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POPSA New World: England's First View of America "A Very Cold Case: A Progress Report on the Search for the Lost Colonists," Saturday, Nov. 10, 2 p.m., To register, call (919) 807-7992 by Nov. 8. Presented by Dr. Charles Ewen, professor of anthropology and director of Archaeology Laboratories, East Carolina University. Drawing upon recent archaeological research, Dr. Ewen will examine several theories concerning what happened to the colonists at Roanoke Island. The N.C. Museum of History's hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. From Saturday, Oct. 20, through Jan. 13, 2008, the museum will be open on Mondays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. The museum is part of the Division of State History Museums, Office of Archives and History, an agency of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. The department's Web site is http://www.ncculture.com/.
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POPSFamily Roots Tied to Croatan Tribe These family names -- Elks, Buck, Carrow, Hodges and Gibbs -- may sound like a reading of telephone listings for Chocowinity, but one researcher is attempting to relate these names with a greater meaning, deep in the Indian history of eastern North Carolina.
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POPSLost and Found in Roanoke Lost and Found in Roanoke We went to see an outdoor play called The Lost Colony last night -- which was, as you might imagine, about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke. (For those of you who are rusty on your history lessons, click here to learn more.) Fantastic in every way. What was especially excellent was how much the dramatization brought to life the brief history of America's first colony.
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