**dedicated to preserving the heritage of Hope Plantation and Bertie County*
thru the Hope for Tomorrow Fund
*bring your excess treasures and make some Extra Christmas Cash
Reid Thomas is a Restoration Specialist for the State Historic Preservation Office, Division of Historical Resources, Department of Cultural Resources. Serving out of the Eastern Office in Greenville, since 1990, he works in 18 counties in the northeastern region providing technical restoration assistance to hundreds of private and public projects. Reid specializes in early building technology, historic paints, building conservation and disaster planning and recovery.
Mark Wenger is employed with Mesick Cohen Wilson Baker, Architects—Albany, New York, and Williamsburg, Virginia.
The firm specializes in the restoration of historic buildings. From 1980 to 2003, Wenger worked as an architectural historian with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and makes his home in Williamsburg. He has published two books and a number of articles on architectural subjects.
9:30 am Registration and Welcome
10:15 am Mark Wenger
Early Turned Chairs of the Roanoke River Basin
11:30 am Refreshment Break
11:45 am Reid Thomas
Gambrel Roof Houses of Northeastern North Carolina
1:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Chair Assessment
If you wish, please bring one or two chairs for Mark Wenger to assess for provenance, date, material, etc.
No financial appraisals will be offered.
Ives Lecture Brochure Interior 2014
Ives Lecture Brochure Exterior 2014
In observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its impact on education for African Americans, Historic Hope Foundation offers its annual celebration program with a focus on the theme, “Bertie County African American Education Leaders: Then and Now.” The program is designed to establish an understanding of the events and personalities of the past and how life has changed, how the present had come about, and what it is all about.
11:30 am – 12:00 pm • Registration and Coffee
12:00 pm Introductions and Recognitions – Stories and Reflections
This session offers presentations and discussions about some early African American educators who were significant contributors to Bertie County’s communities such as W.S. Etheridge, Rev. D. L. Simons, Dr. J. Jasper Freeman, and Dr. Rachel Luten Boyce
1:30 pm Educators and Community Advocates: Turner Coggins and James Gilliam
This session offers presentations and discussions about two Bertie County natives who were educators and community advocates in the County during the1964 Civil Rights era.
3:00 pm Closing Remarks from the Bertie County School Leaders
3:30 pm Refreshments Served in the John E. Tyler Room
ROANOKE CHOWAN HERITAGE CENTER EXHIBITS
Plantation at the Crossroads: a permanent exhibit focusing on areas such as
Tuscarora civilization, plantation agriculture, and African American life.
For More Information
Phone: (252) 794-3140
Email: info@hopeplantation.org
Download the flyer for this event (pdf)
9:30 -10:00 am ♦ Registration and Coffee
10:00 am ♦ Reid Thomas, Restoration Specialist, NC State Historic Preservation Office
Exploring Northeastern North Carolina’s Early Architecture
An illustrated survey of regional buildings from the recently discovered oldest dated house to ones built up to about 1840 will be presented. Several fascination buildings (from humble one-room abodes to finer multi-room houses) that have been studied over the last 20+ years will be highlighted.
12:00 -1:00 pm ♦ Lunch
1:00 pm ♦ Jay Lester, Independent Scholar, Chapel Hill, NC
To David Stone and Peter Brown, Esq.: this first actual survey of the state of North Carolina taken by the subscribers is respectfully dedicated: The Story of the Price-Strother Map
The 1808 Price-Strother map of North Carolina, published with the financial backing of David Stone, was the first map of the State by actual survey. A review of the map was published in 1964 in the North Carolina Historical Review. Through many hours spent in archives, libraries, and on line, a greatly expanded and corrected history of the map is now pending publication in the MESDA Journal.
2:30 pm ♦ Dale Loberger, Historic Interpreter, Monroe, NC
Hands-on demonstration of surveying equipment of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
Advances in science and the demands of a developing continent led to rapid growth of tools and techniques for describing physical geography and bringing order to the untamed world. Learn through experience how early maps were created from the instruments devised to measure and plan the future of a new world.
Conference registration fee $25.00 ♦ *Registration Deadline January 15, 2014
Make check payable to:
Historic Hope Foundation / 132 Hope House Road / Windsor, NC 27983
Phone: 252-794-3140 / Fax: 252-794-5583 / Email: info@hopeplantation.org
Download the flyer for this event (pdf).
Participants will learn about what plants should be avoided and safe to use during the holiday season and will be treated to a demonstration of growing amaryllis indoors and transferring them to your garden in the spring.
Participants will make a holiday table arrangement and the secret of how to make the perfect Christmas bow.
December 5, 2013
10am – 3:00 pm (check-in begins at 9:30 am)
Hope House Plantation
Lunch will be served
Registration – $25.00 (includes supplies & lunch)
RSVP and payment must be received before Wednesday, November 27th to reserve your spot.
Don’t Wait – Seats are going fast.
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Mail to: Bertie County Cooperative Extension
Attn: Joan Dunstan
P.O. Box 280
Windsor, NC 27983
Make check payable to: Bertie County Master Gardeners
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