Editors Note: Please respond if your organization will attend by Thursday, Oct. 19, at 5 p.m., call (919) 807-7389 or email fay.mitchell@ncdcr.gov.
GREENVILLE — Study of artifacts from the shipwreck of the presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s flagship, continues to illuminate details of pirate life. A media review of the latest findings on Friday, Oct. 20, at 11 a.m., will show a variety of 16th century objects, and how they all fit in the timeline of Blackbeard’s life. From cuff links to clyster syringe, and cannon conservation A – Z, reporters will see objects from the x-ray stage, concretion covered, to polished and exhibit ready.
WHO: Members of the project team, including Chief Conservator Sarah Watkins-Kenney, Project Director Mark Wilde-Ramsing, Nautical Archaeologist David Moore, and others
WHAT: Media showing of objects recovered from the presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck, in various stages of conservation
WHEN: Friday, Oct. 20, 11 a.m.
WHERE: QAR Conservation Lab, ECU West Research Campus, 1157 VOA site
C Road, Greenville, N.C. 27834 (directions attached)
For additional information call (919) 8-7-7389 or (252) 744-6721. The Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project in the Office of Archives and History is part of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the state agency with the mission to enrich lives and communities, and the vision to harness the state’s cultural resources to build North Carolina’s social, cultural and economic future. Information is available 24/7 at www.ncculture.com.
Directions to Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Laboratory
From Raleigh.
- From Raleigh get onto 264 to Greenville, travel east to Mozingo Road exit .
- Take the Mozingo road exit and turn left at end of ramp onto Mozingo Road. After 1.4 mile road ends in T-junction with VOA Site C Road. Turn right onto VOA Site C Road, travel north, for 1.7 miles. Turn right at the sign for East Carolina University West (Research) Campus. Driveway has two large fir trees on either side of the road and pampas grass at the sign.
- Parking is outside Academic Building (NC state vehicles or ECU permit holders)
- Inside main Academic Building follow QAR signs.
From ECU Main Campus
- Turn left onto 5th street.
- Travel west on 5th street and cross Memorial Drive (11) and continue on Hwy 43 for about 6 miles.
- Turn left (c. 1 mile after Rock Springs Equestrian Center on left) onto VOA Site C Road. There will be a green sign on the right side of the road that says “ECU WRC”.
- Go approximately 1.5-2 miles and turn left into ECU West Research Campus.
- Parking is outside Academic Building
- Inside main Academic Building follow QAR signs.
From New Bern
- Take Hwy 17 out of New Bern
- Bear left onto US-17 business
- Continue on NC-43
- Once you get into Greenville, NC-43 will turn into Charles Boulevard. Continue on this road.
- Charles Boulevard will turn into Cotanche when you cross over 10th street. Where the McDonalds and Krispy Kreme donuts are. Continue through the light.
- At the next light you take a left onto Reade Circle.
- At 2nd light turn left on to 5th street.
- Continue on 5th street (also called Martin Luther King Jr Drive), it will turn into Hwy 43 after crossing Memorial Drive (Hwy 11) (see directions from ECU main Campus).
- Go approximately 6 miles on Hwy 43.
- Turn left onto VOA Site C Road. There will be a green sign on the right side of the road that says “ECU WRC”.
- Go down approximately 1.5-2 miles and turn left into ECU West Research
- Campus.
Parking is outside Academic Building
Inside main Academic Building follow QAR signs. Directions to NC QAR Lab, East Carolina University