Alpheus W. Drinkwater Scrapbook, PC.5019

Photocopies copied Spring 1997 from scrapbook lent by Marguerite Drinkwater Booth, daughter of Alpheus W. Drinkwater. 1.5 inches

Alpheus W. Drinkwater (1875-1962), a native of Manteo, NC was a a telegrapher for the US Weather Bureau, US Signal Service, US Life- saving Service, US Coast Guard and Western Union. A correspondent to the Associated Press for 60 years, Drinkwater sent telegraph messages about wreck and salvage operations and servere weather along the Outer Banks and after retirement joined the Civil Air Patrol as a communications warrant officer. He was and organizer of the annual First Flight celebrations and was appointed Dare County Wreck Commissioner by Governor Terry Sanford. Photocopies include newspaper clippings about Drinkwater, his New Year's and birthday parties, correspondence, including replies to invitations to the 44th & 45th anniversary of First Flight, telegrams sent to his daughter on the occasion of his death and other articles collected after his death by his daughter, mainly about NC Ferry System (a ferry in the fleet was named after Drinkwater), Lost Colony Drama and Andy Griffith.