The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-04-25
WOULD ERECT A K.
MONUMENT TO
DARE ITSELF
Editor of The State Magazine
Recounts County's Fame
With Praise for Itself

The Editor of the State Maya
zine, run by Bill Sharpe and Carl
Goerch of Raleigh has written an
editorial recounting famous events
that have transpired in Dare Coun-
ty. And-"There is place for still
another monument" he says. A
monument to Dare County itself"
Truly we thank the editor for
his kind words, and we will reprint
them. But let us add that Dare's
citizens with all their greatness,
and their limited means, could
never have gone far without the
love and loyalty of its neighboring
newspapermen whose writing in
the newspapers of North Carolina
and elsewhere have been the
highest force for arousing for it
the nations interest.
Dare County has grown in fame
because it had some good men OF
vision at home and some able
friends away from home who view
ed its situation as a challenge to
them to do something for it. We
think of men like Lindsay Warren,
and w. o. Saunders, and a number
of newspapermen of Norfolk, and
Raleigh and other towns. We can
mention a few: Ralph Pool of Nor
folk; Josephus Daniels, Jonathan
Daniels, Bill Sharpe, Ben Dixon
MacNeill, Aycock Brown, Tom
Bost, Herbert Peele of Elizabeth
City, Woodrow Price, and many
others.
Perhaps othar counties have
things that would make them IA
NOUS in other respects; things
that would bring them great pro-
fits, and means for better life.
But they have never been uncover
ed for lack of men at home with
love and vision for their homeland.
There has to be something about
ones homeland to create this es-
sential love and vision.
Be all this as it may, we want
to pass along the following, which
Is the comment Of the State MagaF'
zine.
There the World Changed
The announcement, made from
Chicago earlier this month, that
Reginald A. Fessenden had been
elected to join Thomas A. Edison
and Guglielmo Marconi in Radios
Hall of Fame must have caused
the Red Gods to look down upon
tiny Dare County and smile.
Certainly no county that we
know of has done more to change
this world we live in.
The first English settlers on the
/ American continent came to Dare
County back in the 1905. The
world has not been the same since.
In 1908 the Wright brothers flew
their plane from dune in Dare
County. That flight changed the
world, too.
A year or so earlier Reginald
Fessenden, conduction some re-
search for the U. S. Weather Blu
reau, communicated between Man
teo and Hatteras by wireless tele-
phone.
That was the first such commu-
nication over any distance. In 1906
Fessenden spanned the Atlantic
(Brant Rock, Miss. to Macrihan-
ish, ScotIand), sending voice and
music out into space for the first
time.
The relationship between Fes-
sender and Arthur Godfrey, an
other Honorary Tar Heel, is too
obvious to require comment by US.
The proposal that monument
be erected to Fessendent on Roa-
noke Island at the site of his tele-
graphy station is entirely proper.
1t is fitting that the first broad
cast of any distance should be
memorialized right alongside the
first settlement and the place of
the first flight.
But there is place for still an
other monument.
We would build it high on the
dunes and from it you would look
over the endless green of the main
lands swamps, the broad reach of
the inland sounds and the great
sweep Of the ocean itself.
On it we would engrave deep in
the stone:
ITO Dare County
Her History-She Changed