Crafting Sailor’s Valentines
Create your own Sailor’s Valentine using shells, and discover the history of the maritime art. All supplies furnished. All ages welcome. Free.
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Salty Dawg Speaker Series: A Picture Show of Outer Banks Shipwreck Diving
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NCJoin Marc Corbett for a photo presentation of the area's shipwrecks. Corbett combined a love for history and SCUBA diving to become a shipwreck hunter, researching and exploring wrecks in shallow and deep water. He will soon be publishing a book on near-shore wrecks. Corbett...
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Salty Dawg Speaker Series: Sea Shanties and Songs of the Sea
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NCJR Shanty Co, comprised of wife and husband team Julianne Laird and Richard Workman, is an instrumental and vocal folk duo, which performs traditional sea shanties and songs of the sea. Featuring instrumentals on guitar and cello, these lifelong music educators energetically share the history...
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Salty Dawg Speaker Series: An Examination of the Shipwrecks along Wimble Shoals
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NCAllyson Ropp, a doctoral student in the Integrated Coastal Studies Program at East Carolina University, explores the histories of some of the vessels lost along Wimble Shoals and northern Hatteras Island, as well as the overall near shore and offshore wrecking trends of the area....
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Salty Dawg Speaker Series: A Coharie Canoe
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NCLydia Downs, a Masters candidate at East Carolina University working on the cultural meanings and preservation of a native American canoe in North Carolina, will focus on the Coharie Tribe in North Carolina to tell the story of their newly repatriated dugout canoe. The program...
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Grand reopening
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NCThe North Carolina Maritime Museum on Hatteras has completed its extensive renovation and complete redesign of its lobby and exhibit spaces. The new gallery is a showcase of state-of-the-art features and interactive elements that bring our coastal history to life. And you can be among...
North Carolina Aquariums’ Aquatic Wildlife Inhabiting Shipwrecks
Staff with the North Carolina Aquarium at Roanoke will be on-site with this hands-on activity.
U.S. Life Saving Service Operations along the North Carolina Coast
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NCJoin North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort Education Curator Benjamin Wunderly to learn about the history of U.S. Life-Saving Service operations, the precursor to the United States Coast Guard.
The History of the Oldest NC State Law Enforcement: 200 Years of Service (1822-2022)
Join Captain Christopher Lee, NC Marine Patrol D-1, NC Division of Marine Fisheries to learn about the state’s longest-serving law enforcement agency.
Brigadier General Billy Mitchell: Father of the U.S. Air Force and Hatteras Hero
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NCJoin Danny Couch to learn about the man considered by aviation historians as the most polarizing airman this country has ever produced. Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell is, nonetheless, regarded as the father of the United States Air Force and an icon in American aviation history....
North Carolina Aquariums’ Aquatic Wildlife Inhabiting Shipwrecks
Staff with the North Carolina Aquarium at Roanoke will be on-site with this hands-on activity.
North Carolina Whales: Diversity, Distribution and Conservation
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NCJoin North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort Natural Science Curator and Director of Bonehenge Whale Center Keith Rittmaster to learn about the whales most commonly spotted off the coast of North Carolina and to handle some related display items.