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Admission is free, a $10 donation to Burgwin-Wright is suggested. All money raised will go toward th e preservation of the 1770 house and 1774 jail structures.
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span style="text-decoration: underline;">ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Char
les Brett is originally from Portsmouth, Virginia and raised in the surroun
ding cities of the Tidewater area of Virginia. He retired from the U.S. Nav
y in 2013 after serving for 24 years as a Hospital Corpsman. He served in m
ultiple medical positions roles at various locations around the country and
aboard three U.S. Navy ships, eventually becoming a professor and program
director for the Naval School of Health Sciences where he taught history in
both military medicine and pharmacy.
Today, he is a Financial Analys t at the Naval Medical Center in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, but his bigg est and most-time-consuming hobby is working with 17th and 18th century med icine. He's trained with medical interpreters at the Pasteur and Galt Apoth ecary shop in Colonial Williamsburg, and currently volunteers at Tryon Pala ce as a guide in the Kitchen Office and interpreting 18th century medicine as a Physician, Surgeon and Apothecary. He is also a member of the Society for the History of Navy Medicine and founding member of a non-profit organi zation called “The Pursuit of History.”
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