Name: Lecture: Things That Went Bump in the Night in the Early United States
Start: 2025-10-30T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-30T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Joel Lane Museum House Visitors Center

Lecture: Things That Went Bump in the Night in the Early United States

NC State Professor Craig Friend will take a look at how Americans viewed the supernatural in the 19th century, and how Halloween evolved.
About this Event

NC State Professor Craig Friend will take a look at how Americans viewed the supernatural in the 19th century, and how Halloween evolved as a holiday.

The lecture will be held at the Visitor Center Joel Lane Museum House on Thursday, October 30th, 2025 from 7:00pm-8:30pm.

There is limited seating for the in-person talk.

This lecture will be simultaneously livestreamed on Zoom (you do not need a ticket to attend via Zoom). Webinar information will be available on .

Craig Friend is a Professor of History at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. He recently published "Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas", a biography of Lunsford Lane, who grew up enslaved in Raleigh in the 1800s.