Historic Pond Spring reopens for tours following major renovation

What It Took To Reopen The Historic Carolina Theatre - Charlotte Magazine

Billy Clayton, the lead audio engineer at the 98-year-old Carolina Theatre on North Tryon Street, sits in an orchestra seat surrounded by old-school opulence, like he’s Louis XIV in blue jeans: plush seats, crimson curtains with gold tassels, pastoral murals on the walls. He’s 42, and he can appreciate the gilded metal and the ornamental plaster, but he also remembers having his 15th birthday party at the theater when it was a burned-out husk.  …

Historic Pond Spring reopens for tours following major renovation

Pond Spring, the Lawrence County farm of Confederate general turned American war hero Joseph “Fighting Joe” Wheeler, reopened for tours last week after a substantial renovation of the post-Civil War home built by Wheeler and his wife, Daniella Jones Sherrod,…