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Duffus to
Speak at Friends Meeting |
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Kevin Duffus, historian and documentary filmmaker, will speak at the annual
gathering of Friends of Bogue Banks Public Library at 3 p.m. on Sunday,
January 29, 2012. |
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Mr. Duffus
specializes in North Carolina maritime history and his program “The Lost
Light” tells the fascinating story of how he solved the long-standing
mystery of the missing first-order Fresnel lens from the 1803 Cape Hatteras
lighthouse. |
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Confederate
officials secretly removed and hid the 6,000-pound, 12-foot tall bronze and
crystal optic from the historic Hatteras tower in 1861 to prevent it from
aiding the enemy. In his program, Mr. Duffus also accurately portrays the
fate of the South’s lighthouses during the Civil War. |
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Mr. Duffus’
presentation is made possible through a grant from the North Carolina
Humanities Council’s Road Scholars Speakers Bureau. The NC Humanities
Council is a non-profit foundation and state affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities. |
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