Remarkable Adventures and Wonderful Things!
with Wayne L. White

Saturday, February 8th, 2025 | 3PM - 4:30PM

204 S Austin St Rockport, TX

FREE for Members and $50 for Non-Members

Lecture Information:

Please join Wayne L. White on Saturday February 8, 2024, to be transported to remarkable locations around the globe while viewing and handling some wonderful things from a few of those places. Wayne will take you to the wilds of New Guinea, Africa, the Amazon and even the frigid South Pole.

Wayne will speak of his passion for traveling to remote locations and bringing back artifacts. Some of those trips were dangerous and were quite challenging. A blowgun and poison darts collected in the Amazon jungle many years ago was a case in point as Wayne did his best to stay away from the local/international drug trade but in the end was listed as being killed in a plane crash.

Waynes’ greatest reason for collecting the objects he did was to create a space filled with the energy and feel of remote and wild parts of the world. He did this in his home on Water Street, the Baylor Norvell Home built in 1868. He will take you on a virtual tour of the home and explain the collection. Please join him!       

About the Lecturer:

Wayne L. White, the president of the Old Antarctic Explorers Association OAEA and a member of The Explorers Club of New York, the Adventurers Club of Los Angeles and the Antarctician Society. He is the former three-time winter manager at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station. In that position he was responsible for the health and safety of his three winter crews of approximately 42 personnel, the station itself and all science assets. This assignment was in one of the most challenging environments on the planet. This was the topic of his book “Cold: Three Winters at the South Pole.”

Prior to his time in the United States Antarctic Program, USAP he was a Department of Defense DoD contractor. For over twenty years he specialized in remote assignments and lived and worked at Diego Garcia British Indian Territory, Singapore, Midway Atoll, Shemya Island Alaskan Aleutians, Iraq, Kuwait, Wake Island, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Ascension Island. Before that he was involved in personal expedition type travels to New Guinea, the Amazon and Africa.

Wayne is a US Marine Veteran and holds a BA in Geography from California State University Fullerton and a Master’s in Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences from Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He owns the Baylor-Norvel home of Rockport Texas which was built in 1868. The home contains his collection of ethnic and exploration artifacts.