Join us August 9-11, 2013 as we celebrate the music, history, food, and humor of North Carolina at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club in Durham.
Join us at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club August 9–11, 2013 for the Best of Our State. Experience the luxury and tradition of Durham’s only four-diamond hotel that also features a four-diamond restaurant as we celebrate North Carolina music, history, storytelling, food, art, and humor.
Your weekend package includes:
- Accommodations for Friday and Saturday night
- Sweet potato pie reception Friday
- Two breakfast buffets
- Locally-sourced Saturday night dinner
- North Carolina seminars
- Evening entertainment
For reservations, please call (800) 443-3853. Please be sure to let the reservationists know you are calling about the Best of Our State weekend.
Cost: $775, based on double occupancy (includes tax)
2013 BOOS Washington Duke Schedule
About the Presenters
Clyde Edgerton
Author of the
newly released
Papdaddy’s Book
for New Fathers
Glenis Redmond
Award-winning performance
poet — “Soul, Sass, and
Sweet Tea”
Bob Garner
Television personality and author of Bob Garner’s Book of Barbecue: North Carolina’s Favorite Food
Randell Jones
Award winning author and storyteller
“Famous and Infamous Women of North Carolina”
Daniel Ackermann Associate Curator — Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
“The Art of Drink: MESDA in a Punchbowl”
Aaron Burdett
Our State’s first-ever Singer/Songwriter Contest winner
Grenaldo Frazier
“From Tobacco Barns to
Broadway”— an evening with North Carolina’s own musical sensation
Sweet Potato Band
Bluegrass and country
Special Our State Dinner
Saturday night dinner created by Executive Chef Jason Cunningham with locally sourced ingredients
More to be announced soon.
