The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-08-09
EVERY VISITOR A CITIZEN


Some magic hangs over Dare County which is part
of it's uniqueness and be derived from it. That IS the
spell casts upon ouanders who chance upon the place.
It is not unusual for land of lotus-eaters to weave
webs around Wordweary travellers but Dare somehow I'M
pes the victims OF its to 90 more dd n
many people who claimed as the place OF their second
citizenship and has county been able to enlist the
enthusiasm affection and material help OF such diverse
and influential group of persons.
The first of course were Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen
Elizabeth who caught the fever through germ carriers
further listing is hazardous but in fashion,
would remind you that this pleasant fate brought the
Wright Brothers and Fessenden to the Banks Had the Lost
Colony settled in other place. and the Wrghts flown
from Mchgans dunes how much difference it would have
made to Dare and to North Carolina!
Four governors in memory stirred themselves Wig
orousy for Dare Hoey lent sympathetic aid to the establish
of the drama; Broughton first went to the
Banks and pledged the roads which Cherry later built Scott
gave the substantial rom his fund.- which made
The seashore Park originated among these friends
Lindsay Warren and Herbert Bonner carried the fight
them the two ths and
and who have devoted their lives to enjoying Dare and
making it more enjoyable David now is heading an amb
tious movement to create museum at Kill Devil.
Paul Green wrote play-perhaps his best work-and
to the county, and how places afford such
talent? Mild, earnest competent Sam Seden has directed
against the most aggravang odds Originally got help
from the highest places Mrs Franklin Roosevelt is believed
to have inspired the substantial federal assistance which
made the 1887 performance possible Her husband
see the play and to give it the start it needed.
Of course, these people and others like them all
around the country but how many of them go home do
something about region? Like Mr. and Mrs Charles Can
nOn VINO came rescue or the drama darkest
hour mgs Fletcher and Mrs Roy Homework who per-
saded the Garden Clubs to create the Ezabethan Gardens
the Phps heirs whose gift of the State Park Hatteras
the nucleus of the National Seashore or Ben Dixon
MacNel who came, and conquered, settling down
to turn out brilliant copy about this country Kay Kyser
who led the to obtain travelogue for Dare
From the mind of the late w. o. Saunders originated
many the good things which happened to Dare The Mellon
Foundation gave the matching funds for the Seashore and
no doubt Conrad Wirh of the Park Service the germ
carrier here And landscape architect got the fever and
6t JOCK Whitney for priceless art to in the Ezabehan
Garden.
Van Camper Heilner, Ray Trlinger, Ray Camp, John
ny Mock and host of outdoor writer's discovered Dares
fishing. Jonathan Daniels wrote about it, Aycock Brown
who found at last orbit charged enough with stories to
absorb his boundless energies And Miles Clark Frank
ham, Billy Carmichael and legion of others adopted
their responsibility.
The list could to the next page and the next
Dare County of North Cardinals poorest and smallest
counties but has somehow escaped the dreay fate
of and small counties Old Tom sings it in the Lost
Colony:
Oh, may be down. but he's never out
AS long as his wits and his friends are about