Ocracoke has a big weekend coming up starting Thursday night–Blackbeard’s Pirate Jamboree honoring the 300th anniversary of Blackbeard’s demise off Ocracoke on Nov. 22, 1718. See the schedule below, which is subject […]
To catch up on Ocracoke news, click here. By Connie Leinbach In 300 years since his demise, Blackbeard has become the best-known pirate in history, and the popularity of recent Hollywood movies […]
To catch up on Ocracoke news, click here Ocracoke Island gets on a lot of lists, and now it has landed on a Smithsonian Institution top-ten destination list of world anniversaries worth […]
For Ocracoke news, click here The island is preparing for yet another pirate invation this Friday to Sunday (Oct. 27 to 29) for the Blackbeard’s Pirate Jamboree. This is actually the seventh attempt […]
By Connie Leinbach New research by author-historian Kevin Duffus of Raleigh has revealed that the positive identification of an African-American member of Blackbeard’s crew provides evidence to the infamous pirate’s identity and […]
June 2014 By Connie Leinbach The revival of the play “A Tale of Blackbeard” after a 20-year hiatus is the talk of Ocracoke. An original musical by former islander Julie Howard, the […]
