Story by Regina Kaiser. Above, Susan Easter and her father Bill Easter, one of the founding members of the Cary Community Choir. Cary, NC – The Cary Community Choir, Cary’s longest-running cultural organization, will perform its 42nd annual Handel’s Messiah on Sunday, December 2, 2012 at Westwood Baptist Church, Cary, NC…
Muskets were fired in Cary on Saturday as the Daughters of The American Revolution officially honored Nathaniel Jones. The Wake County patriot is buried in White Plains Cemetery, tucked between some houses in the Maynard Oaks subdivision.…
Elvis Presley was very popular in the Cary and Raleigh area, where he performed six times between 1955 and 1956, as his musical career began.…
Nearly 200 years after his death, Nathaniel Jones, a local Revolutionary War patriot, is receiving an honor.…
If you want to understand the present, it's good to know the past. Gordon and Marcia Mercer, CaryCitizen's team on all things historical, tackle the origins of Halloween.…
The cookbook has a copyright date of 1898 and bears witness to overuse. There are side notes. There are recipes tucked between its pages which were cut out from other publications and pasted on cards. There are recipes copied in careful handwriting on sheets the publisher left blank for that…
We heard this morning that Harold Burt had passed away. In remembrance, we're re-running our story about Harold from August 2010. Pictures from Harold Burt - Music Man on Facebook.…
“I repeat my orders to you that you arrest all people male and female connected with those factories, no matter what the clamor and let them foot it, under guard to Marietta, whence I will send them by [railroad] cars to the North.” William Sherman, Major-General…
There are many Veterans Groups throughout the nation, and it can be very difficult to keep them straight. Acronyms like MOAA and VFW tend to make civilian's heads spin, and who can blame them? …
Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists were listening.…
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