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QAR Team to Grab the Grapnel

October 20, 2009 – 4:25 pm

BEAUFORT – A 4 ½-foot grapnel (a small four-pronged anchor) resting loosely in the sand will be brought up from the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, Oct. 21, near Beaufort. A team of N.C. Department of Cultural Resources archaeologists and conservators will turn to recovery instead of maintenance and preservation at the site of the [...]

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Gaming the Blackbeard Shipwreck

June 15, 2009 – 1:37 pm

RALEIGH – Middle schoolers and kids everywhere can explore the wreck of Blackbeard’s purported flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), in the new Blackbeard’s Escape video game. It was June 1718 that the Queen Anne’s Revenge ran aground in Beaufort Inlet. Players now get to fire cannon and attack a ship in flashbacks to [...]

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Shipwreck Project Director Presents Program

April 14, 2009 – 1:07 pm

You may be surprised at some of the archaeological findings from the shipwreck believed to be Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, which ran aground off North Carolina’s coast in 1718. Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing, director of the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project, will explain what the findings reveal about the ship’s role in colonial America, the [...]

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Arts, History, and Pirates Too!

February 28, 2009 – 3:32 pm

 
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National and state leaders will gather for an Arts in Education Conference March 5-7 in Raleigh at Meredith College.  Linda Bamford, Arts in Education Director for the N.C. Arts Council, tells us more.
Next, Andrea Gabriel, head of the Resource Management Branch at the State Archives talks about the Outer Banks History Center, which just opened [...]

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Pirates Opportunistic Operators

January 28, 2009 – 9:39 am

RALEIGH – “Shiver me timbers!” Romantic notions of sabers, swashbucklers, and an exciting life at sea belie the truth of those ancient buccaneers. That truth holds today. Piracy isn’t pretty, it’s parasitic.
North Carolina’s strong relationship with opportunistic pirates will be observed with the March 6 opening of the exhibit, “Knights of the Black Flag” at [...]

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Queen Anne’s Revenge Dive Expedition to Begin

September 12, 2008 – 6:08 pm

RALEIGH – Researchers on the wreck of the presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), Blackbeard’s flagship, will conduct the fall dive expedition Sept. 15-Nov. 7, and they are thinking big. The highlight of the thousands of artifacts they expect to recover is a cannon about eight feet long and weighing more than a ton, at [...]

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Orange Blossom Special, Brides, and Blackbeard

June 20, 2008 – 9:46 am

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Today’s podcast will give you insights into the composer of a famed fiddle tune, may have you humming “Here Comes the Bride,” and goes backstage for a behind the scenes look at a new musical about Blackbeard the Pirate.
First up, Richard Barton speaks with historian Mike Hill about [...]

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History Happens Here

December 27, 2007 – 11:18 am

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2007 has been a busy year at Cultural Resources with its theme of “History Happens Here.”  Today’s podcast features some of those stories, courtesy of Cultural Resources’ Fay Mitchell.  An exciting part of History Happens Here is the blockbuster Mysteries of the Lost Colony exhibit, which runs through [...]

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