Foreign dignitaries humbled by Annual British Cemetery Ceremony
June 2013
by Connie Leinbach
Canadian Naval Attaché Commander David Trudeau was humbled by the annual British Cemetery Memorial Service May 10 on Ocracoke. The ceremony...
A Blessed Life, Growing up on Ocracoke Island by Della Gaskill
June 2013
Della Gaskill, one of Ocracoke’s wise and wonderful older residents has written and just released her first book, ”A Blessed Life, Growing Up...
Health & Wellness: Assembly of God Church
May 2013
By Terrilynn Grace West
This is the second in a series addressing spiritual wellness, featuring churches on Ocracoke. Last month I wrote about...
Health and Wellness: The United Methodist Church
April 2013
By Terrilynn Grace West
Churches have existed over time on Ocracoke and address spiritual wellness. If you attended the Easter Sunrise service on the...
A Fisherman’s Daughter
July 2012
By Della Gaskill
Edited by Pat Garber
Della Gaskill, 74 years old, describes what it was like to grow up on Ocracoke Island...
Restoring the “Blanche”: A traditional Ocracoke fishing boat
September 2011
By Pat Garber
Seventy-five years ago an Ocracoke fisherman, Stacy Howard, commissioned a master boat-builder, Tom ‘Neal, to begin building him a fine new...
Civil War battles on Hatteras gave Union first victories
August 2011
By Connie Leinbach
Capturing two Confederate forts on Hatteras Island were the first wins by the Union in 1861 during the first of...
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...
Baseball…and Cat
July 2011
By Philip Howard
Recent news about Ocracoke Island’s new Little League baseball team, the “Raptors,” reminds me that Ocracoke has a long and...
Ocracoke English teacher wins “Jeopardy! Teachers Tournament”
June 2011By Connie Leinbach
Ocracoke School English teacher Charles Temple put the national spotlight on Ocracoke May 13 when he won the first ever “Jeopardy!...