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The Signal
The Volunteer Newsletter of the North Carolina State Capitol
Volume 12, Issue 6
June 2017
Tours will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays this summer! Please contact
Cathy if you have availability.
We also still need volunteers for the 4th of July! Please let Diana or
Cathy know if you can help out!
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Please join us for Meet Your State Symbols on Saturday, June 17th from 10­2.
This event is part of our efforts to promote both symbols of our state as well as STEAM (science, technology,
engineering, arts, and math) education. This is an awareness event for all of our state symbols at THE symbol
for our state, the Capitol! Come out and meet these symbols ­everything
from strawberries (state red berry!)
to cloggers (clogging is the state folk dance!) to the marbled salamander (our state salamander!). This event is
FREE and open to everyone. We will need volunteers to help staff, so please contact Kara or Rachel if you are
available.
The Capitol will be hosting a letter signed by Thomas Jefferson from June 22 through July 11. The
letter, written in 1816 to Nathaniel Macon, U.S. Senator from North Carolina, concerned the
creation of our George Washington statue. Macon requested suggestions of a sculptor from
Jefferson, who advised that only Italian sculptor Canova should create such a statue. North Carolina
commissioned the statue based on Jefferson’s recommendation. Come check out this treasure of the
State Archives of North Carolina ­it
will be on display in the document case on the first floor!
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Our exhibit on Vietnam artifacts is up! The North Carolina Vietnam Veterans Memorial was unveiled in May of 1987.
The exhibit features a small portion of the collection of artifacts left at the monument by visitors over the past thirty
years. The artifacts range from military patches to photographs to letters ­come
check it out in the 2nd floor rotunda!
June Dates:
Happy June Birthday to these folks ­Sam
Bundy, 7th ­John
Ward, 24th
Docent Dinner, Thursday, June 15th, 5:30
The Signal is published twelve times per year by the North Carolina State Capitol, Division of State Historic Sites,
Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. It is emailed to all active State Capitol volunteers.
Our mailing address is:
North Carolina State Capitol
1 East Edenton Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
Mailing Address:
4624 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699­4624
Phone: 919­733­4994
Fax: 919­715­4030
www.ncstatecapitol.org e­mail:
state.capitol@ncdcr.gov
If you have any tidbits or photos you’d like to add to The Signal, feel free to email Kara at kara.deadmon@ncdcr.gov.
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