Settlers and Saviors of this
Sacred Spot...–
Article #1
by lebame houston, RIHA
Historian
The first recorded fire sighted on Roanoke
Island’s north end occurred on 15 August
1590. In the early evening, English ships
had come-to-anchor three miles offshore near
Port Ferdinando—modern Bodie Island. John
White, hapless Governor of the 1587 colony, was on
board, returning to his settlement after a three-year
absence. As the ships twisted in the turbulent waves, he
and the mariners saw a great smoke rise in the Ile of
Roanoke—some twenty miles distant—near
the place where [he] left our
Colony in the yeere 1587.
White’s spirits soared!
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Souvenir Program – Article #2
Paul Green
A PIONEERING PLAYWRIGHT BY DAVID STICK
The Lost Colony was the second play Paul
Green wrote about what he described as “that
band of hardy pioneers” who came to Roanoke
Island in the 1580s to establish “a
beachhead for the extension of the English
speaking empire across the sea.” But neither
his fellow students at the University of
North Carolina in 1921, nor his mentor,
Professor Frederick Koch, were impressed by
the “one-acter” he turned out, and Green
didn’t think much of it either. “So I threw
the play away,” he said, “and turned back to
writing furiously about the poor whites and
the Negroes of my native county in eastern
North Carolina.”
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