Dr. James Horn to lecture at Roanoke Island Festival Park Auditorium Oct 15

 Anyone who is able to attend these events would surely benefit. JC

Roanoke Colonies Archaeology and History Week

All of the following events are free and open to the public.

Wednesday, Oct. 12

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. archaeological fieldwork continues and can be publicly viewed at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.

7 p.m. Roanoke Island Festival Park Auditorium, Roanoke After Raleigh: Resettlement of the Island in the 17th and 18th Centuries lecture by Phillip W. Evans.

Evans is president and co-founder of the First Colony Foundation. Now in his second career as an attorney in private practice concentrating on juvenile and mental health law in Durham, he focused on colonial and pre-colonial American history in his first career -- most of which was spent at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site where he served the National Park Service as a park ranger/historian for 17 years.

Thursday, Oct. 13:

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. archaeological fieldwork continues and can be publicly viewed at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.

7 p.m. Roanoke Island Festival Park Auditorium, Raleigh's Other Lost Colonies lecture by Dr. Eric Klingelhofer

Klingelhofer is a First Colony Foundation Board member and research vice president. He has led archaeological research efforts at sites related to Sir Walter Ralegh in Ireland and the Caribbean, and since the 1990s, has worked numerous digs on Roanoke Island. In addition, he was senior archaeologist during the Colonial Williamsburg excavations under Ivor Noel Hume. Currently, Klingelhofer is a professor of history at Mercer University in Georgia

Friday, Oct. 14

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. archaeological fieldwork continues and can be publicly viewed at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.

7 p.m. Roanoke Island Festival Park Auditorium, The Lost Colony -- New Theories lecture by Dr. James Horn.

Horn is a First Colony Foundation Board member and is vice president of research and historical interpretation, and Abby & George O'Neill Director of the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg; author of A Land as God Made It; Jamestown and the Birth of America; and A Kingdom Strange -- The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke.

Saturday, Oct. 15

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. archaeological fieldwork continues and can be publicly viewed at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.

Sunday, Oct. 16

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. archaeological fieldwork continues and can be publicly viewed at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.


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