Join the State Capitol on Saturday, November 8 as historians read children’s books about the state’s Revolutionary history! Staff from the North Carolina Historical Research and Publications office will read Within Our Power: The Story of the Edenton Ladies' Tea Party and Blue’s March: An Overmountain Men Tale. Both books will be available for purchase. Readings will take place in the Capitol at 11:30am, 12:30pm and 1:30pm. This event is free and open to all; no registration necessary. Story Time is presented in partnership with Y Guides of the Triangle. Local Y Guides and their families are encouraged to attend – the first 50 Y Guides here will get a free Capitol patch! (After 50, patches will be sold to participants for $1.00 each.)

Within Our Power tells the story of fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina in 1774. These individuals undertook a revolutionary act: they signed a resolution in protest of Britain's colonial taxation policies and gave their oaths to boycott British goods. Later remembered as the Edenton Tea Party, this event was an early example of women's political activism during the American Revolution.

Blue’s March: An Overmountain Men Tale, is inspired by real historical events and figures. Travel with Joseph and his faithful hound dog, Blue, as they embark on adventure! During the War for Independence, threats of war spread throughout America’s thirteen colonies. By 1780, British Loyalists terrorized Patriots' homes throughout the Carolinas and planned to move westward over the mountains. Patriots in rural Virginia, North Carolina, and present-day Tennessee undertook a revolutionary act: they joined forces to march over the Blue Ridge Mountains and confront British Loyalist troops at the Battle of Kings Mountain. Called Overmountain Men, these Patriot troops were dedicated to protecting the Carolinas and preserving independence.