After Hiatus, The Pilgrimage Offers New Glimpse Of Past
Marking a new year, the Edenton Woman Club
installed its new officers during a May 1958 meet
ing at the Parish House.
The impressive ceremony was conducted by Mrs.
John Graham. The new officers were: President
Mrs. Robert Boyce; Vice President Mrs. Wesley
Chesson; Recording Secretary Mrs. Ralph Blades;
Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Elton Forehand; Trea
surer Mrs. George A. Byrum; and Historian Mrs.
50 Years Of The
Edenton Woman's
Club
By Marijane Schappel
1958-59
the Masonic Temple.
In June 1958, Mrs. J.M. Thorud was named
“Club Woman of the Year” for to contributions to
the club and the community.
The year was also marked by the fifth biennial
pilgrimage, which had been cancellted two years
before. It was held on April 17 and 18. Mrs. J.M.
Thorud and Mrs. Ed Bond served as co-chairmen
of the event. Sixteen homes and buildings were
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During that meeting, gifts were
presented during the meeting to
Mrs. Frank Holmes and Mrs.
Edward Nixon for scoring the
highest points for club work. Mrs.
J.P. Hines won a cash prize for
submitted the best feature ar
ticle in a newspaper which won
the state award.
Mrs. Graham, conservation
chairman, unveiled plans for
planting new trees throughout
Edenton. The plan was to be pre
sented to the Edenton Town
Council. One hundred crape
myrtle trees were made avail
Committee Chairmen for the Edenton Woman's Club from 1958.
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The club hosted the District 16 meeting of area woman's’ clubs. A P
luncheon, which was chaired by Mrs. W.P. Earnhardt, was held at hi
iradise, home of Mr. and Mrs. John White; East Custom House,
ime of Mrs. Clare Preston; Homestead, home of Rebecca Wood
Tips On Viewing Thursday's Rare Total Lunar Eclipse
For more than an hour on the curved shape of the earth’s that the earth was a sphere. ing a lunar eclipse cannot harm
Thursday night, Sept. 26, the shadow on the moon during an People who plan to view the your vision,
moon will disannear into the eclipse that led the ancient eclipse on Sept. 26 need not worry
Drane; the Old Bond House, home of Mrs. Herbert Leary; Albania,
home of Mrs. M.G. Brown; Coffield, home of Mrs. E.W. Bond; the
Charlton House, home of Mr. and Mrs. David Warren; the West
Custom House, home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Leary; and the Iredell
House, St. Anne’s Catholic Church, the Barker House, St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, the Chowan County Courthouse, and the Cupola
House.
An outgrowth of the fifth Pilgrimage Tour was the Edenton
Planning Committee. Its purpose was to develop, preserve, restore
and beautify Edenton in an effort to make the earliest colonial
capital more historically valuable. Edenton’s first planning commit
tee members were: Chairman, Mrs. W.J.P. Earnhardt; Co-Chair
man, Mrs. Wesley Chesson; and Secretary, Mrs. J.M. Thorud; Mrs.
Robert Smith, Mrs. John Kramer, Mrs. Edward Bond, Mrs. R.J.
Boyce, Grayson Harding, Mrs. Inglis Fletcher, John Graham, David
Warren, Gilliam Wood and Mis's Elizabeth Moore.
Along those lines, the club requested the Edenton Town Council
build the planned new municipal building in a colonial style and hire
an architect experienced in colonial architecture.
The club began getting more involved with the local schools,
donating books to the libraries, periodicals for teachers’ develop
ment, funding a scholarship and sponsoring a Book Bazaar.
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earth’s shadow, giving North
Carolinians a rare glimpse of a
total lunar eclipse.
“Lunar eclipses have always
exerted a strong pull on our
imagination. Ancient societies
viewed them as omens of disas
ter or great change. Today,
though we no longer believe in
the supernatural, we’re still
awestruck by their eerie maj
esty,” says.Robert A. Egler, a
positional astronomer and phys
ics lecturer at North Carolina
State University.
This will be the last total lunar
eclipse visible from North
America until the year 2000,
Egler says. To aid amateur as
tronomers and backyard star
gazers, he offers these viewing
tips:
• The moon will begin to enter
central part of the earth’s
shadow, called the umbra, at 9:12
p.m. The total eclipse will occur
from 10:19to 11:29, duringwhich
time the moon will be completely
within the earth’s shadow. At
11:30, it will begin to re-emerge,
and by 12:36 a.m., it will be en
tirely out of the umbra and fully
visible once again, weather per
mitting.
• If you can’t locate the moon
during the total eclipse phase,
look for the planet Saturn in
stead. It will be visible as a very
bright “star” about two degrees
below the moon.
• Even when it is completely
within the earth’s shadow, the
moon may still appear to have a
reddish tint. This coloration is
caused by the slight bending of
the moon’s reflected sunlight as
it passes through the earth’s
prism-like atmosphere. “The
color of red on the moon during a
lunar eclipse tells us something
about the earth ‘s atmosphere:
The darker the red, the more
dust there is suspended in our
upper atmosphere,” Egler says.
• A total lunar eclipse only can
occur when the moon is full.
• This eclipse will be visible
throughout eastern North
America, western Europe and
all of South America.
• The next total lunar eclipse
visible from North America will
not occur until Jan. 20, 2000.
• On a historical note, it was
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before Christopher Columbus,
about shielding their eyes, Egler
adds. Unlike solar eclipses, view
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