11th Biennial Reunion
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

June 17-22, 2003

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Media Release by Shara Simmons Hubble, Publicity Chair:
Hubbell Family Gathers for Biennial Reunion
(in Adobe PDF format)

Program Chair: Saundra Shay

The Hubbell Family Historical Society held its 11th biennial reunion at the Sheraton Hotel in Chapel Hill, NC June 17-22. We celebrated the work of Dr. Jay Broadus Hubbell whose J. B. Hubbell Center for Literary Historiography is located at the Perkins Library at Duke University. The week will included tours to many interesting features of central NC, and lots of opportunities for all Hubbells to have fun and get to know one another better in friendly surroundings.

Over one hundred Society members traveled from throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico to share family history and genealogical research, renew old acquaintances, and meet new "cousins".

Highlights of the six-day event included a presentation to the Society of the key to the city by Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy and a presentation and reception at the Rare Book Room of the Perkins Library of Duke University in Durham, NC to honor the late Jay Broadus Hubbell, Ph D, noted man of letters. Professor Hubbell's son, Dr. David Smith Hubble of St. Petersburg, Florida and his grandson, John Hubbell, of New York, New York respectively, and Dr. David Hubbell's wife, Barbara joined Society members for the event at the Jay B. Hubbell Center for Literary Historiography where a bronze plaque presented by the family will commemorate his work.

THFHS members attending the reunion also enjoyed a traditional East Carolina Barbecue, a tour of the historic Old Salem Moravian Community, visits to the Sarah P. Duke gardens at Duke University and the Morehead Planetarium at the University of North Carolina, and a trip to the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh.

The Reunion was held in Chapel Hill close to the University of North Carolina, the oldest state university in the United States (1795).  The structure "Old East" is now a National Historic Landmark.  The area abounds with historic sites as well as some of the greatest technology research companies in the world.  It is, of course, the home of the Carolina Tar Heels, and the Duke University blue Devils are just 5 miles down the road.

We celebrated the work of Dr. Jay Broadus Hubbell whose J. B. Hubbell Center for Literary Historiography is located at the Perkins Library at Duke University.  The Society presented this commemorative plaque.