Old Quawk’s Day
Today, March 16, 2026, has turned stormy, just as it might have been about 200 years agoe when an island character named "Old Quawk"...
Award-winning ‘Best Day Ever’ documentary debuts on Ocracoke
By Connie Leinbach
When does Ocracoke Island ever get to see the state premier of a movie?
Ocracoke was treated to just that on Feb. 4...
Cultural enrichment activities to begin Sunday through March 28
Ocracoke Alive continues the community cultural activities it began last winter this year with Flavia Burton’s presentation of her adventures in South Africa from...
Did radio begin on Hatteras Island?
By Peter Vankevich
On the North Carolina license plate is “First in Flight,” noting the remarkable achievements of the Wright Brothers in the early years...
David Tweedie: a man of many talents
By Patty Huston-Holm
On a morning nearing the first day of spring, a lingering winter chill evident outside the kitchen from where he sat, David...
New edition of McAllister’s ‘Ocracoke’ book adds recent history
By Peter Vankevich
The second edition of Ray McAllister’s "Ocracoke: The Pearl of the Outer Banks" (Beach Glass Press) is out.
First published in 2013, the...
Voices of Ocracoke: Where language meets island life
By Peter Vankevich
"Language and Life on Ocracoke: The Living History of the Brogue" (UNC Press 2025), a new book by Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram...
Another book of colorful Ocracoke characters
Book Review
By Peter Vankevich
Philip Howard is on a high-energy creativity roll.
In 2024 he published “Ocracoke Island Eccentrics, Innovators and Free Spirits,” a collection...
Pat Garber’s latest book traces her family’s Southwest roots
By Peter Vankevich
Pat Garber’s goal as a young girl was to grow up and have lots of stories to tell, and that she has...
An islander’s memoir of loss, hope and redemption
Ocracoke Islander Kelley Shinn has spent the last 32 years exploring that harrowing ordeal, which has now been turned into a memoir, “The Wounds That Bind Us,” published by West Virginia University Press and available at Books to Be Red.