Parlor Talks
• Summer 2024 •
8/29/24
“Changes on Harkers Island”
Chris Yeomans & Friends
8/15/24
“Changes on Cape Lookout”
Jeff West
7/25/24
“Changes in the Town of Beaufort”
Geoffrey Adair
7/11/24
“Changes in the Seafood Industry”
Barbara Garrity-Blake and Jess Hawkins
8/22/24
“Changes in the Tides”
Dr. Katherine Anarde, Assistant Professor, NC State University
8/1/24
“Changes Down East”
Summer Interns
7/18/24
“Changes in our Local Schools”
Richard Paylor, Jody McClenny and Jeanne Huntley
• Summer 2023 •
9/28/23
“NC’s History with Hurricanes”
Jay Barnes
8/17/23
Foundation for Shackleford Horses
Margaret Poindexter & Carolyn Mason, Presidents Past & Present
8/3/23
“US Coast Guard History, Carteret County”
Todd Nelson, CDR, USCG(ret)
7/20/23
“Portsmouth Island Decoys”
Robbie Smith, Carolina Decoy Collectors
7/6/23
“Cape Lookout Lighthouse - Past, Present & Future”
Nate Toering, Cape Lookout National Seashore
6/22/23
“Shorebird Hunting & the Art of Shorebird Decoys”
Robbie Smith, Carolina Decoy Collectors
8/24/23
“Patrick’s Hill, Carteret County’s Only Lynching”
Geoffrey Adair, Historian
8/10/23
“Coastal Songs - Old & New”
Connie Mason & Emma “Emmer” Rose Guthrie
7/27/23
“Family Neighborhoods of Harkers Island”
Joel Hancock, “The Education of an Island Boy”
7/13/23
“Coastal Songs - Old & New”
Connie Mason
6/29/23
“The Tide IS Rising”
Panel Discussion - Researchers, Journalists, Scientists
6/15/23
“Fish House Liars”
Chris Yeoman, Friends & Fellow Liars
• Spring 2023 •
2/2/23
“A Tribute to Fish House Liars”
Chris Yeomans
2/9/23
“Songs and Stories We Love”
Connie Mason
2/16/23
“Promised Land”
Shannon Adams
2/23/23
“Cape Lookout Lighthouse”
Heber Guthrie
3/2/23
“Palmer Davis of Davis Ridge”
Geoffrey Adair
3/9/23
Sacred Threads Exhibit Introduction
Crystal Coast Quilters & Partners
3/16/23
“Feed Sacks’ Role in Quilting and Commerce”
Crystal Coast Quilters and Partners
• Fall 2022 •
7/14/22
“The Tide IS Rising”
Frank Tursi
7/21/22
“Dynamics of Extreme Events, People and Places (DEEPP)”
Elizabeth Frankenburg & Nathan Dollar
7/28/22
“Leaving the Banks”
Joel Hancock
8/4/22
“Cape Lookout Lighthouse History and Restoration Status”
Jeff West
8/11/22
“Cabin Culture of the Southern Banks”
Dr. Stan Rule
8/18/22
“The Value of Down East Culture in the Arctic Alaska”
Susan Mason