The Gloucester Historical Society awarded this year’s $1,500 scholarship to Evan Cabral. The scholarship provides financial assistance to students third year or higher majoring in archaeology, anthropology or history. They must be from Gloucester or have close ties here.
Cabral is a 2022 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in Archaeology and Anthropology. He grew up on Hatteras Island where his father, a National Park Ranger, instilled in him a love for nature, history, and museums at a young age.
As an undergraduate he attended a field school in western North Carolina, where he fell in love with identifying artifacts and cultural features, and the great community of like-minded individuals who love to learn more about the past.
After graduating from Chapel Hill, he went to work for the Fairfield Foundation as a staff archaeologist. Since he moved to Gloucester three years ago, he has worked on sites at Fairfield Plantation, Edge Hill House, ...