community Symposium

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Join us for discussions about investigating difficult history and identifying paths forward as part of building a stronger democracy. Documenting the 1887 lynching of Eugene Hairston. With members of the Guilford County Community Remembrance Project Coalition Reflections on the Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation Commission organized as a response to the 1979 Greensboro Massacre. With Joyce […]

Unliving History Cemetery Walk

Saturday, October 26, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Costumed interpreters portray spirits from Greensboro’s past in the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Fun begins at 2 pm with Cynthia Moore Brown sharing a thrilling set of Ghost Stories in the Graveyard Free, family friendly and open to all Part of the Greensboro Youth Council’s Ghoulash! Halloween Festival in Greensboro Downtown Parks

Story Saturday with Carolyn Malone

Saturday, November 2, 2019 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

The museum Education Department is hosting free story time for kids on first Saturdays at 1:30. Join us this time for museum educator Carolyn Malone reading some of her favorite stories. Free.