Just a few photos from Saturday's Portsmouth Island Homecoming celebration.
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| Church Steeple from the Schoolhouse Path |
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| Washington Roberts House (ca. 1850) |
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| Interior of Roberts House |
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| Henry Pigot's House |
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| Hymn Sing in the Church |
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| Schoolhouse |
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| US Life-Saving Station |
Several hundred people attended, including many descendants of historic Portsmouth Island families. And the island was blessedly free of mosquitoes!
This month's Ocracoke Newsletter is Allie (Teenie) Scott's 1968 story of
Simon Garrish, Jr. and the US Life-Saving horse, Sambo. You can read it
by clicking here:
www.villagecraftsmen.com/news042116.htm.
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