tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post9122812117461739014..comments2024-03-28T17:33:32.921-04:00Comments on Ocracoke Island Journal: AccomodationsPhiliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01572532603071469799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-16996482076722308622014-09-10T15:16:03.248-04:002014-09-10T15:16:03.248-04:00Kevin, I think the official name of the Hotel was ...Kevin, I think the official name of the Hotel was Ponder...but Ocracokers always called it the Ponzer Hotel (Ocracokers also always grew "high geraniums" not hydrangeas! And they ate turkle soup, not turtle soup.)<br /><br />The old August storm of 1899 did considerable damage to the hotel, but it did not "sweep the whole building away." The hotel burned when the goose fat ran out of the pot. Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01572532603071469799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-39224987266683659962014-09-10T14:03:10.761-04:002014-09-10T14:03:10.761-04:00Frank Treat Fulcher had a different recollection o...Frank Treat Fulcher had a different recollection of the Ponzer Hotel's fate (and even its name): <br /><br />" I quit the agency to run a ferry form the terminal – two miles out in the Pamlico Sound – to their hotel “Ponder” run by George Credles of Hyde County. A very good thing until a hurricane in August 1899, known as the “August Storm” swept the whole building away."<br /><br />I think I like the goose fat version better.<br />Kevinnoreply@blogger.com