An Ava Film for Every Mood
*Note from the JCVB: this is the first post in a partnership we've started with the Ava Gardner Museum Blog. The JCVB will be cross-posting some of their blogs over to our own blog so that readers…
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Category: Attractions
American Music Jubilee is Now Live@The Rudy
Located along the I-95 Corridor at exit 97 in Selma, NC, the long-running American Music Jubilee has been a Johnston County tradition for many years. Recently rebranded as Live@The Rudy, audiences…
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Clayton Fear Farm is Open for Fun and Fright
Boyette's Family Farms Inc. has farm fresh fun for the whole family. Johnston County locals and visitors have been traveling to Clayton to experience hayrides and haunted houses at Boyette's for many…
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'White Liquor and White Lies' - Moonshine History
'White Liquor and White Lies' details county's history of moonshining As long as there have been governments, there have been taxes. And since governments began trying to collect those taxes, people…
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Clayton Bootleggers Expanding Rugby Club
Updated: 6/15/18 Did you know that Johnston County has a Rugby team? Well, it does. The Bootleggers. Appropriate for this area, no? Established in 2013 the Clayton Rugby Football Club, or the…
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The Mountains-to-Sea Trail Cuts Through JoCo
The Clayton River Walk on the Neuse is a beautiful 4-mile, 10-foot wide paved trail that begins at the Wake/Johnston County line and parallels the Neuse River under Covered Bridge Road. Similarly…
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Ava as “Hemingway’s Heroine” New Exhibit
In 2018, the Ava Gardner Museum opened the “Hemingway’s Heroine” Exhibit, which showcases Ava’s close friendship with Ernest Hemingway. This exhibit features, for the first time, a movie costume…
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Mad Mule Pro Mod Shootout at GALOT
Just how fast is 200 miles per hour? A skydiver, cutting through the clouds, can reach speeds of up to 160mph. The AH-64 helicopter has a top cruising speed of 176mph. The TGV, France’s high-speed…
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Ava Gardner Museum is Still Standing
Ava Gardner Museum is Still Standing, and They Said It Wouldn’t Last! The board members of the Ava Gardner Museum may have heard a thousand times that the fans of Ava Gardner are old, dying off, and…
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A Little Snow in JoCo
It doesn't happen often in the South. But when it does, snow has the unique ability to fill Southerners with both dread and wonder. The dread part comes when we accept that, unlike our Northern…
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