Thursday, December 2, 2010
Construction is underway on a new cedar shingle roof
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Jill Cooley
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wilmington Town Museum is in the process of receiving a much-needed new roof. Building began this week and should be done by the end of December, weather-permitting. "Nine years ago it was assessed and they said it was 'nearing the end of its useful life', so it's been a need," said Terry McDermott, the museum's curator. She said the shingles have been getting mossy and cupping, which is when the shingles wear and start to bend towards the center. There were also a few leaks. The old roof has been in place since the 1970s. The new roof will have cedar shingles, as the old one did. After the workers tear up the old roof, they will lay a protective layer before the new cedar shingles are installed. Kneeland Construction, which is based out …
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Friday, November 12, 2010
In honor of Veterans Day, the town museum and historical commission held an exhibit at the July 4th headquarters.
While a record crowd was gathering on the town common, some were sprinkling in to the Fourth of July Headquarters for the Town Museum's Veterans Day exhibit.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
The Jolly Rogues, a mixture of Celtic, Irish, and Colonial folk music, are world renown and hail from right here in Wilmington.
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- Jay Oza
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
A band playing Celtic, Irish, and traditional folk music, are not the typical type of American band that travels to China and gets mobbed with adoring fans. "We didn't know what was going to happen," said guitarist James Murray of the Jolly Rogues about his band's first gig in China, part of the Peace through Music program, which also included stops in England and Germany. "We were too good," said Murray of the Rogues' gig in Germany. The Jolly Rogues were swarmed with so many people that security guards had to protect them from interfering with the performance. Murray and his band mates look to return to China in 2011. "We want to share the music with more people and we'd like to get to see more of China." Until then the Rogues will be …
Larz Neilson
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