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Photography Exhibits for the Month of March

First Friday for the month of March will feature two photography events: the Allen Forge Traveling Photography Show and ghosts of movement and shelter. The former is a photography exhibit about travel, the latter features my photographs of buildings and items associated with travel that have since been abandoned.

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First National Bank

First National Bank, Raleigh’s modernist drive-in as it appeared in the early 1960s.

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Oak View Park, an Agricultural Treasure Almost Lost

Just a bit down the road from Raleigh’s new transit facility in East Raleigh is Oak View Park. This public county park features an antebellum farm house, an older house (later kitchen) that dates to at least as far back as the 1820s, a cotton gin house, and goats, among many other artifacts pertaining to cotton farming in the south.

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