North Carolina's Outer Banks are in constant motion, responding to weather, waves, and the rising sea level. Beaches erode, sometimes taking homes or sections of highway with them into the surf; sand dunes migrate with the wind; and storms open new inlets and dump sand in channels and sounds. A classic guide, The Nature of the Outer Banks describes these dynamic forces and guides visitors to sites where they can see these phenomena in action.

In the first section of the book, Dirk Frankenberg highlights three major processes on the Outer Banks: the rising sea level, movement...

Welcome to Pelican Roost, a full service retirement home for those drifting into their twilight years... and further away from sanity. Pelican Roost is home to some very colorful characters, a place where buffoonery lives next door to screwball, just across the way from cockamamie. The show's host couple enters heaven, suspecting their son pulled the plug to get his hands on Dad's vintage Corvette. They don't seem to mind. Instead, instead they take the audience on a journey that celebrates memory loss, joint pain, and hearing aids. This vaudeville-esque revue will have "audiences laughing so...