Chicamacomico calls for volunteers
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CHICAMACOMICO LIFESAVING STATION Historic Site and Museum in the village of Rodanthe on Hatteras Island has already invited and scheduled participants from all around to celebrate the centennial of its 1911 Life-Saving Station. But it is a very big site and there is room for more! “We want this to be a really big show!” said Site Manager James Charlet.
So the call is going out to our local areas. Still being sought are period wagons, trucks, cars, motorcycles, tractors, implements and tools. Period crafts and trades are also needed. Other items, artifacts, displays, etcetera will be considered. What have you got right here that might be just great for an island centennial celebration?
“Items need not be exactly 1911, Charlet continues, “but should be reasonably close. Anything prior to that is a ‘Golden Oldie’ and is automatic!”
If you would like to nominate yourself as a participant, please email Charlet at clss@embarqmail.com and describe what you have to offer. Initial phone calls are OK, but registration will be online. Our deadlines are very tight at this point. Also, note that application does not guarantee acceptance.
The event is scheduled for Thursday, August 4 (also Coast Guard Day and 6th annual American Heroes Day) and will run from 10-4. Schedules to be published soon. Admission is charged for the general public because this is a major fund-raiser for the nonprofit 501 (c)(3). Chicamacomico receives no annually budgeted federal or state funds.
Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site is located in the village of Rodanthe on Hatteras Island at MP 39.5 and is one of the many sites on the Historic Albemarle Tour as well as the Outer Banks National Scenic Byway, part of America’s Scenic Byways Program. For more information about this particularly interesting site and its exciting activities and offerings, visit www.chicamacomico.net, email clss@embarqmail.com, or call 252-987-1552.