Corolla and the Currituck Outer Banks James R. Benn the hazards of the ego

the hazards of the ego and more

trickery and tragedy

until one fateful night when the hunter becomes the hunted

No longer could they provide food and lodging for their families

ISBN13: 9781645307488

Corolla and the Currituck Outer Banks James R. Benn the hazards of the egoThe Currituck Outer Banks was once a beach land wilderness inhabited by indigenous Poteskeet people before being explored by the Spanish and claimed by the English. Early settlers made a hardscrabble living by small scale fishing, farming, processing whales, and salvaging shipwrecks. Life changed in 1828 when an inlet closed, and thousands of ducks and geese descended upon the sound's waters. Locals took up wildfowl market hunting. Northern sportsmen