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35990
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The former Maude Miller had an eventful career history. She was first a schoolteacher at what was called a "pay school" by Hatteras Island residents. She became the county welfare supervisor during the 1930s, gaining experience with the Depression’s effects on the Island. As a postmistress, she was second generation employee (her father served during the 1800s). During World War II, she was a Coastal Observer, with the Navy issuing a service certificate. Of her late husband, Estus Preston White, she noted their common work background in education, with his work on the Board. His local administrative roles included chairman of Methodist Sunday School and electric plant, as well as county administrative work as a commissioner.
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2.Moody’s Model Boats and Ducks by Gray, Michael; Lynch, Susan Sea Chest Vol. 4 Issue 3, Spring 1978
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35997
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Moody Austin’s knowledge known was as a model boat builder and decoy carver. Knowledge collected included trips to Manteo that took a day, dirt roads, and cars as a rare sight. Those days on Hatteras Island were also part of a time when kerosene was the only light source, a schoolhouse accommodated children of all ages, and no businesses.
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35998
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Among Mrs. Cynthia Rollinson’s recollections of life were the lives she helped delivered as a midwife. As for life from decades ago, she could attest to a time when homes had ice boxes instead of refrigerators. She could also attest to a way Hatteras Island seemed futuristic, even in its dependency on kerosene as a light source: it had windmills.
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36001
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Mrs. Maggie Austin’s story, people from small towns like Frisco and decades past could relate to. In her youth, common were one-room schoolhouses and schooling stopped at the seventh grade, traveling by boat and on dirt roads. For all the disadvantages focused on by younger generations and city residents, she asserted Hatteras Island to be the best place to live.
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In the early twentieth century, William F. Nye Company of New Bedford, Massachusetts operated a bottlenose dolphin fishery on Hatteras Island, North Carolina. Nye specialized in the procurement and refinement of oils from dolphins and small whales as the main source for watch and clock oils. The fishery on Hatteras Island figured integrally into the maritime whaling industry, the ascendancy of clockmaking the United States, and the exploitation of southern fishing grounds by northern companies.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 92 Issue 1, January 2015,
p49-79, por
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Old time crabbing meant trot lines instead of wire pots, and income of three cents a pound versus the contemporary rate of twelve. From Edward Scarborough’s observations about facts like these, one ironic conclusion could be drawn. A better living could be made in the midst of the Great Depression than forty years later.
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Jennette interviewed his grandmothers, Mrs. Brittie Burrus and Mrs. Annie Stowe, for information on what life on Hatteras Island was like in the early days of the 20th-century. Without stores to depend on, islanders raised their own fruits, vegetables, and meat. Everyone made their quilts and clothes, and mail was delivered by boat.
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35959
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There were many examples of words retaining the original spelling, while having the pronunciation style of the area embedded. Noteworthy included harrycane (hurricane) and Hattress (Hatteras). Words with village values embedded included fryin’ (boiling, in reference to the sea) and meeting house (church).
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31645
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Buxton, the largest town on the island with about seven-hundred residents, hosts thousands of visitors each year to the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. There is also the United States Weather Station, a Naval facility, and a Coast Guard station at Buxton. With an increasing number of visitors, tourism has replaced commercial fishing as the major private industry.
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36022
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A library’s archives typically contain donations of letters and documents. For Hatteras Island’s Library, a 125 year old quilt reflected what the town’s culture perceived as preservation worthy. Current creators of these quilts, in discussing the tradition of quilt-making, also proved that the “Human Library” concept is not so new.
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Detailed primarily were eventful and uneventful cases of labor and delivery this doctor attended during his six years of services. His descriptions included timely obstetric practices, such as use of pituitrin, and life threatening childbirth-related conditions like sepsis. As for his patients, offered also were observations that showed his respect for the people and their culture.
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Before 1950 on Hatteras Island, Highway 12 was not paved, Bonner Bridge wasn't built, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore had not been created, and there were few motels. In 1952, John Edgar and Anne Miller Hooper began building a motel at Buxton and called it the Lighthouse View Court motel. Harrison recounts the growth of the family business which is now in its fourth generation.
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36013
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Woodworks that became part of the Sea Chest’s “Crafts Curators” collection included decoys and boats carved by Moody Austin and flying birds constructed by Preston Stowe.
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35952
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Remnants of the ship, sunk between Hatteras Island and Ocracoke in 1913, were reputedly left along the coast. Pieces of the wreckage could also be perceived in its survivors and those left behind, like Mrs. Martha Barnett, to tell the tale.
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35935
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WWII reached Hatteras Island courtesy of spies, as accompanied photos of the houses they stayed in attested. Among spy reports famous enough for film was of a man many Islanders may have never assumed could be among the enemy. Hans Hoff, the spy whose electrocution was filmed, had lived with one of the local families one summer in the early 1930s.
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