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PERQUIMANS COUNTY LIBRARY
110 W ACADEMY ST
HERTFORD, NC 27944-1306
January 28, 2004
Vol. 72, No. 4 Hertford, North Carolina 27944
Weekly
School in
session
Saturday
Superintendent Ken
Wells announced that
Saturday, Jan. 31 wiU serve
as the make-up day for
school missed on Monday
Jan. 26 due to inclement
weather. School will begin
at 8 a.m. and dismiss at
11:30 a.m.
For more information,
contacat Public
Information Officer Brenda
Lassiter at 426-5741 ext. 239.
Newspaper
delivery
delay
possible
Weather and road condi
tions between our print
facility in Greenville and
Perquimans County may
cause a delay in delivering
this week’s newspaper.
Some news features were
left out this week so that we
could meet early deadlines.
We will publish them next
week.
Let it snow!
PHOTO BY BRENDA LASSITER, PERQUIMANS COUNTY SCHOOLS
Sunday afternoon brought snow showers to Perquimans County, dumping about two inches of snow in some
places before turning to rain and freezing rain after dark. Roads were slick Sunday, but by Monday morning
most main roads had been sanded and salted, although back roads remained slushy. Warming temperatures
kept roads clear Monday evening, and school was back in session Tuesday after a two-hour delay.
WITN meteorologist appears
on Cental School’s Turtle TV
PCS student Jakia Shannon and WITN meteorologist
Marvin Daugherty prepare to appear on Turtle TV at
Perquimans Central School.
Turtle TV at Central
School recently had a guest
celebrity join its broadcast
ing staff during the weath
er segment.
Marvin Daugherty, chief
meteorologist at WITN-TV,
recently visited
Perquimans Central School
to share his knowledge and
expertise with second
grade students.
Many demonstrations
were shared as students
looked on with great inter
est. There was a question
and answer period for stu
dents and teachers to gain
more insight concerning
weather.
Cynthia Stallings, WPCS
Turtle TV producer and
director, invited the special
guest as a collaborative
effort to integrate digital
video with the second
grade weather thematic
unit. Daugherty appeared
on WPCS-TV with weather
anchor Jakia Shannon to
the effects of
Perquimans
talk about
Isabel in
County
Daughtery has wit
nessed and reported on
major weather events in
eastern North Carolina for
the past two decades. His
experience and knowledge
of weather have made him
a household name.
Students ,and staff pro
duce Turtle TV using tech
nology made availab le
through grants.
Dentist,
staff will
Give Kids
Smiles
A local dentist and his
staff will volunteer their
time to provide dental care
to children in Perquimans
County next month.
Dr. Jack Boone and staff
will participate in Give
Kids A Smile Day again this
year.
Give Kids A Smile Day is
a National Children's
Dental Access Day designed
as an awareness and educa
tion day, with free oral
health care to as many low-
income children as possi
ble. Dr. Boone's office will
celebrate the day and offer
free services to pre
approved patients from
Perquimans County on
Thursday, Feb. 12.
Just as last year, Boone’s
entire staff will donate
their services for a full day
so that children who may
not otherwise receive prop
er dental care may be treat
ed. Last year, the first in
which the practice partici
pated in Give Kids a Smile
Day, children rotated in the
office all day for check-ups,
cleanings and other dental
services.
Because of the demand
for the services, Andrea
Boone, the wife of Dr.
Boone and office manager
at the practice, worked
other children into the
schedule on other days.
Mrs. Boone said partici
pation in Give Kids a Smile
was a very rewarding expe
rience for the entire staff.
For more information or
to see if your child qualifies
for these services, contact
Latonia Saunders at
Hertford Grammar School
at 426-7166. Initial consulta
tion must be made with the
school before an appoint
ment can be made at Dr.
Boone’s office.
Locals attend keel-laying for periauger at Beaufort museum
Construction began
recently on the long-await
ed periauger, a colonial era
logboat that will be home-
ported in Hertford.
A large contingent of
Perquimans County resi
dents attended the keel-lay
ing ceremony for the peri
auger on Jan. 16 at the N.C.
Maritime Museum’s
Wptercraft Center in
Beaufort.
A keel laying traditional
ly involves the placement of
the first timber of a new
vessel to be constructed.
The boat is expected to be
completed by mid-April.
The construction of the
periauger is a joint project
with the Perquimans
County Restoration
Association, which oper
ates the Newbold-White
House Historic Site, and
East Carolina University’s
Program in Maritime
Studies. Other partners
include Perquimans
County, the Town of
Hertford and North
Carolina’s Northeast
Partnership.
The periauger will be
located in Historic Hertford
harbor following comple
tion and eventually at the
Newbold-White House
Historic Site as part of its
hands-on educational pro
gramming.
In colonial America, set
tlers traveled the water
ways in common ships
called periaugers — the
pick-up trucks of those
days. Historical references
indicate that for many colo
nial settlers, the periauger
was the vessel of choice,
especially on the sounds
and rivers of North
Carolina.
No surviving examples
for these characteristic
workboats used by
colonists in North Carolina
in the 17th and 18th century
are known to exist; there
fore the design for this 30-
foot vessel was researched
for over a decade using
descriptions and illustra
tions of that period.
Among the documentary
evidence discovered about
the ship was a reference to
Abraham Saunders, the builder of the Newbold-White
House portrayed by Ken Ries of Hertford, was on hand
for the keel-laying ceremony for the periauger that
will be home-ported in Perquimans County.
a periauger in the 1751
estate of Abraham
Sanders, the builder of the
1730 Newbold-White House.
Through this history
making project, the peri
auger will he built and rein
troduced to the waterways.
Periauger is a generic
term for a two-masted ship
made of a dugout and split
cypress log with split keel
and propelled by both oars
and sails. Some periaugers
could carry large cargos
and travel up small streams
and rivers where deeper
draft vessels could not.
The PCRA raised $37,000
in private donations and
the North Carolina
Department of
Transportation’s
Enhancement Program
committed $55,623 for the
project.
Michael B. Alford, for
mer curator of maritime
research for the N.C.
Maritime Museum in
Beaufort, designed the
periauger. Assisting in the
research was Dr. Larry
Babits, maritime archaeol
ogist with East Carolina
University’s Program in
Maritime Studies. The
project boatbuilder is
Craig Wright, formerly of
Goshen, Conn., who built
the 28-foot gaff cutter on
which he lives.
Local volunteers spent
hours last winter hand
crafting many of the ancil
lary pieces of the peri
auger project, including
the masts, sweeps, rudder
and jib.
The public may watch
the construction of the
periauger in the N.C.
Maritime Museum’s
Watercraft Center Monday
— Friday, 9 a.m. — 5 p.m.
There is no admission
charge to visit the museum.
Holiday
Weather
THURSDAY
High: 50
Low: 32
Mosry Sunny
Friday
High: 56
Low: 28
Few Showers
Saturday
High: 45
Low: 26
Sunny
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