Beach discovery is a prehistoric portal in time
Editor’s note: Spellings of Croatan and Croatoan appear in this story. Neither is definitive.
May 2015
By Pat Garber
Standing on the shore of Ocracoke Island and...
A Trip to Portsmouth Island with the Austins: More Than Just...
July 2013
By Pat Garber
Off the coast of eastern North Carolina lies the remote island of Portsmouth, renowned for birds, seashells, and history. Accessible only...
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....
One hundred years ago: Indian runner duck eggs for sale
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By Peter Vankevich
Raising chickens for eggs on Ocracoke is popular these day. We found this advertisement by islander M.L. Piland...
Ward Garrish has an alternative theory about the Lost Colony
Update: Ward Garrish died December 14 at his home on Ocracoke His obituary can be read here.
By Pat Garber
The story of the Lost Colony,...
Shipwrecks at Ocracoke
August 2011
By Pat Garber
While walking the Ocracoke beach the other day, just north of the pony pens, I stopped to study a configuration...
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...
A father inspires a love of Ocracoke
By Everett Long III
In 1946, my father, Everett Long Jr. of Frankford, Delaware, started our family’s love for Ocracoke Island.
He landed his plane on...
Dan Robinson’s lifelong love of decoy carving will be on display...
By Peter Vankevich
Dan Robinson always loved the outdoors.
Growing up in Beaufort County, he and his friends did just about everything outside, but he especially...
Irvin Garrish: Renowned island son
By Connie Leinbach
Irvin Garrish would have been amazed to see his name pop up on GPS for the major thoroughfare through Ocracoke named after...