Sharing the Mic

Wayne Bell, Jr. is an Eastern Shore native and CEO of Children’s Harbor – an early education and childhood facility.  He a member of the Barrier Islands Center’s Board of Directors.  We will discuss Wayne’s childhood in Eastville and the influences in his life and what lead him to pursue his career and avocational interests.  

Sheri Reynolds is an Eastern Shore of Virginia’s Cape Charles resident and author of The New York Times #1 bestseller, The Rapture of Canaan .  Steeped in the rich tradition of southern writers like Carson McCullers and Sue Monk Kidd, her new book The Tender Grave is a gripping story of two estranged sisters who find their unlikely way toward forgiveness and each other through a gruesome and distu...

David Phillips’ guest on Episode 3 of Sharing the Mic is Devlin Barrett whose grand-parents owned the land on which the Barrier Islands Center occupies. It was purchased in the late 1990s. Mr. Barrett and his family spent most of the time during the Pandemic on the family farm which is now adjacent to the Barrier Islands Center. Devlin Barrett writes about the FBI and the Justice Department for th...

Sally Dickinson is the recently-appointed Executive Director of the Barrier Islands Center.  Sally an able administrator, film producer, educator, events coordinator and wife and mother. 

Over the past 17 years, Laura Vaughan has, with the assistance of an able staff and supportive Board of Directors, created a place not only close to the hearts of residents of the Eastern Shore of Virginia but a distinctive tourist destination.  We will discuss the journey that has brought us to where the Barrier Islands Center is today.