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HOMECOMING 2024 UPDATE!

Please click on the Homecoming 2024 tab above for all the information you need to attend the big day on April 27. All are invited to attend and bring a covered dish as we celebrate the families of Portsmouth and the Lifesaving Station. This is a public event.

Remember to make lodging reservations ASAP, as well as ferry reservations the day before if coming from Cedar Island or Swan Quarter. You can make those reservations now. If arriving from the Hatteras ferry, be sure to take the earliest one you can to account for the longer ferry time and the drive into Ocracoke. Boat reservations with the Austins will be available in early April as noted on the Homecoming information under the tab. We look forward to seeing everyone!

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Fall 2023 Meeting Update

Thanks to all of you who attended Saturday’s meeting at the Sanitary Restaurant in Morehead City. We had a good turnout of 39 people, and everyone enjoyed Dr. Stanley Rule’s fascinating and well-researched presentation on the hunting & fishing clubs, also known as the “cabin culture”, of Eastern North Carolina. If you weren’t able to attend the meeting – or if you were there and would like some more information – check out the website cabinculturesobx.com.

During the meeting, FPI also presented its first-ever scholarship! The scholarship was awarded to Mason Anderson, daughter of Tom and Crystal Anderson. Mason is a freshman at East Carolina University majoring in art education, hoping to become an art teacher – and following in the footsteps of her great grandmother, Lucy Gilgo, who taught school in Portsmouth Village. Congratulations Mason!

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Fall Meeting Reminder!

Our fall Membership meeting is less than two weeks away now, on Saturday, September 16. Join us at the Sanitary Restaurant at 501 Evans St, Morehead City, at 10:00 AM. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Stanley Rule, speaking about the hunt clubs of Portsmouth and the surrounding area. You don’t need to be a member to attend. Stay after the meeting for a Dutch treat lunch. We hope to see you there!

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MEETING NOTICE UPDATE

REMINDER: Our FPI fall membership meeting is only a little over 6 weeks away! It will be held at the Sanitary Restaurant in Morehead City at 10:00 AM on Saturday, September 16, and our guest speaker will be Dr. Stanley Rule who will be speaking about the hunt clubs of Portsmouth and the surrounding area. Dr. Rule is a well-known Morehead City pediatrician, but he also enjoys boating, kayaking, water bird photography and carving, and studying nature. He is active in the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild and is a volunteer for the Rachel Carson Reserve in Beaufort. Dr. Rule is very knowledgeable about the history of the hunt clubs in the area, and we are looking forward to his presentation! You do not have to be a member to attend and the public is cordially invited. A Dutch treat lunch at the Sanitary will immediately follow the meeting. See you there!

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FALL MEETING NOTICE

Save the date! Our fall membership meeting will be held at 10 AM on Saturday, September 16, 2023 at the Sanitary Restaurant in Morehead City. We encourage all to stay for a Dutch Treat lunch after the meeting to help support the Sanitary Restaurant. Stay tuned for more meeting details and plan to join us! As always, our meetings are open to the public and we welcome all who wish to know more about Friends of Portsmouth Island.

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Coming June 10th!

Those of you who were at our September 2022 meeting saw Heather Walker give her presentation on the Middle Passage and Portsmouth. We hope you will plan to attend this event if you are in the area. It will take place at Shell Point, adjacent to Harkers Island Visitor Center. In the event of inclement weather, the event will be held indoors at the nearby Core Sound Waterfowl Museum, located at 1785 Harkers Island Road, Harkers Island. A marker will be placed in the village at a later date to commemorate this important part of Portsmouth history.

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SPRING MEETING REMINDER

Don’t forget our spring membership meeting at Ocracoke on Saturday, May 20! We will meet at NCCAT at 10:00 am. Meeting details are in our previous post, so scroll down for more info. If you are on Ocracoke that day, come and join us – you do not have to be a member to attend. If you are a walk-on from the ferry, NCCAT is located right at the ferry terminal on Silver Lake. See you there!

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HOMECOMING 2024 – APRIL 27

We are pleased to announce that Portsmouth Homecoming will be held on Saturday, April 27, 2024. We’re giving you the date now to put on your calendars so you can talk to friends and family and plan to come! All are welcome and you do not have to be a member or even a descendant to join us on this special day, but we hope you will come! We will provide updates as they become available, but do start planning to attend this very special event in 2024!

The 2024 Homecoming will be focused on the Lifesaving Station – stayed tuned for updates and announcements!

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Spring Meeting – May 20

Our spring membership meeting will be held at the NCCAT building on Ocracoke on Saturday, May 20, at 10:00 AM. NCCAT is located right off the Silver Lake ferry dock. You do not need to be a member to attend and all are welcome.

Our guest speaker will be Margaret Miller Growe. Ms. Growe is the Executive Director of The Tamassee Group, which was founded in 2016 to promote cultural and environmental education via the conservation and preservation of significant natural and historical resources. Those of you who attended our 2022 Portsmouth Homecoming may have seen crew members who were filming at that time, working on a documentary of the history and the culture of the Outer Banks.

If you plan to attend the meeting, please make any needed lodging and ferry reservations ASAP, since there are a number of events taking place on Ocracoke at or around that time. We hope to see you there!