Marion Blackburn

Up from the Briny Deep

The shipwreck believed to have been Queen Anne's Revenge, the flagship of the pirate Blackbeard, lies just off the shore at Fort Macon, North Carolina. Read about it here

A Cannon from Queen Anne's Revenge

Visit Public Radio East for an audio postcard made while raising a cannon from Queen Anne's Revenge 

Simply Masterful

Potter Ben Owen III continues the revered tradition of handmade ceramic art. Read about his work and famous family here

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances. 

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 

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