The Road Home
“If you love something, let it go.” We’ve all heard that one before. But how about this for a twist? If you love a place, move away. Take it from me. If there’s an...
Category: Community
St. Andrew’s: A Century by the Sea
There is a panorama — possibly taken in the 1920s with a $2 Kodak camera — that depicts old Nags Head from sound to sea. It shows a virtually barren landscape that’s dotted with...
Hubby Bliven: Behind the Glass
By Amanda McDanel Carrying four rolled-up prints that I need framed, I tread lightly across the yard and knock on the front door. The big beautiful white house stands before me but no one...
Artists of a Feather
By Katrina Mae Leuzinger In the category of unusual medium choices, “acrylic wash on turkey feather” ranks pretty high. The feathers only allow room for the smallest of portraits, require the lightest of...
Furever Friends
By Katrina Mae Leuzinger The Outer Banks SPCA became home to seven new dogs in October. Once bound for a dog meat farm in Jeonju, South Korea, these canines were given a second...
Modern Beach Shack
By Michelle Wagner The small house nestled among the live oaks of the maritime forest at 223 Wax Myrtle Trail isn’t your typical Southern Shores rental property. But “typical” is not what owners Gray...
In the Wink of an Eye
There’s a shallow cardboard box behind the counter of Wink’s in Kitty Hawk that’s filled with old keys. Most are still attached to key chains marked with numbers or family surnames. One advertises a...
A Cast of Characters
By Michelle Wagner Just over the bridge in Powells Point is a place where the imagination can run free. Here, the eyes of gargoyles follow visitors and miniature Big Foots are just underfoot....
Ghost Town: The Forgotten Story of Dare County’s Buffalo City
The story of Buffalo City, once the largest community in Dare County around the turn of the 19th century, is a colorful one of a mill town and moonshiners that continues to live on.
Diving the Towers
You might liken Charles Hardy and his mates to a band of saltwater cowboys—free-spirited, free diving spear fishermen who head miles out to sea so they can dive down and hunt for fish around abandoned naval towers and deserted wrecks.
