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"The Back Page" is an update 

 on Sea Grant activities — on 

 research, marine education and 

 advisory services. It's also a good 

 place to find out about meetings, 

 workshops and new publications . 

 For more information on any of 

 the projects described, contact the 

 Sea Grant offices in Raleigh 

 (919/737-2454). For copies of 

 publications, write UNC Sea 

 Grant, NCSU, Box 8605, Raleigh, 

 N.C. 27695-8605. 



Xake a tour through 

 colonial history March 8 

 to June 6 at the "Raleigh 

 and Roanoke" exhibit at 

 the N.C. Museum of 

 History in Raleigh. A 

 collection of 157 artifacts 

 and documents from the British 

 Library in London will be on display, 

 depicting life on and around Roanoke 

 Island 400 years ago. 



"Raleigh and Roanoke" will show 

 an armor from the Tower of London; 

 drawings and paintings by John 

 White, governor of the "lost colony;" 

 Renaissance maps and navigational in- 

 struments; coins; medals; books; let- 

 ters and more. It will be one of the 

 largest museum exhibits ever in the 

 Southeast. 



The display is part of the state's 

 ongoing 400th anniversary celebration 

 of the first English settlement in 

 America. It traces the lifestyles of the 

 English, Spanish and Indians at the 

 time of Sir Walter Raleigh and the at- 

 tempts to explore North Carolina's 

 Outer Banks. 



In conjunction with the exhibit, 

 seminars; a lecture series, 

 "Archaeology in North Carolina;" 

 demonstrations; films; performances; 

 and workshops will also be offered. 



Children can participate, too, by 

 visiting the museum's Discovery 

 Room, where they can try -on 

 Elizabethan clothing and armor, use a 

 cross staff to determine latitude and 

 learn nautical terms and Indian words. 



The exhibit is free to the public. For 

 tours, interested school groups should 

 call the Capital Area Visitors Center at 

 919/733-3456. Other groups are asked 

 to call the museum at 919/733-3894. 

 For further information, write the 

 museum at 109 E. Jones St., Raleigh, 

 N. C. 27611. 



Some people feel so at 

 home on the sea that 

 they're making the move 

 to live there permanent- 

 ly. Floating homes, 

 which combine the at- 

 mosphere of the sea and 

 the comforts of home, are becoming in- 

 creasingly popular all over the world, 

 including North Carolina. If you're in- 

 terested in owning a floating home, 

 there are a few things you need to 

 know. 



A new UNC Sea Grant Blueprint, 

 Living on the Water, provides this 

 information. Written by Walter Clark, 

 Sea Grant's coastal law specialist, this 

 publication explains the latest laws 

 and regulations concerning floating 

 homes in North Carolina. There are, 

 for example, certain restrictions on 

 mooring sites and sewage and 

 wastewater disposal. The Blueprint 

 also includes the addresses of several 

 state and local government agencies 

 for those who would like more informa- 

 tion. 



For a free copy of Clark's Blueprint, 

 write UNC Sea Grant. Ask for publica- 

 tion number UNC-SG-BP-85-1. 



In 1983, Hurricane Alicia hit the 

 Texas coast near Galveston with 100 

 mph sustained winds. Many buildings 

 received major damage, often from 

 failures of poor connections in the 

 buildings. 



But in some buildings, wooden wind 

 anchors effectively connected floor 

 joists to floor beams without any 

 failures. Wooden wind anchors are 

 formed by nailing a short length of 

 board as a spacer between a double 

 floor beam and every other floor joist. 



Spencer Rogers, Sea Grant's coastal 



engineer, has written a Blueprint 

 describing wooden wind anchors and 

 their installation. For a free copy, 

 write Sea Grant. Ask for UNC-SG-BP- 

 84-3. 



Seafood extension specialist Sam 

 Thomas has left the UNC Sea Grant 

 Program to join a private seafood com- 

 pany in Beaufort, N.C. Thomas had 

 worked for seven years at the N.C. 

 State University Seafood Laboratory 

 in Morehead City. 



As a specialist, Thomas worked with 

 seafood processing plants on North 

 Carolina's coast in such areas as 

 quality control, plant expansion, and 

 development of new products and 

 processing techniques. He also worked 

 extensively with blue crabs and 

 smoked fish. 



Dave Hill, a Sea Grant research 

 technician at the North Carolina State 

 University Seafood Laboratory in 

 Morehead City, has retired. Hill spent 

 much of his time at the drafting table, 

 sketching seafood plants. He made line 

 drawings of new plant layouts and ex- 

 pansions of old plants. In 1982 and 

 1983, 21 companies asked the seafood 

 lab for help. Of those, seven plants are 

 completed and operating. 



Hill had been with Sea Grant since 

 1970. 



What do you get 

 when you cross a striped 

 bass with a white perch? 

 The answer: a hearty, 

 fast-growing hybrid. 

 You can learn how to 

 raise striped bass 

 hybrids in a hands-on workshop May 6 

 to 8 at the UNC Sea Grant Aquacul- 

 ture Center in Aurora. 



The workshop will offer small-group 

 instruction on how to cross striped 

 bass with white bass or white perch to 

 produce a larger, more disease- 

 resistent hybrid. Ron Hodson, project 

 director of the center; Randy Rouse, 

 marine advisory agent; and Howard 



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