Aug 1, 2021 | General News
Stop by the museum’s library, just next to the gift shop, to learn about the history of nursing. Featured artifacts include nursing school uniforms from the mid-20th century. For much of the 20th century until the 1960-1970s, nursing students typically trained at...
Sep 12, 2020 | Garden, General News
General News One of the prettiest flowers grown in the Country Doctor Museum’s medicinal garden is foxglove (Digitalis). The observations of the foxglove by William Withering, an 18th century English physician, elevated a traditional folk...
Jun 24, 2020 | Garden, General News
General News Museum staff were disappointed not to plant the museum’s medicinal garden this spring due to Coronavirus stay-at-home orders. However, we were pleasantly surprised to see how much of our garden grew back on its own, seemingly not needing our TLC! Our...
Jun 24, 2020 | General News
General News Our local and national response to COVID-19 created massive changes throughout our communities. To help with a request from an area school for online educational resources this past May, the museum’s staff created a recorded tour presentation and...
Sep 30, 2018 | Events, General News
General News Visitors celebrated the 50th anniversary of The Country Doctor Museum’s opening on December 8, 2018, fifty years to the day of the museum’s opening in 1968. Guests and staff (including ECU librarians and archivists) listened to local musicians, enjoyed...
