Dare Stone revisited: Not a hoax after all?

“In 1937 a stone with several lines of inscription carved into it was found by Louis Hammond, who said he was just a tourist from California. While looking for hickory nuts off U.S. 17, he had found the stone in the woods near Edenton, not far from the Chowan River, about 65 miles west of Roanoke Island. Seemingly carved at the behest of Eleanor White Dare, daughter of Governor White, it told of a horrific Indian attack in 1591 that wiped out most of the Lost Colony, including Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America.

“Scholars have dismissed the stone as a forgery, but a closer look shows it might well be what it purports to be: a last message from Eleanor Dare and the Lost Colony…. It tells a credible story that coincides with the sources left about the Lost Colony.”

— Condensed from “The 1937 Chowan River ‘Dare Stone’: A Re-evaluation” by David La Vere, professor of history at UNC Wilmington, in the North Carolina Historical Review (July 2009).

Eleanor Roosevelt In Chapel Hill

I stumbled upon this image the other day (don’t you just love fortuitous discoveries?). It is a photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt in February, 1950. She is sitting in Danziger’s with (L to R) Charles Long, Ann Beal (later Sanders), John Sanders, [ER], and Allard “Al” Lowenstein. This image was copied in 1987 from the original owned by Edward Danziger.