OBX History WeekendSymposium Schedule

DAY 1: WEDNESDAY – SPECIALIZED GUIDED SITE TOURS

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Tours

Tour Times:
Morning: 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Afternoon (tour repeat): 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM

The Fort Raleigh National Historic Site guided tours meet at the Lindsay Warren Visitor Center.

Wright Brothers National Memorial Tours

Tour Times:
Morning: 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Afternoon (tour repeat): 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM

The Wright Brothers National Memorial guided tour meets at the Visitor Center.

 

DAY 2: THURSDAY – SYMPOSIUM DAY 1: THOMAS HARRIOT

Public-oriented half-hour presentations at The Lost Colony’s indoor Gazebo Theatre from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

9:00 AM— Welcome — FCF President PHIL EVANS, DCC Chair BOB WOODARD; NPS Superintendent DAVE HALLAC, TLC General Manager JOHN ANCONA

9:20 AM— MR. BRENT LANE — Who was this man of many secrets we honor today?

[An introduction to the here-to-fore illusive Thomas Harriot.]

9:35 AM— DR. KAREN KUPPERMAN — Knowledge-seeking through collaboration in Roanoke

[A close-up view of 1585-1586 Roanoke Island colonist Thomas Harriot and his collaborations with other colonists and Native Americans to fulfill his mission of discovering as much as possible about the New World and its people.]

10:10 AM— DR. ROBERT FOX — Harriot’s Oxford

[A presentation based on the Oxford University which Thomas Harriot, who was a student there, would have known. Harriot is included on St. Mary’s Hall registry in 1577, receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1580.]

10:45— MORNING BREAK

11:05 AM— DR. STEVEN CLUCAS —Mathematical neighbours: Thomas Harriot & John Dee

[Explores the mathematical developments and processes of Thomas Harriot—a graduate of Oxford, and John Dee—a graduate of Cambridge.]

11:40 AM— ALAN GALLAY — Harriot and Raleigh in the Tower

[During Raleigh’s long tenure in the Tower (1603 – 1616) he continued his scientific research and historical writing, assisted by his senior advisor Thomas Harriot.]

12:15— LUNCH BREAK

 

AFTERNOON SESSIONS:

1:45 PM— DR. KARIN AMUNDSEN — By way of trafficke and exchaunge: Metals and Providential History in Thomas Harriot’s “A briefe and true report” (1590)

[Harriot’s role reporting on the 1585 discoveries is set in the context of contemporary international competition for metals.]

2:20 PM— DR. ROBYN ARIANRHOD — Harriot, the Astronomer & Mathematician

[Thomas Harriot was noted as the mathematician teaching navigation to Elizabethan mariners, then as the geographer of North America, but his later astronomical discoveries were never published. ]

2:55 PM— AFTERNOON BREAK

3:15 PM— DR. CARTER HUDGINS — Harriot’s home in Ireland, Molana Abbey

[After writing his report on Virginia, Harriot went to Ireland, assisting Raleigh in surveying and managing the vast estates bestowed by Queen Elizabeth, and in return he was given Molana Abbey and its landholdings. But did Harriot ever make it his home?]

3:50 PM – 4:20 PM Panel Q/A Discussion

PROFESSOR LANE, DR. KUPPERMAN, DR. FOX, DR. CLUCAS, DR. GALLAY, DR. AMUNDSEN, DR. ARIANRHOD, DR. HUDGINS—MODERATOR PHIL EVANS

 

THURSDAY EVENING – SEARCHERS OF NEW HORIZONS EXHIBITION

Wine and Cheese Reception

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Dare County Arts Council in Manteo Town Center

 

DAY 3: FRIDAY – SYMPOSIUM DAY 2: NATIVE AMERICANS, LOST COLONISTS’ FATE & GENERAL BILLY MITCHELL

*Two topics being covered at two locations concurrently throughout the day*

 

Topic 1: Native Americans & the Lost Colonists’ Fate at The Lost Colony’s Indoor Gazebo Theatre at Fort Raleigh

9 half-hour presentations and discussion panels focusing on from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

9:00 AM— Welcome — PHIL EVANS

9:05 AM— DR. KIM SLOAN — Indians Depicted by Harriot and White

[Discussion of Native Americans as depicted and described by two eye-witnesses for an English & European audience.]

9:40 AM— DR. CHRISTIAN FEEST — Indians in Renaissance Europe

[Overview of the great interest shown by Renaissance Europe in New World natives, and the role played by Algonquians in the Contact Period.]

10:15 AM— MS. MARGARET B. PRITCHARD — Illustrating Harriot: John White & Mark Catesby

[Travelling far wider than White in 1585, an early 18th –century naturalist wrote and illustrated a natural history of Virginia and the Carolinas.]

10:50— MORNING BREAK

11:10 AM— MR. ROBERT ANTHONY, JR — Harri

[1590 printing of Thomas Harriot’s detailed report on North Carolina remains a key resource for scholarship]

11:45 AM— MR. DUNCAN JAMES — Newly Discovered Elizabethan Carvings of New-World Indians — Moderated by Dr. Eric Klingelhofer

[Presents a strong case that the carvings may be of Manteo & Wanchese ]

12:20 PM — 1:20 PM LUNCH BREAK

 

AFTERNOON SESSIONS:

1:20 PM— Dr. Helen Rountree — The Virginia Algonkians

[Daily Life, customs, and institutions of the Tidewater Algonquians shed light on indigenous East Coast peoples.]

1:55 PM— Mr. Edward Clay Swindell — The Carolina Algonkians & Mettaquem Preserved

[Archaeology at the Mettaquem settlement, now preserved in Salmon Creek Natural Area in Bertie County, offers new information on Carolina Algonquians.]

2:30 PM— AFTERNOON BREAK

2:50 PM— Mr. Nicholas Luccketti — Contact not Conflict: Discoveries at Sites X & Y

[Presentation of new discoveries in the search for the lost colonists.]

3:25 PM— Mr. Eric Deetz  — Searching for Roanoac

[Presentation of evidence in the search for the Native American village on Roanoke Island.]

4:00 PM — 4:30 PM Panel Q/A Discussion

DR. SLOAN, DR. FEEST, MS. PRITCHARD, MR. ANTHONY, DR. KLINGELHOFER, DR. ROUNTREE, MR. SWINDELL, MR. LUCCKETTI, MR. DEETZ AND MODERATOR PHIL EVANS

 

Topic 2: General Billy Mitchell

Morning Session:

Pioneer Theatre, Budleigh Street in Manteo

9:00 AM – 11: 50 AM

Includes presentations by the National Park Service – OBX Group and authorities in their field including:

Dr. Doug Lantry: Curator at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and the Museum’s Historian.

Mr. Brent Lane

Movie Screening: The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, starring Gary Cooper

 

Afternoon Session:

Field Trip to Cape Hatteras National Shore in Frisco, North Carolina

2:00 PM

Meets at Billy Mitchell Air Strip 

Includes information, presentations, and discussions from Dr. Douglas Lantry & National Park Service Interpreters.

 

FRIDAY EVENING – QUESTERS RENDEZVOUS PRESENTED BY OBX HISTORY WEEKEND

When: Friday, April 1st, 2022
Where: The Hilton Garden Inn in Kitty Hawk
Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

 

DAY 4: SATURDAY – SYMPOSIUM DAY 3: AVIATORS – THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN & WOMEN AND THEIR FLYING MACHINES

Public-oriented presentations focusing on popular names in aviation history at The Gazebo Theatre at Fort Raleigh.

Vintage Aircraft Fly-Over Finale

OBX History Weekend: Searchers of New Horizons closes mid-afternoon with a fly-over finale of Vintage Aircraft.

Planes will be visible from the air at Wright Brothers National Memorial and from The Lost Colony Waterside Theatre at Fort Raleigh. Narrations at both locations.