ECU professor to participate in Lost Colony panel
East Carolina University’s Dr. Charlie Ewen, professor of anthropology, will participate in a panel discussion titled “Digging for Answers: The Continued Search for the Missing Colonists of Roanoke Island” at Roanoke Island Festival Park on Saturday, April 8, at 1 p.m.
Dr. Charlie Ewen (contributed photo)
The event will be moderated by author Andrew Lawler, who has written about archaeology for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Science, Discover and other publications. Lawler will discuss his recent reporting on excavations related to the Roanoke voyages.
He will moderate a panel of experts that includes Ewen as well as Dr. Mark Horton of the University of Bristol, who heads the Cape Creek dig on Hatteras Island, and Dr. Guy Prentice of the National Park Service Southeast Archeological Center, who oversees excavations at Fort Raleigh. Ewen is co-editor of “Searching for the Roanoke Colonists.”
Artifacts from some of the digs will be on display. The event is sponsored by the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources in partnership with ECU. Tickets for the event are $5. Call 252-475-1500 or visit www.roanokeisland.com for more information.
-by Jules Norwood