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Belle Meade Society Spring Meeting

April 24, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The Search for Blackbeard’s “Queen Anne’s Revenge”
Lindley S. Butler, PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill

Dr. Butler, a senior North Carolina historian and past president of the Historical Society of North Carolina, was engaged as a volunteer diver and served as historian of the “Queen Anne’s Revenge” Shipwreck Project from 1997-2017. This ship , which was the flagship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard, sank in the Beaufort Inlet in 1718. So far, nearly 400,000 artifacts have been recovered by this project.

Dinner at 6 pm
Program to follow at 7 pm
$30 per person

Reservations required–Belle Meade Society members only (join on our Individual & Family Membership page)
Please make checks payable to Greensboro History Museum, Inc. To pay by credit card, call Mary Allen at 336.373.2982 or  Pay Online

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Date:
April 24, 2017
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm