Family Game Night Planned

Do you love games? Free events? Free pizza and popcorn? Then this is a night for you! Join the High Point Museum Friday, February 16 for our second annual Family Game Night. This free event is open to people of all ages and lasts from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Play all different types of games including two board games created about our own city - “The Challenge High Point” and “Executive Market Game.” The Challenge High Point game is from the 1980s. It is a Monopoly style game where players buy and sell property to gain wealth. It features local businesses and attractions. The Executive Market Game was made by employees of Drexel Heritage Distinctive Home Furnishings in the 1960s about the High Point Furniture Market.

This fun evening will be full of all sorts of games featuring classic card and board games along with scavenger hunts and Pokémon Go. Lots of activities for this event including High Point trivia, photo booth, music and prizes.

“Family game night may seem a little old fashioned in this digital era, but we love this low-tech program,” Edith Brady, Museum Director, said. “It reminds us how families have traditionally enjoyed informal, personal time together, which is when the family stories really start to come out and get passed along to new generations.”

All programs are free and open to all ages.

Bread & Butter Making in the Historical Park
Saturday, February 3 & 17
Come see our costumed interpreters bake bread and make butter.
Blacksmith Demonstration
Saturdays, February 10 & 24, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Come watch our costumed blacksmith in action as he crafts various iron pieces.

Museum Plans African American History Month Programs

Throughout the month of February, the High Point Museum will be hosting a variety of events. On Thursday, February 8 (February 15 is inclement weather date) from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. the High School Black History Quiz Bowl will be held at the Museum. Students from local schools, GTCC HP, Ragsdale, Penn-Griffin, Andrews, Central and Southwest, will be participating in a Quiz Bowl. Local author and historian Glenn Chavis developed the questions for the quiz bowl.

Phyllis Bridges will share her latest documentary film, “The Forgotten Ones of Oakwood Cemetery,” concerning those buried in the African American section of the City Cemetery Saturday, February 10 from 10:30 a.m. to noon. As part of the program, she and a reenactor will bring to life the stories of individuals long forgotten but crucially significant to the history of our city. Bridges is recipient of the 2017 Paul Green Multimedia Award and the President’s Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians for her documentary films.

The Heritage Research Center at the High Point Public Library will be hosting “Al Campbell Remembers,” Monday, February 12 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. in the Morgan Room at the Library. Al Campbell, former editor and founder of the High Point Tribunal Aid, one of High Point's African-American focused newspapers, published in the mid-1970s, will discuss the history of that publication and its importance to the community.

Our last program for the month will be “Each one, Teach one: The growth of education in the African American community since 1900” on Saturday, February 24 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. The ability to pursue learning opportunities ranked high among the priorities of African Americans as many transitioned from slavery to freedom. By the turn of the century, schools became one of several institutional pillars within African American communities as well as an arena for political, social, and ideological battles. In this talk, Lisa Withers, doctoral student at NC State, will address the roles of educational institutions, administrators, and teachers in African American activism from 1900 to 1970 with examples drawn from High Point and the South more broadly.