Visit Roanoke Island Festival
Park, a 27-acre island across
from the Manteo waterfront,
where history comes alive, the
“natives” are friendly,
art and nature surround you,
and there’s big fun for
everyone--rain or shine--year
round. Through a 16th-century
ship, living history, an interactive
museum and a variety of performing
and visual arts, Festival Park
is a celebration of Roanoke
Island’s place in history
as the birthplace of English-speaking
America.
In 1584, 23
years before the Jamestown settlement,
the dream of an English-speaking
nation began on the shores of
Roanoke Island. This small island
was home to the first temporary
English settlements in the New
World, sponsored by Sir Walter
Raleigh during the years 1584
to 1587. Festival Park celebrates
this period of Roanoke Island
History through history-made-fun
and a passion for the arts.
On Elizabeth
II, a representative 16th-century
sailing ship, you’ll meet
sailors like those who sailed
across the Atlantic in 1585.
Dressed in period garments and
speaking Elizabethan dialect,
these interpreters bring the
history of the voyages to life
At the Settlement Site, you’ll
encounter soldiers bravely facing
the challenges of the New World.
By viewing the film The Legend
of Two Path, you’ll find
out how the 1584 arrival of
the English changed the life
of the native Roanoke Island
population, the Algonquians.
In the Roanoke
Adventure Museum, interactive
exhibits explore the 400 years
of Outer Banks history since
America’s beginning. You
can site a star with an astrolabe,
meet Algonquians through John
White drawings, climb aboard
a spritsail skiff and hoist
her sails, meet a pirate who
sailed with Blackbeard, learn
about lighthouses and lifesaving,
experience duck hunting and
a take shopping trip to a 1900s
general store.
The spacious
Festival Park Art Gallery features
monthly changing exhibits by
artists from both far and near.
The Museum Store offers distinctive
gifts, books, jewelry, toys,
nautical gifts and more--all
with the flavor of the Outer
Banks.
To
all this add picnic areas, marsh-side
boardwalks, a fossil pit, expansive
lawns--and you’ll find
history, art and fun all rolled
into one at Roanoke Island Festival
Park!
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