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The Outer Banks is known for a lot of things – famous lighthouses, the Wright brothers, wild horses, and beautiful beaches. But it has its secrets too.  And one of those secrets is that if [...]

Stepping out onto the pier, I feel the worn and weathered planks beneath my feet give just a little. The smell of salt air mixed with the briny scent of bait fill my senses and my eyes soak in a [...]

There’s nothing more refreshing on a hot summer afternoon than an icy cocktail to help you cool down and rejuvenate. Here are six classic cocktails for you, but with a twist. Rosie put her own [...]

I grew up in the Piedmont area of southern Virginia where there was no seafood to speak of, unless you caught it yourself. Fast-forward to the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, when frozen foods [...]

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The beaches are filling up, temperatures are rising, and the long lines at our favorite restaurants are starting to remind us just how lucky we are to live in a place where millions of people [...]

Saving lives at sea has been a tradition on the Outer Banks since the first European settlers arrived here more than 400 years ago. Today, the primary responsibility for upholding that tradition [...]

“Hope is the thing with feathers,” as poet Emily Dickinson famously wrote more than a century and a half ago.  It’s a deceptively simple line that likely resonates strongly with the untold [...]

Kim and Roger Meacham weren’t looking to change the lives of their family, friends, and neighbors on Ocracoke – they were just looking for a way to help their son. A Company Is Born  Four [...]

Local icon, Bill Harris, reflects on his collection of memories and other research that adds to a multigenerational story about Kitty Hawk Village – an overarching narrative that includes the way [...]

A day on the water with Outer Banks Center for Dolphin Research On a sunny, breezy day toward the end of May, a pontoon boat bounces across the whitecaps on the Roanoke Sound, heading south from [...]