HILLSBOROUGH -- The 10th Annual Revolutionary War Living History Day, a re-enactment event that annually draws history buffs, tourists and the curious, returns to Hillsborough from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
Continental and British armies occupied Hillsborough during the Revolutionary War. Commanding figures such as Horatio Gates, Nathanael Greene and Lord General Cornwallis headquartered in the town's inns and taverns. Cornwallis' ill-spent week in Hillsborough in February of 1781 eventually culminated in his surrender at Yorktown eight months later.
Continental, British and militia re-enactors will demonstrate camp life during the Revolutionary War and commemorate General Cornwallis' encampment in Hillsborough on the grounds of the Alexander Dickson House (ca 1790), 150 E. King St. Events include marching drills, musket-firing demonstrations and open-flame cooking.
The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough's Revolutionary War Guided Tours will be held at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The 60-minute tour showcases Hillsborough's revolutionary and colonial era sites, while retelling stories of the events that took place in and around the town. Tours cost $5 per person.
For additional information call the Alliance office at (919) 732-7741 or visit www.historichillsborough.org.
Annual Easter egg hunt set
HILLSBOROUGH -- An historic Easter egg hunt on the lawn of the Burwell School Historic Site, 319 N. Churton St., will be held on March 20, offering youngsters an opportunity to hunt for eggs filled with prizes and candy. The hunt will be at 2 p.m. and is geared for children up to age 12. There will be one hunt for children under the age of 6, and another for ages 7-12. Both will begin at 2 p.m. Children should bring their own baskets.
Plastic eggs filled with candy and other treasures will be hidden throughout the lawn. The event is free.
Utility sponsors D.C. youth tour
HILLSBOROUGH -- Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation is offering rising high school seniors the opportunity to represent the cooperative on a week's expense-paid trip to the nation's capital June 12-18.
Students selected for the youth tour will have the opportunity to experience government in action.
The trip takes students to Washington, D.C., where they will see the White House, Arlington National Cemetery, Mount Vernon, the Smithsonian, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, the Washington Monument and a host of other memorable sites.
North Carolina's delegation of about 40 youth tourists will join young people from across the United States in the annual event.
To apply to represent Piedmont Electric on the tour, submit an application and an essay of 200 words or less on the topic: "Describe a Rural Electric Cooperative." Applications and essays are due April 30, 2010.
Applications are available on the Cooperative's website at www.pemc.org. Go to Youth Zone/ Youth Tour. Submit the application and your essay to: Rachel Hawkins, Piedmont EMC, P.O. Drawer 1179, Hillsborough, NC, 27278.
Piedmont Electric, based in Hillsborough, is a nonprofit electric utility serving 31,000 consumers in parts of Alamance, Caswell, Durham, Granville, Orange and Person counties.
