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Get the Picture on Exhibit at the Arts Council by ALEXANDRA RAPPE May 24th won't be just any Friday; it is the celebration of 4th Friday, and for Fayetteville, that means tons of fun events, exhibits, music and art for all ages downtown. Visit art galleries including the Gallery ONE13 and the Arts Council. The Arts Council will show off its exhibit called Get the Picture III. This is the third juried photography competition hosted by the Arts Council. Residents of the Cumberland County who are 18-years-old and older were encouraged to participate and submit their best photography in black-andwhite, color or digitally-manipulated formats. The selected entries will be shown on 4th Friday and winners will be announced at 8 p.m. The title, Get the Picture, emphasizes the goal and photographers were asked to keep that in mind. "It's not about taking the picture, it's about getting the best picture out there, going out and capturing something compelling and spectacular," Mary Kinney, marketing director of the Arts Council said. She herself enjoys this event, "With $1,000 dollars in total prize money up for grabs, photographers will submit their very best work, making this show truly exceptional." The much-anticipated show will run through June 22, so there are plenty of chances to view it. Fascinate-U Children's Museum is to host a free craft activity from 7 to 9 p.m. for children and their families. Show off the colors red, white and blue by making Patriotic Wind Streamers in collaboration with the museum's month-long celebration of Military Appreciation Month. People will also get to travel back in time at the Fayetteville Area Transportation Museum, where an exhibit will show the progress of transportation from pre-history up to the early 20th century. Other fun activities include crafts, produce for sale, a vintage car display and also live music. Bands include Blues Engima and the Raiford Street Band playing tunes of rock and blues. Also in the museum, visit the newest exhibit called A History of Fayetteville's Jewish Community. It celebrates the Jewish community here in the city and how they have positively impacted us with their contributions socially, economically and culturally. This exhibit covers the early 19th century through mid-20th century and also tells of the events of the Holocaust and World War II. More history takes place in Fayetteville's own Market House. People can walk around the historical monument's display, A View from the Square: A History of Downtown Fayetteville, filled with maps and images telling the unique past of our own city. Music selections heard at every corner make for a very fine-tuned evening. City Center Gallery and Books hosts the favorite family, the Thiriot's, in which each family member plays the violin. The Army Ground Forces Brass Quintet is expected to play brass music along Hay Street. And stop by Headquarters Library to hear a performance by the band Second Time Around. Citizens can listen to swing music while enjoying refreshments. The fun starts at 6 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m. Find out more about 4th Friday at ALEXANDRA RAPPE, Intern. www.theartscouncil.com. COMMENTS? Editor@upandcomingweekly.com. Dedication of Historical Marker to Honor McRae by BRUCE DAWS The old and venerable McRae family of Fayetteville found themselves divided Duncan Kirkland Mac Rae, who commanded the 5th N.C. Regiment, 1st Sgt. during the War Between the States. This prominent family traces its Fayetteville roots Thomas Ruffin MacRae, who served in McNeill's Cavalry, Maj. James Cameron back to Duncan McRae, a native of Scotland, and leading citizen in this community MacRae, who commanded MacRae's Battalion, John MacRae, who served in the by the 1770s. 5th N.C. Regiment, and Robert Strange MacRae, who at the age of 14, served on John McRae, grandson of Duncan McRae and Postmaster of Fayetteville for 40 the Confederate blockade runners, "Owl" and "Badger." years, was married three times, and had a large family. During The public is invited to the dedication of a historical marker the War Between the States, four of his sons fought for the honoring Capt. McRae, at 11 a.m., Saturday May 18, in front of Confederacy and one son, Alexander, an Army officer, remained the old Cumberland County Courthouse at the corner of Gillespie loyal to the Union. A West Point graduate, Alexander McRae and Franklin streets. This was the site of the former McRae family served in the New Mexico Territory during the early part of homestead. Douglas Elwell, a member of the local chapter of the the war. At first he commanded a Cavalry Company, but was Sons of Union Veterans has devoted much time and effort and is assigned to an artillery battery consisting of six cannons. During credited as being the driving force behind this project. Working the Battle of Valverde, fought on February 21, 1862, McRae's with the Socorro County Historical Society in New Mexico, Elwell battery faced a large force of Confederate Texans under the was able to secure a stone from the area of the Valverde Battlefield command of Col. Thomas Green. Col. Green's command, to mount the bronze plaque commemorating Capt. McRae's armed with short-range shotguns, pistols, muskets and bowie deeds. Please join members of the McRae family and others knives took heavy casualties, but advanced and overwhelmed for the formal dedication program which will last about an hour. the battery with fierce hand-to-hand fighting. McRae, greatly This program is being sponsored by the Major General Thomas outnumbered, stood his ground, and when asked to surrender he H. Ruger Camp # 1, Sons of Union Veterans and the Fayetteville replied, "I shall never forsake my guns!" Realizing the situation Transportation and Local History Museum. was beyond hope, McRae with gun in hand calmly seated The Fayetteville Transportation and Local History Museum in himself on a cannon, which he defended until he received a fatal conjunction with the Sesquicentennial Anniversary is featuring an shot to the head. exhibit dedicated to Fayetteville-Cumberland County during the War Capt. McRae's commanding officer, Col. Edward Canby Between the States. The exhibit chronicles local and regional events Captain Alexander McRae is being wrote of McRae; "Pure in character, upright in conduct, devoted honored on May 18 in front of the old of the war from 1861 through 1865, and features many interesting to his profession and of a loyalty that was deaf to the seduction and rare artifacts. Also the museum offers bus and walking tours that Cumberland County Courthouse. of family and friends, Capt. McRae died as he lived, an example highlight important sites and events that occurred of the best and highest qualities a man can possess." during the war In 1867, McRae's body was exhumed in New Mexico for burial at West Point. and other related programs. For more BRUCE DAWS, City of Fayetteville Historic Properties Manager. COMHonors were paid at every post between New Mexico and the U.S. Cemetery information, contact museum staff at MENTS? Editor@upandcomingweekly. at West Point. 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