In Christmas years past, the holiday season was all about home cooking and family around the hearth or wood stove, the advent themes of hope, peace, love, and joy on display, and glorious hymns of faith being sung at lamp-lit churches. Christmas at Hatteras saw reconciliation of stressed relationships, remembrances of blessed loved ones passed, and repentance of hurtful […]
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A search of “This day in history September 5th” doesn’t reveal much in the way of earth-shattering achievements that day, only that the space probe Voyager 1 launched in 1977, Jack Kerouac’s masterpiece “On The Road” hit bookstores in 1958, and we lost Nobel Prize laureate Mother Teresa in 1992. But hold on a minute […]
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In honor of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse’s 150th anniversary, which will be formally celebrated on December 16, 2020, the Island Free Press will be featuring new and archived stories about the famous Hatteras Island landmark all week long. This article is republished from an August, 1999, special section of The Island Breeze on the move of […]
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This article is republished from an August 1999 special section of The Island Breeze on the move of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. In this article, island historian Danny Couch includes interviews he has had over the years with many older islanders, some of whom are now deceased. Hatteras islanders cherish their memories of the Cape […]
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