People at PirateFest 2016

Juneteenth Celebrations in Greenville

Greenville will celebrate Juneteenth this month with several community events taking place at the Greenville Town Common. The community is invited to these free events to help honor the meaning and history of Juneteenth through public art, music, history, education, and fellowship. “As a stakeholder…

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Summer of Pride

Join us for the Greenville-Pitt County Summer of Pride! Celebrating community, diversity, and love, this action-packed summer has something for everyone. The Summer of Pride event series was created by our local LBGTQ+ leaders and allies, with the support of NAMI Pitt County, with the goal of…

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Get the Dirt on the Greenville Yard Gnomes Inaugural Season!

Summer is almost here, the perfect time to kick back and watch some baseball! Luckily, Greenville is now ‘Gnome Sweet Gnome’ to the Coastal Plain League’s newest baseball team- the Greenville Yard Gnomes! Come chill with all your Gnomies and watch the Greenville Yard Gnomes play their first home…

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Experience the "Kings of Q" BBQ Cookoff!

Find the best of barbecue in Downtown Ayden at the Kings of Q Double Cookoff May 17th & 18th! This year’s competition will feature the festival’s first-ever double cookoff and the first Hometown Whole Hog Throwdown! The BBQ competition runs from May 17th through 18th, with the public festivities…

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PirateFest Returns!

On Saturday, April 20 from 11:00am - 8:30pm, swashbucklers of all ages will converge on the banks of the T-ARRRGH River, a pirate's paradise located in Downtown Greenville! Returning for its 17th year to the Greenville Town Common and Tar River district, PirateFest festivities will include fine arts…

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Art is in the Air and on Every Corner in April!

Downtown Greenville springs into action Friday, April 5th from 5pm - 8pm for the Downtown Greenville First Friday ArtWalk! Take a self-guided walking tour, or catch a FREE ride on the Emerald Express Trolley to quickly get from stop to stop to view local, regional, and national artist’s work, enjoy…

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A Shad-Tastic Festival

The Grifton Shad Festival has been a keystone event in Eastern North Carolina for 52 years, celebrating the springtime running of the Shad up the Neuse River, then into tributary creeks such as historicContentnea Creek, which runs through Grifton. The longest-running festival in Pitt County, the…

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