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John White and the First Pictures of the New World
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Jenny Skinner presenting talk on artist John White
On February 5, 2017, at a well-attended brunch at the NCSU University Club in Raleigh, Jenny Skinner presented an entertaining and informative lecture on the travels and work of John White, an accomplished artist and governor of the Roanoke Island settlement that became the Lost Colony in North Carolina. His watercolors were the first pictures of the New World.
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