Museum - Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Good morning from all of us at MOA in Elizabeth City, NC! Hope y'all are safe and healthy! If you would like your photo featured, feel free to send it to us via Messenger.... #VisitNC #VisitElizabethCity #MuseumMomentofZen #VisitECity Barbara Putnam

It's #WomanCrushWednesday! Leading up to our "Women Breaking Barriers in Northeast North Carolina" exhibit opening this November- we're going to celebrate the women in our region who made history! Today we are highlighting: DOROTHY SPRUILL REDFORD of Washington County. Dorothy Spruill Redford is a historian and author descended from enslaved people of Somerset Plantation in Creswell, NC. Dorothy spent years researching enslaved individuals on the plantation during its 80-...year history. Her book, "Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage", sparked Homecoming at Somerset, a nationally recognized gathering of descendants of former enslaved people. The first Homecoming took place in 1986 and became a catalyst to reunite descendant families to Somerset Place. Graphic: DOROTHY SPRUILL REDFORD - Washington County Courtesy of Somerset Place State Historic Site, Creswell #ncwomenbreakingbarriers #SheChangedTheWorld #nchistory #WCW #womancrushwednesday #wcweveryday

Join us on Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 12 pm, as we host Virtual History for Lunch: Hunt Clubs of Currituck County Sharon Meade, Curator and Community Services Liaison for the Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education, will present Hunts Clubs of Currituck County. In the 50-year period from the 1870s to the 1920s more than 100 gunning clubs and lodges were established in a 100-mile-long area of Back Bay and Currituck Sound. Ms. Meads will discuss how this change created a ...cottage industry and altered the lives, laws, education, and people. The free and educational virtual program is supported by Southern Bank. This lecture will be online via Zoom: Register in advance for this webinar by clicking here: https://us02web.zoom.us//regist/WN_RZMGVHzkSuKLiWYyek0eZw After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The program is offered to the first 100 registrants. If you have questions for Sharon Meade, we ask that you please type the question(s) in the Q&A at the bottom of your screen during the program. We will do our best to get all questions answered at the conclusion of her presentation. Thank you for joining the Museum of the Albemarle as we explore creative ways to offer programming while meeting State of North Carolina guidelines. If you are unable to utilize or can't join Zoom, you can also watch from MOA's YouTube channe when we upload the video the next day: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq31lctnzOaj_jWzf4B67KQ Thank you to Southern Bank for their donation toward our virtual programming. We appreciate your community support and sponsorship to our non-profit support group - Friends of the Museum of the Albemarle!

Good morning from all of us at MOA in Elizabeth City, NC! Hope y'all are safe and healthy! If you would like your photo featured, feel free to send it to us via Messenger.... #VisitNC #VisitElizabethCity #MuseumMomentofZen #VisitECity Barbara Putnam

TODAY'S THE LAST DAY TO PICK UP YOURS! We've got 200 Halloweeny packets to give away! All day today from 10 am - 4 pm! In lieu of BOO! At the Museum families may pick up a Take-and-Make Halloween Packet for each child. Packets contain a fall scavenger hunt, the story of Halloween, and a family activity. Pick up yours in the museum lobby! We look forward to the return of BOO! In 2021! If you have any questions, please email to [email protected]

History From Home: The Origins of a Spooky Holiday--Halloween! Halloween has become one of Americans’ most popular holidays, second only to Christmas. As darkness falls on October 31st, costumed children go door to door with cries of Trick or treat! as they collect candy and other goodies, while adults carouse late into the night at costume parties. So how did this spooky/fun holiday come to be an American tradition?...Continue reading

A Thousand Words: Photographs by Vietnam Veterans will be closing on October 16, 2020. Don't miss your chance to check out this photographic exhibit before then. A Thousand Words: Photographs by Vietnam Veterans is a traveling exhibit featuring a collection of images, assembled by photographer Martin Tucker, taken by North Carolina soldiers in Vietnam. The Vietnam War took place literally half a world away from the United States; life for the soldiers was an unknown ...to most Americans in the 1960s and 1970s. Many only knew the war from images on TVsome of which were quite graphic. But what did the war look like to the troops on the ground? Some recorded the horrors of war; others focused less on the war and more on the experiencetheir friendships, the Vietnamese people, the countryside, the longing for home. This collection of intriguing images explores the human elements and experiences of Vietnam, with commentary by the veterans on what each image means to them. This exhibit offers visitors the chance to see how the troops themselves chose to remember their time in Southeast Asia. Vietnam was a complex conflict, ushering in a new type of warfare: a war without borders, said Charlie Knight, military curator at the North Carolina Museum of History. When Martin Tucker originally collected these images and the stories that go with them, he provided a glimpse into a very turbulent time period in U.S. history. The images in 1000 Words convey what everyday life was like for those in uniform in Vietnam, and we hope that visitors will gain a greater understanding of this war 50 years ago. According to Tucker, The photographs paint as broad a picture as possible . . . of what 18- to 20-year-old young men experienced in their year away from home (in addition to combat)and how they chose to document it. They’re showing what they couldn’t say. The exhibit is free and open to the public. ##VietnamVeterans

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Join us as we host a 2nd History for Lunch from Home on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 12 p.m. Rosie Blewitt-Golsch from the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology will discuss how archaeologists learn about the past from the materials people left behind, and what we know about life in North Carolina over the past 14,000 years. Join the Museum as we recognize Archaeology Month. This lecture will be online via Zoom: Register in advance for this webinar by clicking here:... https://us02web.zoom.us//regist/WN_cCXW6PkzTdmYwcApj-vOYw After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. The program is offered to the first 100 registrants. If you have questions for Rosie Blewitt-Golsch, we ask that you please type the question(s) in the Q&A at the bottom of your screen during the program. We will do our best to get all questions answered at the conclusion of his presentation. Thank you for joining the Museum of the Albemarle as we explore creative ways to offer programming while meeting State of North Carolina guidelines. If you are unable to utilize or can't join Zoom, you can also watch from MOA's YouTube channe when we upload the video the next dayl: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq31lctnzOaj_jWzf4B67KQ Thank you to Southern Bank for their donation toward our virtual programming. We appreciate your community support and sponsorship to our non-profit support group Friends of the Museum of the Albemarle!

We've got 200 Halloweeny packets to give away! All this week, Monday - Friday from 10 am - 4 pm! In lieu of BOO! At the Museum families may pick up a Take-and-Make Halloween Packet for each child. Packets contain a fall scavenger hunt, the story of Halloween, and a family activity. Pick up yours in the museum lobby October 26th - October 30th!... We look forward to the return of BOO! In 2021! If you have any questions, please email to [email protected]

It's #ThrowbackThursday! Today we're throwing it back to the early 1960s with this postcard of the Avalon Fishing Pier. Back of postcard reads: Avalon Fishing Pier, Kill Devil Hills, N. C. The most modern fishing pier and Grade A restaurant on the Outer Banks. Located in the heart of the best fishing area near old shipwrecks. Rooms and cottages available nearby. Image courtesy of Museum of the Albemarle ... #nchistory #tbt #tbthursday