We Had Our Very Own Disappearing Act! Long-term museum volunteer, Mitch Mayhew, has been helping at the museum for almost 20 years. Despite the fact that he lives 8 hours away, he has managed to donate whole weeks in the recovery effort from Hurricane Matthew. Like our other wonderful volunteers, […]
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THANK YOU! In past postings about our future Living Village project, we have said that it takes a community to raise a village. Recently, we have blessed to have a opportunity to see firsthand the true beauty of that statement through our experiences with our own beloved community. In these […]
Progress will be slow, but it keeps getting better and better Updating exhibits can be more difficult that it seems, but it is going to be AMAZING in the end! While, as we stated through earlier posts, the majority of the exhibits will remain in the same spots, the rooms […]
We’re still planning a Gathering in April! Though we are still ensconced in (and will be for quite a while) remodeling inside the museum from Hurricane Matthew, you may remember from a PREVIOUS POST that we are still planning to celebrate a Volunteer Days in April 2017. It will be […]
Happy New Year! As 2016 closes, we are taking the time to reflect on all the phenomenal progress that happened during our Volunteer Days in April and October. Then, we turn to the changes we slowly see unfurling while rebuilding from Hurricane Matthew. Though we may be getting a bit […]
Good News, Good News, Good News! The Outer Banks Community Foundation has awarded the museum a grant to help with recovery efforts from Hurricane Matthew! We’d like to believe the record setting hurricane was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but we know that may not be realistic. The funds will make it […]
Update from behind the scenes If you’ve visited the museum and trails, you’ve seen that our building sits over the beautiful water belonging to one of the tributaries to the sound. However beautiful, that same water has been known to cause its share of damage when it rises a bit […]
One of the new changes we are excited about is the chance to update our signage. Not only will they have a beautiful new look, but they will have a new addition of a QR Code! What’s a QR Code? You may have seen them on product packages before, small […]
Lots of folks have looked at the piles of debris in front of the museum and called to ask about our recovery. If that much stuff came OUT of the museum, surely some things needed to go IN. One call was from a member of the Virginia and Frances Meekins […]
Progress on such a huge project, such as the hurricane recovery, is slow moving. The sanitation process is complete. We’ve got all new wiring, and not ALL rooms of the museum have been trimmed so we can replace it with material that will stand better against future (though we are […]
As many of you know, we have been looking forward in excitement to our first Village Days that was planned for April of 2017. Unfortunately, Matthew’s impact has extended its reach into the next year for the museum and we were forced to make some hard decisions. First, we have […]
Hurricane Matthew was devastating to the lower towns of Hatteras Island. Frisco, where we are located, had record flooding for the area. The museum itself, had water through the floors of all the exhibits. The pavilion on the trail had several feet. This water not only saturated and moved our […]