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By Kevin P. Duffus © 2026 History’s earliest map depicting and identifying Ocracoke Island, then called Wococon, is held in the collections of the National...

Text and photos by Jeanne Brook Between the Ocracoke United Methodist Church and the family graveyards on Howard Street lay a tangle of brush, vines...

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,...

By Peter Vankevich Ocracoke Island storyteller Donald Davis will lead two weeklong storytelling workshops on the island, scheduled for May 30 to June 7...

The Outer Banks and Ocracoke are fortunate that driving on the beach is allowed. However, there are some things to observe while doing so....

Text and photos by Connie Leinbach Every school morning, Jeanie Owens is up at the crack of dawn and at the school to set up...

By Peter Vankevich If you’ve read novels by Carl Hiaasen, you’ve likely come across Skink—his eccentric, one-eyed former governor turned environmental vigilante. While the character...

By Peter Vankevich For 33 years, Professor Walt Wolfram brought his graduate students to Ocracoke during their spring break to spend a week teaching middle...

By Connie Leinbach The quilt gods have been shining on Dave and Sylvia Nestor, who since 2012 have won three quilts raffled by the Ocracoke...

By Connie Leinbach Sometimes the treasures one finds along Ocracoke’s shores aren’t shells. Sometimes they are prehistoric teeth, such as the bison tooth that Barry Gregware...