Outer Banks News And Views
Welcome to the Carolina Designs blog. Here you’ll find information about the Outer Banks, what’s going on, and what we hope are some entertaining posts, quizzes and articles.
The Outer Banks Begins to Reopen
April 22, 2020
Six
weeks after restricting access to the Outer Banks to residents, employees of
local businesses, a...
The Spirit of Kitty Hawk Returns—Igor Benson and His Gyrocopter
April 20, 2020
Since
the Wright Brothers proved that heavier than air flight was possible, inventors
have dreamed o...
Cape Hatteras National Seashore – How the Nation’s First National Seashore Came to Be
April 17, 2020
Stretching
from South Nags Head to Ocracoke, Cape Hatteras National Seashore is one of the
most beau...
A Day of Fear and Heroism
April 11, 2020
In
many ways, WWI was a harbinger of things to come, from the introduction of what
we now consider m...
Outer Banks National Parks 2019 Review
April 8, 2020
Who knows how it was done, but somehow the Outer Banks Group of the National Park Service had one of...
Springtime Comes to the Outer Banks
April 6, 2020
It’s easy to get so focussed on our daily troubles that we sometimes forget to look around us and ...
Good Things Happening Around the Outer Banks
March 27, 2020
This is certainly a difficult time for all of us to be going through. Yet here we are at a place whe...
More Than Pizza – Outer Banks Italian Restaurants
February 25, 2020
Italian
restaurants have become so associated with pizza that sometimes it seems that’s
the only t...
The Wreck of the Irma…As Told through the Eyes of a Budding Young Author
February 21, 2020
When the three-masted schooner Irma ran aground in Kill Devil Hills in 1925, she became one of a pop...
Laura A. Barnes Shipwreck
February 7, 2020
The
listing in the July 1921 issue of Marine Review about the Laura A. Barnes is a
single line readi...
Jug Handle Bridge Construction
January 28, 2020
Sometime
in 2021, probably in the winter or early spring, the Jug Handle Bridge will
open. The bridg...
The Wooden Road to Hatteras
January 25, 2020
The ride to Hatteras Island as it passes through Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge has a beauty th...