The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1961-09-01
OLD RESIDENTS or
COASTLAND HAVE
Loyalty AND LOVE
Most People Who Grow Up Near
The Sea Treasure Childhood
Memories.

comprised by the activities of fish
ermen, Of boafbuilders, and men Of
the lifesaving service, cherish their
childhood memories through life,
and not only do they keep up with
careers Of former friends and the
doings in the homeland but they
come back at. every opportunity to
tread the balmy lanes of memories,
and to re-live the days Of their
youth.
There are many persons who
have risen to places of influence
and consequence far afield, and 9TH
ers not so far away who have a
gracious influence on the lives of
those who remain at home. Their
kindly encouragement, and some
times material assistance come
back to sustain and encourage old
friend and relatives.
Among those people is Mrs. Ruth
Rosalind Forbes White, formerly of
Wanchese, who returns often to
visit relatives. She went over to
Colerain in BERTHE County, taught
school, married, and is now retired
after "a years as postmaster Of
that community where she has en-
ljoyed a place of leadership pleas
| ing to her old friends at home. She
lis the wife of Bill White, an insur-
ance man, and they are now grand
parents, their daughter having
married and established a home in
Florida.
Mrs. White was home again the
other day, to attend the Daniels
reunion, and the University Day
dinner at Mays Head, where the
list of speakers included Governor
Sanford and several other notables.
Like many another person living
away from home, she has a keener
set of appraisal of the factors that
brought about today's values in
this area. She has viewed impas-
sionately the progress of her home
land and the prosperity of our peo-
Iple, and she knows today's condi-
tions here didn't come about by
accident.
Like many others, when Mrs.
White comes home, she lives in
retrospect the happy days spent
playing in our waters. The trips
by boat over to the beach to visit
the Life Saving stations and light
houses where her relatives served
their country; the fishing trips, the
attending of Sunday School pic
mics in the several communities,
their first dates in model T Fords
which struggled through the sandy
trails, and while never giving out
of gas in those days, often re-
quired the efforts of the girl as
we'll as the boy to push them
through the sand, occasionally caus-
ing them to walk home when the
sand was too deep.
On her return home to Colerain,
Mrs. White wrote us letter while
the memory of her visit was fresh
in her mind. She says:
To the Editor:
"A trip home always thrills me.
/ love the people, so many of them
my kinsmen, and to go back and
sleep and eat in the house my great
grandfather built, and where my
mother and grandmother were born
lis real joy to me. They have re-
paired the house and / think it win
Hast another hundred years -.
Sometimes / think / want to
take off and go personally thank
Eyou and the others who have work
led so hard, given SO freely of your
time and money through the years
to make Dare, County what it is.
am sure the great results OF your
labor is rewarding.
81 enjoyed your article on the
steamboat lines. AS child l would
often get seasick and the first
prayers remember were asking
God to make it calm, the night be-
fore we were to go to Elizabeth
City. My family always laughs at
me for being ahead of time or
never being late. / tell them il
comes from childhood experience,
The circus was coming to Eliza
beth City and mother and ] were
going to take the Manteo boat.
just as we got in sight of the bay
on grandpa's old white horse and
buggy, the steamers whistle blew
and we were left. We went next
day, but the circus was gone. new
err forgot it.
Sincerely,
"ROSALIND F. WHITE
mrs. w. E.)"
Colerain, N. c.
August 81, 1861.