Cape Fear – A Splendid Stage of American History with speaker Kevin Duffus.
Part 2 of 3 / $15 per part / Tickets available at www.weymouthcenter.org (Event Tickets) and TicketMeSandhills.com.
Part Two: Lighthouses and Lifesaving at Cape Fear / Sunday, February 16, 2020-2:00 PM / Cape Fear’s Three Lighthouses 1795-1903, their history, their keepers, and their fates; President Jefferson and the lighthouse keeper’s wife; the “Ansel Adams” of American lighthouses; the amazing and tragic odyssey of the second most historic lighthouse Fresnel lens in the nation; the “Age of Oars,” shipwrecks, lifesavers John Watts and Dunbar Davis, and the forgotten heroes of East Beach.
Part Three: Cape Fear’s Colorful Characters– Tax Evaders, Blockade Runners, Commandos, Dreamers, and Developers / Sunday, March 22, 2020– 2:00 PM / The Smiths of Smith Island, Civil War notables William Barker Cushing, Ambrose Hoke, Thomas Mann Thompson, Charlie Bahnson and the wreck of the Ella; the developers, Thomas Franklin Boyd, Frank Sherrill, William R. Henderson and the Carolina Cape Fear Corporation, Walter Davis, George Mitchell, and the Generator Society.
