The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-05-13

Dental, with churches at intervals
on either side; it exudes a spirit
of quiet welcome but shouts it's
beauty and fascination aloud. Fair
field, too, is another pretty town,
well named indeed, and it may be
seen while some distance away as
the traveller approaches from
either direction.
A vast contribution to the charm
of Hyde County is the views offer
ed from it's roadsides by it's lakes
and canals and other views of the
water and it's wide sweeping
marshes, and the growing green
crops on its fertile black fields.
Scenery has to be good if it APP
peals to the fellow who continues
to view it from day to day. So it
is that Hyde and its neighbor
counties must surely appeal to
most of us, who are part of and
love our glorious coastland.
But aside from natural beauty,
which providence gave our region,
our people have contributed so
much in their thoughtful labor,
which has not permitted mans
handiwork and his additions to be-
come eyesores. And the greatest
thing to bring out the beauty of
our coastland is the native hospi-
tally and friendliness of our peo-
pie. How we hope that this will not
be allowed to die under the pres
sure of progress and new condi-
tons.
The beauty and fascination that
is Hyde's is shared with neighbor
counties. Tyrrell, Dare, Beaufort,
all have their great waters and
their broad fields, and their fine
homes, homes that are fine because
of the people who live in them.
Here is fine citizenship, with an
cestry to look back upon, with
achievement to reward them, with
pride in the land. These are the
things that make people great,
and these are the things that are
reflected in the premises and i'm
provements for which bounteous
nature has provided so beautiful a
back drop.
Even along our highways in the
Coastland, wherever one stops to
pause for gas or to nibble or mere
ly to pass the time, one finds
friendliness and welcome that is
not found in far away places.
There is difference in people of
ancestry which battled for CEN
turtles with the wilderness to
clear farms, and who fought
the waters, and braved the
ocean in order to exist. Now,
the living for all of US is easier,
because of the toll and hardship
they endured that we might have
better life.
So it is with a little twinge of
shame that ] shake loose from the
thought of going far afield merely
for the sake alone of finding some
thing worth seeing. Unless there
are other considerations involved
we owe it to our people and oul
state, to see all that is offered
here.
For myself I am longing mort
to go to Cedar Island in Carteret
and Southport in Brunswick righ'
now than to go to Maine. / have
looked upon Cedar Island from thu
air, and Southport too. l hav'
seen just about all of the coastlin'
of the two Carolinas and Virgini;
at close range from the air, and
tell you, there seems to be enough
interesting, byways, and beaut,
spots along the winding roads il
the tideland country of thes
states, wherein a browsing travele
might feast for mauy moons.
OF all the county seats of Mort
Carolina, Southport is the only on
1 haven't visited, except to fl
around it and over it. / look fol-
ward to a visit there, and addin
to the fascination that keeps m
hoping is a chance to visit goo
old friend, Rev. Louis Haymal
now retired and building boats fl
his neighbors.
/ want to visit Cedar Island b.
cause it is one of the most out I
the way places in our coastlan
in that one must go long wa
around to get there. And on Il
way ! can visit Sea Level whel
lived some dear old friends, ar
where today, will be found Il
great public-spirited development
of the Taylor Bros, and here d.
manic Joe Dubois, promoter ,
great hopes, may be seen in actio
But before / go, there are fe
places closer home that / haven
visited completely. / have new
been all the way to Goat Neck
Tyrrell County, nor have / yet s
foot on Durant Island in Dare.
have never sailed the length of Il
Inland Waterway, nor stopped
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