BATH — Fresh from a holiday season full of special events, the staff of Historic Bath State Historic Site is already looking ahead to 2014.

The site will offer the public a variety of activities in the new year, including workshops, lectures, a night at the movies, tours, a festival and special exhibits.

“Certainly you can be in the middle of a lot of activity, but you can’t forget you have a new year coming,” site manager Leigh Swain said of her staff’s schedule.

The 2014 schedule of special events debuts with a Jan. 15 workshop titled “Women’s Work Winter Workshop 1: Colonial Candlewicking.” The cost of the class is $5 per person, with a maximum of 10 participants accepted. Each person will complete a simple design on a flour sack dishtowel. The workshop begins at 10 a.m.

“Robin Suggs, one of our historic interpreters, has researched candlewicking and other domestic skills from the colonial era,” said Swain, adding that a second winter workshop is scheduled for Feb. 12 and will focus on the art of quilling.

Also in February, a lecture titled “John Day in Liberia: Southern Baptist Missionary and a Founder of the Republic” will be offered. Speaker Janie Leigh Carter will use Day’s letters and speak about the missionary’s theology, his views on race and slavery, the Liberian people and their culture. The lecture is scheduled for Feb. 1 beginning at 10 a.m. The lecture is free and is made possible by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council, according to Swain.

And even though Historic Bath has opted not to continue its monthly film series this year, the site will host a movie night Feb. 20 with a screening of the life story of Jackie Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The movie begins at 7 p.m. and is free.

Tours of the 1751 Palmer-Marsh House and the 1830 Bonner House will be included in the Historic Bath Garden Club Home & Garden Tour, set for April 12 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets for the tour, which also includes stops at several privately owned homes and gardens, will be available at the visitor center the day of the event.

Bath Fest, the town-sponsored arts festival, is scheduled for May 17 and once again the historic site will take on an active role. This year’s festival will have a genealogical theme and will feature arts and crafts vendors, music, theatrical performances, food, and hands-on arts and crafts activities for children. Festival hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Also on May 17, the Beaufort County Community College Foundation will host its annual Cut-throat Croquet Tournament near the historic site’s Bonner House. Players will be charged a fee to participate but spectators may take in the action for free. The tournament runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

June 14 will mark the local grand opening of the Queen Anne’s Revenge Traveling Exhibit in the Historic Bath Visitor Center. Artifacts from the wreckage of Blackbeard’s ship will be on display for a six-week period this summer. The exhibit offers local residents and visitors alike an opportunity to see actual treasures recovered from the wreck site, including weaponry, nautical tools and personal items.

While the first six months of 2014 are obviously going to be busy ones in Historic Bath, the special calendar of events will continue throughout the year, Swain said.

“We will be releasing information about the rest of the year within the next couple months,” Swain said. “I can say that our Christmas Open House, traditionally held on a Sunday afternoon, will move to a Saturday in 2014.”

For more information about Historic Bath’s State Historic Site’s events and activities, visit www.ncculture.com or call 252-923-3971.