The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-01
Vacationing
WITH
The Editor

school, enables a person to engage
in mental and physical recreational
activities, to find a change in seen
cry and thereby to get out of a pos
sible rut.
Vacations are tonics and are slim
ulating to both the body and mind,
but modern vacations are entirely
different from those of former years.
In the "good old days" when people
took a vacation they went some
where to "rest". They preferred a
place of quietude, Of good eats,
pure water, cool climate and COM
Portable beds.
Today Ehe average vacationist
seeks place either in the noun.
tains or on the coast where there
is plenty of amusement available.
They want to be amused, and enter
tanned, to participate in various
sports that provide physical exer-
else and to repose amid surround
ings that are modern in every de-
tail. Instead of rest, they want
faction" and usually upon the re-
turn home, "rest" is badly needed.
Thanks to two fine, enthusiastic
and ambitious young aspiring journ-
alists, my brother, John Anderson
and his roommate Raymond Low
cry, I managed to slip away last
week on a little "modurn" vaca-
! ton. f.s.>.
Having lived in Elizabeth City
where / was connected with the
| daily newspaper there, I was an
Xious to return to that interesting
section of North Ca9olina to see
some of my old friends, and go
down to Roanoke Island, the
cradle of America and the birth
place of aviation So in a newly
painted va that looks like it is
worth a lot more than an automo-
bile dealer here offered me on a
trade, I made a languid yet a tri-
umphant descent from the top of
the Blue Ridge mountains to the At
lantic ocean, from the once-called
/ "lost provinces" to the ''lost colo
ny".
The distance from here to Roa-
noke Island is around $50 miles and
travelled close to the Virginia line
all the way down. From anywhere,
it is long way to the "lost colo
ny" and it's miracle that Sir Wal
ter Raleigh's little expedition ever
landed there.
Accompanied by my wife and
some friends, we arrived in Mays
Head Tuesday night. After a dip"
in the angry Atlantic Wednesday
morning, we went over to Kill Devil
Hill to see the beautiful and i'm
pressive Wright Memorial monu-
ment, erected on the top of sand
dune where Orville and Wilbur
Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, on Deem
Der II, 1908, made the first success
full flight of heavier than air pow
er-driven flying machine ever made
by man. This inspiring monument
| is 81 feet high and was erected at a
cost of $285,000.00. The maximum
leng,S4 of that first flight was 852
feet. The spot on which the plane
landed is also appropriately
! marked.
From there we drove down to
Manteo, the capital city of the Is
land which was named after the
Indian chief who was so friendly
to the inhabitants of England's first
colony i'm America. Manteo is a !
thriving little coastal town that has
charm peculiarly it's own. While
ambling around the village I ran
across friend who lives there and
whose father, Capt. J. T. Daniels,
made the only picture of the first
airplane flight and who was Amer
icaIs first airplane casualty. He
suggested that I go fishing in a /
boat with him that afternoon. And
what a fishing trip and boat ride
it was! During the day we also
went down to Fort Raleigh, a few
miles below Manteo, where the !,
''lost colony was established in
1887.
Through the unretiring efforts of
the natives of Roanoke Island, sew
eral leaders in North Carolina and
the south and WPA a complete rep
lea Of the original fort of the first
colony has been erected.
Located on the original site of the
English colony is reconstructed
city of the 'lost colony, with it's
charming chapel, solid log houses,
and grim stockade. of pine logs, it's
huge museum of priceless 10th. CEN
fury relics, and its immense open
air, waterside theatre in which has
been presented four times each
week for the past two summers,
Paul Green's famous pageant of
"The Lost Colony.
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