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Memories Along The Beach On the Outer Banks
A feature on North Carolina s Outer Banks recounts 1903 Wright brothers history, shifting dunes, shipwrecks, and living memories on Portsmouth Ocracoke and Hatteras islands. A Park Service effort to restore dunes contrasts with a quiet life, fishing and local lore across a windswept coastal landscape.
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Portsmouth Island
N.C
Dayton
Ohio
Weather Bureau
North Carolina
Virginia Line
Cape Lookout
Atlantic Ocean
Orville Wright
Wilbur
Cape Hatteras
Labrador
Sahara
Dennis McGinnis
National Park Service
Dennis
Nags Head
Washington
Kitty Hawk
Olina
AP Newsfeatures
Utopia
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Ocracoke Island
Hatteras
George W. Wells
Atlantic
Bluebeard
Ocracoke
Uriah Garrish
Rex Beach
Alice Roundthaler
Jon Ocracoke
Portsmouth
Travis Williams
Maultsby Bragg
Roy Wilder
Elma Dickson
Henry Pigott
Henry
Doctor's Creek
Miss Dickson
Lillian Babb
Outer Banks
Sir Walter Raleigh
Roanoke Island
Virginia Dare
New World
Wright Brothers
Billy Mitchell
New Jersey
Virginia
Diamond Shoals
Verazzano
Torpedo Junction
Portsmouth Islanders
Marion Rabb
Park Service
Lonely Islands
Laura Barnes
Bodie Island
AP News
Park Rangers
Mancie L. Daniels
Raleigh
Rep. Daniels
Highway Department