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HISTORY THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD
The Lost Colony performs first school matinee at
Waterside Theatre
(Manteo, N.C. June 22, 2009) – Another historic first
occurred today at the Waterside Theatre in the Fort
Raleigh National Historic Site in Manteo NC, and the
area’s school children were part of it. The Roanoke
Island Historical Association (RIHA) presented the
first-time School Matinee Performance of The Lost Colony
to an almost full house—the threat of rain kept two
schools from attending. School children and their
teachers were on the edge of their seats as they watched
history unfold before their eyes. The matinee was
performed for 4th & 8th grade public, private and home
school groups from Dare and the surrounding counties.
An educational and historical non-profit organization,
RIHA produced The Lost Colony school matinee in support
of the fulfillment of North Carolina’s education school
requirements for the 4th and 8th grade curriculum. The
North Carolina history school books for these grade
levels study Sir Walter Raleigh’s colonies and The Lost
Colony production; this School Matinee school
performance brings the pages of the children’s history
books to life. The Lost Colony School Matinee program
will subsequently be scheduled and performed annually.
This matinee program is reinforced by The Lost Colony
educational website at www.thelostcolony.org/education
as well as teacher programs tied into the curriculum.
School districts contacted within Eastern North Carolina
for the matinee include but are not limited to Dare,
Tyrell, Edenton/ Chowan, Washington, Currituck,
Pasquotank, Camden, Martin, Perquimans, Bertie, Hyde,
Gates, Hertford, Beaufort, Edgecombe, Halifax, Roanoke
Rapids, Weldon, and Northampton.
RIHA’s Education Committee and Education Coordinator
planned and organized the matinee. Portions of the event
were made possible by grants from the Southern Bank
Foundation and the Outer Banks Community Foundation. The
Education Committee chaired by Dr. James Hemby Jr.,
includes Dr. Sue Burgess, Superintendent of Dare County
Schools serving as an Ex-Officio Member of the RIHA
Board as Designee, June Atkinson Superintendent of
Public Instruction. Dr. Burgess designated Judith
Hornbeck, Director of Elementary Instruction Dare County
Schools and Steve Basnight III, Curriculum Specialist/
Assistant Principal on Loan Dare County Schools to the
Education Committee. The Education Coordinator, Lance
Culpepper serves as the liaison for RIHA’s Education
Committee and the school systems in developing the
matinee as well as the RIHA’s other educational
programs, ensuring that North Carolina educational
curricula is met and implemented.
The Outer Banks Hospital was in attendance at the
matinee with a First Aid Tent, Dare County EMS were
present, and Pizza Hut provided pizza, drink and dessert
for those who selected the optional lunch. David Twiddy,
Director of Transportation of Dare County Schools and
Steve Basnight assisted in the parking of the school
buses. Thirty-eight volunteers from the community along
with The Lost Colony staff & board members welcomed each
bus group and assisted with identifying each school
group with color-coded ID stickers and leading each
student to their assigned group seating. The National
Park Service was on hand to greet the guests as they
arrived.
The successful “full house” response of school children
to the special matinee performance has already led the
way to the planning of three matinees for the 2010
season. Nearly 50% of the student/ teacher attendees
were from Dare County schools including Cape Hatteras
Elementary, First Flight Elementary, Kitty Hawk
Elementary, Manteo Elementary, Nags Head Elementary,
Manteo Middle School, First Flight High School, DF
Walker, Beginning of Wisdom Academy, Currituck Light
Christian Academy, Kids Rock, PATH, Point of Honor,
Tyrell Elementary, Columbia Middle School, Chesapeake
Montessori, Kempsville High School, several Home Schools
and more.
The Association has a history of working with North
Carolina school systems in developing programs to meet
education needs and continues to do so with this and
future endeavors. The matinee performance augments the
Association’s current educational outreach programs
including school visits, backstage tours for school
groups, and study guides for teachers and students. The
Lost Colony’s is also constructing new educational pages
on their website, funded by a grant from the Outer Banks
Community Foundation.
The Lost Colony is written by North Carolinian and
Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Paul Green, and is the
longest-running outdoor drama in the state. The
production plays nightly at 8 pm, except Sunday, through
August 20 at Manteo’s Waterside Theatre on North
Carolina’s Outer Banks. This is the 72nd Anniversary
Season of the drama. For tickets, call (252) 473-3414 or
www.thelostcolony.org.
(Photo by Dee Ostrander, courtesy of Roanoke Island
Historical Association) # # # |
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