Mission Statement:

"To advance through research, education and symposia, an increased public awareness of the Cape Fear region's unique history."

Cape Fear Historical Institute

 

Board of Directors

Hank Estep

Community Leader, Cultural Activist, Insurance Executive

Wilmington, North Carolina

Chairman

Howard Talley III

Educator, Comptroller, Historian

Masonboro Sound, North Carolina

Vice Chair

Leonard M. Smith, Jr .

Philanthropist, Adventurist, Bon Vivant

Hampstead, North Carolina

Secretary-Treasurer

Charles Rivenbark, Jr.

Retired Statesman and Entrepreneur;

Keeper of the Customs, Traditions and Stories

of the Cape Fear Region.

Dr. John Humphries

Professor of the Humanities, Retired

Wilmington, North Carolina

Dr. Kearney Smith

Retired Professor of English, Writer & Poet.

Burnsville, North Carolina

John Bernhard Thuersam

Historian & Author

Wilmington, North Carolina

Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

Distinguished Author and Professor of History,

University of South Carolina; Editor, John C. Calhoun Papers

Columbia, South Carolina

Alexander McAllister Cheek

Historian, Southern Culture and Heritage.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

 

 

A d m i n i s t r a t i o n:

 

Robert W. Tucker

Wilmington, North Carolina
Executive Director

Janice McIntyre

Research/Transcription