Charlie "Mac", the driver of the Ocracoke-Hatteras mail truck, boards the Hatteras Inlet ferry at the northern most tip of Ocracoke Island. He has some ten miles of sand dunes and beach to cross from Ocracoke village to the ferry.
The Hatteras Inlet ferry coming into the northern most tip of Ocracoke Island. Some ten miles of sand flats and dunes separate the ferry landing from the village of Ocracoke which is clustered around Silver Lake, an inlet from Pamlico Sound.
Cass Williams, one of the oldest inhabitants of Ocracoke and a fisherman for 57 years, writes a letter to his son with the help of his young great granddaughter.
Poggie Boats. This fleet of boats fishes Pamlico Sound and the surrounding Atlantic waters for menhaden during December, January, February, making there base at Ocracoke.
The poggie boats coming in from a days fishing for menhaden. This fleet of boats uses Ocracoke as a base during the months of December, January, and February.
The poggie boats coming in from a days fishing for menhaden. This fleet of boats uses Ocracoke as a base during the months of December, January, and February.
Poggie Boats. This fleet of boats fishes Pamlico Sound and the surrounding Atlantic waters for menhaden during December, January, February, making there base at Ocracoke.
Sunday afternoon in the living room of Stacy Howard, a descendant of one of the first inhabitants of Ocracoke, with his daughter, a clerk for the Esso distributor, and his grandson. Mr. Howard is a fisherman.
Mr. and Mrs. William Stryon and their granddaughter. The Stryons own the general store on the other side of Silver Lake around which the village of Ocracoke is built.
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.
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.
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.
Unloading after one of the weekly trip of the "Bessie Virginia" to Washington, DC This islander ordered watermelon for his family from the Captain who shops for all the islanders.
Monk Garrish, brother of Esso distributor Jesse Garrish, talking to a village housewife while making oil delivery. Most villagers heat by oil during the winter months delivering oil is a full time job for Monk Garrish.
The Captain of the "Dolphin" , the daily mail boat from Atlantic, NC aside from mail the "Dolphin" carries a few passengers, light freight and foodstuffs ordered by islanders.
A Coast Guardsman on switchboard duty. This is the only telephone on the island and though it is the official Coast Guard Station's phone, islanders can use it for any outside calls.
