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Back Page Magazine recently sat down with Canadian film director Laura Archibald, who discussed her new film “Greenwich Village: The Music that Defined a Generation.”

"These fun museums pay homage to a single subject, honor a special interest and celebrate the strange. They may draw smaller crowds, but their founders and visitors don't lack for enthusiasm."

Op-Ed written by Jessica Meadows Hammett, Executive Director of the Ava Gardner Museum

Grant will help the museum to better manage and organize the collection

Students learn about North Carolina's most celebrated daughter

Gift shop offers Ava films, books, calendars, clothing and many other items

Museum offers free admission, cake, and visits with Santa Claus

Grants support the marketing of the Ava Gardner Festival and the Tennessee Williams Reading Series

Gift shop offers Ava films, books, t-shirts, posters, and other souvenirs

Forty-two films featuring Ava will be shown

"Ava on the Small Screen" and "Ava and Her Corgis" will run through May 2011

Lecture on The Night of the Iguana given by Dr. Joseph Flora

Museum Opened in its Permanent Location in Downtown Smithfield in October 2000

Visitors must present Museum Day Admission Card to gain free entry

Festival Celebrates Ava's Life and Career

See Ava as Maxine Faulk, the only role for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe

Festival Celebrates Ava's Life and Career

Festival attendees encouraged to read Tennessee Williams' "The Night of the Iguana"

Ava on Television Exhibit Will Display Rarely Seen Costumes

Visitors Will Be Shown Points of Interest in Ava's Hometown

Museum Offers Buy One Get One Free Admission to Celebrate Huston's 104th Birthday

Ava Gardner Festival Celebrates Ava's Life and Career

Gala Hosts Unveiling of New Exhibit, Ava on the Small Screen

Festival Celebrates Ava's Life and Career

For the month of March 2010, the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, NC will feature a memorial tribute honoring the life and career of Kathryn Grayson.

Although it may seem not that long ago, Monday, January 25th marks 20 years since the passing of Ava Gardner.

The fifth annual Ava Gardner Festival is scheduled for Friday, October 9-Saturday, October 10 and this year’s theme celebrates the special relationship Ava shared with Ernest Hemingway.