COASTAL REVIEW ONLINE “Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan” — Robinson Jeffers, American poet The warm, long golden days of summer are behind us, blown aside by the windy cold fronts bellowing out of the Arctic. Hitching a ride on these southbound frigid blasts of air are tundra swans. […]
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On Nov. 22, 1718, two small but well-manned sloops commanded by Lt. Robert Maynard of His Majesty’s Royal Navy approached a ship commanded by one Capt. Blackbeard, also known as Edward Teach, Thach, Thatch, Titche, all names attributed at various times to the pirate captain. Blackbeard signaled for the sloops to pass, but they responded […]
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The free symposium from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. will feature divers, underwater archaeologists, scientists and historians sharing presentations on the LV-71, The Merak, The Mirlo and the U-Boats that patrolled the East Coast. CSPAN will film the symposium to be aired later. Five large German submarines, or U-boats, crossed the Atlantic 100 years ago and […]
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COASTAL REVIEW ONLINE COASTAL REVIEW ONLINE An effort is on to reduce the alligator population in Hyde County. County officials requested a targeted hunt to reduce the number of alligators in Swan Quarter, Fairfield and Engelhard, three areas with frequent alligator conflicts. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission staff worked with county officials to evaluate […]
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It was a beautiful spring day, two days before the opening of the Ocracoke Fishing Tournament. Lisa Loos, who had driven with her husband from their home in Winston-Salem for the tournament, was fishing on the beach when she saw something in the surf. “We thought we saw dolphins playing off the sand bar and […]
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COASTAL REVIEW ONLINE Republicans in the House of Representatives are proposing significant penalties against states that block drilling for oil and natural gas off their coasts, the Washington Post reported. The proposal, expected to be discussed Thursday during a hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee, would allow states to disapprove of offshore drilling in […]
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These days, the hush blanketing historic Portsmouth Village is only disturbed by the rustle of a critter in the marsh, the squawk of birds and the footsteps of an occasional summertime visitor. The village hasn’t always been quiet. Before the last residents left in the early 1970s, layered over the hypnotic, aggressive whine of mosquitoes […]
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In December 1941, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Adolph Hitler declared war on the United States. Not long afterward, German submarine Adm. Karl Doenitz put into action a plan to close off the transport of oil, lumber and other products crucial to U.S. military operations along the East Coast. The plan was […]
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On the shelf of the china cabinet in Chester Lynn’s antique shop are three pewter plates that once belonged to Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the pirate. Lynn can trace his lineage back to two of the men who sailed with Blackbeard. One, Edward Salter, settled in Bath after his pirating days were over, […]
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World War II was hell, and those who remember it are few. However, some local folks still recall the horror of corpses washing ashore, deafening firebombs in the sea, mangled ship parts and sticky oil a-muck on the beach — and the paranoia of bad men stealing wartime secrets in Outer Bankers’ backyards. In the […]
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