After repairing the lines damaged by a hurricane, U.S. Coast Guardsman head back to their skiff to motor out to their anchored Coast Guard Tender on Pamlico Sound.
Mother and young one resting in the grasses at the edge of Pamlico Sound. These ponies roam the island. Legend says that these ponies are descendants of Barbery ponies brought by Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists.
Scratching his head on the steps of the Community store, one of the wild ponies of the island over-hears the morning gossip on the store porch. There are many such ponies roaming the entire island and legend has it that they are descendants of Barbery ponies brought by Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists.
Village nurse, Ruth Gaskins, holding one of "her babies" after giving him a diphtheria shot while his mother pins his diaper back on at the weekly clinic in the schoolhouse.