Outer Banks Articles & Shorts

If you’re like a lot of people – like hundreds of thousands of people – you love the Outer Banks of North Carolina. You might consider us presumptuous drawing this conclusion so quickly, and we would agree with you . . . except for the fact that we’re right. You love the Outer Banks beaches, the Outer Banks water sports, the Outer Banks towns, Outer Banks shops, the Outer Banks events and Outer Banks activities . . . everything about this place (you wouldn’t be on this site if you didn’t). We do too. And, lucky for you, we also love writing about the Outer Banks. Locals and visitors alike value our Outer Banks information.

Our local writers tell you how to negotiate dining out if you have a big crowd. We show you, step by step, how to pick a crab. We’ve written articles highlighting Corolla and the Currituck Outer Banks or about charming Manteo on Roanoke Island or telling you the mysteries of Ocracoke Island. We cover the events happening on the Outer Banks – and, boy, are there a lot of them to cover! Outer Banks activities, everything from water sports to walking tours to lighthouse tours to birdwatching trips, are focal points. Businesses, rituals and legends local to the Outer Banks are detailed in our articles. You’ll find out how that restaurant got its name or the modest beginning of that now-booming business. We give you insider Outer Banks information about staying safe in the ocean, how to navigate those pesky turn lanes, which restaurants to check out for the best Southern cuisine in the area and resorts’ present and future aspirations. Our Outer Banks articles are good reading. You’ll feel like a local with all the knowledge you’re sure to collect! And we’re adding to them all the time. Click on in to learn about the Outer Banks from the locals' side!

 

The Story of Us as a People: Currituck Maritime Museum

By Molly Harrison
It’s hard to imagine it now, but once upon a time the beaches of Currituck County were desolate and sparsely populated, the remote hinterlands where few ventured. Back then, life in Currituck County was focused primarily on the mainland, centered along the waters of the Currituck Sound and North River. Currituck... Read More

Keeping it All in the Family with Stan White Realty

By Leah Wingenroth
The landscape of the Outer Banks is dynamic by nature, molded and shaped by hurricane winds, tides and erosion. To know the geography and the specific needs that geography imparts on its residing structures takes time and attention. Stan White Realty, owned and operated by generations of true Outer Banks natives, has... Read More

Red, White & Rose: Wine on the Manteo Waterfront

By Beth P. Storie
Lori Wilkinson and her husband, Garret, are proof that you don’t have to be wine snobs to understand and appreciate great wine. You just have to love it. And they do. They also love their new life in Manteo where their shop, NouVines, is the talk of the town. Having been open for only a few months now, they already... Read More

A Vision Reimagined

By Hannah Lee Leidy
An old-school inn on the sound in Manteo has found a new groove. The Burrus House Inn at Manteo began operation back in 2005. Before then, part of the current building served as the home of then-owner Jack Burrus. He built the original cottage in 1976 and over the years added more rooms and features. During Burrus’... Read More

The Art of Being Local

By Beth P. Storie
Realtors talk about location, location, location, but with booksellers it’s local, local, local! The owners of our independent Outer Banks bookstores all say that books written by locals or set on these shores are some of their biggest sellers, both fiction and nonfiction.  Bookstore owners explain that local books... Read More