The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-02-03
EARLY TOURIST SEASON ON
DARE COAST PLANNED WITH
MANY INTERESTING EVENTS
Ayeock Brown Tells of Many Spectacular A++rac-
lions Scheduled For Visitors and HomefoIks to
Enjoy Including Pirates Jamboree, Beauty
Contests and Tournaments.
By AYCOCK BROWN


Coming events on the Dare
Coast include everything from fox
hunts and fishing tournaments to
numerous conventions and big eel
ebratiOns. One of the early season
major events will be the vacation
seasons launcher-the second an
nual Pirates Jamboree, an all
Dare Coast festival scheduled for
April 27-29.
On Mays Head, beginning on
February 16 and continuing for
three days, will be presented the
seventh annual Valentine Season
Fox Hunt, an event that has gain
ed wide publicity throughout the
nation because of its informality
and the fact that many attending
the chase follow the hounds
aboard jeeps instead of horses.
Headquarters of the Valentine
Season Hunt will be The CAROLYN
ian, a hostelry which with the as
sistance of some of North Caro-
lina's outstanding fox hunters, has
sponsored the hunters each year.
John Ray Watkins of Oxford is
master of the hunt and the foxes
are chased in the Mays Head
woods and Colington Island re-
| giOns.
Pirates JambOree
An all-Dare Coast event, the
second annual Pirates Jamboree, is
scheduled for April 27-29 and al
ready planning to make this
spring vacation season event big
ger and better than last year is
well underway. One of the most
noticeable preliminaries to the
Jamboree' on the Dare Coast at
present are the many men who
plan to enter the beard growing
contest. This year many of the
boards entered in competition for
the regal title of pirate king will
be fourth-months-old by Jamboree
time. There will be a beauty con-
test to select the Queen of the Pr
rates, to succeed Miss Sara AL
ford of Manteo who won the honor
last year. There will be jeep and
| jalopy races, balls and speedboat
races and on the final day under
the direction of the Rev. Louis
Aitken of Manteo's Methodist
Church there will be special reli-
gious services in the Lost Colony's
vast Waterside Theatre. A nation
ally-known minister has been ask
ed to preach at this service.
April and May will mark the
beginning of the Spring sports
fishing season in the sounds, in
let's, deep sea and Gulf Stream
and along the surf and from fish
ing piers in the county. On May
1919 the North Carolina Literary
and Historical Society will have
it's Spring convention at Mays
Head.
May 80 and the nearest week
end to that date will be the annual
Memorial Day observance on the
Dare Coast and the sixth annual
flight of the Pittsburgh Aero Club
will terminate at Mays Head.
Sp0rtsfishing Institute
A one-week short course in the
art of sportsfishing is an event
scheduled for June 11-15 with
headquarters at the Carolinian.
This unusual school for anglers is
sponsored by State College Exten-
sion of Raleigh and the instructors
include some of the nations out
standing fishermen, tackle and rod
manufacturers and ichthyologists.
This is the first year the Sports
fishing Institute has been held on
the Dare Coast and it is also the
first time that the Institute has
featured both fresh and salt water
fishing. Literally the classrooms
of this unusual school will be