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March 2001
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Outer Banks, NC
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Hatteras Keepers Descendants
Homecoming Planned May 2001
December, 2000
Cheryl Roberts
HOMECOMING
Outer Banks, NC
May 4-6, 2001
In an event specially held for the descendants of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Keepers, including the Diamond Shoals Lightships of the old U.S. Lighthouse Service (1803-1939) a gathering of Keepers’ families will be held on the weekend of May 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2001. The family gathering will be held at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The Outer Banks Lighthouse Society and the National Park Service will cosponsor the event.
Are you a Cape Hatteras Keepers direct descendant? (child, grandchild, great grandchild, great-great grandchild, and spouses). If so Register On-line today!
Media inquiries about the Hatteras Keepers Descendants Homecoming should be directed to Bruce Roberts. Direct descendants interested in receiving an invitation and sharing information on a Keeper's family can email hattkeep@outer-banks.com or register on-line [general inquiries should be directed to bparrish@outer-banks.com], or call 252/995-6891. Descendants, donors, and interested individuals may write the executive planning committee at Hatteras Keepers Descendants Homecoming at P.O. Box 550 Buxton, NC 27920 or visit the website for indepth descriptions of the event and related activities:
Hatteras Keepers Descendants Homecoming
http://www.outer-banks.com/hatteraskeepers/
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Driving Directions to all North Carolina's Lighthouses
Cheryl Roberts
ANNOUNCEMENT
MOREHEAD CITY, NC
Most people visiting the Outer Banks of North Carolina want ot visit at least one of the lighthouses. The Outer Banks Lighthouse Society has prepared a Driving Tour from north to south along coastal North Carolina.
Of the existing towers you have a choice of seven lighthouses to visit, and you can see the ruins of an eighth light. Theses lighthouses are so interesting days can be spent in the surrounding area of each one. You are invited to visit a lighthouse soon.
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Stone Engravings
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
January 15, 2001
Cheryl Roberts
NEWS
Buxton, NC
Photos Courtesy of Bruce Roberts
A.C. Joyner of Wilson is wearing protective headgear as he prepares to test his sandblasting equipment to engrave the Cape Hatteras keepers' names on the original plinth stones. The Outer Banks Lighthouse Society is sponsoring this project. These granite stones were cut away from the original foundation of the lighthouse prior to its relocation by the National Park Service in summer 1999 by specialist contractors, International Chimney, Inc. The National Park Service will move the stones when threatened by erosion. The stencils must be first glued onto the stones and each keeper's name will be sandblasted into history. The main engraving will be done during April 2001 in time for the Hatteras Keepers Descendants Homecoming May 4-6, 2001, when the engraved stones will be officially unveiled.
Photos Courtesy of Bruce Roberts
Stencils that are temporarily glued to the granite stones of the original 1870 tower's foundation bear the names of the first two Cape Hatteras keepers. Approximately 85 keepers' names of the 1803 and 1870 towers will be engraved at the original site of the second lighthouse. Pictured prominently in the background is the 1870 striped lighthouse, which has been moved 2,900 feet southwest to its new location. The Outer Banks Lighthouse Society is sponsoring the engraving project, which is an interpretive exhibit to be preserved by the National Park Service, Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Homecoming Poster
Poster Available |
January 17, 2001
Staff Report
FACTS
OUTER BANKS, NC
© 2001 Outer Banks Lighthouse Society
A commemorative homecoming poster is available and the proceeds go to help
defray expenses for the Hatteras Keepers Descendants Homecoming, an
all-volunteer effort. Artist Glenn Eure has made the classic painting of a
keeper at Cape Hatteras titled "The Light Was Their Signature."
Posters will be on sale at the Eastern National Bookstore at Cape
Hatteras. To order a poster (16 x 20), $5.95 plus $5.50 mailing fee:
Eastern National Bookstore P.O. Box 860 Buxton, NC 27920. North Carolina
residents add 6% tax ($.37). Credit card orders can be made by calling the
Eastern National Bookstore at 252/995-5610.
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Directions to the Outer Banks
Map of the Outer Banks
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The Outer Banks Lighthouse Collection
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