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| Awesome Tower | The lighthouse looks very, very tall to prospective climbers, especially those who, like me, "don't do heights." I never did learn to like heights, bu ... [more] |  |
| Bird's Eye View | The Whalehead Club was the winter residence for Edward Collings Knight, Jr. and his wife in the 1920s, during Currituck County's "golden age of huntin ... [more] |  |
| Boat Beacon | The wilderness of the northern Outer Banks remained isolated by land until the paved road was extended northward to Corolla from Duck in 1986. Before ... [more] |  |
| Challenging Stallions | Because the wild horses of Corolla are truly wild and live mostly out of view on the north end of the island, seeing this fierce contest between stall ... [more] |  |
| Corolla Sunset | When the geese migrate along the eastern flyway, there are days when the sky darkens with their millions. Only at their departure in the spring, when ... [more] |  |
| Dune Shadows | This painting is one of several depicting the famous Nags Head Cottages on the Outer Banks. The row of stark, wood-shingled frame cottages compose a r ... [more] |  |
| In the Lens Room | A section of the original first order Fresnel lens appears on the left side of this picture. The circular opening originally held ruby glass so the to ... [more] |  |
| Late Casts | I was snapping photographs of sea oats and long shadows on the Outer Banks just before sundown when I saw the fishermen. The sand fence and deep shado ... [more] |  |
| Lighthouse Shop | ... [more] |  |
| Mr. Dooley at the Office | Mr. Dooley is shown here sitting on the stoop outside my office. The building was originally a combination storehouse and privy, but was moved to the ... [more] |  |
| Mr. Dooley, the Lighthouse Dog | Our English Cocker, Mr. Dooley, spent his happiest years at the lighthouse. He loved children, and children loved to feel his soft ears. When parents ... [more] |  |
| Old Corolla Post Office | I took a photograph of this scene in 1979 when I first visited Corolla. The tiny post office has now been replaced by a modern, but less colorful buil ... [more] |  |
| Pride of Corolla | The Currituck Beach Lighthouse completed in 1875, was the last of the great 19th-c. beacons constructed by the Federal Lighthouse Board to guide marin ... [more] |  |
| Reflections | Heading home after a long day of taping videos for the Currituck Beach segment of the PBS Legendary Lighthouse Series, I saw a beautiful image of the ... [more] |  |
| Sand in Their Toes | In this painting I was struck by my year-old granddaughter's arm gesture and the perky ruffle on her bathing suit as she strolled Topsail Beach with h ... [more] |  |
| Second Floor South | This interior view of a second floor bedroom features the stove that could heat the whole upstairs of the south side of the building. The blanket fold ... [more] |  |
| Ship's Bones | To my amazement someone asked why we needed a picture of a shipwreck in a book about lighthouses. Prevention of shipwrecks was the primary reason for ... [more] |  |
| Station 166 | This abandoned life-saving station located in the off-road area of the northern Outer Banks has been restored as a guest cottage in the summer months. ... [more] |  |
| The Keepers' House 1979 | In 1979, when I first saw the Keepers' House, there was no road to Corolla. We drove up the beach in an old dune buggy. The house had not been lived i ... [more] |  |
| The Keepers' House 1997 | The non profit group, Outer Banks Conservationists, Inc., began restoration of the house and grounds in 1980, following the original drawings of the p ... [more] |  |
| Village View | This cottage was moved to the Village of Corolla about 1999 to be adaptively used as an office. It was difficult not to let the greens of the scene ov ... [more] |  |
| Waiting for the Big One | The tiny lad with the big pole in this painting is now in college! At the time the picture was conceived, he sat patiently on his bucket in front of h ... [more] |  |
