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Voices from the Outer Banks

Voices from the Outer Banks

Kirk, Stephen

Paperback

Series: Real Voices, Real History

Historical FiguresGeneral World HistoryRegional: South

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0895876442
ISBN13: 9780895876447
Publisher: Blair
Published: Apr 1 2015
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.50
Language: English

John F. Blair, Publisher, continues its Real Voices, Real History(TM) series with Voices from the Outer Banks. This volume presents the actual words of the people who lived the uncommonly rich history of this chain of barrier islands stretching from the Virginia border southward through Cape Lookout. Readers will enjoy contemporary accounts of the first British settlement in North America and the birth of the first English child on American soil. They'll read 18th-century letters, articles, and poems about the bloody death of Blackbeard, arguably the most famous of all the pirates. They'll read the news account of the first powered airplane flights in human history. And the editorial that created America's first national seashore. And the words of family members who once inhabited the nation's most iconic lighthouse--part of a matched set of four. Topics include the Graveyard of the Atlantic, in a nod to the rough waters that over the centuries have claimed hundreds of vessels, and Torpedo Junction, site of the Great American Turkey Shoot, the latter nickname bestowed by German submariners during World War II. The volume includes first-person accounts of Civil War battles, a freedmen's colony, hunt clubs that drew the first wealthy tourists, and lifesavers who used horses to pull surfboats to the water and fired lines by cannon to wrecked vessels. Readers will even hear contemporary stories of the Boy Scout troop that rode ponies descended from ancient shipwrecked animals.

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