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Maybe we need to read history before we start changing it.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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WOW!!! I hope you made a personal copy for review at least 10 times! It is so full of more recent history. It is totally full of "history repeating itself."
Published: Wednesday, September 24th, 2014 @ 6:22 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I don't have one. Those of my Baby Boomer Generation were taught that they were ugly and a form of self-abuse. Only sailors or roughnecks had them. The women who did were supposed to be circus performers or other "low" forms of society in the female side.
Published: Saturday, September 20th, 2014 @ 11:53 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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The drive to work is often a way to decompress and prepare for the inevitable - the work day.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 11:04 am
By: Mike Hayes
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Until you have felt the sting of miscarried justice and been in a bad and filthy jail, you have no compassion for those in our County Jail right now! How many citizens have spent the night there and eaten the food to see what it really is???
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 4:49 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Most sailors have a seasick story: This is mine.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 8:51 pm
By: Stanhope Deatherage
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The latest from Belhaven, NC is not good news. After Vidant Health Inc. reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the North Carolina NAACP, a ally of Vidant Health called Pantego Creek, LLC announced that it would stand in the way of the hospital staying open.
Published: Saturday, July 5th, 2014 @ 6:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Serving on the vestry of Saint Thomas Parish in Bath with the (supposedly hanged) pirate, Edward Salter is Blackbeard's widow's second husband, John Barrow.
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 9:35 am
By: Eugene Bowers Grant, Jr
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Blackbeard, if not a native son of the Bath area, was an adopted son with blood relatives living in the area. He had the trust of the local families. He organized a core of about 20 men from the Bath area. The majority of these men were connected by blood.
Published: Friday, May 23rd, 2014 @ 9:58 pm
By: Eugene Bowers Grant, Jr
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Settlement of he Pamlico area of eastern North Carolina was first attempted by the English when the Lost Colony was established on Roanoke Island in 1585.
Published: Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 @ 6:21 pm
By: Eugene Bowers Grant, Jr
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Story of America contributors Eric Byler and Annabel Park are diligently preparing a documentary pursuant to Vidant's closing of Pungo District Hospital, and we have their first two installments here.
Published: Saturday, April 5th, 2014 @ 3:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Precious South, sweet sassafras/ Puckers pale lips near wooden spoons of simmering succotash/ Vapors wafting in the living room/ The Georgia peach candle gifts mix and match perfume
Published: Monday, February 21st, 2011 @ 11:38 pm
By: Nathan Black
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Encrypted in the heart of Time lives a code, an improvisational theme that modulates by the second then returns again - not dead, not even gone - a code the writer attempts to break.
Published: Monday, January 24th, 2011 @ 11:22 am
By: Edward Mann
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The use of sexual imagery in advertising has gone too far and is having adverse effects on today's youth and society.
Published: Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 @ 12:49 pm
By: Leslie Schneider
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It is the evening of Music In The Streets, a monthly, community-based arts event that allows local musicians and performing artists to showcase their talents
Published: Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 @ 11:39 pm
By: Stanhope Deatherage
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Aboard the Elizabeth II, modeled after the 16th-century sailing vessel that brought the colonists to Roanoke Island, our favorite visiting writer finds himself buoyed by excitement and history.
Published: Thursday, November 26th, 2009 @ 12:01 pm
By: Bryan Oesterreich
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Once a vagabond of the road, and now a man of letters, our visiting writer finds the courage and the stamina to make a life change after forty.
Published: Monday, November 16th, 2009 @ 12:33 am
By: Bryan Oesterreich
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The Francis Rogallo Kite Festival has become a yearly event, at Jockey's Ridge, celebrating the flying of specialized kites.
Published: Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 @ 3:09 pm
By: Bryan Oesterreich
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The Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse resides in a new home along the waterfront in Manteo.
Published: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 @ 2:19 am
By: Bryan Oesterreich
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Regionally renowned traditional country and bluegrass band Molasses Creek keep community in the forefront out on Ocracoke Island.
Published: Thursday, October 29th, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
By: Bryan Oesterreich
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Anglers come from all over the world to fish waters possessing some of the most varied and abundant aquatic game on the eastern shore of the United States.
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 @ 11:06 pm
By: Bryan Oesterreich
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