The text for my post for October 10, 2010 was somehow deleted. I reproduce it below:
I recently came across an article in the vintage magazine "Ford Times" from October, 1950, entitled simply "Ocraocke." I thought our readers would enjoy the following paragraph:
"With all those elements of elegant living [beaches with romantic relics of old shipwrecks, ...eighty varieties of tropical, fresh and salt-water fish...fifteen kinds of brant, duck and geese...a few herds of wild ponies and steers...semi-tropical sunshine and weather as fine as Bermuda’s...500 friendly, geared-down North Carolinians...one phone, no law and no worries], it’s no wonder Ocracokans leave their island only on rare occasions. 'Now take my cousin,' said one old fishing guide. 'One day he went to Rodanthe – that’s fifty miles up the beach – to marry a gal, but she was out. So he married her sister. He waren’t goin’ all that way fer nothin’.'"
Our latest Ocracoke Newsletter is an article, with a number of photos, documenting the history of water cisterns on Ocracoke Island. Click on the following link to go directly there: http://www.villagecraftsmen.com/news102110.htm
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That is a really funny story, I have not heard that one before!
ReplyDeleteWoke up a little grumpy- thanks for the smile!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if that article has anything to do with our 1956 vacation on Ocracoke. My dad worked for Ford his whole life!
ReplyDeleteI'd be interested in knowing who had the first telephone on Ocracoke.
ReplyDeleteIt was at the Coast Guard Station.
ReplyDeleteSee tomorrow's (Monday's) post for more information about telephones on Ocracoke.
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