BEAUFORT — It all started with a costume. Exhibits staff with the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort reached out to the Walt Disney World Company a couple of years ago for a possible loan of the Blackbeard costume from the Pirates of the Caribbean series to...
The 45th Annual Beaufort Wooden Boat Show has been brought to a successful close. Picture perfect weather drew thousands to Beaufort’s downtown waterfront for the heritage boat display, which featured more than 50 powered, rowed and sail boats lining Front Street, the N.C. Maritime Museum parking...
BEAUFORT —The Beaufort Wooden Boat Show has always been a family-friendly event, and that tradition continues this year with activities geared specifically to the little ones. The 45th Annual Wooden Boat Show, hosted by the N.C. Maritime Museum, is set up along Front Street and the...
BEAUFORT — There was a time when boating was reserved for the wealthy. Before World War II when boats were custom made, it was an expensive hobby out of the reach of most Americans. But after the war — and its lucrative wartime contracts — ended,...
Meet author Deborah Van Dyken and learn about her children's book The Little Turkle — which includes themes of animal conservation, marine education and enduring friendship — during an upcoming book reading and signing at the museum. Van Dyken, a Beaufort attorney and writer was...
Sometimes you never know when inspiration will strike. The Beaufort Ole Town Rotary invited N.C. Maritime Museum Associate Curator Ben Wunderly to speak on the museum’s history. Wunderly spent some time researching the background and crafting a presentation for the club. And then he took it public. “I...
[caption id="attachment_2985" align="alignnone" width="300"] Town of Beaufort Mayor Rett Newton speaks with Shelton Scholars Sharpe Newton and Nick Bond during a reception welcoming the group to the town for a weekend of service.[/caption] A group of students recognized for outstanding performance and potential spent a weekend...
The Junior Sailing Program is coming home. Construction on the new bridge over Gallants Channel displaced the program in 2014, moving its operations to Taylors Creek for the past five years. But with the bridge complete, Friends of the North Carolina Maritime Museum is working on...