Catamaran is the largest boat ever built in small Outer Banks village
The interior of Brian Schmitt's catamaran is a tribute to the Outer Banks artisans. “We built this boat with just three people over a three and a half year period,”...
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Catamaran is the largest boat ever built in small Outer Banks village
The interior of Brian Schmitt's catamaran is a tribute to the Outer Banks artisans. “We built this boat with just three people over a three and a half year period,”...
Virginia songwriter Oliver Anthony to play free Saturday show in eastern N.C.
It would be difficult to overstate the meteoric rise of singer and songwriter Oliver Anthony, and fans and the curious will get a chance to see why so many people...
Daughter of Outer Banks boat builder reconnects with her childhood
LeVern Davis Parker is at Downtown Books in Manteo talking about her book, “Our Family, Its History, Their Boats.” Her arm is draped around a trophy that rises above her...
![Jeweler Gail Kowalski, the owner of Jewelry by Gail in Nags Head, has her dream job. And she’s doing it in the one place that she knew from an early age back in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania she wanted to be. “My very best friend in high school, Sharon Harwick, and I were talking and she remembers […]](https://www.pilotonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JbGGail.jpg?w=132 "Jeweler Gail Kowalski, the owner of Jewelry by Gail in Nags Head, has her dream job. And she’s doing it in the one place that she knew from an early age back in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania she wanted to be. “My very best friend in high school, Sharon Harwick, and I were talking and she remembers […]")
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Jewel Struck: Outer Banks woman’s lifelong love affair with gems continues
Jeweler Gail Kowalski, the owner of Jewelry by Gail in Nags Head, has her dream job. And she’s doing it in the one place that she knew from an early...
It’s blueberry-picking time at tucked away Outer Banks farm
The berries are fat and ripe at Lydia and James Malco’s Point Harbor Pick-Your-Own.
Tiny artifact leads to big discovery on the Outer Banks
This little ring of copper came from one of the archeological pits that surround Klingelhofer, pits that are searching for Roanoac, the Native American Algonquin village that Sir Walter Raleigh’s...
New Outer Banks distillery is ‘farm to bottle,’ taps into tradition of making whiskey
Buffalo City Distillery in Point Harbor is tapping into an old-fashioned way of bringing a farmer’s crop to market. The name Buffalo City Distillery is a nod to the history...
These dense, beautiful forests offer glimpse into the other side of the Outer Banks
When people think of the Outer Banks, warm sunshine, cool ocean waves and soft sand come to mind. But there is so much more to the story than a thin...
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Opera singer returns to Manteo for Juneteenth homecoming
When Tshombe Selby walks up the stairs of the Pea Island Cookhouse Museum in Manteo to lift his voice in celebration of Juneteenth, it will be a homecoming for him....