Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter
Volume 5.2 (May 1998)

From the Editor . . .

I learned a few weeks ago of the death of J. C. “Pinky” Harrington on April 19th at the age of 97. Harrington is best known to researchers in Roanoke colonization-related subjects for his work with the National Park Service at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Though word of the death of this pioneer in the field of historical archaeology came too late for sufficient notice in this issue of the Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter, I hope to have a fuller appreciation of his life and work in the next. Cards and messages can be sent to Mrs. Virginia Harrington, 1711 Belvue Avenue D-918, Richmond, VA 23227.

The Durham Thomas Harriot Seminar, the Roanoke Colonies Research Office’s sister organization, will be meeting at St. John’s College, Durham, England, on December 14-16, 1998. Presentation topics include “The Chapel Royal and London Theatres in Harriot’s Time,” “Lord William Naworth, Collector and Antiquary,” “Natural Philosophy and the Northumberland Circle,” “Harriot, Ralegh and their Conception of Time,” “Thomas Harriot’s Ballistics and English Renaissance Warfare,” and “Musical Models in Natural Philosophy in the Time of Harriot.” For information on the meeting, as well as a complete list of the seminar’s occasional papers, contact G. R. Batho, School of Education, University of Durham, Leazes Road, Durham DH1 1TA, UK; telephone 0191 374 3497/8; fax 0191 374 3506; or e-mail <G.R.Batho@durham.ac.uk>.

Let me thank in advance the College of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University along with the Southern Coastal Heritage Program, now housed at East Carolina University, for working with the Roanoke Colonies Research Office and generously committing funds so that the September 10-11 conference will be free.

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