Posted in On This Day, tagged diamond shoals, maurice r thurlow, outer banks, us coast guard on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1927: The schooner Maurice R. Thurlow runs aground during a storm off the Outer Banks. It signals for help, and its crew of nine is taken ashore in a Coast Guard surfboat. Few ships stranded on Diamond Shoals are ever refloated, but after the storm the Coast Guard can find no [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged american heritage, carroll a deering, catherine m monahan, hamilton basso, j w dresser, outer banks, pisgah forest, shipwrecks, steamer elizabeth, thomas wolfe on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“In talking with some of the people who live on the outer banks — bankers, they are called — I soon discovered that wrecks like that of the [Carroll A. Deering in 1921] have a way of serving as points of personal reference. One venerable gentleman who lives on Hatteras recalled that when the barkentine [...]
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged causes of civil war, john gilmer, lincoln, lost colony movie, mabel evans jones, outer banks, overdevelopment, snot otters on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
– Was the Civil War avoidable? Maybe if Lincoln had listened to John Gilmer…. – Exactly when were those “Greetings from Raleigh”? – Outer Banks overdevelopment: doing the job nuclear weapons didn’t? – Before Dino De Laurentiis there was… Mabel Evans Jones. – Today’s health tip: Don’t eat snot otters.
