tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post2238123119681462346..comments2024-03-28T17:33:32.921-04:00Comments on Ocracoke Island Journal: Question 5Philiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01572532603071469799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-86446598336578573532011-04-14T09:34:21.848-04:002011-04-14T09:34:21.848-04:00All of my life I never remember my father talking ...All of my life I never remember my father talking about moving back to North Carolina, or back to Ocracoke...it was always about moving "back home." I think this is the best explanation of why he came back. It was home. <br /><br />He built a house on Ocracoke in the mid-1950s (the house on the corner of Howard St & Lawton Lane...where Amy & Daivid & Lachlan live). <br /><br />When my dad retired in the 1960s he and my mother moved to Ocracoke. I moved back in 1970 (just for the summer for a couple of years...I had a teaching job in Maryland). The rest is history, as they say.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01572532603071469799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-7297133759941812492011-04-12T23:21:54.593-04:002011-04-12T23:21:54.593-04:00You did it again, Philip: spawned more questions w...You did it again, Philip: spawned more questions with your latest answers.<br /><br />We know from past posts that your father moved from Ocracoke when he was a young man and you first came to the island as a visitor.<br /><br />"When my father built our new houseā¦" however, suggests that your dad returned to the island to take up residence again. Did that mark the start of your life as a year-round islander as well, or did that come later for you?<br /><br />Per your previous comment about so many young men leaving Ocracoke to make their living, it would be telling to know what brought them--or at least your dad--back to the island.<br /><br />Thanks, as always, for sharing your stories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-45757712883110706472011-04-12T13:15:18.400-04:002011-04-12T13:15:18.400-04:00Patent No. 8080
Life on an island needed a breez...Patent No. 8080<br /><br /><br />Life on an island needed a breeze, to keep away bugs thus and to live a life of ease<br /><br />Lounge in the shade and you have it made, but a man in Apalachicola, one you probably didn't know of, had a dream.<br /><br />It was a cool dream I say, to help those that were ill<br /><br />a Dr freeze if you please, the man that made ice on demand -- he took a stand and his machine-- the idea so noble, to ease the pain and discomfort of a bug in more ways than one.<br /><br /> if you learn the story of Dr Gorrie-- if you are able to handle and learn the story and truth of what happened in the Florida panhandle <br /><br /> you will agree that as he stands in the hallowed halls of congress his monument and tribute to improve the condition of bearing the heat it can't be beat He was the first but died pennilessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com