Old friends, new performers, island magic define Ocrafolk Festival 2026
By Peter Vankevich
There was, to riff off Stephen Sondheim, something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone.
That sums up how the Ocracoke Folk Festival 2026...
Ocrafolk Festival to bring new energy
A stilt walker, a typewriter poet and a wandering magician will bring some different energy to this year’s Ocrafolk Festival, June 5 to 7,...
Donald Davis storytelling workshops scheduled
By Peter Vankevich
Ocracoke Island storyteller Donald Davis will lead two weeklong storytelling workshops on the island, scheduled for May 30 to June 7...
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...