NPS to celebrate Ocracoke light station 200th anniversary
Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Ocracoke Light Station this year with a series of events this year...
Save Ocracoke’s fig trees
By Chester Lynn
This spring, as I was taking a scud around the island, I was looking over the Ocracoke fig trees that were sprouting....
World War II talk on Wednesday will focus on Ocracoke’s part;...
By Connie Leinbach
Long gone voices from Ocracoke’s past will be heard describing life here during World War II in a special presentation by North...
NPS seeks comments on Ocracoke Light Station preservation; virtual meeting tonight
By Connie Leinbach
The Ocracoke Light Station is the heartbeat of the island and should be preserved.
So said Mickey Hoggard via her neighbor Trudy Austin....
Waterfowl Festival is an island morale booster
By Connie Leinbach
Duck decoys made on Ocracoke are some of the most unusual ever crafted.
That’s the assessment of Chase Luker of New Holland on...
Was ‘The Lost Colony’ really lost or just decamped to Hatteras...
By Peter Vankevich
Scott Dawson is on a mission for the Lost Colony truth.
The native of Hatteras Island, or as he might prefer, Croatoan, has...
Ocracoke and Sable islands: Kindred spirits with shipwrecks, horses and a...
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Note: While preparing a Birds of Ocracoke profile on the Savannah “Ipswich” Sparrow, a...
From the archives: A look at Ocracoke’s first 4th of July...
Since 4th of July events on Ocracoke were canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we thought it would be interesting to take...
Oral history workshop at NCCAT Thursday/Taller de historia oral en el...
Professor Hannah Gill, associate director, Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, will be on...
Sallie Senseney, UNC distinguished alumna, got her start at Ocracoke School
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By Peter Vankevich
Sallie Senseney, a tenth-grade science teacher at her alma mater, Mountain Heritage...