MEMBERS – your raffle tickets are in the mail! If you haven’t received them yet, you should be getting them soon. Read the instructions on your flyer, fill out the appropriate part of each ticket that you wish to purchase, and send those and a check for your payment in the enclosed envelope. Tickets will also be available for purchase at Homecoming for all who attend, of course! We have a couple of wonderful prizes this year!! Below are photos and descriptions of these prizes.
Thanks to Jeff West for providing us with pictures of rehab work in the village! These pictures of the Theodore and Annie Salter house (Visitor Center) were taken in late January. Scroll down for more pictures!
These pictures of the Community Cemetery rehab were taken last month during the rehab work. Maintenance crews applied slow acting cleaner and planted grass seed.
This picture is from last week. The school house has had lots of termite damage and the crew is making great progress on this!
We are excited about the rehab work going on in the village and thank Jeff and the maintenance crew for all the work they are doing. If we get more updates we will post here. We can’t wait to see the continued progress in the village at Homecoming!
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!
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!
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!
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!
MEMBERS – the Spring/Summer Doctor’s Creek Journal is in the mail! We hope you enjoy this current issue full of news and photos.
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.
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.
