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From: Adam Thomas
Date: 07 Dec 1999
Time: 14:31:40
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Had a great time at the festival this past weekend. I am looking forward to a bigger and better festival next December. The musuem is taking great shape, I cannot wait to see it completed in June. Thanks for a great weekend.

From: Jack Pizzolato
Date: 30 Nov 1999
Time: 20:19:09
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Great to see this Web site up. Looking forward to my fifth festival this weekend

From: wendy burke
Date: 29 Nov 1999
Time: 22:30:01
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Thank you for calling my Mama (Sylvia Rose Gillikin) to show her Core Sound skiffs at the show this year. I hope all goes well for all!!!! I will not be able to come to the show this year. So have fun. See you next year. Sincerely, Wendy Burke

From: Karen Amspacher
Date: 15 Nov 1999
Time: 06:27:33
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YOU WON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES ... We have much progress to show you during Decoy Festival weekend. The building will be open and filled with educational exhibits, displays, model boats, demonstrations, art, books, even a few carvers. Plus ... all kinds of things going on around the building including a hunting and fishing tent, Willow Pond tours, boatbuilding and food. All events are free and begin at 8 am both days. Church is first thing Sunday morning ... don't miss that. Lots of other events. Can we send you a schedule? Please write/call/email. This is a wonderful extension of the already beloved decoy festival. All museum events are on the new museum site, three miles past the school. Come early and stay late. Let us hear from you.

From: wendy burke
Date: 14 Nov 1999
Time: 14:08:25
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thank you for all that you do.

From: Bob & Jane Thompson
Date: 08 Nov 1999
Time: 12:58:20
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Can't wait to see the museum progress. Have not had a chance to get down your way since last year's festival. But we'll be there again this year - with bells on!

Better get us on your Email list too: robert.thompson@mantech.com

From: John Gillikin
Date: 05 Nov 1999
Time: 12:12:42
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I live between Huntsville and Athens, Alabama. I want to find out the origin of the surname "Gillikin". Can anyone help?

I think the website is wonderful and I like the scenery.

From: Mike Guthrie
Date: 04 Nov 1999
Time: 05:50:37
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Just checking in on home from Aviano Italy. Looks like everything is going good.

From: John Dixon
Date: 03 Nov 1999
Time: 22:34:32
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Hello, I live in New Bern and have been enjoying your website for awhile. I am an amateur carver and I am beginning to enjoy it more and more every day. Looking forward to the festival. John Dixon

Hello to Guy
From: Rosanne & Kathy
Date: 31 Oct 1999
Time: 17:12:35
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A very special hello to Guy Tucker! Hope to see you soon!

From: J. Eric Swain
Date: 30 Oct 1999
Time: 16:14:50
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The dedication of you members are a great asset to Carteret County. Look Forward to the festival each year. Keep up the good work.

From: George Rubenstein 4625 Timberhurst Raleigh 27612
Date: 17 Oct 1999
Time: 15:14:52
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Saw the interview with President Friday. Great stuff. How can we arrange a field trip for a K - 5 class? We're at Oak Grove Elementary in Durham. Thanks -- George R.

From: Chris Georgakopoulos
Date: 11 Oct 1999
Time: 01:47:34
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very nice site and web design Chris Georgakopoulos

From: Karen Amspacher
Date: 14 Sep 1999
Time: 05:16:57
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Many thanks to all of you who have emailed, posted messages, sent cards and called following the program with Bill Friday. It was truly my honor to represent all Down East in that interview ... It was quite an experience. Thank you everyone for your encouragement and support over the years. It has been a long seven years since the Museum was established, but a journey that has been well worth the work and worry, especially over the past several months as the building has overwhelmed us all as it came out of the ground. I hope you share in the excitement of realizing all that has been done and all the potential this project holds for eastern NC and all who will continue to be a part of this community project.

Please make sure you send us your email address as we are beginning an email list for notices, announcements and our on-line newsletter. We welcome web-volunteers too, as the website is now being updated and revised. Thanks to Vanda, our volunteer web designer, we are working to get photos of recent events, progress on the building and other features on our site.
We look forward to keep to hearing from all of you over and over.
Come see us soon. (Right now, we are watching Floyd and hoping it will hurry out to sea without coming shore anywhere! What a monster ...)

Thanks again for your kind words and especially your support of the work WE are doing on Harkers Island.

From: Norris Whisnant
Date: 10 Sep 1999
Time: 15:32:52
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Right On Sunshine is on your sholders

From: Jeff Scott Rust
Date: 09 Sep 1999
Time: 16:58:46
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Arrived here by accident. Well, I did. But the website is fascinating. And the information presented has piqued my curiosity about Harkers Island. I'd love to visit there sometime! I'll visit the site again when I have time away from the daily grind. See ya' Jeff

From: Chase Tew (tc00627@deere.com)
Date: 08 Sep 1999
Time: 08:29:12
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I watched the PBS special on Sunday and thought that you did a great job representing what Harkers Island stands for. My first trip was w/ my late grandfather who thought of the island as a second home. Since I make annual trips for duck hunting w/ Eddie Willis w/ whom I have become good friends. The community of the island certainly is a special place.

From: Katie Amspacher
Date: 06 Sep 1999
Time: 21:32:27
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You do so good Mom keep it up

From: Gelli72463@aol.com
Date: 06 Sep 1999
Time: 06:22:53
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I enjoyed the show with Dr.Friday. You presented some issues in ways I had never considered. We must all work to preserve our costal heratige. Thanks, George Elliott

From: kenny brown
Date: 05 Sep 1999
Time: 20:12:55
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I saw the show on UNC tv with Dr Friday It was great keep uup the good work

From: Edwin Coates, Raleigh (E-mail: Coates_Ed.msn.com)
Date: 05 Sep 1999
Time: 18:08:53
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Enjoyed every minute of Bill Friday Special on WUNC TV, Sunday, Sept. 5, 1999. My wife wish to join the Waterfoul Museum as a result of the interview. This film should be viewed by every visitor in the future. We love Harker's Island.

From: Chuck Hudson Newport
Date: 05 Sep 1999
Time: 18:04:50
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I really enjoyed your visit with Bill Friday. I learned some things, even after being here 35 years. Keep up you good work.

From: Sandy Wilson in Kitty Hawk
Date: 05 Sep 1999
Time: 12:07:41
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We saw your interview with Bill Friday and were impressed. Hopefully, you didn't suffer too much damage due to hurricane/tropical storm Dennis. As for us in Kitty Hawk Landing, we lost 2 trees. We survived the dennis menace. Blessings, Sandy

From: Philip, Mount Airy, NC
Date: 04 Sep 1999
Time: 22:00:49
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Karen, I enjoyed the PBS interview. It seems that you have done an awful lot of work and have approached the preservation of environment AND culture with the right attitude.

Philip DeLoach, online Guide at Artists' Exchange at About.com

From: John Tasker, Jr.
Date: 03 Sep 1999
Time: 21:45:52
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Saw the program with Dr. Friday. The two things I miss from my childhood days, spending summers in Belhaven, are the boats and the language. The boats, including those made on Harkers Island, are gone. The waterfront between Washington to Belhaven to Swanquarter were full of them, up every creek and at every dock.

The language of the high tiders is going. They should never have let Greenville have television. The soft eastern dialect of Ms. Anspacher was wonderful to hear. My memory of the days when so many spoke this proper English of an older time is in the poetry of the language when well- spoken by a down easterner. Ms. Anspacher had the poetry.

Some day I'll come there to see the museum and hopefully get to sit somewhere with a glass of iced tea, a church fan, and a fly swatter on the floor beside me.

From: knotzo@havelocknc.net (William D Smart).po bx 449.
Date: 03 Sep 1999
Time: 21:31:36
Remote Name: 208.34.226.248
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thoroughly enjoyed your chat with FRIDAY on NC People. have visited HRHS IS in person throught the years. you are right "you do not see harkers island from the road". souse and i expect to visit agsin soon.

best regards, Bill Smart

From: Larry and Shirley Traynor Minnesott Beach, NC
Date: 28 Aug 1999
Time: 09:55:38
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We visited you last week with our grandaughter. Checked out the new location and mentioned how it outwardly resembles the Queen Elizabeth site on Roanoke Island at Manteo.

From: karen & terry kemp
Date: 16 Aug 1999
Time: 11:29:21
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we both enjoyed the ceremony , it was quite moving. we may be able to volunteer for the fund-raiser in raleigh, so keep us up to date on this project. again we enjoyed this past sunday at harker`s island....... see you soon!!!!!!!

From: Kyle Murphy & Jennifer Taylor
Date: 11 Aug 1999
Time: 20:34:54
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I Found It To Be Very Interesting AND Neat. Good Luck With The New Museum.

Kyle Murphy & Jennifer Taylor P.S. I Work At The Museum.

From: charles hatch 721 highland rd apex n c 27502
Date: 02 Aug 1999
Time: 08:17:49
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enjoyed the afternoon on the porch visiting with cliff bain. as a matter of fact i purchased my first decorative decoy from your store during my visit. hope to be able to come to the festival this year.

From: Barney Fortier
Date: 31 Jul 1999
Time: 18:02:49
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A very attractively done website. I have visited Harkers Island and the museum in the past and am thrilled to see some of it again.

Barney Fortier Saudi Aramco Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

barneyfortier@yahoo.com

From: Kristine Smith (chicky)
Date: 29 Jun 1999
Time: 20:20:08
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I've heard alot about it, it sounds beutifull!!

From: Willard Bedwell bedwells@aol.com
Date: 22 Jun 1999
Time: 17:10:35
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Karen -

I know you are very busy but how about an update? Thanks. We hope you have a great summer with the Museum.

From: JAMES E. SANDERSON, SR.-200N.RIDGE RD. RICHMOND, VA. 23229
Date: 06 Jun 1999
Time: 12:43:52
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fellow countian says HI

From: Delphia Lewis
Date: 27 May 1999
Time: 21:07:12
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Thanks to all who have given so much to make a dream come true. Keep up the good work

From: Betsy trent
Date: 25 May 1999
Time: 17:14:47
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thanks for a pleasant visit -

From: Karen Amspacher
Date: 22 May 1999
Time: 16:38:25
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LOON DAY plans are just about complete as we enter the "week before the event" excitement. All those who check the website with questions concerning competition, tshirts (yes, they are available by mail), and other details, please CALL the museum. We never got the details on the website for you. Our apologies ... but this year, we pulled it together pretty quickly, so bear with us. It is going to be a great day of fun and we hope YOU are there. We are definitely going to make it an annual event, date to be discussed since Holiday weekends are so busy, but everything will be evaluated after the first LOON DAY and plans will be set for the coming years. Thank you for your interest and support ... and be there if you can.

Museum construction is WELL underway with roofing on one end! How exciting it is! Go look for yourself. It is progressing every day. Thank you for all YOU have done to make it real. We invite you to continue that support as we work toward a goal of $600,000 by fall to keep the work moving forward. We can't do it without you. All gifts are needed and welcomed.

Thank you again for your interest in Core Sound. Please post your message here, email or call. We want to hear from you!

From: Justin Kamplain
Date: 14 May 1999
Time: 14:17:01
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My name is Kamplain to. Are you related to me?? I will get back to you and give you my e-mail

From: competitor
Date: 5/5/99
Time: 11:11:33 PM
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just wanted to know what the competition rules are and what does it pay to the winner?

From: DAVID & CAROL LAWRENCE
Date: 4/11/99
Time: 12:08:32 PM
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WE RODE TO SHELL POINT - TO THE SITE OF OUR NEW MUSEUM, IT IS HARD TO DESCRIBE THE FEELINGS WE HAD, BUT LET US TELL YOU THAT AS WE SAT THERE - TEARS OF JOY FILLED OUR EYES TO SEE IT BECOMING A REALITY.

From: Karen Amspacher
Date: 4/10/99
Time: 7:46:17 AM
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Everyone is invited and encouraged to visit the NEW MUSEUM site whenever you are in the area. The firewall is up and exterior walls are now under construction. It is exciting to see what OUR WORK has brought.

If you would like information as to how YOU can help keep the work moving forward, please call the Museum.

Hope to see you soon.

From: Karen Amspacher
Date: 3/14/99
Time: 3:38:55 PM
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YOU are invited to join us for the "first-ever" LOON DAY at Harkers Island, Memorial Day weekend - Saturday, May 29. Events will include a loon hunt, loon story telling, loon carving competition, loon painting, loon auction, loon calling and other events for the entire family. Call the museum for a schedule of events, or check this bulletin board for details. If you would like to participate in the hunt, carving competition or volunteer, please call the museum. Everyone is looking forward to this new spring-time event for the Waterfowl Museum. Let us hear from YOU!

From: Karen Amspacher
Date: 3/11/99
Time: 9:29:53 PM
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The 1999 Annual Meeting of the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum will be held Sunday afternoon, March 28 from 3:30 - 5:00 pm at Captain's Choice Restaurant on Harkers Island. All current members and all potential members are invited to attend. The business meeting will be followed by clam chowder and hush puppies! Hope to see you there. (Members can look for a letter in the mail within the next few days.)

From: Vanessa and Thomas Lawrence Jr.
Date: 3/11/99
Time: 7:47:14 PM
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Speaking from the heart of born and bread "Islanders", we are very excited about the future of the museum. Our heritage will surely live on through the hard work of our neighbors. Thank you, Good luck in your expansion plans.

From: Paula Bass
Date: 3/9/99
Time: 10:09:32 AM
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Excellent efforts from everyone. This project has far reaching appeal and is an anchor in the coastal heritage of North Carolina. You and the the efforts of the vast array of supporters are to be commended for your diligent work and the "capture" of talent and resources for the long term preservation of the vision and assets of THE Core Sound Water Fowl Museum. I look forward to our next meeting!!

From: Mike and Erica Butler
Date: 2/22/99
Time: 9:49:05 PM
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Your web page is great! Keep it up.

From: carol cannon
Date: 2/16/99
Time: 8:46:15 PM
Comments
Please change the meeting date from 3rd Wednesday to 3rd Tuesday. Thanks!

From: Craig Cannon
Date: 2/16/99
Time: 8:57:16 PM
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Monthly guild meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Harker's Island School. Please feel free to join us! We have a great time!

From: Greg Fluhart--fluhart@mail.clis.com
Date: 2/16/99
Time: 4:44:26 PM
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Great site, innovative and imaginative, keep up the good work. I support these ideas and issues.

Cordially, Greg Fluhart

From: bedwells@aol.com
Date: 2/15/99
Time: 3:53:12 PM
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Enjoyed the return to the coast. Best of luck as the new building projects continue.

Sincerely,
Willard and Dorothy

From: Brent Tharp
Date: 2/5/99
Time: 9:34:51 AM
Comments
Your website looks fantastic. Thanks again for coming all this way and sharing your experience with us. We have recently changed our URL and you probably can't get our website with the old one. Try www.ncpotterycenter.com.

From: Karen Amspacher - Core Sound Waterfowl Museum
Date: 1/27/99
Time: 10:45:19 PM
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Happy 99 to all of you. Hope to see you at Harkers Island this year. Things are quiet now - a great time to come and visit! Make sure you check out all the work being done down on the site when you come to the Island! Thanks for all your support in years passed and your continued interest in the years to come.

updated October 15, 2003 by Vision IPD