Friends of the Library
Annual Meeting & Dinner
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 5:30-7:30PM
Student Union Ballroom
A special, family-friendly event celebrating The Lost Colony and beloved Carolina icon Andy Griffith
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Speaker: John Railey, Author
Andy Griffith's Manteo: His Real Mayberry
Dinner & Speaker
5:30PM - 7:30PM
Student Union Ballroom
Join us for a special fall Friends of the Library Annual Meeting & Dinner. Hear author and newspaper veteran John Railey discuss his thoroughly researched portrait of an intensely private man with an intensely generous spirit. Andy Griffith’s Manteo: His Real Mayberry is full of personal reflections, delights and surprises.
At the dinner, enjoy:
A special Carolina coastal-inspired dinner
A video overview of The Lost Colony, Buies Creek native and Pulitzer-winning playwright Green’s groundbreaking outdoor symphonic drama, introduced in 1937 and still in production today
Lost Colony-themed crafts for youngsters (and the young at heart)
Library Tours
7:30 PM
Wiggins Memorial Library
Take a tour of the library space, especially the beautifully renovated second floor, with its large open study area, flexible and comfortable furniture, the Student Art Gallery, high-tech group study booths, and a number of reservable study rooms; and new third-floor Teaching Resource Center for faculty.
Griffith, third from the left, with the Lost Colony Production Group, performed in The Lost Colony from 1947-1953.
Photo courtesy of the Alpheus W. Drinkwater Collection (#805), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, East Carolina University
Registration
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$22.50 non-members
$11.00 children under 12
$5.00 Campbell students
Free for Friends of the Library members
Directions
Oscar N. Harris Student Union,
Campbell University
Campbell University
445 Leslie Campbell Ave.
Lillington, NC 27546
Related Media
"The Lost Colony Outdoor Drama." NC Weekend, hosted by Deborah Holt Noel, season 15, episode 50. PBS, https://www.pbs.org/video/lost-colony-2mmmrw/
