Ocracoke Island Journal

Welcome to the Ocracoke Journal, a blog managed by Village Craftsmen of Ocracoke!  For more than twenty years we have been committed to shar...

Just in case you missed our four most recent Ocracoke Newsletters, here is a list with brief descriptions and links:                 Helena ...

More than 200 years ago there lived on Ocracoke Island a fisherman of indeterminate provenance. He was a reclusive figure, preferring to li...

Walter and Edgar Howard were talented Ocracoke musicians and vaudeville performers who made names for themselves in New York City and other...

Many of our readers have walked the trail to Springer's Point. Sam Jones, who died in 1977, is buried (next to his horse) across the pat...

Howard's Pub opened for business in April 1979. For the first time in more than half a century Ocracoke islanders and visitors could or...

Islander Kathi O'Neal Weiss recently shared with me the following Civilian Service Award presented to her father, Leroy O'Neal, in 1...