ALL 3 LECTURES. $45 Members / $60 Nonmember
Parts I, II and III
Sunday, January 19, 2020 2:00 PM
Part One: The Age of Explorers 1521-1750
The Myths of Verrazzano and the River Jordan; William Hilton and the “worthless” island; the origin of the names Cape Fear, Frying Pan Shoals, and Bald Head; John Vassall’s “Haunted Colony;” and the demise of the Barbadian “Gentleman Pirate.”
Sunday, February 16, 2020 2:00 PM
Part Two: Lighthouses and Lifesaving at Cape Fear
Cape Fear's Three Lighthouses 1795-1903, their history, their keepers, and their fates; President Jefferson and the lighthouse keeper’s wife; the “Ansel Adams” of American lighthouses; the amazing and tragic odyssey of the second most historic lighthouse Fresnel lens in the nation; the "Age of Oars," shipwrecks, lifesavers John Watts and Dunbar Davis, and the forgotten heroes of East Beach.
Sunday, March 22, 2020– 2:00 PM
Part Three: Cape Fear’s Colorful Characters– Tax Evaders, Blockade Runners, Commandos, Dreamers, and Developers
The Smiths of Smith Island, Civil War notables William Barker Cushing, Ambrose Hoke, Thomas Mann Thompson, Charlie Bahnson and the wreck of the Ella; the developers, Thomas Franklin Boyd, Frank Sherrill, William R. Henderson and the Carolina Cape Fear Corporation, Walter Davis, George Mitchell, and the Generator Society.
The Great Room at Weymouth Center
555 E. Connecticut Ave in Southern Pines NC
$15 members / $20 nonmembers
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