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The Lost Colony at Roanoke Island

A 400 Year-Old Mystery


Excerpts from Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of The Lost Colony
By Lee Miller

...Sir Walter Raleigh obtained a royal patent from Queen Elizabeth I for rights to settle North America. In the spring of 1584, he launched an exploratory expedition under Captain Philip Armadas and Arthur Barlowe which located Roanoke Island before returning to England. The following year, he raised a military expedition headed by Sir Richard Greenville which reached Roanoke Island in the summer, built a fort there, and remained until the spring of 1586. Finally, in 1587, Raleigh sent a colony of men, women, and children to the Chesapeake Bay with their govenor, John White, with instructions to stop at Roanoke Island along the way. For some reason-White's ineptitude as a leader or his preference for Roanoke Island-they went no farther and settled there in the abandoned military fort.



...New cottages were constructed of brick and tile, and on August 18, White's daughter Eleanor and husband Ananias Dare became the parents of a baby girl. Christened Virginia, she was the first English child born in North America. Several days later, another celebration. A boy was delivered to Dyonis and Margery Harvie.



Already short of supplies, White reluctantly returned to England with the transport ships. Unfortunately, his arrival in London coincided with the Spanish Armada. With England at war with Spain, he was unable to relieve the colony until 1590. When he finally did return to Roanoke, the colonists had vanished...Stumbling ashore, White pressed through the woods to a smoking clearing, the fire of the previous night now smothered except for patches of grass and sundry rotten trees burning about the place. But nothing else. No people. No encampment. Like Hatorask (Hatteras), no sign of life anywhere. Another illusion. Reeling from disappointment, White plunged back through the brush to the shore, advancing around the north end of the island, until we came to the place where I left our colony. White pushed ahead. Scrambling up a sandy bank, White cried out. He had found something, an astounding discovery. Cut into a tree, in the very brow thereof, were curiously carved these fair Roman letters: CRO. Croatoan.

There is something unsettling about a mystery. When it involves tragedy, it is doubly so. When the tragedy is the loss of 116 people and their inexplicable disappearance, the need to find answers is compelling.

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Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Paul Green's The Lost Colony is a two-hour symphonic drama slash spectacle at the historic Waterside Theater on Roanoke Island. Marcy and I witnessed this amazing story unfold on a moonless Friday night. The production recounts the actual historic events peppered with fiction. The Lost Colony is the first and longest running historical outdoor drama.

Opening Night
Waterside Theater
July 4, 1937

Waterside Theater

Winged Horses? WTF?

As the sand and sun of the Outer Banks slowly approached at 55 MPH, the carnival atmosphere began to emerge along Highway 158-(Grave) Digger's Dungeon , Nags Head hammocks, rows of adirondack chairs toeing the shoulder, a billboard for Barrier Island Aviation Air Tours, life-sized fiberglass winged horses, squalid roadside motels, namely Sea Oats Motel, and then the static of silence muted the commercial screams as the Highlander seemingly skimmed across Currituck Sound along Wright Memorial Bridge. And then the screaming continued-Starbucks, Wal-Mart, a Tanger Outlets billboard, another life-sized fiberglass winged horse. Hold your horses! There's another and another and another! Winged horses? WTF?




Winged Horse Extravaganza
http://www.outerbankspress.com/whe/winged-horses.html

The Winged Horse Extravaganza is a public art installation brought to the Outer banks and surrounding communities in celebration of the 2003 Centennial of Flight. From May 2002 through October 2004, 99 life-sized fiberglass horses with aluminum aircraft wings were decorated and displayed throughout the Outer Banks. Sponsors, either businesses or individual families, purchased a horse, commissioned an artist, and publicly displayed the installation.

The "Mane Event," the winged horse charitable auction, was held October 10th at Sea Scape Golf Course in Kitty Hawk. Thirty-four members of the herd went on the block along with original artwork. The two primary beneficiaries of the auction were the Corolla Wild Horse Fund and the Monument to a Century of Flight.

Current Locations

Corolla
1. Water Wings
Corolla Classic Vacations & Corolla Real Estate
next to Corolla Pizza & Winks
2. Collie
The Island Bookstore
1130 Corolla Village Rd. (horse is inside)
3. Lady-Go-Diva
The Inn at Corolla Lighthouse














4. Reflections of the American Spirit, AKA Spirit
ResortQuest Outer Banks
5. Mimmie Lou
Stan & Mary Virginia Polonsky (private home)
846 Corolla Dr, behind Food Lion shopping center
6. Corolla Speed Steed
Corolla Raceway
Timbuck II Shopping Center
7. Monto’ac
Currituck Outer Banks Visitor Center
8. Foaliage
Mike Mogil & Barbara Levine (private home)
689 Hunt Club Dr, past the Currituck Visitor Center Duck and Southern Shores
9. Floral Flight
ResortQuest Outer Banks
10. Fitz
Laura Fitzpatrick (private home)
122 Sandy Ridge Rd, oceanfront
11. Horsefly
The Waterfront Shops
12. Prince Charley Horse
The Blue Point, Barr-ee Station & Duck’s General Store
The Waterfront Shops
13. Corolla
Life’s A Beach
The Waterfront Shops
14. Star Grazer
Sea Dragon and Candy & Corks
The Waterfront Shops
15. Steve's CottEdge Blend, AKA Java
Duck's Cottage (Steve Alterman - sponsor)
The Waterfront Shops
16. Polaris (the Stallion of the Cosmos)
Herron’s Restaurant
17. Wings of Rescue
Soundfeet Shoes
18. Pirates Pony
Osprey Landing Shops
19. Stirrup Your Imagination
The Island Bookstore
Scarborough Faire Shopping Village (horse is inside)
20. Sea Biscuit
The Kerr Family (private home)
2 Fourth Ave, oceanfront



















21. Isaiah
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Sea Hawk
22. Zee Colt
Southern Shores Crossing Shopping Center

Kitty Hawk
23. School Spirit
Kitty Hawk Elementary School
24. Sir Spirit Scotch Bonnet Shellsworthy of First Flight
Aycock Brown Welcome Center
25. Kinnakeet
Stack ’Em High Pancakes
26. Dreamcatcher
Professional Floors
500 Sand Dune Dr, behind Pizzaz Pizza
27. Whitey
Black Pelican
















28. Mighty in Flight
Mighty Maid Cleaning Service
29. Sea Star
Alfred and Susan Bevan (private home)
3613 Meeting Twain Ct, turn on Tateway St, 2nd right
30. Miss Kitty and
31. Fancy Flyer
Kitty Dunes Realty

Kill Devil Hills
32. Lights, Kam-era, Action!
Chilli Peppers
33. Doubloon
Jolly Roger Restaurant
34. Outer Banks Bay, AKA “Flipper”
Goombays Grille & Raw Bar
35. Hurricane
Days Inn Mariner
36. J.J.
Mako Mike’s
37. Wilbur Bushwacker
Days Inn Wilbur & Orville Wright
38. Chamber Charlie
Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce
Colington Rd.
39. Happy Daze
Town Hall
next to Chamber of Commerce
40. Horse-oglyphics
First Flight Middle School
behind First Flight Elementary on Colington Rd.
41. Skye Dreams
Colington Harbour Entrance
42. Starry Starry Flight
Kill Devil Hills Cooperative Gallery
43. The Wright Stuff
Nags Head Shop
44. Captain Seabourne
Ramada Inn



















45. Pegasuits
Birthday Suits
46. Ameri-Go-Round
Southern Ice
400 W 8th St. (MP 10)



















Nags Head
47. Hospitality
Kelly’s Restaurant
48. Aviatrix
Outer Banks Family YMCA
49. Shiner
Kitty Hawk Kites



















50. Butterfly
Bad Barracuda’s
51. Butterfly Jubilee
Outer Banks Hospital (horse is inside lobby)
52. Chloe’s Flight
Village Realty (horse is inside)
53. Odyssey of the Hands
Harrell & Associates
54. Chillin’ Out
Penguin Isle Restaurant
55. Eyeland Nag
Frank & Catharine Freda (private home)
112 E. Sea Holly Ct., oceanfront
56. Wind Nags Point
Windmill Point Restaurant
57. High Speed Steed
Nags Head Raceway
58. Sir Stanley
Tanger Outlet Center

Roanoke Island
59. Dorothy and
60. David
College of the Albemarle Dare Co.
2 horses (horses are inside Tech Bldg.)
61. Joe
20/20 Realty

Hatteras Island
62. Hattie
Kinnakeet Shores
63. Lighthorse
Outer Beaches Realty Waves, Avon & Hatteras















Ocracoke
64. Constellation (a Rider from the Cosmic Carousel)
Howard’s Pub
65. Emilio
Back Porch Restaurant
66. Garcia Lorca
The Island Inn
67. Seahorse
Ocracoke School















Currituck Mainland
68. Premonition
Prospect Generation Systems
Freedom Business Park
69. Old Tom Morris
East Coast Game Rooms and Golf (horse is inside store)

Off the Outer Banks
70. Tiny Timber
Dismal Swamp Welcome Center
2356 US Hwy 17 N, South Mills, NC (horse is inside welcome center)

Outer Banks, NC (OBX)

The Outer Banks are a 200-mile (320-km) string of narrow barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. From north to south—Bodie Island, Roanoke Island, Hatteras Island, and Ocracoke Island. They separate the Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Sound from the Atlantic Ocean.

Corolla Lighthouse

Bodie Island Lighthouse
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

The Wright Brothers' first flights took place on the Outer Banks on December 17, 1903, at Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk. The Wright Brothers National Memorial Monument commemorates the historic flights.

Orville Wright

Wilbur Wright

Kill Devil Hills, NC
Circa 1902

First flight of the Wright Flyer I
Kill Devil Hills Life Saving Station
December 17, 1903

Kill Devil Hills, NC
Wright Brothers National Memorial
National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
Circa today

Admission: $4.00

Arabella
Kill Devil Hills, NC
Circa today
Features:
Oceanfront
10 Bedrooms/10 Bathrooms
Theater Room
Dunetop Deck
Heated, Private Pool with Hot Tub

Weekly Rate June 29-August 9, 2008: $13, 490

Expanding Your Lexicon: Lesson 2

Locavore

"Locavore" was coined by Jessica Prentice from the San Francisco Bay Area on the occasion of World Environment Day 2005 to describe and promote the practice of eating a diet consisting of food harvested from within an area most commonly bound by a 100 mile radius.

Oxford’s Word of the Year, and Runners-Up
By Mike Nizza
The New York Times
November 13, 2007

Not everyone has joined the local food movement, but it has won over Google’s cafeteria, Barbara Kingsolver’s kitchen, writers at The New York Times, and now, leading wordsmiths at the Oxford American Dictionary, who are adding their lexicographic seal of approval:

The 2007 Word of the Year is (drum-roll please) locavore.

The past year saw the popularization of a trend in using locally grown ingredients, taking advantage of seasonally available foodstuffs that can be bought and prepared without the need for extra preservatives.

The movement has been building for years, from Chef Alice Waters...to the opening of a Whole Foods in the middle of Manhattan.

Hanover Tomatoes

Hanover County, Virginia

4th of July Salad. Don't forget the Fritos Scoops!

Ingredients
1 bunch of cilantro
1 red onion
1 can black beans, washed
3 ears of corn
3 medium tomatoes (without the Salmonella)
3 avocados
5 limes, juice of