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Record #:
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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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Spring 1978, p36-37
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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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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Spring 1978, p42-43
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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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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Spring 1978, p48-49
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41249
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The year of Blackbeard’s death is part of a historical era commonly known as the Colonial period. Asserting the year is part of a historical era properly called the Golden Age of Privateering and Piracy, Butler reinforces this by profiling individuals from both groups.
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4879
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Rough-hewn and homely roothead decoys carved on the Outer Banks are highly prized by collectors who pay thousands of dollars for them. Most were carved before 1918, and carvers between Portsmouth Island and Hatteras Village are credited with their construction and use in the 19th-century. They are called roothead decoys because the carver used natural curves in roots and branches to form decoy heads.
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8940
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At age 102, Wayland Baum is thought to be the oldest living former employee of the U.S. Lighthouse Service. His father, Thomas Hardy Baum, was an assistant lighthouse keeper at stations on the Outer Banks. Wayland was born August 16, 1904. Baum recounts his days as a substitute lighthouse keeper and time spent on a boat that delivered supplies to the lighthouses. He later had a career in commercial and charter boat fishing and guiding waterfowl hunters. Baum retired at 85 and maintains his own home, washing the windows and painting the house when it needs it.
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35940
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This collection of images was of the stations in Pea Island, Creed’s Hill, and Little Kinnakeet.
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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 1 Issue 3, Spring 1974, p41-43
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36004
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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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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 5 Issue 1, Fall 1978, p18-21
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34705
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The first recorded visit of European explorers to the Outer Banks occurred in 1524. An Italian adventurer, Giovanni da Verazzano was sponsored by the King of France to explore the New World. Landing north of Kure Beach, Verazzano proceeded past Shackleford Banks recording the local flora and fauna. While anchored for the night, the crew met some of the local Tuscarora and Coree peoples. The crew noted that Europeans were greeted with enthusiasm and welcomed, a sentiment which would fade by the early 18th century. The vessel continued to patrol the coast and later met Algonquian Indians living in the northern Outer Banks. Verazzano would continue north up the coast, eventually arriving at New York Harbor and Nantucket Island.
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The Researcher (NoCar F 262 C23 R47), Vol. 20 Issue 2, Winter 2004, p3-15, il, map
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35870
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A popular vacation spot for people from both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, the Outer Banks retained a mystique. This quality, Wise claims the other area noted, the Mountains, lacks. He noted it as an irony: the Mountains have retained a claim to the past that granted it legend status.
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Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 8 Issue 6, Aug 1980, p13
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35927
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It’s been suggested the Outer Banks dialect was a remnant of Elizabethan age colonial residency. Another unique aspect of Banker speech was common words and phrases. Among the possibly known by other Coastal Plain residents: dingbattin’. Others possibly known by people outside of NC include grub. Others like peelin’ the green may be known only to natives.
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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 1973, p40-43
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35931
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An aspect making a people unique are expressions and descriptions that reveal their perception. This collection represented nautical lifeways that defined cardinal cultural values of the area and served as a memory for values of generations past. Phrases perhaps unique to the Banks included atter-a-while and foine; ones more characteristic of time period included Hessian and sparkin’.
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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Fall 1973, p41-43
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35941
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This collection of saying and phrases included those not exclusive to the area, such as frock. As for sayings and phrases perhaps not known outside of the Outer Banks, they included woine.
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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 1 Issue 3, Spring 1974, p41-43
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35951
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Some terms part of the Outer Banks dialect, like shore and fatbacks, reflected the area's nautical nature. Other terms, like waist and fresh, more likely reflect the time period’s vernacular than place.
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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Summer 1974, p56
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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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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 2 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 1975, p40