A Message from the Director

We’re looking forward to warmer weather with the greening and growing seasons of the Albemarle region. The museum, with your support through the Friend of the Museum of the Albemarle (FOMOA), has a full schedule of fun and enlightenment for your pleasure, sometimes referred to as Edu-tainment!

The museum is having a very good year with new exhibits, events, and special presentations. I’d like to thank you for helping us make history and culture in the museum a great attraction, bringing visitors to the Albemarle region. Heritage tourists and visitors are seeking peaceful natural environments and landscapes of rivers, sounds, swamps, small towns, and the many crops seen in the fields. We hear that many visitors have a feeling of time travel.

We will be part of an event for children, PBS Kids with the Rootle Road Tour, a free family event during the North Carolina Potato Festival. These dates are Saturday and Sunday, May 20–21. We have community partners to provide demonstrations and fun for the whole family. There will be games and activities throughout the museum and on the front lawn. This is brought to you by PBS North Carolina and the Division of Child Development and Early Education of the NC Department of Health and Human Services. Please make plans to join us for a great time.

East Lake Raid, Stills on Ship, ca. 1923

See this image in the upcoming Moonshine and Motorsports Trail.

D Victor Meekins Papers, Courtesy of Outer Banks History Center

Moonshine and Motorsports Trail on Friday, May 26, 10 a.m. This will be the furthest east and, depending on your travel direction, either the beginning or the end of a statewide series of historic markers associated with making, distributing, and running moonshine, white lightning, hooch, stump-juice, or your name of choice according to your heritage. This summer, the museum will have several fun days for children’s programs, and during the hot days, a cool movie in the auditorium for your viewing pleasure. We are aware of the need to walk through a quiet gallery of authentic artifacts. Families need to take time to discuss their past experiences, reflect, and reconnect in a real-time face-to-face discussion of changes and past responses to even greater challenges. The museum is happy to welcome you!

This is the Year of the Trail, an initiative through the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. We will dedicate a marker in front of the museum for the

Please stay tuned to local print and social media for further details. We use various media platforms to promote the museum, you can find us on Facebook as Museum of the Albemarle, twitter@moaecity, Instagram@ moaelizcity, and on YouTube@Museum of the Albemarle.

Please let us know if we can help you with any history-related questions. I hope you’ll make plans to visit us, see you in the museum.

See you in the museum

Don Pendergraft, Director of Regional Museums