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Commercial Fishing on the Outer Banks

By: R. Wayne Gray and Nancy Beach Gray

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Commercial Fishing on the Outer Banks

By: R. Wayne Gray and Nancy Beach Gray

Fishing on the Outer Banks for subsistence began over 1,000 years ago with the Algonquin Indians, who made their summer camps on the islands. They came for the seafood and learned how to fish for various species during each season. Some of their fishing methods are still used by local watermen. The early settlers to the area were also fishers for sustenance. It was not until the Civil War, however, when they became commercial fishermen. Historic shad runs combined with the building of infrastructure such as an ice plant, roads, and bridges finally made possible the exportation of their catches to northern markets. In the 1950s, tourists started trickling in, and restaurants began dotting the landscape, promoting the consumption of fresh seafood. Today, in an economy ruled by tourism, fishing for profit still plays a strong role. What began in the 1660s with a shipment of 80 barrels of whale oil has continued to the present with internationally coveted catches of bluefin tuna. Although the fishing industry is threatened today as never before, commercial fishermen will continue to develop new markets and fight for their livelihoods.

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1467103357

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Legendary Locals of the Northern Outer Banks

By: R. Wayne Gray,Nancy Beach Gray

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Legendary Locals of the Northern Outer Banks

By: R. Wayne Gray,Nancy Beach Gray

The remoteness and isolation of North Carolina's northern Outer Banks has shaped both early settlers and relative newcomers into tough and independent souls. Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists may have mysteriously disappeared from Roanoke Island, but the enterprising homesteaders who followed managed to eke out a living on the windswept and battered banks. Entrepreneur E.R. Daniels ran a line of mail and freight boats that helped connect the Outer Banks to the outside world. Former slave and Civil War hero Richard Etheridge did not shirk from an opportunity to become the first black keeper of a lifesaving station. In the mid-20th century, leaders like Bradford Fearing saw the importance of developing tourism, so that people would come see Paul Green's new outdoor drama, The Lost Colony. Outer Bankers have warmly welcomed visitors, from the time the Wright brothers arrived to today's modern tourists. The challenge now is to balance commercial growth with environmental sensibility so that oystermen, like Georgie Daniels, and fishermen, like Dewey Hemilwright, can continue to ply the waters.

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1439650497

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Manteo

By: R. Wayne Gray,Nancy Beach Gray

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Manteo

By: R. Wayne Gray,Nancy Beach Gray

Manteo embraces the northern part of Roanoke Island, the historic island inset from North Carolina's Outer Banks. It is best known as the site of Sir Walter Raleigh's first settlement in the New World. In the early 1800s, the town was a small, unnamed fishing village on Shallowbag Bay. Roughly 300 years after the colonists mysteriously disappeared, the town was named Manteo after the Native American who befriended the settlers and was baptized by them. The peaceful life enjoyed by islanders radically changed when they were overwhelmed by Union army troops, Confederate prisoners, and 3,000 former slaves who made up the Freedmen's Colony during the Civil War. In 1899, Manteo incorporated and became the commercial and governmental center of Dare County. National recognition came several decades later in 1937 with the production of Paul Green's outdoor drama The Lost Colony. Manteo has undergone many timely and creative renovations, including an ambitious project that culminated in 1984 with the celebration of our nation's 400th anniversary on the island where America first began.

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1439670269

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Roanoke Island's Boating Heritage

By: R. Wayne Gray,Nancy Beach Gray

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Roanoke Island's Boating Heritage

By: R. Wayne Gray,Nancy Beach Gray

Those fortunate enough to live on Roanoke Island have always depended on boats. In exploration-era sketches, Native American Algonquins were depicted in their dugout canoes. English settlers took the native concept a step further, developing kunners and, later, periaugers. Sloops and schooners made it possible to trade with far-off lands. Shad boats allowed fishermen to catch enough fresh product to ship to northern markets. Shrimp boats, crab boats, and trawlers brought about a new level of financial independence. Charter boats went past the limits of sound waters to the deep sea, carrying sport fishermen who were ready to pay for the chance to land a Gulf Stream trophy. Today's luxury yachts would boggle the minds of 20th-century backyard boatbuilders. Whether the need for a boat was transportation, subsistence fishing, making a living, or recreation, boatbuilding became a skill many residents picked up out of necessity. This skill matured into a trait that many believe runs deep in the genetic makeup of the local population.

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1439660670

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9781439660676

Corolla and the Currituck Outer Banks

By: R. Wayne Gray and Nancy Beach Gray

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Corolla and the Currituck Outer Banks

By: R. Wayne Gray and Nancy Beach Gray

The Currituck Outer Banks was once a beach land wilderness inhabited by indigenous Poteskeet people before being explored by the Spanish and claimed by the English. Early settlers made a hardscrabble living by small-scale fishing, farming, processing whales, and salvaging shipwrecks. Life changed in 1828 when an inlet closed, and thousands of ducks and geese descended upon the sound's waters. Locals took up wildfowl market hunting. Northern sportsmen bought marshland acres and built exclusive shooting clubs. The most ostentatious, the Whalehead Club in the heart of Corolla, embodies that golden era, which lasted 100 years. The area became more than a hunting destination when the first lifesaving station was built at Jones Hill to mitigate the loss of life from shipwrecks. Further shoreline protection came when the red-bricked Currituck Beach Lighthouse was completed in 1875. By 1970, extreme isolation and a population that fell to 15 people allowed wild horses to flourish. In 1984, a controversial paved road to the northern beaches encouraged rapid development and put the Corolla area on the map as a sought-after vacation destination. --Amazon.com.

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1467106984

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Sport Fishing on the Outer Banks

By: Nancy Beach Gray

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Sport Fishing on the Outer Banks

By: Nancy Beach Gray

The Outer Banks, barrier islands off the coast of northeastern North Carolina, have long provided inhabitants with ready access to clean water and bountiful wild fisheries. In the 1930s, these locals recognized they could make a living full time by taking out paying parties of sport anglers. At this time, entrepreneurs built oceanfront piers to get these sport fishermen closer to migrating schools of fish. An act of Congress preserved the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, which promoted the pastime of surf fishing. As the industry of charter fishing developed, captains working out of Hatteras and Oregon Inlet ventured farther into the Atlantic Ocean to reach the Gulf Stream, the home of the ultimate fishing trophy, the blue marlin. This book chronicles the history of sport fishing on the Outer Banks. Whether fishing is a livelihood or a pastime, fishermen and fisherwomen invest in more than just catching. They commune with a seascape that is both inspiring and potentially dangerous. And what locals and visitors alike have found on this sliver of sand is simple: paradise on earth.

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1467109886

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Ghosts from the Coast

By: Nancy Roberts

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Ghosts from the Coast

By: Nancy Roberts

Acclaimed storyteller Nancy Roberts takes the reader on a haunted tour of coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in this engaging new collection of thirty-three ghost stories and legends. In North Carolina, we hear of the restless spirit w

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UNC Press Books

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080784991X

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Ghosts & Specters of the Old South

Ten Supernatural Stories

By: Nancy Roberts

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Ten Supernatural Stories

By: Nancy Roberts

A collection of stories describing ghostly apparitions and happenings in the Deep South.

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Sandlapper Publishing

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0878440585

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9780878440580

Going Places

Family Getaways in the Pacific Northwest : Oregon, Washington, British Columbia

By: Ann Bergman,Rose Williamson,Nancy Thalia Reynolds

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Going Places

Family Getaways in the Pacific Northwest : Oregon, Washington, British Columbia

By: Ann Bergman,Rose Williamson,Nancy Thalia Reynolds

Whether they prefer to sleep outdoors in the high desert of Oregon or take a boat to a remote getaway, this fourth edition of Going Places tells families all they need to know about planning a weekend away. Included is detailed information on Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. All of the 150 places and 250 restaurants recommended in this book have been reviewed by parents. This detailed travel guide also recommends roadside attractions and what to see and do once you reach your destination.

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Northwest Parent Publishing

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096146268X

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Tangled

By: Nancy Kelly

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Tangled

By: Nancy Kelly

Three beautiful sisters find themselves haunted by their pasts and the murder of their stepfather as they try desperately to find love and build new lives for themselves. "An intricate web of love, passion, secrets and the bonds that all sisters share. Absolute must reading".--Lisa Jackson, bestselling author of Treasures.

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Zebra Books

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0821747525

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9780821747520

Thinking is the Key

Questioning Makes the Difference

By: Nancy L. Johnson

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Questioning Makes the Difference

By: Nancy L. Johnson

This book offers a practical approach to explore ways to use thinking as the key to unlock the doors of learning.

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Pieces of Learning

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1880505010

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Explorer's Guide - Maine

By: Christina Tree,Nancy English

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Explorer's Guide - Maine

By: Christina Tree,Nancy English

Over 25 years ago, Christina Tree created and set the high standards for the Explorer's Guide series. She has been exploring and vacationing in Maine since her childhood. This fourteenth edition of the "Maine Bible" continues the tradition of being the best-selling guide to the state of Maine.

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Countryman Press

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0881507938

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9780881507935

Poetry Explication

A Checklist of Interpretation Since 1925 of British and American Poems Past and Present

By: Joseph Marshall Kuntz,Nancy Conrad Martinez

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Poetry Explication

A Checklist of Interpretation Since 1925 of British and American Poems Past and Present

By: Joseph Marshall Kuntz,Nancy Conrad Martinez

This volume presents a comprehensive index of poetry explications printed during the period 1925-1977, inclusive. Poems selected are of fewer than five hundred lines, and arranged alphabetically by author and title. Poets chosen must be generally recognized by the reading public. Explications must concern the whole poem, not the poet or circumstances of composition, and must not be from a source devoted to a single author. Explications are sourced from general critical assessments of currently published poetry and literary periodicals.

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Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall

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0816183139

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9780816183135

Book's by Nancy Beach Gray

Commercial Fishing on the Outer Banks

Commercial Fishing on the Outer Banks

Legendary Locals of the Northern Outer Banks

Legendary Locals of the Northern Outer Banks

Manteo

Manteo

Roanoke Island's Boating Heritage

Roanoke Island's Boating Heritage

Corolla and the Currituck Outer Banks

Corolla and the Currituck Outer Banks

Sport Fishing on the Outer Banks

Sport Fishing on the Outer Banks

Ghosts from the Coast

Ghosts from the Coast

Ghosts & Specters of the Old South

Ghosts & Specters of the Old South

Going Places

Going Places

Tangled

Tangled

Thinking is the Key

Thinking is the Key

Explorer's Guide - Maine

Explorer's Guide - Maine

Poetry Explication

Poetry Explication

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