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		<title>Roanoke Island battle topic of program</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Putnam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A National Park Service Outer Banks Group Know Your Park citizen science program on the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Roanoke Island will be presented by Drew Pullen on Wednesday, February 8, 7 p.m. at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Visitor Center near Manteo. The program is free and will last approximately one hour. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicamacomico gets funding aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Putnam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THIS BUILDING at Chicamacomico was knocked off some of its pilings in Hurricane Irene. The Outer Banks Community Foundation and the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society responded almost immediately to this emergency. There was an imminent possibility of losing historic buildings that were the home of the U.S. Life-Saving Service at Station Chicamacomico. The one most in [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Putnam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A NEW EXHIBIT, &#8220;Beneath the Sands: Past and Present Archaeology at Fort Raleigh will be presented by the National Park Service Outer Banks Group, in partnership with the First olony Foundation and Friends of the Outer Banks History Center,. It will open on Monday, October 10, 2011 at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site near Manteo, North Carolina. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flags Over Hatteras to be celebrated</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Putnam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few visitors to the Outer Banks realize that 150 years ago these same islands were Civil War battlefields. The barrier islands of the North Carolina coast and the adjacent Pamlico and Albemarle sounds were the gateway to the rest of the state. Whoever could control these barrier islands and sounds could control North Carolina. Although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Va. Dare birthday events set</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Putnam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Park Service Fort Raleigh National Site on Roanoke Island&#8217;s north end will offer free programs in celebration of the 424th anniversary of Virginia Dare, the first child of English parentage born in America. Born to Ananias and Eleanor Dare on August 18, 1587, Virginia Dare was the first child born to English parents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beach drill cart renewed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 21:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Putnam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE BEACH DRILL CART at Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station Historic Site and Museum was recently completely overhauled and refurbished by volunteers of active-dutyU.S. Coast Guard personnel from the Oregon Inlet Motor Lifeboat Station. The cart has seen quite a bit of action in its many drills over the years. This reproduction cart was originally built by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soaring event planned</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 19:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Putnam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soaring 100, an event celebrating the centennial of Orville Wright&#8217;s 1911 non-powered glider flight, is planned for Oct. 21-24. This event led to the field and sport in aviation known as soaring and set a world record that stood for nearly 10 years. It featured the last glider built by the Wrights and the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lifesaving history revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 19:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Putnam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LINDA AND DOUGLAS MOORE of West Chester, Pa. were recent visistors to Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station Historic Site &#38; Museum in Rodanthe. Mr. Moore&#8217;s great-great-grandfather, Capt. Douglas Ottinger, was a co-inventor of the Life Car, the small, enclosed metal boat they are standing behind. This one is an original housed in the Chicamacomico 1874 station, along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Centennial tees on sale</title>
		<link>http://www.outerbanksseniors.com/2011/04/centennial-tees-on-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Putnam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ERIC AND ANN McCLURE of Putnam County, West, Virginia purchased the first Centennnial t-shirts from Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station Historic Site the first day they went on sale. Eric is demonstrating the front design while Ann shows the back of the shirt. These are limited editions destined to become collectors&#8217; items. They are 100 percent cotton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donate family artifact</title>
		<link>http://www.outerbanksseniors.com/2011/04/donate-family-artifact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Putnam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE MOORE FAMILY presented the National Park Service with a historic family artifact last Dec. 17, during the annual celebration of man&#8217;s first powered flight at Wright Brothers National Memorial. The artifact was a crosscut saw used by Johnny Moore, the youngest witness of the Wright brothers&#8217; first Flight Dec. 17, 1903. Shown from left [...]]]></description>
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