Keeper James and Miz Linda will once again be participants this year at the Hatteras Island Guild’s annual Holiday Art and Craft Show.
The Oxford Dictionary defines a “guild” as “a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.” Its more modern meaning has evolved as “an association of people for mutual aid or the pursuit of a common goal.”
“As a student and writer of history,” Keeper James says, “I am especially pleased to be in a guild. I prefer to original definition, for that is what this group of Hatteras Islanders certainly is!”
The very popular two-date event is this Friday and Saturday (November 29 and 29) after Thanksgiving. The show is open from 10 to 3 at the Buxton Secondary School on N.C. Highway 12.
“We attended last year and had a glorious and very successful time. Yes, we sold a lot of books, but the icing on the cake was meeting so many interesting and fun people in addition to the mind-boggling array of artistic offerings.
“Get started on your Christmas shopping at the annual Holiday Show. Talented artists and craftspeople from around the region will showcase their work, much of which has been inspired by the raw beauty of the Outer Banks. Shop for paintings, quilts, books, prints, jewelry, soaps, ceramics, woodwork crafts, sea salt, textiles and more at this two-day Hatteras Island annual event,” is a quote from Outer Banks This Week.
The book, Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks: Dramatic Rescues and Fantastic Wrecks in the Graveyard of the Atlantic, Globe Pequot Press, is mostly about the little-known United States Life-Saving Service, one of America’s least-known yet most inspirational aspect in all of its storied history. During their 44-year history, nationwide, using no more than small, open, wooden boats and cork life belts, often in violent and dangerous storms, they responded to over 178,000 lives in peril from shipwrecks…of which they saved, OVER 177,000… one survivor at a time; yet, somehow, America forgot these peaceful heroes. In 1915, the United States Life-Saving Service merged with the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service and was renamed the United States Coast Guard.
The bonus this year is announcing the coming of Keeper James’ sequel, Shipwreck Rescues of the Outer Banks: Sensational Wrecks and Heroic Rescues by the United States Life-Saving Service ISBN 978-1-4930-8770-9, by James D. Charlet. It is due in April and there will be an exciting series of press releases giving hints, teasers, excerpts and it will culminate in a formal event.
Keeper James Presentations TM is a series of live programs presented by local historians, historical interpreters and performers Keeper JamesTM Charlet and Linda Molloy. Each program about the U.S. Life-Saving Service consists of vignettes of true, exciting, highly dramatic Outer Banks stories of ‘America’s Forgotten HeroesTM.’ For more information, see www.KeeperJames.com/programs.
