Education Tech Innovator Brings 60 New Jobs to American Tobacco Campus

Education Tech Innovator Brings 60 New Jobs to American Tobacco Campus NYC Company Picks Durham for Talent, Creative Environment Wireless Generation, a Brooklyn, New York-based provider of educational software and digital tools for teachers nationwide, will open a new 65-person office in a 12,600 square foot space within Durham’s American Tobacco Historic District. Approximately 60 […]

Hurricanes Hold Season Opening Event at American Tobacco

Hurricanes Hold Season Opening Event at American Tobacco Think Ice Gets Triangle Ready for 2011-12 Hockey Fans shoot at an ice puck for prizes at Think Ice on the American Tobacco lawn. View the Slideshow The lawn at American Tobacco became a make-shift hockey rink on Tuesday, October 4, 2011, as the Carolina Hurricanes visited […]

What Do Dinosaurs & Ducks Have in Common?

They’ll Both Be at This Year’s FOX 50 Family Fest & Great American Tobacco Duck Race on Sat, Oct 1st! Enter the World of Terra Nova in Bay 7. The hit show recently debuted on FOX 50 to big buzz. Experience a World of Animals at your Fingertips with Noah’s Landing. Play Field Games and […]

Chatham County Line To Close 2011 FREE Lawn Concert Series at American Tobacco

Chatham County Line To Close 2011 FREE Lawn Concert Series at American Tobacco Final 2011 Outdoor Concert on Sept 30th American Tobacco’s FREE summer concert series will draw to a close for 2011 this Friday, September 30th, with hometown favorites Chatham County Line. The band has toured the world since they last played the American […]

Inter-Faith Food Shuttle to Benefit from Great American Duck Race

The Great American Tobacco Duck Race will be a central fixture of the FOX 50 Family Fest this Saturday, October 1st. The rubber duck rally will benefit three Triangle charities, including race mainstay the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle.   Capcom has been providing information about all three non-profits, which also include Explorer Post 50 and Durham […]

Great American Duck Race Supports Durham Literacy Center & More

One highlight The highlight of this year’s FOX 50 Family Fest on Saturday, October 1st, will be the Great American Tobacco Duck Race.   Thousands of people will line the banks of the Ol’ Bull River to find out who will win prizes for the swiftest ducks.  The Duck activities get underway at 3:30pm with […]

2011 Free Concert Series Continues into Fall

Temperatures will get the Triangle feeling like fall, but American Tobacco’s FREE concert series will stick to the lawn on this Friday, September 16th, with Loudon Wainwright III and his daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche. With roots in Durham, the elder Wainwright is a world renonwed singer and songwriter. Known for his humorous autobiographical songs, Wainwright […]

Dreams Become Reality at American Tobacco

From GSK Exec to County Sheriff to Civil Rights Activist, New Exhibit Brings Visions of Innovation, Diversity to Life Hard work, bounding ambition and team spirit led to the creation of the vibrant Durham we know today. It all started with a shared dream that Durham, despite economic turmoil, still held a lot of promise, […]

Shady Grove Band Plays FREE American Tobacco This Friday Sept 9th

Shady Grove Band Plays FREE American Tobacco This Friday Sept 9th Music on the Lawn Continues 2011 Run American Tobacco’s FREE summer concert series continues this Friday, September 9th, with The Shady Grove Band. One of the Triangle’s oldest and best known bluegrass bands, the Shady Grove Band will keep the free music going at […]