From the Editor

I would like to thank Ivor Noël Hume for accepting my offer to write a remembrance of J. C. "Pinky" Harrington for this issue. We found out just before the publication of the last issue of the Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter that "Pinky” Harrington had passed away. His contributions to the study of archaeology at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site as well as his contributions to the field of historical archaeology as a whole made it appropriate that he receive more than passing mention in the newsletter. I would also like to thank Virginia Harrington for suggesting that we contact Noël Hume to write the remembrance of her husband. The friendship as well as professional relationship between the Harringtons and the Noël Humes makes the remembrance all the more valuable.

The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources awarded a $10,000 grant which, along with additional funding from the Times Printing Company and Elizabeth R & Company, both of Manteo, has made copies of Roanoke Revisited: The Story of the Lost Colony available to all eighth-grade teachers of North Carolina history. Roanoke Revisited, edited by lebame houston and Barbara Hird, is a collection of primary documents from Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations about the Roanoke colonization efforts of the 1580s. Copies retail for $5.98 and are available through Penny Books, P.O. Box 486, Manteo, NC 27954. Any eighth-grade teacher of North Carolina history who has not received a copy can contact Elizabeth R & Company at (252) 473-1061.

The exhibition hall at Roanoke Island Festival Park opened in late October, rounding out the new facilities adjacent to downtown Manteo, North Carolina. The exhibit hall features Dare County history from the time of the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans during the English attempts to colonize Roanoke Island in the 1580s through to the early twentieth century. The exhibits emphasize interactive, hands-on experiences, such as a recreation of a Native American village of the 1580s and replica Native American and European clothes from the same period that visitors can try on. Admission to the new exhibit is $8 for adults, $5 for students, and children under five are free. Admission is good for two days and includes not only the exhibit hall, but a tour of the replica sixteenth-century ship the Elizabeth II and a viewing of the fifty-minute film The Legend of Two Path, the story of the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans in the 1580s from the Native American perspective.