An undated newspaper clipping in a scrapbook of the Ocracoke Preservation Society gives a glimpse of travel opportunities years ago. I believe the clipping was from the mid-1950s, based on the age of Danny Garrish (born 1936) and the fact that the pilot, Bill Cochran, was living in Buxton until 1957. Also, Ocracoke's airstrip was contructed in the earlym 1960s.
This is what the clipping says:
"Mrs. Lucille Garrish and Danny Garrish returned Sunday from Greenville, coming by car to Buxton and from there by plane to Ocracoke. Pilot of the plane, Mr. Cochran, has found a new landing stretch for his cub plane back of the Coast Guard Station on the Pamlico sound side."
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Sure face book is revealing your doings because you posted it but here the NEWSPAPER is reporting your private comings and goings to complete strangers!! and back then people were O K with that!!!
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