Outer Banks This Week Blog

Outer Banks information comes in many forms, but there’s no better way to learn it than through conversations with a local. The OuterBanksThisWeek.com blog is that local friend … even if you already live here! Every week, Molly Harrison gives the run down on Outer Banks activities, Outer Banks events, Outer Banks shopping – all the Outer Banks information needed to ensure that you have the best possible experience. And she does it in a conversational way that’s easy to read and entertaining. Outer Banks activities are numerous, and this blog gives you an insider’s scoop to help you plan your day. She leads you to all the Outer Banks events you won’t want to miss – sports, annual functions and holiday festivities. She gives you her input on the most exciting Outer Banks activities – the ones she loves, the ones she thinks you should love. If anything exciting or out-of-the-ordinary is happening during your visit – and there definitely will be something – this blog is your trusty guide to figuring out the whats, whens and wheres.

Nightlife, for example, is detailed here – what band is playing where, which scene is wild, which is chill. Festivals are also described – the ones that are old and loved and the ones that are new and anticipated. The amount of Outer Banks information offered here will keep you busy and in the know. You can find out what would be fun for you, your family or even your pets.

A fun touch of this blog is its conversational element. Hannah Lee always wants to hear from you! In fact, reader input can influence the basis of her next blog’s focus. So if there’s a topic or question you’re craving an answer for, let her know. Sit a spell and read through present and past OuterBanksThisWeek.com blogs. With all the Outer Banks information detailed for you, you’ll be the trusted source to all your friends!

<i>Eating Alabama</i> at Outer Banks Brewing Station

Eating Alabama...Why Food Matters

By Michael Lay | Friday, February 8, 2013
We've posted this special installment of the Outer Banks This Week blog to promote a unique event for the Outer Banks. The documentary film Eating Alabama: A Story About Why Food Matters will be shown Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Outer Banks Brewing Station in Kill Devil Hills. Andrew Beck Grace, the film's... Read More
28th Stumpy Point Oyster Feast

Season of Love...and Oysters!

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Unless you've been pulling a Rip Van Winkle the past several weeks, you're aware that we're deep in the Season of Love...and jewelry and chocolate...mostly chocolate...and schmaltzy cards and...oh, never mind. Anyway, now is also the season of oysters and oyster lovers, and that's a special kind of love indeed! As... Read More
Snow on the rooftops of Manteo!

From Snow to Shirt Sleeves

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Never a dull moment, as they say. In my last blog installment I bemoaned a week-long stretch of gloomy, gray, chilly and fog-draped days that had settled like a wet blanket over the Outer Banks. Since then we've ridden a veritable weather rollercoaster. Only a few days ago I was bundled up like an Eskimo scraping snow... Read More
35th Frank Stick Memorial Art Show

Arts and Crafts and Otters! Oh, My!

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, January 23, 2013
After a while you notice a certain pattern to Outer Banks life. First, Spring slowly blossoms and our season begins, gradually at first, with mostly weekend or daytrip visitors until warm days begin to occur more reliably. Then our Canadian friends show up to frolic in what, by any reasonable measure, is still a... Read More

Don't Get Down, Get Out and About

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Recently, one of my friends enrolled at North Carolina State University as a full-time student at the ripe old age of 38. While many of us would be reluctant to exchange the comfortable routine of the workaday world for the uncertainty of being a "mature" college student in a sea of much younger peers, it is obvious... Read More