City Update City of Fayetteville, NC

The 3rd Annual Juneteenth Jubilee is a full-day celebration in Festival Park featuring nationally touring headliners, local performance acts, food trucks, vendors, artists and artisans and more. Learn more about what you can expect to experience at the event in this episode of City Update.

In this episode of City Update, learn about the sport of Pickleball. Pickleball has been the fastest growing sport in the nation since 2020. It's fun and a great way to get some exercise and make friends. Fayetteville-Cumberland Parks & Recreation has several indoor and outdoor pickleball courts available.

The Fayetteville Dogwood Festival has been a tradition here in Fayetteville for more than 40 years! Come out to downtown Fayetteville and Festival Park April 26-28 to enjoy food, music, vendors of all sorts, midway rides and much more!

An Earth Day Celebration will take place on April 20th in Festival Park as a way to educate and bring awareness on ways to protect the Earths natural resources. Learn about the event on this episode of City Update.

In this episode of City Update, we highlight a new exhibit at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum. “Opening the Vaults: Treasures of the Fort Liberty Museums.” showcases some of the rarest collection pieces from the Fort Liberty Museums, made up of the ASOM, 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, JKF Special Warfare Museum, and the U.S. Army Reserve Command History Office.

Visitors will have a behind the scenes look at unique artifacts dating back to the American Civil War (1861-1865) to the present day used or captured by Soldiers on the battlefield, along with historical context. “Opening the Vaults” will be at the ASOM through December 29, 2024.

In this City Update, Megan Maxwell from the Museum of the Cape Fear talks about a special exhibit titled, "Seventeen Men: Portraits of the Men of the 25th US Colored Troops".

Learn how the discovery of a tiny pocket-sized photo album led to a months-long research project for genealogist and artist Shayne Davidson, culminating in a series of 17 life sized portraits. The Seventeen Men were soldiers with the 25th US Colored Troops Co. G from 1864-1865. Each portrait is accompanied by a short biography of the man's life and a reproduced image of the original albumin print or tintype Davidson used to create the portrait.