Joseph P. Kelly (PhD, University of Texas, Austin) is Professor of English at the College of Charleston. He is the author of Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin; Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon; and America’s Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery and the Slow March Toward the Civil War.
W. Becket Soule, OP has taught classical languages, history, and law at The Catholic University of America, the Pontifical College Josephinum (Columbus, Ohio), the Dominican House of Studies (Washington, DC), and Oxford University. He currently serves as pastor of Saint Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church in Maggie Valley, North Carolina; Secretary, Historian, and NCGS Journal Book Review Editor for the North Carolina Genealogical Society; and as Governor and Co-Historian of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of North Carolina.
Society of Mayflower Descendants in North Carolina
Spring 2024 Meeting
Friday, 3 May 2024
Prestonwood Country Club
300 Prestonwood Parkway
Cary, NC 27513
11:00 AM Book Launch: Centennial History
Centennial History of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of North Carolina, 1924-2024 will be presented by the author, the Rev. Dr. W. Becket Soule.
Buffet: Salad Bar, Baked Potato Bar, Soup Station, Carving Station, Three Entrees, Vegetables, Starch, Fresh Baked Muffins & Bread, Signature Dessert Table, Coffee, and Iced Tea
Stephen Hopkins, a settler on the Third Supply of Jamestown, set sail on the Sea Venture from England in summer 1609. The ship nearly foundered in hurricane, and Hopkins, like 150 others, was shipwrecked and castaway on Bermuda, an uninhabited chain of frightening devil’s islands. It turned out to be paradise . . . or almost. What ensued in the following year proves the old adage, “truth is stranger than fiction.” These maroons, mutineers to the Virginia Company, were the first Americans to conceive of the social contract—thirty years before Thomas Hobbes would theorize the concept in his Leviathan. Though he inspired (and might have helped write) the Mayflower Compact, Stephen Hopkins is unknown to most Americans today. This story hopes to help change that.
2:00 PM Board of Assistants meeting
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