Earl Ijames ALMOST GONE WITH THE WIND

Tickets $5, Doors open at 6:30 PM Program starts at 7:00PM

Earl Ijames is Curator of African-American History, Agricultural History, and Community History at the North Carolina Museum of History. Prior to joining the Museum of History in 2008, he was reference archivist with the North Carolina Office of Archives and History for eight years and photograph archivist from 1994 to 2000.

Earl has served on numerous history-related boards and committees and is frequently called on to serve as a lecturer, panelist, consultant, and host for various events, festivals, organizations, and radio and TV broadcasts. He has been involved with numerous historical film productions.

Earl graduated from George Washington Carver High School in Winston-Salem and is a 1991 graduate of North Carolina State University with a major in history and minors in economics, English, and African American studies. From 1989 to 1990 he was a legal researcher at the North Carolina Supreme Court through the Department of History at NCSU.

In his spare time, Earl is a farmer in Johnston County and owner/manager of Towne and Country Book and Coffee in Wendell. Over the years, he has coached Boys and Girls Upward Bound Youth Basketball, youth football in Zebulon, and youth basketball for Wendell Parks and Recreation.

MUSIC: Abigail Dowd on guitar.

We Plant it Forward is a sponsor of the Cary Environmental Symposium, hosted by Trees for the Triangle

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