Spotted on Ocracoke: The Great Black-backed Gull April 2011 Text and Photo by Peter Vankevich Most of the year –less so in late spring to midsummer- as you walk the beach or […]
Spotted on Ocracoke: The Great Black-backed Gull
Spotted on Ocracoke: Another Glimpse of Winter Light
December 2010 Text and photo by Peter Vankevich What is spotted this month is not a curious artifact but an impressionistic mood. As Yogi Berra allegedly aid, this is a season […]
Spotted on Ocracoke: a homing pigeon named Paloma
Spotted on Ocracoke: A Homing Pigeon Text and photo by Peter Vankevich November 2010 The storm system around the beginning of October (2010) brought out a sense of the isolation of […]
Amidst a mandatory evacuation a wedding takes place
By Peter Vankevich The lead up to many weddings can be exciting and stressful when things can go wrong. Most finish well. Many married couples will have empathy and a […]
September 2010 Spotted on Ocracoke: The Lion’s Mane Text and Photo by Peter Vankevich Two years ago or so, I featured in this column the Cannonball Jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris) that had been […]
Ocracoke’s Artists’ Colony
September By Philip Howard “Is there an artists’ colony on Ocracoke?” is a question I frequently hear. “We do have a number of talented artists and musicians,” I reply, “but, no, there […]
The Fishermen’s Quilt
August 2010 By Pat Garber “There is nothing–absolutely nothing– half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats’ That is what Water Rat told Mole in Kenneth Grahame’s classic […]
Artist Photographer, Ann Ehringhaus
August 2010 By Ruth Fordon Her love of photography began early. As a child, Ann remembers organizing other children in her neighborhood into scenes that she would then photograph with her Brownie […]
ABC Store on Ocracoke Island Runs A’Ground
August 2010 By Ruth Fordon “How can a liquor store go broke?” wondered island residents. Deliveries to both the Swan Quarter and Ocracoke ABC stores were stopped early in the year as […]
Hands Across the Sand
August 2010 By Lou Ann Homan I first heard about Hands Across the Sand as snow was still falling in the Midwest. I could only imagine how it would be on […]
