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In 1963, Judge Charles Whedbee was asked to substitute on a Greenville, NC, morning show called Carolina Today while one of the program''s regulars was in the hospital. Whedbee took the opportunity to tell some of the Outer Banks stories he''d heard during his many summers at Nags Head. The station received such a volume of mail in praise of his tale-telling that he was invited to remain even after the man he was substituting for returned to the air. He had a way of telling a story that really captured me, said one of the program''s co-hosts. Whether he was talking about a sunset, a ghost, or a shipwreck, I was there, living every minute of it. Word traveled as far as Winston-Salem, where John F. Blair proposed to Whedbee that he compile his stories in book form. Whedbee welcomed the challenge, though his expectations for the manuscript that becameLegends of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel Tidewaterwere modest. I wrote it out of a love for this region and the people who

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      Publisher: John F Blair Publisher
      Publication Date: 12/02/2004
      ISBN13: 9780895872951, 978-0895872951
      ISBN10: 0895872951

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      In 1963, Judge Charles Whedbee was asked to substitute on a Greenville, NC, morning show called Carolina Today while one of the program''s regulars was in the hospital. Whedbee took the opportunity to tell some of the Outer Banks stories he''d heard during his many summers at Nags Head. The station received such a volume of mail in praise of his tale-telling that he was invited to remain even after the man he was substituting for returned to the air. He had a way of telling a story that really captured me, said one of the program''s co-hosts. Whether he was talking about a sunset, a ghost, or a shipwreck, I was there, living every minute of it. Word traveled as far as Winston-Salem, where John F. Blair proposed to Whedbee that he compile his stories in book form. Whedbee welcomed the challenge, though his expectations for the manuscript that becameLegends of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel Tidewaterwere modest. I wrote it out of a love for this region and the people who

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