october 2014 4 Explore the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s origins with The Jewel in the Crown exhibit, presented by the uni-versity archives in the William Randall Library now through December 15. 5 Celebrate the region’s beauti-fully distinctive long leaf pine trees during the Fire in the Pines Festival at Halyburton Park Saturday, October 11. The free event will include music, games, crafts and a demonstration of a controlled burn. 6Grab your disc and join up with the Cape Fear Ultimate Frisbee League. Pickup games are scheduled for 10 am Saturdays at Pine Valley Elementary School. 7Observe the 50th anni-versary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act at the Cameron Art Museum with Willie Cole’s art installation, “School Pride, the Eastern NC Story,”8 now through November 2. Take a road trip to Ocean Isle Beach October 18 and 19 for the North Carolina Oyster Festival, which includes live music, children’s enter-tainment, arts and crafts, local cuisine and plenty of shuckin’. 9 Join the North Carolina Coastal Federation for the last Touch Tank Tuesday of 2014, October 21 from 10 am to 1 pm at the Fred and Alice Stanback Coastal Education Center. 10Tour Wilmington’s historic Oakdale Cemetery, chartered in 1852 by the NC General Assembly, and stroll among unique decorative features like ornate ironwork and white marble monuments. Clockwise from top: Learn about the long leaf pine during the Fire in the Pines Festival at Halyburton Park October 11. The North Carolina Oyster Festival in Ocean Isle Beach will feature entertainment in addition to plenty of oyster shuckin’. Cape Fear Ultimate Frisbee players organize both league and pickup games. Oakdale Cemetery is the final resting place of many well-known Wilmingtonians. WBM FILE PHOTO 80 WBM WBM FILE PHOTO
October 2014
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