Pitt County has provided a main character and supporting player in a new museum exhibit that tells this state's story.

“The Story of North Carolina,” the new N.C. Museum of History exhibit that traces the history of the state, includes a two-room farm house originally built in Pitt County. A crib featured in the house was built by two Pitt County furniture makers using wood harvested from a Pitt County farm.

“To have a home in Pitt County put in the museum and to ask us to replicate an exact piece of furniture to go into that house, it's an exciting thing to be a part of, especially being a Pitt County boy. I was happy to be part of that,” said retired dentist Dick Evans, who, along with second-generation cabinet maker Paul Gianino, built the crib.

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