Triad History Day, April 6

Triad History Day
Saturday, April 6, 2019
10AM through 3PM
Greensboro History Museum

Join us for the first annual Triad History Day on Saturday, April 6, 2019, from 10AM until 3PM, at the Greensboro History Museum (130 Summit Ave, Greensboro, NC 27401).

Triad History Day is a one-day public festival focused on Triad history, both the stories and the people who preserve them. The event will feature a “history hall” with displays from history organizations, a series of lightning round talks focused on local history, as well as booths focused on oral history, preservation advice, and digitization of community materials.

History Hall:

Visitors can learn more about local archives, museums, libraries, and other historical organizations in the “history hall.” Participating institutions include representation from all over the Triad. See the complete participating institution list below.

A series of short talks about local Triad history will take place throughout the day, with speakers announced in late March.

Digitization Station:

Visitors with photographs or other records that help document Triad history can bring materials to the scanning station at Triad History Day. There, archivists will scan the materials for inclusion in UNC Greensboro’s community history portal. Visitors will also receive a copy of the scan.

Oral History Booth:

An oral history booth will allow participants the opportunity to record a 15-minute interview about an interesting story related to the Triad region. Interviews may involve two friends having a conversation, a family member interviewing a family member, or an individual being interviewed by a UNCG graduate students serving as an oral history facilitator. Interviews would be made available through the TriadHistory.org digital collection portal.

List of participating institutions:

• African American Genealogical Society
• Alamance Battlegound
• American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame Foundation
• Belk Library, Elon University
• Blandwood/Preservation Greensboro
• Bluford Library, NC A&T State University
• Charlotte Hawkins Brown
• Digital Collections, University Libraries, UNG Greensboro
• Green Book Project, NC African American Heritage Commission
• Greensboro History Museum
• Greensboro Public Library
• Guilford County Register of Deeds
• High Point Museum
• Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Greensboro
• Holgate Library, Bennett College
• Mendenhall Homeplace of Historic Jamestown Society
• Moravian Archives
• North Carolina Collection, Forsyth County Public Library
• O'Kelly Library, Winston-Salem State University
• People Not Property, UNC Greensboro
• PRIDE of the Community, UNC Greensboro
• Quaker Archives, Guilford College
• Well Crafted, UNC Greensboro
• ZSR Library, Wake Forest University

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Vintage Viands: Last Call!

Vintage Viands offers opportunities for students, staff, and the local community to sample foods from an earlier era, and reflect on how taste and ingredients change over time. The event, connected through the Home Economics Pamphlets Collection and the Home Economics and Household Collection, offers attendees an online or physical exhibit. 

This year, Vintage Viands is honored to receive the University Libraries' Innovation Grant to support the promotion of the event itself and of the collection. See: 2016-17 Libraries’ Innovation Grant will Showcase Home Economics Pamphlets for more details!

No tickets are needed; ticket link will take you to more information about the event.

University Libraries staff are invited to contribute vintage dishes; there will be prizes and it is possible to be reimbursed for the cost of ingredients. Here's how:

• Choose a recipe from the digital collection or from this guide which also contains link to print materials.
• Submit your recipe.
• Volunteer to help with the event.

Join us on Friday, September 23, 2016 as we recreate the tastes of the 1920's!

More information here...

Vintage Viands : 1940s Edition

Vintage Viands, an event where staff from the University Libraries prepare foods using recipes from the Home Economics Pamphlet Collection, Woman's Collection - Cookbooks, and the online collection Home Economics and Household Collections, is happening this Friday from noon to 2:30 in Jackson Library. The tasting event also includes a contest to reward the tastiest ane most unique dishes.

Here are the categories for this year's contest:

• Appetizer
• Main Dish
• Desserts
• Best Hot Dish [AKA Casseroles]
• Best Jell-O [or other brand of gelatin]

Recipes will be judged by these rankings:

• Tastiest [Over all categories]
• Most Unique [Over all categories]

For this year's interactive exhibit, we are featuring cuisine from the 1940s, which will include "ration book" specials, "meat extenders" and postwar delicacies featuring items that had been unavailable during the war years. There will also be displays of the cookbooks and pamphlets from the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives.