Whalebone Junction: Crossroads of the Outer Banks
By Michelle Wagner At one time, it was simply referred to as “the end of the road”—a sandy intersection where several roads merged together at the southern end of Nags Head. It was long...
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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...
The Dog Days of Summer
By Cathy Baldwin – Photos K. Wilkins Photography – Finding Fun for your Furry Four-Legged Friend Just about everyone on the North Beach Sun staff has a dog. There’s Ollie, Captain, Jackson, Thunder, Khloe,...
Painting Her World
By Lindsey Beasley Dianna – Liz Corsa is an optimist. She believes that dreams really do come true, knows there can be more than just one dream, and even more ways that we can...
How Does Your Garden Grow?
By Cathy Baldwin Photography by K. Wilkins Photography – Sand, sand spurs, salt, northeast winds, brazen deer, hot summers, hurricanes… it takes more than a green thumb to overcome—or work with—the natural obstacles of...
Catching A Manx Outer Banks Style
By Kip Tabb, Photos by K. Wilkins Photography – A grin seems mandatory when driving a chopped down VW with a fiberglass body and stubby rear end like a Manx cat. I had just finished...
Cottage Courts—Still a Part of the Outer Banks
By Kip Tabb – Not quite a motel and certainly, a little smaller than a cottage, the cottage courts were the introduction to an Outer Banks vacation for thousands of families from the 1940s...
The Man Upstairs
By Kip Tabb – I was the man upstairs. When I first came to the Outer Banks I lived above Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery in Nags Head. A one bedroom, two story apartment,...
History by the Sea—The Unpainted Aristocracy of Nags Head
Interview by Kip Tabb with Brim Silver – The Nags Head Beach Cottage Historic District is home to some of the most unique beach cottages on the Outer Banks. Classic examples of function over...
