Pre- and Post-Tours (Optional)

Pre-Tours (June 10-12)

If These Walls Could Talk

History buffs, avid art aficionados, horticulturists and historians alike will find a tour of Winston-Salem’s historic homes, museums, gardens and more a wonderful study into our colorful past. Grand estates from years past are today some of Winston-Salem’s finest dining restaurants, elegant hotels, and modern-day art museums. The area’s dedication to restoring historic buildings is clearly seen through an impressive line-up of notable hotel options around downtown.  

The Graylyn Estate will act as home base for the tour, with visit to several sites, including The Kimpton Cardinal Hotel, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Körner’s Folly, Historic Bethabara Park, The Single Brothers’ Garden and Miksch Gardens in Old Salem Museum & Gardens. 

Participation: Limited to 10 people, minimum of 4 Actives required for tour to occur

Tour Rates:

  • Actives – $500
  • Associates/Spouses – $585 

Cancellation Deadline: Full refund if canceled by EOD on June 3.

A Taste of NC Wine Country

Less than an hour from Winston-Salem, tantalize your taste buds along the Surry County Wine Trail in North Carolina’s Yadkin Valley wine region. Tour participants enjoy tastings and meals at award-winning vineyards, indulge in Surry County’s heritage dessert, sonker, and sample life in the friendly small towns of the Blue Ridge foothills. Also on tap is a Mayberry tour in popular TV actor Andy Griffith’s hometown of Mount Airy. Accommodations will be at the Hampton Inn & Suites Shelton Vineyard – the only Hampton Inn in the U.S. with a wine bar!

Participation: Limited to 8 people, minimum of 4 Actives required for tour to occur

Tour Rates:

  • Actives – $150
  • Actives Spouses – $200
  • Associates – $220
  • Associates Spouses – $270

Cancellation Deadline: Full refund if canceled by EOD on June 6. 

North Carolina Cities on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail

Attendees will experience Greensboro, North Carolina’s third-largest city, which was known for denim. In 1960, four college freshmen put it on the map as the launchpad of the sit-in movement. With the Proximity Hotel as home base, visit the site of their nonviolent protest at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, along with former Green Book motel, The Historic Magnolia House. Other highlights include a walking tour of historical downtown Greensboro and N.C. A&T University’s February One monument, which honors the four alumni who propelled a national movement with the Woolworth sit-in.

A city with no racial majority, Durham reveals surprising twists in its civil rights story. With the Durham Marriott City Center as home base, wander Durham’s Black Wall Street, sample some of the area’s finest Black-owned restaurants, and attend the Confronting Change exhibit at the Carolina Theatre. Taking “no” for an answer was not an option for the heroes that lined Durham streets in peaceful protest in the 1960s. This exhibit tells the story of the desegregation of the theater and the people dedicated to making certain their community had equal access for all.

Participation: Limited to 5 people, minimum of three Actives required for tour to occur

Tour Rates:

  • Actives: $300
  • Associates: $350
  • Spouses: $350

Post-Tours (June 15-17)

Moravian Culinary & History

Old Salem was settled some 250-plus years ago in 1766 by the Moravians, a devout, religious group originally from Eastern Europe. Today, Old Salem Museums & Gardens is a unique living history site. While the name “Old Salem” implies the town’s rich and immersive history, the spirit of the Moravians and their inventiveness lives on today with new and exciting initiatives.  

The city’s culinary roots also date back to the arrival of the Moravians. They brought what has now become one of Winston-Salem’s most iconic tastes: Moravian Sugar Cakes, the thinly sliced ginger-spiked Moravian cookies (now available in many flavors); Love Feast Buns; Moravian Chicken Pies; and assorted pickles and German-style foods, which you’ll get to savor and sample along The Moravian Culinary Trail. Overnight accommodations for this tour will be at The Historic Brookstown Inn.

Participation: Limited to 15 people, minimum of 4 Actives required for tour to occur

Tour Rates:

  • Actives – $180
  • Associates/Spouses – $200

Cancellation Deadline: Full refund if canceled by EOD on June 8. 

Art & Architecture of Winston-Salem

Throughout its history, Winston-Salem has been transformed by an unrelenting spirit of reinvention – from its earliest days as a Moravian settlement, through its industrial boomtown years of tobacco and textiles, to today’s wired and wonderful City of Arts and Innovation. Winston-Salem beckons with its architectural evolution, where abandoned warehouses and mills have been beautifully reborn as world-class research facilities, and treasured historic buildings are given new life as sophisticated boutique hotels and award-winning restaurants. 

From an 18th-century “fachwerk” style home, to the dazzling Art Deco muse for New York’s Empire State Building, some of architecture and design’s best and brightest have left their unmistakable mark on modern day Winston-Salem. Enjoy this tour with accommodations provided by The Kimpton Cardinal Hotel.

Participation: Limited to 10 people, minimum of 4 Actives required for tour to occur

Tour Rates:

  • Actives – $250
  • Associates/Spouses – $340

Cancellation Deadline: Full refund if canceled by EOD on June 8.