Fall 2024 HSNC Meeting, Greenville, NC
October 18 @ 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$25Relics from Queen Anne’s Revenge
The fall meeting of the Historical Society of North Carolina will be held on Friday, October 18, 2024.
Location: Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab, which is located at East Carolina University’s West Research Campus, off NC Highway 43 just west of Greenville.
Address: 1157 VOA Site C Road, Greenville, N.C. 27834
More specific information follows below. Make every effort to attend as this is a rare opportunity to see the salvaged relics from Blackbeard’s infamous flagship.
Our Meeting Itinerary
3:00 PM: Social time with light refreshments
3:30 PM: Afternoon Session: Tour of the QAR Lab
Since 1996, underwater archaeologists from the NC Office of State Archaeology have recovered nearly 500,000 artifacts from site 31CR314, the wreck of Blackbeard’s infamous flagship Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR). The QAR Conservation Lab, where all artifacts from the site are meticulously conserved and researched, was established in partnership with East Carolina University in 2004. The QAR team of archaeologists and conservators work to uncover details of daily life aboard a pirate ship as well as information about the ship’s involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade during its previous life as La Concorde, a French slave-trading vessel. Join us as we lead you through an artifact’s journey from recovery to conservation, research, discovery, interpretation, and exhibit.
5:00 PM: Business Meeting. We will have several important items to discuss, including the election of new officers and members.
6:00 PM: Dinner will be provided by Meating Ground Café. The cost is $25 per person.
7:00 PM -8:00 PM: Evening Session
We will have the presentation of memoirs of two recently deceased members: Drs. Donald G. Mathews and Peter Carmichael. The evening feature presentation will be delivered by former president Dr. Karin Zipf. Her talk is titled “Farmworker Friend: Joan Preiss, the United Farm Workers and Boycotts as a Strategy of Resistance.”
Accommodations and Meal Details
There are several good hostelries located near the ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville, which is about a 5–10-minute drive from the QAR Lab. There is plenty of parking at the QAR Lab. Please note, there is a security fence that automatically closes at 5pm. If you arrive after 5, we will have someone available to open the gate for you to enter. It opens automatically when exiting.
For early arrivals, the famous B’s BBQ is also located near the QAR Lab off highway 43, though they typically run out of food around 1pm and close. Below are links to other things to do in Greenville and Pitt County.
Registration and Payment
Dinner will be provided by Meating Ground Café. The cost is $25 per person. There will be a vegetarian option.
Please be sure to RSVP to our secretary Michael Perdue NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11TH. Michael’s email: History6557@Yahoo.com. Bring checks/cash with you to the meeting and our treasurer Jason Tomberlin will collect them. Checks for the upcoming year’s dues will be taken also.