Donate a food item and enter this Outer Banks museum for free on Sept. 14
The Frisco Native American Museum is offering free admission on Sept. 14 with the donation...
History
Learn the art of corn husk weaving at several Manteo events
Corn husk seat weaving is a skill of the past, but Island Farm in Manteo...
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Great Bridge reenactor leaves behind historical legacy
For more than two decades, Ron Phelps tirelessly promoted and celebrated the annual Battle of...
For the man who portrays Lafayette at Colonial Williamsburg, it’s a marquis event
200 years after the Revolutionary hero’s tour, a CW reenactor retraces his steps. This year...
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Catch a wave: Exhibit highlights history of Outer Banks surf culture
“Where the Waves Break: Surfing in Northeastern North Carolina” puts two misconceptions to rest: Surfing...
New Colonial Williamsburg exhibit brings past into present
The “Worlds Collide” exhibit will open Sept. 7 and run through Jan. 2, 2027, at...
Tiny copper earring found buried on Outer Banks is new clue in search for Algonquian village
An analysis conducted by Madison Accelerator Laboratory at James Madison University in Harrisonburg found that...
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Three summer cocktail recipes you may not know are from Virginia
People have been making punch for centuries, consisting of five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, citrus, spice...
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Exploring history at Lock Park in Great Bridge: ‘Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead’
While Great Bridge Lock Park embraces only 19 acres on a small peninsula between the...
![By TARA COPP WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a horrific port explosion that killed hundreds of service members and exposed racist double standards among the then-segregated ranks. On July 17, 1944, munitions being loaded onto a cargo ship detonated, […]](https://www.pilotonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Navy_Black_Sailors_Exonerated_93607.jpg?w=111 "By TARA COPP WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a horrific port explosion that killed hundreds of service members and exposed racist double standards among the then-segregated ranks. On July 17, 1944, munitions being loaded onto a cargo ship detonated, […]")
Navy exonerates 256 Black sailors unjustly punished in 1944 after a deadly California port explosion
By TARA COPP WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who...