Beech Mountain Land of Oz theme park’s annual Autumn at Oz celebration takes place this year in September. The dates for this year’s three-day festival are September 8-10, 2017. This is a three-day weekend event lasting from Friday through Sunday. It will be the 24th annual Autumn at Oz festival. The festival has a lot of fun activities, face painting, photos with the characters, props and souvenirs, food, and drinks. People travel from all over to come to this popular festival in the North Carolina mountains. The festival started out as a small reunion of the theme park’s former employees. Now it is has grown into a popular weekend festival. Children and adults as well will all enjoy this fun event that celebrates the Wizard of Oz.
Autumn at Oz
Land of Oz Beech Mountain Autumn at Oz
At Autumn of Oz visitors can travel thru the twister that took Dorothy to OZ, walk along the Yellow Brick Road, explore Oz and meet many of the beloved characters such as the Tin Man, Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, Professor Marvel, Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, Glinda the Good Witch, the Wizard of Oz and even The Wicked Witch of the West with her Winkie guards and flying monkeys!
Tickets go on sale July 24th, 2017 and cost $40 for both adults and children. Advance tickets are recommended due to the popularity of the festival. It usually sells out every year. Buy tickets at their website Land Of Oz/Autumn at Oz, but act fast because tickets sell out fast!
Beech Mountain Land of Oz History
Land of Oz in Beech Mountain was an operational theme park for 10 years from 1970-1980. Hard times hit the park and it closed. Then vandalism and destruction took its toll. In 1990 the area was taken over by Emerald Mountain development. With renovations and hard work now it has become what it is today. Emerald Mountain Properties have private parties at Oz, rentals, sales, Land of Oz, Oz souvenirs, Autumn At Oz Festival, bike and hiking trails and 440 acres to discover and explore.
Location and Map to the Land of Oz at Beech Mountain, NC
This morning on Friday July 14 at about 8:00am a local fisherman was fishing on the new island (Shelly Island) across from Cape Point on Hatteras Island at the Outer Banks. The fisherman founded washed up on the island some type of unidentified explosive device. The device could be an old military device such as an unexploded ordnance. The island was quickly evacuated. Now multiple agencies are involved. Those agencies involved include the Hatteras Island Rescue Squad, Dare County Emergency Management, the National Park Service, the US Coast Guard, and several local fire departments. Now the Navy and Marine Corp Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians out of Virginia are on the way to Buxton. That ODT team is expected to arrive sometime Friday afternoon. The device on the island is causing a lot of excitement for the Outer Banks. Shelly Island was making the news before but now this explosive device that has been discovered washed ashore on the new island will cause even more headlines in the news!
Shelly Island across from Cape Point at Buxton, NC
Shelly Island is a national news maker. The growing sandbar is just off of Cape Point at Buxton, NC at the Outer Banks. The new sandbar/island was not there just a few months ago. About April the small sandbar was noticed just off Cape Point. Over the next few months the sandbar kept getting bigger and bigger. Now the new island named Shelly Island is over a mile long and about three football fields long. The island is covered in seashells. One end of the new island is close to the beach at Cape Point. At low tide the narrow channel is only about 5 ft deep. Many people are swimming over from the beach to the new island at low tide. But officials ware that swimming to the island is not recommended. The current can be quite strong not to mention the sharks and stingrays that have been seen swimming in the channel. And if people stay too long and the tide rises the water gets deeper and the current is too strong for swimmers to safely swim back to Cape Point.
The safest way to get to the island is by other ways. Many people are using kayaks, boogie boards, canoes, small boats and SUPs to get to the newly formed island. The fishing is great on the ocean side of Shelly Island. Shellhunters are in heaven due to the large numbers of shells being found. Some beachcombers come back with bags and bags of conch shells and other great finds like colorful pieces of seaglass, scotch bonnets and other shells.
The island has made national news. Ginger Zee from Good Morning America broadcast live from the island a few weeks ago. FOX News has reported about Shelly Island and CNN has also covered the new island. Numerous local TV stations from NC, SC and Virginia as well as others have had stories about the newly formed island. Now this possible unexploded bomb washing ashore on Shelly Island will surly make more news.
Kayaking to Shelly Island Near Cape Point at the Outer Banks
The annual 301 Endless Yard Sale 2017 will be held again this summer in eastern North Carolina. This year it takes place the weekend of June 16-17, 2017. This will be the 5th year of this huge and popular endless yard sale along NC Highway 301. This huge multiple-county yard sale starts on Friday 6/16/17 and runs through Saturday 6/17/17 with the hours being 7:00 am-5:00 pm for both days. Many communities in multiple counties along US 301 Â participate each year from Dunn to Weldon. Shops, churches, schools, groups, individuals, families and more will be set up along Highway 301 selling items, antiques, collectibles, toys, games, clothing, crafts, furniture and more. Participants set up all along Highway 301 between Roanoke Rapids to Dunn. The 301 Endless Yard Sale 2017 will be over 100 miles beginning in the Johnston County towns of Smithfield, Selma, Kenly, and Benson, and continuing thru Wilson County, Nash County, Halifax County and Harnett Counties.
Participating counties include Halifax, Nash, Wilson, Johnston and Harnett with over 500 vendors set up along US Highway 301. Many more vendors each year join in on the fun of selling their wears in this gigantic yard sale event. Many flea markets along the route have space available! For more information see 301 Endless Yardsale. Â This is so fun to do to ride along Highway 301 to see all the yardsales, do some shopping or just see all the people at this multi-county huge event!
301 Endless Yard Sale 2017 Dates June 16-17
This huge event is getting bigger and more popular each year. It also is getting more attention from the news media. Each year more and more churches, groups, families, farms, and businesses join in on this popular and fun event. Â Last year was a huge success bringing in lots of yard sale shoppers from all over the United States.
Some sellers will be located along the highway in established visitor sites like Riverside Mill in Weldon, the Tobacco Farm Life Museum in Kenly, and TWM Antiques in Selma. Also, families, churches and schools along the route will have vendor setups. If you like yard sales, antiques and travel you will love this unique US 301 Endless Yard Sale!
People shopping at 301 Endless Yard Sale
Big tent on 301 for endless yard sale in Kenly
301 Endless Yard Sale
Shopping along the route is really a lot of fun. Last year there were tents along Highway 301 for miles in the Johnston County and Wilson County areas. Cars were parked all along the highway with people browsing and shopping. It is a lot of fun to shop the 301 Endless Yard Sale. There is no telling what you might find at this unique yard sale!
Location of NC Highway 301 and the 301 Endless Yard Sale 2017
Southern Farm Show Raleigh 2017 at NC State Fairgrounds
The Southern Farm Show Raleigh 2017 takes place Feb. 3-5, 2017 at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. This fun event is not just for farmers. It has grown into a fun event to go to for everybody. Children love all the tractors and large farm equipment at the farm show. Even the big kids love the huge tractors and farm equipment on display. There are hundreds of vendors at the farm show with all types of outdoor, hunting and farm equipment, devices, supplies, products and more.
Southern Farm Show Raleigh 2017
At this year’s farm show you can test drive a Chevrolet on a track setup just for the test drive. A long line of people was waiting to test drive the bright blue Chevy Camaro, a Chevy Suburban and a Chevy pickup. Ford was also there with several vehicles on display with all their doors open and completely accessible to anyone who wanted a close look. You could sit in the vehicle, inspect it, walk around it, check out the motor. No salesperson around to annoy you!
There were multiple gigantic tents with all types of equipment inside. Things like dirt bikes, four-wheelers, ATVs of every size. There were displays of zero-turn lawnmowers big and large, farm planters, harvesters, tobacco equipment. grain equipment, combines big, small and ginormous! There were some of the biggest tractors you could ever imagine. As I said big kids and little kids really enjoy going to the Southern Farm Show to see all the sights.
Farm Equipment at Southern Farm Show in Raleigh
The Forestry Service is at this event. Many children were at this table talking with and getting their pictures taken with a Forest Ranger. They also have a lot of information about selling timber and how to reforest your timber. There was information on proper forest management what to do and what not to manage woodland.
There is also entertainment with bands playing. And this year there was a lumberjack show which was fun to watch. Last year there was a cattle dog demonstration as the cattle dog rounded up a herd of sheep.
You can also do some shopping. Many vendors offer clothing, boots, capes and hats, gloves, coats, tee shirts, hoodies and other apparel. Carhartt was there this year with some nice coats and other apparel. John Deer was there with apparel and other items. There are license tags, keychains, caps, coffee mugs and more.
The food is also good. Several vendors are set up around the grounds offering funnel cakes, fried twinkies, fried oreo cookies, hotdogs, hamburgers, steak and cheese hoagies, blooming onions, curly fries, drinks and more. Inside the Graham building is the Murphy Barbeque House severing hot meals of BBQ, hamburger steak, hotdog, hamburgers, cake and other desserts and more.
Farm Show crowds enjoying the sites
The Southern Farm Show in Raleigh is held each year in early February. The three-day event is getting bigger and better every year. If you think you don’t need to go because you are not a farm you’re making a mistake! Take the family, take the children and go enjoy this fun farm show.
North Carolina’s own groundhog Sir Walter Wally will make his appearance on Groundhog Day Raleigh 2017  on Thursday  Feb. 2, 2017 in downtown Raleigh. Will he see his shadow and predict winter for 6 more weeks? Or will he not see his shadow meaning spring will come sooner? Groundhog Day is an annual tradition. It’s the day we find out if there will be 6 more weeks of winter or an early spring. The capital city of Raleigh brings out their own Sir Walter Wally each Groundhog Day.  The exciting ceremony takes place on the steps of the Museum of Natural Science in downtown Raleigh. Each year the celebration grows with more people attending and more news stations covering to report the big news. This year more than 1200 people are expected to gather on the steps of the museum to see if the famous North Carolina groundhog sees his shadow or not.
Sir Walter Wally did not see his shadow this morning in downtown Raleigh. So his prediction
for North Carolina is an early spring!
Sir Walter Wally to Make Appearance on Groundhog Day in Raleigh 2/2/2017
Sir Walter Wally has a pretty good record of predicting a long winter or an early spring. Â Wally has a 50% success rate as compared to a 39% success rate of Punxsutawney Phil in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. In fact the Weather Channel puts him in the Top 11 Groundhogs to watch on Groundhog Day for an accurate prediction!
Our on Sir Walter Wally is of course named after Sir Walter Raleigh. Raleigh’s Groundhog Day Celebration The Shadow Ceremony takes place Thursday Feb. 2, 2017 Â from 9:00am – 1:00pm with the big reveal at noon in front of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science. (See map for location below.) Â Watch Sir Walter Wally with special guest Governor McFarlane on Thursday morning. The museum will have several special exhibits related to the history of Groundhog Day, games, hats of Groundhog Day, animal facts related to winter and many other fun exhibits. Plus meet Sir Walter Wally!
Do you want an early spring or do you want more winter (and more snow)?! Let us know in the comments below!
The annual Bulluck Warehouse Sale 2017 begins Saturday, January 21, 2017. The warehouse sale will again take place at Phipps Warehouse at 218 N. Church Street near downtown Rocky Mount, NC. Phipps Warehouse is located next to the Imperial Centre on Church Street. See the map below for directions. Parking is to the left of the warehouse when coming down Church Street. The gigantic Bulluck Warehouse Sale 2017 is one of the most popular sales in Eastern North Carolina. Thousands of shoppers travel many miles to attend this popular sale. This huge fine furniture sale is held every year in late January and goes through February.
Bulluck Furniture Warehouse Sale 2019 starts on 1/26/2019
 Location will be at 218 N Church Street, Rocky Mount, NC
The huge warehouse has over 80,000 square feet of area with sale items from Bulluck’s Furniture. Sale items include scratched and dented fine reproduction furniture, lamps, lamp bodies, lampshades and lamp parts, wood accessories and items, bronze statues and items, crystal pieces, chandeliers, ceramic planters of all sizes, floor and wall screens, traditional and transitional furniture, vases, bowls, statues plus so much more. The sale is huge and after the first seven days the warehouse is restocked with more and different sale items added. So more than one trip to this sale is a must!
Bulluck’s Gigantic Warehouse Sale takes place in an old tobacco warehouse in downtown Rocky Mount. The warehouse is full of fine furniture, lighting and decorative accessories. Row and rows and rows of tables are set up and covered with lamps, bowls, statues, brass, art, vases, pots, candlesticks and more. Chandeliers hang from the rafters, mirrors and art are hung on the walls. Furniture of every type (contemporary, traditional and transitional) are out on display with prices slashed. Even outdoor furniture is included. The furniture is just beautiful! Bed frames, china cabinet, dining room tables and chairs, end tables and more. Â The smell of leather is wonderful! Leather couches, leather office chairs and leather formal chairs all on sale.
This is a complete list of dates and hours for 2017:
Saturday Jan. 21, 2017 Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Sunday Jan. 22, 2017 Â Â Â 1:00pm-5:00pm
Monday Jan. 23, 2017 Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Tuesday Jan. 24, 2017 Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Friday Jan. 27, 2017 Â Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Sat. Jan 28, 2017 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Sun. Jan. 29, 2017 Â Â Â Â Â 1:00pm-5:00pm
Restock to take place with thousands of new items added
Sat, Feb. 4, 2017 Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Sun. Feb. 5, 2017 Â Â 1:00pm-5:00pm
Mon. Feb. 6, 2017 Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Tues. Feb. 7, 2017 Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Fri. Feb 10, 2017 Â Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Sat. Feb 11, 2017 Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Sun Feb 12, 2017 Â Â Â 1:00pm-5:00pm
Mon Feb 13, 2017 Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Tues Feb 14, 2017 Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Fri Feb 17, 2017 Â Â Â Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Sat Feb 18, 2017 Â Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Sun. Feb. 19, 2017 Â Â Â 1:00pm-5:00pm
Mon. Feb. 20, 2017 Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Tues. Feb. 21, 2017 Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Fri. Feb. 24, 2017 Â Â Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Sat. Feb. 25, 2017 Â Â Â Â 9:30am-5:00pm
Sun. Feb. 26, 2017 Â Â Â 1:00pm-5:00pm
Tables full of sale items!
All sales are final. Items are 60-90% off retail prices! The Bulluck Warehouse Sale 2017 is a great event to shop if you want to add or redecorate your home or office. Save hundreds on fine furniture, lamps and accessories. All tables and sections of items are marked down 60-90% in the whole warehouse. As the days goes into February prices will drop.
The warehouse will be closed and restocked with additional items for sale with even better prices after Jan. 29th. When the sale resumes on Sat. Feb. 4th  items left from the first few days of the sale are slashed for the second portion of the gigantic Bulluck Warehouse sale.
Make plans to get to the Bulluck Warehouse Sale 2017! It is so much fun to go to this sale. You do not want to miss this huge fine furniture warehouse sale! Trust me, I have been and it is worth the trip! To see the old warehouse alone is worth the trip. But to add all those beautiful pieces of fine furniture inside the warehouse and put them on sale! Once the sale starts I will post pictures here. Make sure to check back to Travel NC  to see the pictures and find out more information.
This year if you buy a certain amount you get a free gift! After this Sunday they close to restock! They reopen the following Saturday with even more items! See the days and hours listed above.
Here are the pictures from this week’s trip to the warehouse sale!
Bulluck Furniture Warehouse Sale 2020
Lamps
Vases, statues, figurines
Dining tables
Bed Frames
Garden Benches
Chandliers and hanging lights
Kitchen work tables
Lamps, Vases, Pottery
Formal Tables
Lamp shades
Leather furniture
Pottery
Mirrors and wall hangings
Outdoor Furniture
Wooden benches
Row after row of sale items!
Location and Map for the Bulluck Warehouse Sale 2017
