Village Boy Scouts out on a training ride. Each boy scout in the Ocracoke troop has tames one of the wild ponies that roam the island. Caring for the pony and learning to ride him well is part of his Scout training.
Village Boy Scouts out on a training ride. Each boy scout in the Ocracoke troop has tames one of the wild ponies that roam the island. Caring for the pony and learning to ride him well is part of his Scout training.
Ocracoke bus backing off the Hatteras Inlet ferry. When word comes by the Coast Guard phone that there are too many islander for the mail truck to carry, Jack Williams, the bus driver gets his bus out and goes over for them. Sometimes its two or three weeks between trips for him.
Arriving back home on the "Dolphin" , the daily mail boat from Atlantic, a mother with her children and day's shopping and another mother with her child and her new baby carried by the grandmother. There is neither doctor nor hospital in Ocracoke and new arrivals such as this one are born at hospitals on the mainland.
