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"Workboats of Core Sound" Symposium and Exhibit: Saturday, March 1 was the date of the “Workboats of Core Sound” symposium and photography exhibit at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center. “I’ve been photographing the workboats of the region for more than 20 years, and I’ve also recorded the stories that fishermen and others tell about them,” said photographer Lawrence S. Earley whose black-and-white photographs will be featured at the event. “Some of these vessels are many decades old—some of them almost a hundred years old—and they have fascinating histories.” The exhibit and symposium will focus on some of the legendary boat builders of the region and their workboat designs. The symposium started at 9:30 a.m. and ended at 3 p.m. It was open to the public and free of charge. Speakers included Michael Alford, Barbara Garrity-Blake, David Cecelski, Lawrence Earley and Bland Simpson. Fishermen Danny Mason, Jonathan Robinson, Buster Salter and Bradley Styron will take part in a panel discussion on the future of fishing in Core Sound.
Core Sound Christmas BreakfastSaturday, Dec. 15 – CSWM&HC“End of the Road” ~ Harkers Island 8 – 11 am
Stories and music by Rodney Kemp, Connie Mason, The Mailboat and others at 9 am. Come enjoy the season with us. August 30, 2007
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Jan 20: Winter Waterfowl (9 am – 1 pm)
Purcell Jones is a gentleman who deserves recognition for service to his community. He has touched so many people both in and out of Carteret County. Many of you know him as the owner operator of Camp Morehead (attention Camp Morehead Alumni. 
Some are also aware he is a very special friend of the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center. Cap’n Purcell has spent thousands of hours doing everything from discovering sponsors to helping clean the kitchen. He is as much a part of our Museum as the walls and windows. He wants very much to see the Museum grow.
The symposium and exhibit are sponsored by the North Carolina Humanities Council and the North Caroliniana Society. The two non-profit foundations work with communities to promote increased knowledge and appreciation of the state’s heritage. 
Thursday Evening – August 28
Coastal Cohorts in ConcertCrystal Coast Civic Center June 28 – June 30, 2007 Proceeds to Benefit The NC Coastal Federation and the THANK YOU to all who came to see this great show and support The NC Coastal Federation and the |
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Jan Eason's Portsmouth HomecomingComing to Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center in October
Jan Eason Photography website
Sailing Schooner Thomas W. Lawson, 1902 - 1907 The Thomas W. Lawson was the world’s largest and only seven-masted sailing schooner ever built. She is a famous chapter in America’s maritime history with a rare piece of her heritage surfacing in eastern North Carolina. The Lawson was designed by B.B. Crowninshield for the Fore River Ship & Engine Building Co., of Quincy, Mass. in 1902. First built to haul coal, she was refined to deliver oil between Texas ports and Philadelphia. With a length of 395 ft and a draft of 28 ft when fully loaded with oil, she only stopped in deep water ports such as Newport News, Va. The Lawson carried 25 sails measuring more than 43,000 square ft. Of the 25 sails, there were seven gaff sails, seven gaff topsails, six stay sails and five jibs. A crew of about 17, assisted by deck-mounted steam “donkey” engines, expertly handled these massive sails. One of the able-bodied crewmen practiced the traditional maritime past-time of model making. This unnamed crewman made a beautiful shadowbox model of his unique ship. MORE April 12, 2007Reverse Drawing Winners
Thanks again for your continuing support of the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center! --John Civils, CSWM&HC Board Chairman ‘07
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Mar 24th, 2007 - Working the Water: Workboats of Down East
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This is Mr. Homer Fulcher's father -- If only we
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Don't forget COMMUNITY NIGHT!
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“The
Island Boat” project was one of the
first in a series of several projects I hope
to complete within the next year. This project
is my way of contributing to help preserve
the heritage of Harkers Island.
These photographs help capture and retain
one of the oldest and most important means
of survival known to native Islanders. The
skill of building wooden boats is quickly
becoming a dying art, with only a few boat
builders left on the Island. Boat building,
commercial fishing and recreational fishing
have all been vital industries to the livelihood
of Islanders.
Jan
Eason, a North Carolina native, sees photography
as a way of recording and documenting the natural
and social environment. He works primarily with
black and white film. Several years ago, while taking
photographic workshops in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
he became interested in working with infrared film.
He is especially interested in photographing coastal
scenes using infrared film and this has become the
foundation for much of his recent work. 
In
celebration Down East’s rich tradition of
traditional boatbuilding and its ties to all coastal
North Carolina communities, the CSWM&HC &
Cape Lookout National Seashore will host the 70th
birthday celebration for the Albatross I of Hatteras,
a beautiful work boat built at Marshallberg in 1937.
Along with a hearty welcome for this beautiful vessel
of Down East lineage will be exhibits and displays
on boat building, working waterfronts, boat models
and how all they connected to our communities’
history and heritage. Presentations from on-going
documentaries focusing on boatbuilding, work 
boats
and harbors will also be presented. Martin &
Friends of Ocracoke will join us with music and
stories about their home island and good food prepared
the Down East way will be served. This event will
be held at both the Museum and the Park Service
Headquarters where everyone will have the opportunity
to view their new exhibits and film. Look for more
details on this celebration in the weeks to come,
but mark your calendar now for this great community
celebration. 
February
20 - (6 pm supper, 7 program) Wild
Caught: The Life and Struggles of an American Fishing
Town, a film chronicling the Snead’s
Ferry fishing community, directed by Matthew Barr
of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Core
Sound Bluegrass w/ Rodney Core
Sound invites you to be part of our Community Historians
program -- part of a NOAA
Preserve America project. This grant is focusing on commercial fishing but the skills to be learned in the oral history workshops can be applied to any subject. Connie Mason will be leading the "Community Historians" training sessions which will include two half-day workshops ( held Saturday -- Jan 13 and Jan 27 from 8 AM – 12 noon at CSWM&HC ) to give folks in the community the opportunity to learn the basic skills of interviewing and collecting oral histories. Workshops are free but attendees will need to attend both sessions. All reading materials will be provided. MORE |
| "We are fortunate to have Connie who has decades of interviewing experiences and a comprehensive knowledge of local history to lead this training..." Pam Morris - Community Resources Coordinator "This
is work that we have been wanting to concentrate
on for years. Now with NOAA's help, we can bring
together all that has been done and much of what
needs to be done to archive and make public this
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Horse Watching on Shackleford Banks
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BOAT
ROAD SHOW
Join
us at Portsmouth Island for a Homecoming celebration on
April 22.
"Dinner on the Grounds" and a special program will celebrate the island that was once a thriving seaport community. Round trip ferry service from Ocracoke Island is available by calling Rudy Austin of Portsmouth Island Tours. To make your ferry reservation with Rudy, call 252-948-4361. For a ferry schedule or to make your reservation on the Cedar Island/Ocracoke Ferry call 252-225-3551.
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Earth Day 2006April 21, 22, 23CSWM&HC joins Cape Lookout
National Seashore, Carolina Estuarine Reserve
Foundation, If you love beautiful places, and want to see them stay that way, please join us for the Crystal Coast Earth Day Celebration. VIEW or DOWNLOAD 8 page Earth Day flyer. (Requires free Adobe Acrobat software. 2443 KB file |
Historical Plaquing of Homes / Sites
Sunday, OCT 23, 2 pm, CSWM – Plaque committee for historic homes/sites Down East. Come and learn what you will need to get your family homeplace documented and honored. Guidelines here
Thanks
to you our 3rd Annual Reverse Drawing was a great success!
We are pleased to report that with ticket sales, contributions
of food and door prizes and winners giving back part
of their prizes to the Museum, the event netted over
$10,000 for the Museum!
And the winners are .....
$ 5,000 SHARED: Phoebe Briley of New Bern/Harkers Island & Steve Smith of Morehead City ... who agreed before the last ticket was drawn to split the pot among themselves and the Museum, combining to make a $2500 donation back to the Museum! Thank you Phoebe and Steve!
$2,500 Chris Sabiston of Beaufort
... who is donating back $500 to 
the
Museum! Thank you Chris!
$1,000 Don Mizelle of Holly Springs ... who we are still trying to reach!
A special thank you to the many volunteers who helped sell these tickets, prepare the food and all the other details that are involved with a successful event!
A special thanks to Connie Mack & Linda Johnson, Thom & Valerie Styron, Doug Fulcher, Allyn Powell, Greg Lewis, Roy Willis, and David & MaryLena Anderegg who served as chef’s for Down East’s version of “Frogmore Stew.” (That wonderful homemade sausage and those fresh Core Sound shrimp made all the difference!)
Reliving the Dream --- Baseball Down East, More Than a Game
May 21, 2005
“Baseball was more than a game Down East; it was the spirit of community, a culmination of extraordinary talent across generations and a wonderful piece of Americana that lived – and still lives -- right here on the coast of North Carolina. The 40 years we are documenting sent players to the Majors, developed coaches for
the next generation and provided scholarships for successful careers in teaching, business and across the board. It is an interesting and important part of the heritage of Carteret County, especially Down East, and we want to make sure it is not forgotten.”
The
day’s activities included a history of Carteret
County baseball presented at 1 pm by Rodney Kemp, Joel
Hancock, Joe Willis and others, followed by a ballgame
at 3. Activities for children, a yard
sale / bake sale early that morning and food throughout
the day will made it a true family day Down East style!
U.S.
Senator Elizabeth Dole
United States Senate, Washington, DC 20510
News Release
For Immediate Release: July 25, 2005
Contacts: Lindsay Taylor, 202-224-7905 Katie Norman,
202-224-2999
Dole Applauds Inclusion of Core Sound Waterfowl Museum Funding in Appropriations Bill
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole applauded the inclusion of $400,000 for the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum (CSWM) on Harkers Island in the Senate Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development and the Judiciary Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2006, which was approved by the full Appropriations Committee last Friday. The bill will now be considered by the entire Senate on a date to be determined
“The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum is dedicated to preserving the culture and natural resources of this pristine part of our state,” said Dole. “The local efforts to support this museum are impressive, and I am proud to lend my support to this worthwhile project.”
CSWM will use the funding to complete the Museum Gallery
Wing of the facility.
November 18, 2005 – Senator Dole’s office
called to inform us that this appropriation gained final
approval. $400,000 will be forthcoming in early 2006
to cover the completion of construction on the Gallery
& Exhibit areas of the facility. A VERY SPECIAL
THANKS to everyone who helped make this a reality. More
than two years of work went into this effort and we
would like to especially thank Ann Maxwell, Jimmy Broughton,
Larry Chernikoff, General Hugh Overholt, Jamie Norment
and ALL OF YOU who sent postcards, letters, emails and
faxes to Washington on our behalf. With this decision,
it is important that we remember the late Billy Smith,
founding chairman of the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum,
whose influence and leadership still lives, and continue
the work he helped begin more than 15 years ago.
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent Federal grant-making agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of learners by helping libraries and museums serve their communities, supports the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center. |
| The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum
& Heritage Center is very pleased to
tell all of you that we received $150,000 Museums
for America grant! Thank you IMLS!
I cannot tell you how excited we are .... This two-year
grant is for staff and programming support, as well
as exhibit research and development.
Many thanks to all our partners who have believed in us for years and have helped us build an institution worthy of such an honor! A special thanks to Wayne Martin at the NC Arts Council and Mikki Sager at the Conservation Fund for their leadership, patience and commitment to Down East. Another important thank you to Bob Vogel at Cape Lookout National Seashore for his vision and daily encouragement in our work for the people of Core Sound.
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September
18-19 —
Diamond City Homecoming
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...And
a great time was had by all! |
CSWM Folklife Festival scrapbook CSWM Folklife Festival Boatbuilding! The Smithsonian Folklife Festival has come and gone. Visit the links about for a photo retrospective of CSWM participation in this year's events. MORE INFO |
King
Mackerel was great! Presented by The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and
The North Carolina Coastal Federation Wed. - Sat. June 30th -July 3rd and |
The
First Anniversary in the New
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April 17 — Homecoming, Portsmouth Island, Portsmouth Methodist Church
Hundreds worshiped and visited together on this sacred and historic ground; church at 10 was followed by Dinner-on-the-Ground. Visit the Friends of Portsmouth website
Portsmouth Village was chartered in 1753 and it was the largest village on the Outer Banks in the mid 1800s. It is located just south of Ocracoke Island, across Ocracoke Inlet. The last residents left Portsmouth in 1971. The abandoned village is now a part of Cape Lookout National Seashore; the Park and the Friends of Portsmouth Island maintain the historic district. On alternate years, former residents, other family members, National Park Service personnel, visitors and friends join to celebrate the village and its place in North Carolina Outer Banks history.
CSWM boat building project at Best of Our State,
January 7-4, 2004 photo essay
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  We
are very proud to announce that our friends
Connie Mason and Bob Vogel
were honored for their important work in preserving/documenting
coastal traditions. The Mailboat was also recognized.
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The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum
congratulates REVERSE DRAWING WINNER Bonnie Page! |
"Coming
Home"
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Opening
exhibit: Ulrich Mack: Island People / Inselmenschen
Come to the Cape Week:
A Celebration of the Cape Lookout Light & Commemorative Stamp
Saturday - Saturday, June 14-21
Event Photo Link
On Saturday, June 14th, 9AM, the new Cape Lookout Lighthouse postage stamp was unveiled at the Museum, with dignitaries from the National Park Service and U.S. Postal Service. A Core Sound round-stern workboat made its way to the Cape (reminiscent of old mailboat days), where a temporary post office was commissioned. At 2 pm, the U.S. Coast Guard transferred ownership of the lighthouse to the National Park Service with a Military Honor Guards, dignitaries from across the region and special honors for former Coast Guardsmen and Lighthouse Keepers, and their families.
Symposium: "Island People"
Friday, June 27, 2003 10 amPresentation by Professor Mack and Dr. Gradeke from Germany
Panel Discussion by NC scholars, local historiansGerman photographer and professor Ulrich Mack, whose work on Harkers Island and Pellworm, Germany has traveled both in Europe and in the United States, will return to North Carolina and Harkers Island. Thanks to the NC Arts Council, the exhibition, "Island People," will be presented at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum beginning May 23 and closing on July 6. Programs will be presented in partnership with the Duke Center for Documentary Studies, the NC Humanities Council and others.
Update: March 7, 2009
by Vision
IPD
Original designer: Vanda
Lewis & Casey
Amspacher