‘Les Misérables’ meets ‘Hamilton’: the new musical Spill the Tea! Coming to Edenton
It all Begins on Broadway Laurie Edwards was a Broadway child. Her father was a Broadway ticket-taker, so Laurie was raised in the theatre. She was there for the debut of The Wiz, offering her own critiques to its director, the actor and Bond villain Geoffrey Holder. At 14, she became an usherette, following in […]
Five Days at the Fairgrounds: The Chowan County Regional Fair Returns
The Chowan County Regional Fair returns Tuesday, September 29 through Saturday, October 3 The fair began in 1947 as the American Legion Fair, and the Edward G. Bond American Legion Post 40 still sponsors it today, with the Chowan County Regional Fair Association keeping it running. It’s one of the few all-volunteer fairs left in […]
How Edenton Saved the Cupola House
On a corner of Broad Street near the Edenton waterfront, looking out over Edenton Bay, surrounded by flowers bursting with color, stands the Cupola House. It has been there since 1758. For a stretch of its history, it came close to being lost, piece by piece, before the town stepped in. So I want to […]
Five Things We Do to Make It Easy to Visit Edenton
Some towns make you work for a good visit. Apps to download, parking garages to pay for, no clear sense of where anything is. You can waste half the day just getting to the good stuff. Edenton isn’t like that. We’re a waterfront town on the Albemarle Sound, North Carolina’s first colonial capital and, in […]
The Last of Its Kind: Edenton’s 1886 Roanoke River Lighthouse
Some landmarks keep you far away. This one you can walk right into. Out at the edge of Colonial Park there stands a squat little building on stilts — white clapboard, a red roof, a lantern room perched on top. It looks like a cottage that wandered out onto the water and decided to stay. […]
The 1767 Chowan County Courthouse
Some buildings come and go without much fanfare. Others seem to hold a town together. In Edenton, that building has been standing since 1767. Walk down East King Street on a summer morning, and you’ll see it before you reach it: a handsome brick Georgian courthouse, framed by the green sweeping down to Edenton Bay […]
Edenton by Boat
If the Penelope Barker House is Edenton’s living room, Edenton Bay is the front porch, and the Albemarle Sound is our front yard. For centuries, people have come into town by water: traders, travelers, fishermen, sailors, and wanderers following the expansive waters of the Albemarle Sound. Today, it’s still one of the best ways to […]
Honoring Juneteenth in Edenton
On June 19th, we mark the day in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and announced that the enslaved people of that state were free — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had declared it so. Word of freedom had traveled slowly, but when it arrived, it changed everything. […]
The Albemarle Sound-the thing that made Edenton.
Long before the courthouse, the Cupola house, and the georgeous homes and buildings that make up Edenton’s historic downtown, there was the water. The Albemarle Sound and Edenton Bay shaped this town, its trade, and its character. And in summer, when the light stretches long across the sound, and the breeze comes off the water […]
7 Reasons to Go to an Edenton Steamers Game This Summer
Baseball. The word alone says summer. Warm evenings. Fresh cut grass. Hot dogs. Cold drinks. Kids running around with snow cones. The crack of a wooden bat. The sound of a crowd cheering as a player slides into home, beating a tag by the catcher. There is just something about baseball that belongs to summer, […]