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Diamond City Homecoming

  • Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center 1785 Island Road Harkers Island, NC, 28531 (map)
 

125th Anniversary of the Storm of 1899
Click here to learn more about the Storm

 
 
 


ON SHACKLEFORD


8:30am
   Ferries to Wade's Shore leave NPS dock from Shell Point
(Cape Lookout National Seashore Visitors Center)
Reservations required: www.CoreSound.com/dc-ferry
$10/person - Special thanks to Island Express Ferry

9:30am   Wreath Laying Ceremony at Wade’s Shore Cemetery

10:30am   Ferries back to Shell Point

BACK AT THE MUSEUM

10am   Core Sound Museum opens. Family displays and videos ongoing.

11am  Welcome & Remarks

11:30am - 1pm  Lunch  (Provided by Bring Back the Lights Committee / Harkers Island's Christmas Decorating Project)
BBQ & Chicken Plate (Provided by Fat Fellas):  $15each     
     Tickets:  www.CoreSound.com/dc-lunch
Hot dogs and desserts available for purchase on site

1pm  Promise Land Memories Panel Discussion

2pm  Stories from Salter Path

3pm  The Camps of Shackleford Banks Panel Discussion

Supper on your own

DOWN FERRY DOCK ROAD

7pm  Diamond City Community Choir:  Music & Memories of our Shared Heritage
Free Grace Church
*If you are interested in the singing with the choir, please email museum@coresound.com

Earlier Event: August 3
US Coast Guard Reunion Dinner
Later Event: October 6
Blessing of the Fleet