Wreaths Across America is Sponsoring a 2 for 1 Sale: Buy 1 Wreath Get 1 Wreath Matched up until January 16, 2024.

 

This is the first year 2023 that we haven’t put a wreath on the grave of every Veteran at Wilmington Nation Cemetery in a long time.  Wreaths Across America is sponsoring another program that should spark an incentive to want to buy some wreaths. It is called 2 for 1. If you buy 1 wreath for $17.00 we get 2 wreaths to put on graves. If you buy 5 wreaths there will be 10 wreaths to put on the graves of Veterans.  The 2-for-1 program started December 16th. If you have already bought a wreath by credit card I would suggest doing the buying the same way. Only 2 things: Go to the website below which will take you directly to The Lord Craven Website site and don’t add $3.00 to their technology fund. Below is the information you need to do this. You will get a form e-mailed immediately after you buy your wreaths, but you will be e-mailed another receipt and that one would list our chapter on it. It should have listed it on the first immediate receipt too. I would like you to forward me the 2nd receipt that they e-mailed you for my records. The 2-for-1 Sale started on January 16, 2023. If you are going to buy by credit card you have until January 16, 2024 to purchase some wreaths. That is the last day of the 2 for 1. You have until January 16th at 12:00 midnight to purchase wreaths. Then the 2 for 1 is over. My e-mail address is: par4wilson@gmail.com.    

 

 If you are going to buy a wreath by writing a check you need to make it out to Lord Craven Chapter CDXVIIC.  You would need to mail Cindy Sellers your check ASAP since mail will be slow. The checks must have a date between December 18 - January 16, 2024 to be considered for this 2-for-1 purchase. Contact Cindy at  cindysellers@ec.rr.com. She will give you her mailing address. This is only being done for Lord Craven members only. If anyone else reading this post wants to order by check e-mail Phyllis Wilson and she will e-mail you a form to fill out, write a check to Wreaths Across America and mail it in yourself. 

You have until January 16th at 12:00 midnight to purchase wreaths. Then the 2 for 1 is over. Let's all rally and buy a few wreaths. I think if all our members would buy wreaths we will be in great shape to put a wreath on every grave for 2024.

 Website for Wreaths Across America:https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/38524  (click on website- This link is a direct link to our chapter site to donate. Click on the link and it should open for you. You can always copy and paste it into your browser. Each wreath is $17.00. 

If you would like to buy a wreath by credit card, but are not sure how to do it e-mail me at par4wilson@gmail.com and I will help you.

There is also another way to order a wreath and that is by phone. You call:  877-385-9504 You tell them how many wreaths you want to order. They will ask you about the cemetery location – Wilmington National Cemetery; and the sponsor number which is NC0008P.  Our chapter had 41 wreaths sponsored by many people as well as chapter members who ordered wreaths this year.

One reason I have alway been successful with getting other donations is that I would e-mail friends and family in my neighborhood and ask them to buy wreaths. I would include a form to purchase a wreath and put a box designed with a WAA sign on it and put it on my porch for my neighbors to donate. They would write out the check to WAA and then fill out their form. I would put the chapter number on the memo part of the check: NC0008P plus WCWNCE. I would then print out a form to list all of the checks that I have donated. If anyone is interested in doing this let me know and I will e-mail you 2 forms. Of course, you can also give them our blog address and they can read how to purchase a wreath by credit card too. 

Posted by Phyllis Wilson, WAA coordinator and public relations chair.

 

 

Lord Craven Colonial Dames Group Partcipated in the Wreath Laying Ceremony on December 16, 2023 at the Wilmington National Cemeberty

 

Lord Craven members Phyllis Wilson, WAA coordinator, former President Carol Jutte, Vice-President Dale Spencer, and new member Caron Myers participated at the WAA ceremony on December 16, 2023 by laying wreaths on the graves of Veterans.

L to R:  The Honorable James H. Faison, III, District Court Judge for Pender and New Hanover Counties.  Judge Faison gave the Invocation on December 16, 2023 at the Wreaths Across America program at Wilmington National  Cemetery. Jerry West, WAA Location Coordinator Wilmington National Cemetery.

Service for Former Lord Craven Member Fran Carlsen on January 4, 2024

 

Lord Craven Chapter CDXVIIC Meeting for November 18, 2023

 

President Cindy Sellers opened the November 18th meeting with the usual rituals then Dale Spencer seated to the left introduced the guest speaker, William Jordan who talked about Colonial Cooking. 

Let’s Order Some Wreaths For Wreaths Across America – Put a wreath on every Veterans Grave at Wilmington National Cemetery on December 16th, 2023.

 

We have one more Lord Craven Colonial Dames meeting on November 18, which would give you the opportunity to make out a check to Lord Craven Chapter CDXVII and give it to Susan DeGroote, our treasurer to order a wreath for Wreaths Across America. The price of one wreath is $17.00.  Susan will then mail a check with a total order of wreaths from the chapter. After this meeting, if you are unable to attend you can still order a wreath, but you will need a form to send the check to WAA. E-mail me at par4wilson@gmail.com and I will send you a form.  You can mail the form yourself. The cutoff date to mail a form is Nov. 15^th. Be sure and put your code NC0009P and Location:  NCWNCE on the memo part of your check. That is why ordering by credit card gives us an immediate result of your order. If you are unsure how to order by credit card e-mail me and I will walk you through it.   Lord Craven members can also mail a check made out to Lord Craven Colonial Dames and mail it to Cindy Sellers. If you prefer to order online or by phone click on the Wreaths Across America Tab at the top of the page. Then follow the directions. If you are having technical difficulties you can e-mail Phyllis Wilson the blog manager who will be able to help you.

Lord Craven has 28 wreaths purchased for their group as of October 30. Let's be sure all of our members buy at least one wreath. Go Ladies.

2 for 1 Sale

Between December 15 until January 16th Wreaths Across America is sponsoring a 2-for-1 sale. If you order 1 wreath you will get 2, so I am suggesting that all of our Lord Craven members who would like to buy more than 1 wreath to hold off until December 15-January 16th to buy more wreaths. I am also suggesting that you should do this by ordering online. It is really very easy. You can also call up the main number and order wreaths. If you order by check you can mail in your own check, but you need an order form. You can e-mail me and I will send one to you. The check and form must be received with a check that has the dates December 15 to January 16 on it.  If you order by credit card after December 16th it will not count for the 2 for 1. We had one lady order 5 wreaths last year on January 17th and they counted as 5 wreaths. So, you need to order by the specific dates mentioned.

Thank you, 

Phyllis Wilson WAA coordinator

Susan DeGroote WAA chairman for Lord Craven

Lord Craven Chapter CDXVIIC Meeting for September 16, 2023

  

Jim McKee, Site Manager for Brunswick Town State Historic Site, spoke to our members at the September meeting of Lord Craven Chapter CDXVIIC at the Indian Trail Meeting Hall in Southport.  His focus was on the findings from the latest archeological excavations in the recently discovered ruins of a tavern that was not on the site map, and had been found in searching for a particular house.  Digging deep within the confines of the brick basement or first floor they found all the things one expects to find where a tavern existed, but some artifacts were tied to England and anti-King activity there, putting Brunswick Town in the midst of the earliest days of revolutionary activity in the colonies.  This tavern would have burned about 1768 before the site map was drawn in 1769.  He also told us that they now believe the British burning of the town did not take place until as late as 1781.

Vice-President Dale Spencer introduced guest speaker, Jim McKee at the Lord Craaven September 16th meeting.

                                     Jim McKee, Site Manager for Brunswick Town State Historic Site

                                                            

                                                                                                    

The ideals in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution were formed a century before they were penned and adopted or ratified.  They began with the desire and search for religious freedom and evolved into the early Compacts and Covenants that shaped the governing bodies of the Colonies in the 1600’s.

Two early groups of immigrants, Pilgrims and Puritans, were motivated by their religious convictions. Both groups wished to purify their church by applying the principles of the Protestant Reformation which had its roots in Germany with Martin Luther. Both groups were parts of the Separatists Movement.

The search for religious freedom led more than 40,000 to leave their homeland for Massachusetts between 1620-1640, their Compacts and Covenants shaped the ideas and inspired generations of Colonists and eventually led to a Revolution and our founding documents.

Information provided by member Diane Price.

Jane Johnson, insignia chair of CD17C was what pins are available, how to discover which ones you qualify for and how to order them. 

President Cindy Sellers

State President Pat Gooding with Lord Craven President Cindy Sellers

We Will Never Forget - 9/11 REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY

 9/11 REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY

The Richard H. Stewart, Jr. American Legion Post 543 and St. James Fire Department will host a remembrance ceremony commemorating the 22nd anniversary of 9/11. The service will be held at the St. James Community Center at 10:00 A.M. on Monday, September 11, 2023.

 The remembrance service is a moving and appropriate way to memorialize the tragedy that struck our nation on September 11, 200.  FDNY Captain (Retired) Pat Cleary will share his memories of responding to the alarm and escaping the WTC North Tower collapse on that fateful day. 

The SJ Fire Department will ring the ceremonial fire bell, Taps will be sounded, and Amazing Grace will be played in honor of the victims who perished. American Legion Post 543 is named after Richard H. Stewart, Jr. who was killed that day, in the WTC, and was one of the first victims of the war on terror.  His parents were residents of St. James and were responsible for getting the 9/11 national flag to Southport on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 in 2011.

The ceremony is open to the public and everyone is invited to attend.

Information provided by Judy Ward from the JustJudy Newsletter for St. James Plantation.

Naturalization Ceremony on July 3, 2023 and The 4th of July parade 2023

 

The program starts at 5:30.  The NC 4th of July Festival is set to hold the 24th annual Naturalization Ceremony on Monday, July 3, at the Ft. Johnston Garrison House Lawn.

The parade starts at 10:30 a.m. with a flag-raising ceremony, held at the corner of Moore and Howe Streets. The Friends of Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site dressed in period costumes, along with the Knights of Columbus of Sacred Heart Church, hoist a flag that has flown over the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Memorial Day

 

Lord Craven Colonial Dames Meeting Was held at The City Club in Wilmington on May 18, 2023

Once an apt headquarters for the Historic Wilmington Foundation - a non-profit aimed at preserving the city's rich architectural history - and now home to the City Club of Wilmington, the DeRosset house was once just that – the residence of doctor and merchant Armand John DeRosset III and his family. The Lord Craven May meeting for 2023 was held at The City Club in Wilmington, NC. Thank you Dale Spencer for making the arrangements.

 Assistant Professor Tara White, Public Historian, and Educator at the University of NC Wilmington was our guest speaker. Her topic was the Gullah Geechee heritage. She has more than 20 years of training and experience in museums and historical organizations. Academic fields of speciation include public history, 20th-century US History with a focus on the history of the South, women's history, and African American History. She is a board member of the Black Belt American Genealogical and Historical Society; board member of the Alabama Historical Association; Alumni of Distinction SUNY Distinction; Chancellor's Awards for Academic Faculty for Teaching Excellence.

Lord Craven Colonial Dames Officers were sworn in by State President Pat Gooding.

 

L to R: Martha Blacher, Historian/Librarian; Suzanne Palmer, Registrar  Jane Teachey, Corresponding Secretary;  Michele Russell Recording Secretary;  Sally Spainhour, Chaplain and  Dale Spencer, Vice-President; Cindy Sellers, President and Susan DeGroote photographed below, Treasurer.

                                                

                 Susan DeGroote - treasurer of Lord Craven 2023-2025

The above photos show leaving President of Lord Craven, Carol Jutte pinned the Chapter's President's pin to the new President, Cindy Sellers. Then Cindy presented Carol with the  Ex-President's pin upon leaving her position.

Seated, Pat Gooding, State Colonial Dames President, Dale Spencer, standing, Lord Craven Vice- President and Carol Jutte former Lord Craven President

Welcome Katrina Summers as a new member of the Lord Craven Chapter.

Lord Craven member, Alexis Thompson held the beautiful bowl that Carol Jutte designed and donated for the Lord Craven meeting held on May 18, 2023.