{"id":2698,"date":"2026-07-22T01:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2026-07-22T01:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:53:24","slug":"fall-meeting-september-19-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/fall-meeting-september-19-2026-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FALL MEETING &#8211; SEPTEMBER 19, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SAVE THE DATE!! Our fall membership meeting will be held on Saturday, September 19 at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum on Harkers Island. NOTE THAT THE MEETING WILL BEGIN AT 9:00 AM, AN HOUR EARLIER THAN THE &#8220;USUAL&#8221; STARTING TIME. You won\u2019t want to miss it. We will be electing officers and directors for the 2027\/2028 term, and we hope our new Cape Lookout National Seashore Park Superintendent, Laura E. Rich Acosta, will be there to introduce herself and give us a Park update. Our guest speaker will be Katie Daugherty from the Outer Banks History Center, who will share photos and information about Portsmouth. In addition, we\u2019ll have the drawing for the raffle that was supposed to have been held at the canceled 2026 Homecoming. Members \u2013 if you haven\u2019t yet purchased and sent in your tickets, there\u2019s still time! Just make sure that you mail them in by September 4. There are some wonderful items in this raffle; you don\u2019t need to be present to win. AND &#8211; WE WILL HAVE OUR FIRST EVER SILENT AUCTION! See the bottom of this notice for photos and a description of each auction item. You don\u2019t need to be a member to attend our meetings &#8211; all are welcome!! Come join us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-804x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-804x1024.jpeg 804w, https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-235x300.jpeg 235w, https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-768x979.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-1206x1536.jpeg 1206w, https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.jpeg 1401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See less<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAVE THE DATE!! Our fall membership meeting will be held on Saturday, September 19 at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum on Harkers Island. NOTE THAT THE MEETING WILL BEGIN AT &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/fall-meeting-september-19-2026-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FALL MEETING &#8211; SEPTEMBER 19, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofportsmouthisland.org\/fopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}