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36024
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Maude White, whose career history included postal employee and boarding house owner, kept memories of Buxton School alive. Included in her recollections was Charlie Gray, well known for his accomplishments in the classroom and out. Also mentioned by this teacher of thirty-four years was an instructor not well known for classroom management.
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36025
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Clarence Jennette’s memories recalled were of the area’s well-known 1933 and 1944 hurricanes. The Hatteras residents’ method of battening down the hatches and waiting it out—has proven to help them weather any storm.
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36026
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This article, part of a series for this edition, recounted Hatteras Island’s experience with the well-known 1933 and 1944 hurricanes. What it has in common with “Storm Memories” was personal accounts, in this case of a family, the Austins, rather than an individual, Clarence Jennette.
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36027
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A resident of this town, renamed Frisco since Maggie Austin’s experience with the 1944 hurricane, recalled its terrifying impact. What hadn’t changed: the resilience residents exhibited.
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36028
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This article, part of a series for this edition, chronicled Hatteras Island’s encounters with well-known 1933 and 1944 hurricanes. This recollection by Ernal Foster, included photos illustrating the 1933 storm’s impact, proved pictures can be worth a thousand words.
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36029
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Glimpses of the past were perhaps seen most clearly in this collection of photos. One was a reminder of when the ferry was the only source of transport for humans and cargo. Others were reminders of businesses long since gone out of business, as well as buildings still standing. Most the photos, though, attested the importance of waterways around the Island, whether the creek familiarly known as the “Slash,” Core Sound, or Atlantic Ocean.
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Hatteras Island--History; Hatteras Island--Social life and customs; Outer Banks--History; Outer Banks--Culture; Core Sound; Ferries--North Carolina; Methodist Church--North Carolina; Methodists--North Carolina; Oregon Inlet; Oregon Inlet--History; Channel bass--Outer Banks; Red drum; Ghost stories--Coastal; Coast defenses; Lighthouses
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37855
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John W. Rollinson, b. 1827, kept a journal of his life at Hatteras, from teaching school, piloting boats, fleeing with his family from the Union soldiers, farming, porpoise fishing, being Collector for Port of Hatteras and being a magistrate.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 10 Issue No. 3, ,
p68-71, il
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