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Gaston County Museum announces five-part local history series
Summary
Kent Hester, a museum guide at the Gaston County Museum of Art and History, said a five-part program of walking tours and presentations will run April 1 through Dec. 12, covering the Laurier Mill, textual county history and McAdenville’s Christmas lights; events are free and open to all ages.
Kent Hester, a museum guide at the Gaston County Museum of Art and History in Dallas, North Carolina, announced a five-part program of walking tours and presentations on Gaston County history that begins April 1 and runs through Dec. 12.
The series will open April 1 with a walking tour focused on the Laurier Mill, which Hester said will cover the mill’s major events and its significance to West Gastonia, Gaston County and the state. Additional walking tours are scheduled for June 8 and Sept. 14; Hester said the three tours will cover the same material.
"It's a five-part series," Hester said. "It's going to start on April the 1st with the first tour..." He described an April 23 presentation on the textual history of Gaston County as separate from the walking tours.
Hester said the final presentation of the series is set for Dec. 12 at the library and will focus on McAdenville and its Christmas lights. All events, he said, are free and require no registration: "You just show up. The presentations will not be stuffy lectures. They'll be interactive. Uh there'll be a chance for question and answer in every case."
Hester urged broad attendance, calling the material suitable for "all ages" and arguing that local history must be discussed now or risk being lost: "If you don't talk about it now, it'll soon be forgotten."
The museum guide did not provide specific start times, registration contacts or sponsorship details in the announcement.
