Bartow History Museum is offering day and weeklong camps for kids this summer. Camps for children, ages 4 to 6 and 7 to 11, range in price from $18 (day camps for museum members) to $100 (weeklong camps for non-members). Camps offered for 2013 are: "Little Jewelers" Day Camp (4-6 y.o.) "Pirates in Bartow" Day Camp (4-6 y.o.) "Great Explorers" Day Camp (4-6 y.o.) "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" Day Camp (4-6 y.o.) "Pirates in Bartow" Day Camp (7-11 y.o.) "Cherokee Life" Day Camp (7-11 y.o.) "Native Americans" Week Long Camp (7-11 y.o.) "Around the World in 4 Days!" Week Long Camp (7-11 y.o…

See the new movie, 'Star Trek Into Darkness' playing at Carmike Cinemas. For more theater information, show times and pricing, click here. The premise, courtesy of the film's official website: When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an …

For the fourth consecutive year, Booth Western Art Museum announces its Summer Entertainment Series, set for the third Thursdays of June and July, which will culminate with a Swing Dance Party to kick off the Museum’s 10th anniversary the first weekend of August, according to the press release. Guests and members are invited to enjoy An Evening with Cathy Smith: Artist, Costume Designer, and Historian on Thursday, June 20, at 7 p.m. in the Booth Ballroom. Smith designed the authentic costumes in films such as Dances with Wolves, Geronimo and Son of the Morning Star—for which she won the Emmy …

Cartersville's Booth Western Art Museum is opening its annual Artists’ Guild Exhibition today in the Borderlands Gallery. On view May 14 through Sept. 1, the juried exhibit features 65 works of art by 54 artists who are members of the Booth Artists’ Guild, a group that meets monthly for educational artistic programs. “Cartersville and Bartow County are home to many artists with varying levels of experience using different mediums. The Booth Museum has opened the door of opportunity for many of them, providing a world-class space for their work to be viewed. For the professional artist, being …

Booth Western Art Museum with a reception Thursday opened its annual Bartow County and Cartersville City Schools Elementary Art Exhibit in the Borderlands Gallery. On view through May 12, it features a number of pieces that are representative of the work from our local city and many county elementary schools. For the fifth year in a row, art teachers from 10 Bartow schools and Cartersville Elementary School have selected the best pieces from their school to be represented in the show. All of the artwork displayed are pieces that have been created by the students, kindergarten through fifth-…

Cartersville Downtown Development Authority has lined up a festive way for downtowners to welcome the month of May, with a variety of events and activities. April 29through May 4has been proclaimed "Flower Power" week in downtown.  A number of retail merchants will decorate their storefronts with motifs of "Flower Power," and some local restaurants will feature flower inspired entrees and cocktails. On Friday, May 3, downtown will launch First Fridays Downtown where merchants will keep their places of business open until 8:00 pm to welcome people downtown and give them extra chances to see …

"Jurassic Park 3D" is playing at Cartersville's Carmike Cinemas at various showtimes. From the film's official website: With his remastering of the epic into a state-of-the-art 3D format, Spielberg introduces the three-time Academy Award-winning blockbuster to a new generation of moviegoers and allows longtime fans to experience the world he envisioned in a way that was unimaginable during the film’s original release. Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Attenborough, the film based on the novel by Michael Crichton is produced by Kathleen Kennedy and …

Movie legend Burt Reynolds has been in Cartersville working on Hamlet and Hutch, a film that will put local actor Alan J. Sanders as Hamlet, local residents as extras and The Grand Theatre on the big screen. Production started Tuesday, according to a NinaHoliday Entertainment ad for extras and stand-ins, and is set to continue in other Georgia cities, such as Blue Ridge, The Daily Tribune News reports. Hamlet and Hutch is about an aging actor, who may be in the early stages of dementia, but has been asked to help save a small theater by coming to town and performing in a production of …

Booth Western Art Museum announced it's partnered with The Saturday Evening Post Society to showcase art from some of America’s foremost illustrators who contributed to the covers of the magazine in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. Covering America: The Saturday Evening Post in the 1950’s and early 1960’s debuts March 30 and runs through Sept. 29, 2013, in the Special Exhibition Gallery. Featuring 30 original paintings alongside The Saturday Evening Post covers they graced, the exhibit showcases a magazine that captured the heart and soul of America. The art of Norman Rockwell, John Clymer, …

An asteroid Friday will pass Earth within the moon's orbit, flying lower than communications, weather and GPS satellites high above the planet, according to Space.com. While it will be the nearest to Earth an object of its size has ever passed, asteroid 2012 DA 14 won't be visible from Georgia, even with a telescope, because the action will happen during the daylight hours, said astronomer David Dundee, who analyzes images and data captured by NASA's fireball cameras at Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville.  "The distance is about 1/13th the distance to the moon," Dundee said, adding the …

Booth Western Art Museum’s educational program What’s the Story? Connecting Art & Literacy won the Education Category at the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries annual conference in Athens on Friday. Education Director Lisa Wheeler accepted the award at an awards luncheon inside the Georgia Museum of Art. Over the past decade, the Booth Education Department has continued to develop and coordinate educational opportunities for students visiting the Museum. What’s the Story? Connecting Art & Literacy provides gallery lessons and hands-on activities developed around the narrative works …

Tellus Science Museum received two awards, including institution of the year, at the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries annual conference on Friday. "There are many great museums in Georgia, and to be selected as the institution of the year is a great honor. This is a great reflection on who we are and what we do," Executive Director Jose Santamaria said in a release. "Tellus is a team effort. Many people share in this award, and I would like to express my sincere appreciation to our staff, volunteers, board and members. We are all part of this success." Tellus astronomer David …

Up next for local theater group Pumphouse Players is playwright Ray Cooney’s Run for Your Wife.  Directed by Mike Wasson, it's the story of taxi driver John Smith, played by Mike Davis, who gets away with having two wives in different areas of London. Trouble brews when the cabbie is mugged and ends up in the hospital, where both of his addresses surface. The situation spurs an investigation by two different police officers, and it appears John’s double life is about to explode. Complication piles upon complication as John, with some "help" from his lazy neighbor Stanley, tries to explain …

The Quadrantid meteor shower is named for an extinct constellation, but the shooting stars that seem to sprout from it still arrive yearly, and the opening of the 2013 show will begin overnight Jan. 1 into Jan. 2. The Quadrantids is one of the lesser-known meteor showers of the year, but that doesn't mean it's anything less than spectacular. Take a look at this Quadrantids meteor shower video or these pictures of the Quadrantids. While the shower begins overnight on the first day of the new year, NASA tells us Quadrantid meteor shower peaks in the wee morning hours of Jan. 4: "[T]he …

Here are 10 fun ways to keep kids from toddlers to teens entertained and off screens during the upcoming holiday break. Day trip adventure: Meagan Buckmaster-Ross of Duvall, WA, is an art teacher and author of the parenting blog An Adventure Every Day. Buckmaster-Ross, who has four kids between the ages of 7 and 17, says your adventures can take you outdoors to local parks or indoors to a museum or other kid-friendly attractions. Either way, you should pack your car with the essentials for the day. This includes food and beverages, mittens and hats, and extra tops and pants in case kids get …

Before you pack up those holiday decorations, take that new camera you received for Christmas and snap some photos to enter the Merry & Bright Bartow Photo Contest sponsored by the Cartersville-Bartow County Convention & Visitors Bureau. Photographs must be submitted now through Jan. 31 and online at www.VisitCartersvilleGA.org. Scroll down for the submission form.  Images should depict Christmas decor, holiday lights or unique winter scenes of local landmarks, attractions or natural areas. Entries must be taken within Bartow County and/or its municipalities to be eligible. Only .tiff or .jpg…

Booth Western Art Museum is seeking participants for its Writing Through Art Literary Contest, an anticipated part of the Museum’s Annual Cowboy Gathering. Now in its eighth year, the literary contest is geared toward all sixth through 12th grade students in Georgia and includes traditional cowboy poetry, narrative poetry and short stories, according to the release. "In years past, this event has been coordinated by the late Doc Stovall, Entertainment [and] Sponsorship Manager for Booth Western Art Museum and Georgia’s Official Cowboy Balladeer," Marketing Director Tom Shinall said in an …

Eric de Groot's plans for a miniature theme park at LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center outside Cartersville in Emerson call for miniature replicas of familiar landmarks across the country. Sites to be considered for The Mini American Park include several natural phenomena and tourist attractions—from Alaska's glaciers to Utah's Mormom Temple to Florida's Disney World. Georgia sites on the table include Atlanta's Martin Luther King Jr. Center, the Georgia Aquarium and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and the antebellum houses of Savannah. Which landmarks do you think …

Many residents will likely be fully immersed in the Christmas season after tonight’s Christmas Parade through historic downtown. Continuing the momentum of the holiday spirit, Cartersville Downtown Development Authority and Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce have partnered to present Hometown Christmas, set for Saturday, Dec. 8, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Meant to encourage community residents to shop locally, both organizations have worked together to create a festive atmosphere for residents and visitors alike to enjoy shopping and dining in downtown Cartersville. Activities will …

The Geminid meteor shower 2012, the final major meteor shower of every year and likely to be the best, peaks overnight Dec. 13 until dawn on Dec. 14. If you liked the Perseids meteor shower 2012 in August, you should love this show. NASA reports that the Geminids are a relatively young meteor shower, with the first sightings occurring in the 1830s with rates of about 20 per hour. Over the decades the rates have increased, regularly spawning between 80 and 120 per hour at its peak on a clear evening. How spectacular is it? Just take a look some spectacular photos of the Geminids. Earthsky.org …