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What began as a visit to see the park’s new accessible boardwalk became an eye-opening journey through forests, wetlands, dunes, and unexpected beauty. Story and Photography By Betsy DiJulio We [...]

Each night, four local Outer Banks kidney patients connect themselves to life-preserving peritoneal dialysis machines. Every morning, they wake up determined to make the most of another day. By [...]

ll roads lead to the Dare County Governmental Complex in Manteo. Well, at least Marshall C. Collins Drive and the Marshall and Gussie Collins Walkway do.

A Historic Manteo Landmark Reimagined Story by Betsy DiJulio / Photography by Three Little Birds / Photo Above: New and repurposed beams on the home’s second level create the open floorplan [...]

How Best to Protect the Ever-Changing Coastline. Partners for Life: Man, Nature, and Duck Resiliency By Betsy DiJulio / Photo above: The impetus for the Town Park Shoreline Stabilization project [...]

Tucked amidst the marshes, wetlands, and maritime forest of the Roanoke Island Festival Park complex, across from the charming Manteo waterfront, sits the newly renovated Outer Banks History Center.

Behind many natural wonders are forces of nature. Such is the case with Jockey’s Ridge State Park and Peggy Birkemeier, though she is quick to give credit to legions of others.

5 Winter Hikes on the OBX By Betsy DiJulio Like the wardrobe in The Chronicles of Narnia or the rabbit hole in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, trailheads are, for me, portals into an enchanting [...]

The arts help heal. And three Outer Banks women are “living proof.”

At the intersection of love and loss sits a house perched on a forested dune in OBX.