Happy Birthday Greensboro!

Greensboro celebrated it's 200th birthday Saturday with all sorts of craziness. The day started with an archaeological dig in Aycock historical neighborhood and ended, well for some of us, at a certain backyard extravaganza also in Aycock neighborhood. (Those photos to follow). In between, tons of people came downtown for music, bubbles, people watching, cupcakes, clowns, and Clydesdales. Mayor Yvonne Johnson was on hand to cut the first ceremonial piece of birthday cake. Even Miss North Carolina came out for this one.

Bicentennial, Baby!

Downtown Greensboro was full of artistic endeavors this weekend. Despite some early inclement weather and a lack of knowledge of the event by many Greensborians, the Heritage Festival rolled on throughout the weekend with everything from 19th century baseball to banjo playing in the street. Kettle corn was in abundance as was great music by tons of local bands from early in the morning to the very wee hours of the next.