Celebrate Hampton's 400th Anniversary throughout 2010!
Hampton's 400th Anniversary main event takes place July 8-11, 2010, featuring the Blackbeard Pirate Festival, an enormous cake resembling St. John's Church, the premier of the film, "Hampton: From the Sea to the Stars" and more!
Sea to Stars Ticket
One-time admission to VirginiaAir & SpaceCenter, IMAX, Miss Hampton II Cruise, HamptonHistoryMuseum and Hampton Carousel. $39.40 for adults, $25.50 youth ages 4 -11.At the HamptonVisitorCenter and VirginiaAir & SpaceCenter.727-1102 or 727-0900.
The City of Hampton: Through the Lens of Reuben V. Burrell and James Van Der ZeeThrough November 27400th Anniversary Feature Event
Walker Airfield on FortMonroe.5:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.Free.757/788-3151.
Hampton’s 400th Anniversary Celebration featuring the Blackbeard Pirate Festival
July 8-11, 2010
North America’s oldest continuous English speaking settlement and the parish of St. John’sChurch celebrate their 400th anniversary with living history, family fun, a huge cake, fireworks, and frolicking pirates. Downtown Hampton.757/727-0900. www.vasc.orgor www.hampton400.com
Hampton Bay Days September 10-12, 2010 400th Anniversary Feature Event
The City of Hampton: Through the Lens of Rueben V. Burrell & James Van Der Zee
Friday, Jan 29, 2010
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Saturday, Nov 27, 2010
The City of Hampton: Through the Lens of Reuben V. Burrell and James Van Der Zee
Reuben V. Burrell has documented through photographs a half of a century of HamptonUniversity events – both big and small. Not only is Mr. Burrell the Griot (historian) of the University but his lens goes beyond the campus into the surrounding community. Coming to Hampton as a student in 1938 Burrell finished his course requirements in 1940, after which, World War II was pending.He received a B.S. degree in Industrial Arts from Hampton in 1947, and then enrolled at New YorkUniversity where he earned his M.A. degree in Industrial Arts Education in 1949.Hired at Hampton in December 1949, Mr. Burrell began his career as the school photographer. For more than sixty years, he has provided an invaluable service to the university documenting its history as well as reprinting historic photographs. He has also documented landmarks, businesses, social and civic activities in the city of Hampton.His photographs include well known individuals in the city as well.
James Van Der Zee is recognized as the dean of African American photographers based on his large body of photographs taken in Harlem, New York during more than half of the 19th century.In 1906 Van Der Zee left his hometown of Lenox, MA here he met and married Kate L. Brown, a seamstress from Newport News, Virginia.The couple’s first child, Rachel, was born in 1907 and shortly afterward they traveled to Virginia.The Van Der Zee’s decided to remain in Tidewater, VA where Van Der Zee found employment as a waiter at the Hotel Chamberlin.The photographs will share images of two categories: the everyday activities of Slabtown residents and the academic community at WhittierPreparatory School.
Partial funding for this exhibition provided by the City of Hampton, 400th Anniversary Celebration Fund.
January 29-August 30
Hampton University Museum
757-727-5508
Huntington Building Hampton, VA 23668 757-727-5508
"South King: Hampton's Waterfront Through the Ages" 400th Anniversary Feature Event
This special exhibit features the waterfront of Hampton along South King Street as it has changed over the past 400 years. Many drawings and photographs portray the different moods and looks of this area, while artifacts from archaeological excavations and from the still-existing ship chandlery and seafood businesses there, will provide multiple foci of information and stories about the oldest continuous English settlement in North America.
March 1, 2010-August 15, 2010
Hampton History Museum
Admission fee, memberships are available at the door
For further information, please call (757)727-1610.
120 Old Hampton Lane Hampton, VA 23669 757-727-1610 mcobb@hampton.gov View Official Website
