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2022 US Trip – Day 11 (Amtrak Train from Raleigh to Charlotte)

Amtrak,  Charlotte,  Raleigh,  US Trip November 24, 2022 admin

After being suitably recharged in digital and technological form at Raleigh railway station, the Amtrak train to Charlotte arrived on

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2022 US Trip – Day 11 (City of Raleigh Museum – Literary Tests in North Carolina)

Raleigh,  US Trip November 24, 2022 admin

They were certainly creative in North Carolina in finding ways to limit the black population from voting in elections. Although

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2022 US Trip – Day 11 (City of Raleigh Museum – Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh)

Raleigh,  US Trip November 24, 2022 admin

  I find the civil rights movement in the United States as a haunting, although fascinating, piece of history, not

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2022 US Trip – Day 11 (City of Raleigh Museum – 1797 Map of Raleigh)

Raleigh,  US Trip November 24, 2022 admin

I like an old map and this one is from 1797, just five years after the city of Raleigh was

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2022 US Trip – Day 11 (City of Raleigh Museum – 1847 Map of Raleigh)

Raleigh,  US Trip November 24, 2022 admin

Just to continue the theme following my post of the 1797 map of Raleigh. There was a large fire in

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2022 US Trip – Day 11 (Raleigh’s Amtrak Railway Station)

Raleigh,  US Trip November 24, 2022 admin

After visiting four museums and one of the largest bars in the world, it was time to leave Raleigh after

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2022 US Trip – Day 11 (City of Raleigh Museum – Yarborough House Hotel Menu)

Raleigh,  US Trip November 23, 2022 admin

There are two menus on display in the museum, the one on the right is from the 1950s and is

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2022 US Trip – Day 11 (City of Raleigh Museum – Lunch Counters Boycott)

Raleigh,  US Trip November 23, 2022 admin

It still seems remarkable to me that at the turns of the 1960s there was segregation at lunch counters in

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2022 US Trip – Day 11 (City of Raleigh Museum – Sir Walter Raleigh)

Raleigh,  US Trip November 20, 2022 admin

I was clearly lax in my reading of the history of Raleigh in North Carolina as it wasn’t until I

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2022 US Trip – Day 11 (City of Raleigh Museum – Some Rusty Old Nails)

Raleigh,  US Trip November 20, 2022 admin

Without context, I accept that this isn’t the most riveting display I’ve ever seen in a museum (and there’s a

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This site is the ‘fascinating’ (OK, it’s not that fascinating I admit) story of my travels around the world over the last few years. I’m conscious that there is so much more to visit, and I’ll do my best to carry on travelling as much as I can. I wouldn’t take anything too seriously, because I’ve rarely managed to…..

For previous adventures, here’s 2013-2018 and also 2019.

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