The Time Travelers

Do you enjoy history?  Stories?  Field trips? The Time Travelers do!  We're a history club for students in Grades 4-12 sponsored by the North Carolina Museum of History.  We participate in a wide variety of historical endeavors, and our students would like to share their work with you. Visit the Person County Museum of History on Saturday, August 27, from 2 - 4 PM for an exhibition of their work.  See projects that have been entered into district, state, and national competitions - and meet the students who have researched and curated them.  Learn more about the activities and endeavors of the Time Travelers, including: field trips recording historical podcasts blogging conducting research participating in local digs and artifact research preparing history projects for competitions The Time Travelers have participated in the following academic programs, and information will be available about all of them during the exhibition. The Tar Heel Junior Historia...

Are you up on your North Carolina trivia?  Do you know about all the things that make this state great?  Test your skills at 1792 Beer Company on Wednesday, January 12, at 6:30 PM.  There will even be a food truck - Don Taco will be there so you can have your tacos and play, too.  Whether you're a pro at pub trivia or a total newbie, this is the place to be.  Here's out it works:   It's free to play. Play in teams of up to six. There are four rounds of play with four categories each (people, places, events, and sports) along with a bonus question, Final-Jeopardy style. No googling!   Turn your answer sheets in to the Time Travelers each round for your score to be counted. The team with the highest score at the end wins a pizza gift certificate and a really nice stepping stone.  Another team will win a NC tee from 1792 by random drawing.     There's nothing to lose and everything to gain at NC trivia night!  Grab your friends a...

Looking for something fun to do during the quarantine and learn while you do it?  Participate in Trivia Tuesday! 1792 Beer Co. has partnered with The Time Travelers history club to host a trivia night on the topic Colonial North Carolina History .  Students in the club created sixteen questions about the rich early history of our state and invite you to play along!  Here's how it works:      1) Find the answers to the sixteen trivia questions below and write them down.  Feel free to use the internet!  Our list of online Resources for Research found here and is a great place to start.      2) Take your answers to 1792 Beer Co. to enter to win the special prize package!  Ends May 5th, 2020. Here are the questions: 1. What patriot spy's intelligence led to the Battle of Elizabethtown in 1781? 2. Name North Carolina's three signers of the Declaration of Independence. 3. How did the "Father of the...