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Courtesy of North Carolina Museum of History
by KARA ADAMS and ADDIE LADNER
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ARE WE THERE YET?
All month long | See website for times Experience the joy of a North Carolina vacation between the 1930s and the 1970s at the North Carolina Museum of History’s photography exhibit, Are We There Yet? North Carolina’s Variety Vacationland. During these decades, tourism boomed thanks to the success of the “Variety Vacationland” campaign, which showcased our state’s rich history,
beaches like the Outer Banks, and the Blue Ridge Mountains. The exhibit also touches on the era’s racial divide — many attractions were only advertised and available to white residents of the state. “I tried to highlight the nuances of the Variety Vacationland campaign,” says curator of popular culture Katie Edwards, who put together the exhibit. “It
was an effective campaign that brought tourism to the state, but it was also a campaign that neglected to include all North Carolina’s citizens and tourists.” In-person; free; 5 E. Edenton Street; ncmuseumofhistory.org
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