SPECIAL BELLAMY MEMBERS ONLY PRESENTATION AND RECEPTION:"Why We're Called Tar Heels: The Sticky Story of Tar, Pitch and Turpentine"
Tuesday, August 25 at 7:00 PM
Hear regional favorite, Harry Warren, Director of the North Carolina Museum of Forestry, discuss the rise and fall of the naval store industry in southeastern North Carolina. Seating is limited so email info@bellamymansion.org to ensure your seating by providing member name(s) and contact information. New memberships accepted to take advantage of this special event.
African-American History Day
Saturday, Sept. 19 from
10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Regular Admission costs apply: $10.00 for Adults, Children ages 5-12: $4.00, Children under 5: free. Special rate for African-American History Day: Students with a current student ID: $3.00.
Come and experience the Bellamy Mansion with a focus on 19th century African-American History of the area. The Bellamy household included not only the eleven Bellamy family members, but also nine enslaved African-Americans who lived on the site and worked throughout the house. Learn about their lives as well as those of the free blacks and hired-out slave artisans who built this grand house, the carriage house, and slave quarters.
Featuring:
• African-American History focused tours of site on the ½ hour, 10:30 AM 11:30 AM and 12:30 PM. There will be a short lecture on various subjects pertaining to African-American history at the beginning of each tour.
• Kitchen interpretations of African-American slave life and foods of 19th -century Cape Fear region with reenactment of Sarah, the Bellamy’s enslaved cook by Ms. Sulnora Spencer of Kenansville, N.C. or Louise Harrison of Leland, N.C.
'What's It Worth' Informal Appraisal Clinic
Sunday, September 27 from 3-7:00 p.m.
Bellamy Mansion is hosting a fun and informal antiques evaluation clinic featuring numerous Cape Fear area antique dealers and experts. Call for tickets at 910.386.6126.
Tickets: Tickets available for purchase beginning August 17, 2009 Cost: $10 per person for entry includes choice of 2 lectures (no member discount for this event) $5 per item for evaluation • Limit of 3 items (for large and bulky items please bring a photograph) • Please do not bring musical instruments or weapons
Lectures: Your choice of two lectures from the following topics:
1 Vintage Costume Jewelry by Aurora Perez and Mike Flewwellin
2 Southern American Furniture and Decorative Arts by Bob Warren J. Robert Warren Antiques
3 American and European Clocks by Alex Clifton - Time… at Last!
4 Vintage Glass: Focus on Heisey Glass by Sibyl Lavengood Sibyl’s of Wilmington
5 Fine Estate Jewelry by Pait Skipper Cape Fear Jewelry & Antiques
6 Chinese Export Porcelain by Charles Adams Charles R. Adams Antiques
7 Diamonds: How Value and Quality Are Related by Chris Snowden Snowden’s Jewelers
8 Vintage Linens by Pauline Hopkinson
9 All About Auctions by Kelly Flewwellin Auction Company of Wilmington
10 Toys: Antique toys, dolls & bears by Jim Nichols Castle Keep Antiques
11 Fine Art: Collecting by Nancy Marshall Walls Fine Art Gallery, 3 p.m.
12 Fine Art : Restoring by Natalie Marshall Walls Fine Art Gallery, 5 p.m.
Event Sponsors:
PLATINUM - Pathfinder Wealth Management
GOLD - L & L Tents & Party Rentals