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Why to Shop Local Our landscape has long brought innovative thinkers and artistic individuals in search of inspiration for invention, crafting, painting, and building. Recent times have seen a [...]

Celebrating the holidays with an abundance of community rituals on the Outer Banks has been a long standing tradition for both locals and visitors. With music and pageantry, illumination and art, [...]

It’s been said that North Carolina doesn’t do anything small. From its grand mountains to its ever-spanning coastline, every element of the state seems to supersede its reputation. The Outer [...]

My Outer Banks Home interviewed graduates from all three county high schools and traced what has happened to them since leaving our small community. We’ve also asked the folks who graduated from [...]

This Christmas, why not choose a menu that can be prepared ahead of time, leaving only simple tasks like reheating or assembly for the last minute? Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa! [...]

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Turn an Ordinary Day into Something Special Our world gets busier and larger by the second. Technology moves us at such a frantic pace, we can hardly catch our breaths. Often we’re advised to [...]

Darrell Collins is a star. He doesn’t dress like a star. He’s wearing his tan and olive park ranger clothes for his presentation. He’s not star-rich. After all, he works for the National Park [...]

The parachutes look small in contrast to the massive, metallic gray aircraft. Excitement is thick in the air as eager children watch hundreds of them descend from the plane, each one carrying [...]

The Wild Horses of Corolla This summer many of us read and perhaps even signed a petition circulated by the Corolla Wild Horse Fund concerning the opposition of commercial development in the [...]