Historian and author David Cecelski writes about the talk he gave earlier this month on bottlenose dolphin fishery at Hatteras Island during the annual Whale and Whaling Symposium in Beaufort.
N.C. Maritime Museums
Event to highlight whaling cultural history, conservation
The N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort’s annual Whales and Whaling Symposium March 20 will explore whales and whaling from multiple perspectives, highlighting both the cultural history of whaling and today’s conservation efforts.
Maritime Museums resume field programs at Beaufort site
The museum offers three field programs, two of which take participants to local barrier islands and through the various habitats found just off the Beaufort mainland, and the third program is a kayaking experience through the salt marsh.
Beaufort Maritime Museum reopens after yearlong closure
While the museum was closed to the public, staff revamped the inside and added new exhibits that highlight the state’s role in the Revolutionary War and recreation on the coast.
‘Smell of money’: Menhaden Chanteymen’s music still echoes
The last surviving member of the Menhaden Chanteymen of Beaufort’s former industry has died, but while “Fishtowne’s” processing plant and its associated aroma are in the past, the once-proud laborers’ work songs live on.
Bird-watching excursion a chance to see wintering waterfowl
The N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort is leading two excursions in January to observe wintering waterfowl in eastern North Carolina.
Maritime museums to offer talks, trips and more in August
The North Carolina Maritime Museum locations in Hatteras, Beaufort and Southport have a number of programs scheduled for August.
Hatteras museum summer lecture series to start Tuesday
The Salty Dawgs Lecture Series takes place every Tuesday from May 20 to Aug. 26 and will feature a host of guest speakers who will talk about the history and culture of the Outer Banks.
Maritime Museum to host wooden boat show, heritage talks
The Wooden Boat Show May 3 in downtown Beaufort is expected to feature classic, modern, motorized and self-powered vessels, miniature vintage outboard motors, children’s interactive stations, nautical rope demonstrations, and sea shanties with Bob Zentz.
Southport maritime museum to explore 18th-century fashion
Visitors will have the opportunity to interact with a professional seamstress who will draft a gown in a day and learn about how clothing defined status, gender, and occupation.
Fine day for fishing
Visitors during a recent cloudy day carry fishing poles while strolling along the water’s edge at Cedar Street Park in downtown Beaufort, with the construction site of the 103-room Compass Hotel Beaufort by Margaritaville Resorts on Gallants Channel in the background. Photo: Dylan Ray
Tiny trains, bigger models, too, roll into Beaufort
A tiny Z-scale model train operated by Mike Basher of Basher and Sons Hobbies rounds the bend during an appearance earlier this month at the 30th annual John Costlow Train Show at the North Carolina Maritime Museum Harvey W. Smith Watercraft Center in Beaufort. The three-day show included model train layouts of various scales, including working antiques. Photo: Mark Hibbs
Winter Waterfowl Excursion to resume after 4-year pause
The Coastal Culture and Waterfowl Watching Excursion, a two-day adventure through Pamlico, Hyde and Dare counties, is being offered twice next year.
Maritime Day Saturday to feature sailboat rides, live music
Attendees will have the opportunity to enjoy sailboat rides, live music, yard games and more Saturday during the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort’s Maritime Day at Gallants Channel.
NC Maritime Museums have full month of programs ahead
Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras, N.C., Maritime Museum at Beaufort and the N.C. Maritime Museum at Southport have programs planned for all ages in June.
‘People’s museum’: Hatteras Islanders welcome reopening
After decades of work to establish a maritime museum in Hatteras, villagers were there to celebrate the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum reopening Monday with a new exhibit gallery awash in centuries of dramatic maritime history.
