Join us in celebrating our history.  The Museum hosts several events throughout the year, including:
 

Third Annual 5K Jingle Bell Run, Race Results online at 2011-jingle-bell-run-5k-results!
The Wrightsville Beach Museum of History invites you to participate in the museum's Third Annual 5K Jingle Bell Run.  As this will be a celebratory, holiday event, race participants are encouraged to dress in holiday apparel (ie: Santa costumes, antlers, snow men, etc.).  Historic cottages, beautiful winter marshes, and all your old haunts are part of the scenery as you meet the challenge to experience this special 5K to benefit this special museum.  (More Info)

Race Results online at 2011-jingle-bell-run-5k-results!

Please contact us to inquire about tickets or additional information on any of our events  (wbmuseum@bizec.rr.com 910-256-2569). Volunteers are always welcome, contact Nancy Faye Craig (256-2048) about current volunteer opportunities.  Also visit our Volunteer web page.

Remembering Wright Holman

by Marimar McNaughton

Wright Holman’s fingerprints are all over town. His hands touched hundreds of households in southeastern North Carolina opening the doors to deal-on-a-handshake lifelong friendships that followed. Like the fingerprint that indelibly marks who we are, so does the sound of our voice. The sound of Wright’s voice—that unmistakable sandpapered Southern drawl—will not soon be forgotten, nor his signature style embedded in the design and construction of new homes and cottages inspired by the exterior facades, architectural elements and details, floorplans and fenestration of old Wrightsville Beach and its historic core. Holman also restored, renovated, preserved and salvaged what good he could find in old relics and the body of his life’s work was so prolific that the deep forest green trim he painted on shutters, soffits, handrails and stair steps was minted as Wright Holman green—a special blend of pigments custom mixed for a select few homeowners only available at a handful of local hardware and building supply stores.

Read the entire article by Marimar McNaughton in the Lumina News, Thursday, June 9, 2011.
 

Wish You Were Here!

by Jenny Yarborough

Wrightsville Beach Museum of History presents history through postcards display. 

The WBMH postcard collection, now the subject matter for the summer display, contains artifacts from the last four eras, she explained, beginning in 1907. It was during this year that a line was drawn down the middle of the backs of undivided postcards to make more room for the address.

The simple prints and photos depicting the same—yet very different—island, the penny stamps that paid the postman, the ink used to write on the cards and the addresses all are impressive tidbits that illustrate the fruition of a place, just how far people were coming and what they did when they got here.

Read the entire article by Jenny Yarborough in the

Lumina News
Thursday, June 9, 2011.

"An Afternoon with Minnie Evans" drew more than 170 people to the Wrightsville Beach Museum on Sunday.  Many, many thanks to all the people who helped with this wonderful event.

October 7, 2010 Lumina News	Click above to print article

March 2 & 4, 2010 - All Aboard to Wrightsville Beach - Trolley Tour of Wrightsville Beach history with 5th Grade Students from Wrightsville Beach School - Read article in Lumina News!