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Join Our State and author Philip Gerard as we tour Kinston’s Civil War historical sites and learn what life was like during the years of 1861 – 1865.
- Two nights’ accommodations at the Kinston Hampton Inn
- Friday night pig pickin’ from Kings BBQ Restaurant
- Saturday night dinner at Chef and the Farmer, Vivian Howard’s restaurant featured on her PBS television show A Chef’s Life
- Saturday lunch at Queen Street Deli
- Breakfast Saturday and Sunday
- All tours and talks
Package Includes:
- Philip Gerard’s talk on “The Kinston Hangings,” plus time to chat with Philip informally throughout the weekend
- Private reception and tour at CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center
- Visit to the CSS Neuse II, the world’s only full-sized facsimile of a Confederate gunboat
- Private tour of an antebellum plantation
- Guided tour and talk at historic Harmony Hall
- History experience at the Battle of Wyse Fork Civil War Battlefield
- Sunday morning music program at Harriet’s Chapel, located adjacent to the site of the First Battle of Kinston and used as a Confederate hospital after that first battle
