The first time I heard the name Raleigh I was watching the Andy Griffith Show and thought it was spelt “Rawley.” Google promptly asked if I meant to search for “Raleigh” instead. I didn’t give visiting the state capital of North Carolina a shot until I saw it on a map and remembered that characters from Mayberry called it the “big city.”
So I went.
The State Capitol building wasn’t open so I couldn’t do a tour inside, but all the museums were. I visited the City of Raleigh Museum for regional history, the North Carolina Museum of History, the Museum of Art, and the Museum of Natural Sciences. All free, so the city’s museum network calls itself the Smithsonian of the South.
The famous Woolworth’s lunch corner where four black students sat in a whites-only section to protest segregation in businesses was on the corner of Fayetteville and E’Hargett. Other lunch counters such as McLellan’s and Kress also saw sit-ins.
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