Some of Our Activities

Our members include ladies that have been original club members and ladies that have just joined.  What a great way to mix with new people and make new friends over a shared passion for antiques, collectibles and historic items!

We've taken day trips to Poplar Plantation, Wicklow Hall Plantation, Latimer House Tour and Tea Room, Oak Island Life Guard Station, Wilmington Tea Room, Southport Cemetery, Perry’s Emporium, The Gallery of Oriental Rugs, Robert Ruark Inn, Thalian Hall, Brookside Gardens, Oaks Plantation, the Wilmington Antique Show, a literary history walking tour of Wilmington and more.   

We have holiday parties  members homes and / or at the Clubs.  And we contribute annually to the local community with holiday giving donations; for example this past holiday The Jackies contributed almost $600 to the Brunswick County Assistance Shallotte Office to support senior citizens in the Brunswick area.  

We've explored 

Williamsburg, Virginia; 

Winston Salem, NC; Georgetown, SC and other locations.

Our speakers have covered the history of and showed samples of vintage articles such as hat pins, folk art, quilts, dolls, prints, jewelry and snuff boxes,  colonial attire, one-stroke painting, Flow Blue, American Glasswar, Russian antiques.    

 We’ve also had guest authors speak on topics that have included: woman during the Regency period, anecdotes on past presidents and 18 years on Air Force One, the story of two female aviation pilots during the 1920s-50s, Blackbeard and local shipwrecks,  and more .