Four Quakers set sail in 1958 on a 37-foot wooden ketch on a mission to prevent nuclear weapon testing. Sixty-five years later, a new crew is at the helm but still sharing the same message of peace. Golden Rule, considered the world’s […]
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The North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort is known for an extensive collection that highlights the many types of shells that are found along our coastline. But it’s a shell in the personal collection of the museum’s education curator that is particularly notable.
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A summer program that for more than 50 years has taught children the wonders of the maritime environment returns fully for the first time since 2019. Summer Science School, hosted by the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort, gives students an opportunity
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A popular Crystal Coast tradition will return for its 29th year along the Morehead City and Beaufort waterfronts. The Crystal Coast Christmas Flotilla features boats, yachts, oars, kayaks and commercial vessels decorated for the season. The boat parade can be seen Dec.
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A documentary that showcases one man’s effort to keep the wooden boat building tradition alive takes place on a tiny Caribbean Island. But its setting could just as easily be closer to home. The North Carolina Maritime Museum, in cooperation with Beaufort
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The Harvey W. Smith Watercraft Center will close to visitors until at least March 4. Due to a recent exposure to COVID-19, the facilities will be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized, and site employees with potential exposure to the virus will self-quarantine for
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BEAUFORT, N.C. — People might not look at the whale skeleton that hangs in the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort and think “dragon.” But in all likelihood, there were some sailors who at one time did. “Whales could have been the inspiration
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BEAUFORT, NC – The Beaufort Pirate Invasion will be taking over more than the downtown streets again this year. The N.C. Maritime Museum will host special activities that coincide with the annual event, which officially starts Friday evening and continues through Sunday.
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