History Tales: Make It, Take It “Torpedo Junction”

Museum of the Albemarle will hold “History Tales:  Make It, Take It” on Friday, December 14, 2012 at 3:30 pm.  Participants must be elementary age and accompanied by an adult.  Participants will discover what it was like to live on North Carolina’s Outer Banks during World War II through thirteen-year-old Taffy Willis.  “Torpedo Junction” was a real place that saw German U-boats sink more than sixty American ships in just six months in 1942.

Free Family Program

For More Information Call 252-335-1453

The Museum of the Albemarle is located at 501 S. Water Street, Elizabeth City, NC. (252)335-1453. www.museumofthealbemarle.com. Find us on Facebook! Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Closed Sundays, Mondays and State Holidays. Serving Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washington counties, the Museum is the northeast regional history museum of the North Carolina Division of State History Museums within the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the state agency with the mission to enrich lives and communities and the vision to harness the state’s cultural resources to build North Carolina’s social, cultural and economic future. Information is available 24/7 at www.ncculture.com.