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36011
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The resident named for her father’s mule or a family member held values characteristic of Hatteras Island life, such as deep religious beliefs. Activities betraying the time in which she grew up included her mother sewing clothes for a family of twelve. Ways she made a personal mark on her world included opening her home to tourists and village newcomers alike. From such acts of hospitality, a life commonly lived might also be called an uncommon life.
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36008
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A fading art kept alive yet by quilters such as Mrs. Charlotte Balance. Tales told by Mrs. Nettie Gibson revealed changes in quilting standards. Decades ago, the summer and winter quilting parties noted by Mrs. Ballance made it a commonly collective activity. The experience, then, was quite different from the common contemporary practice of quilting as a solo project.
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9480
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In 1949, before he became a world-famous poet, A. R. Ammons held his first teaching job at Hatteras Elementary School in Hatteras Village on the Outer Banks.
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32245
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Sharpe reviews David Stick’s book "The Outer Banks Of North Carolina."
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5740
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On March 7, 1962, a powerful nor'easter of huge proportions struck the Outer Banks on Ash Wednesday. Shelton-Roberts describes the fury of the storm, its origins, and aftermath.
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24665
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The Battle of the Banks took place on the North Carolina coast during the Civil War. Union ships overtook Forts Hatteras, Clark, and Oregon after a surprisingly long and difficult skirmish. This article highlights the historical battle.
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9683
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Blanton Saunders, who lives around the Currituck Sound, has been a guide, decoy maker, skiff-builder, and chronicler of the old ways of living on the Outer Banks. Now 72, he looks back on a way of life that is disappearing.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 45 Issue 11, Nov 1981,
p8-12, il
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36000
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Boat building was described by way of steps such as chime plank cutting and bending the sides of the boat and parts such as transom, keel, ribs, bow stem, bottom, and washboards. Accompanying the textual description were pictures of these parts. Included were pictures of the steps in the boat building process such as bending the boat sides and cutting chime plank.
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36010
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Called the gateway to Hatteras Island, the bridge built in the 1960s and named after Senator Herbert Bonner was experiencing the wear and tear of commuting use. Limitations on its daily use were imposed during its repair period. Such an occasion made Island residents all the more aware of the bridge’s importance in their way of life.
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In this excerpt from his book, Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America, Tom Carlson describes how Ernal Foster's ideas about blue-water sportfishing caught on and created an industry on the Outer Banks.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 11, Nov 2005,
p72-80, 82-83, il
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41254
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The Outer Banks’ association with aircraft can also be attributed to David Driskill. In fact, from his ferrying of provisions, parcels, pay, and people, he became synonymous with flight for generations of locals. Acknowledgment of his two decades’ plus of service is attested in an article from another local famed figure, Aycock Brown, and a monument, erected after his death in a plane crash in 1952.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 95 Issue 3, July 2018,
p251-280
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Driskill, David, 1897-1952; Aviation--History; Aviation--North Carolina--Outer Banks; Flight; Brown, Charles Brantley Aycock, 1904-1984; Outer Banks--History; Outer Banks--Culture; Dare County Regional Airport Museum (Manteo); Wright Brothers National Memorial (Kill Devil Hills); Wright Brothers National Memorial--see also Kill Devil Hills Monument ; Outer Banks History Center (Manteo); State Archives of North Carolina ; National Park Services--David Driskill; Wahab, Stanley, 1888-1967; Stanley Wahab--see also Robert Stanley Wahab
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16255
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David Stick has written four major histories of the North Carolina coast. Through Stick's books and articles, the reader gains not only a factual chronicle of the history of the North Carolina coast, but also a lively appreciation of the details of regional traditional life--of the forms and functions of the folk-life of communities and occupational groups along the Outer Banks.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 36 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1989,
p70-72, bibl
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23119
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Judge Charles Harry Whedbee, a Greenville native, was drawn to the Outer Banks throughout his life. Spending every summer at Nags Head, he heard stories, myths, and legends, all of which he later recorded through his own oral storytelling and writing.
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On December 21, 1884, lookouts at Outer Banks life-saving stations spotted the barkentine EPHRAIM WILLIAMS in distress. Duffus describes the daring rescue of the ship's crew, carried out by Outer Banks lifesavers in huge rolling waves, frigid water, and fierce winds.
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35151
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This article touches on some of the most popular aspects of the Outer Banks. It deals with the origins of its original inhabitants, including people and ponies, some place names and topographic terms, wrecking practices of Nags Head, and more.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 6 Issue 1, July 1958,
p1-6
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