From Beginnings to Going Beyond!
Dare County – Land of Beginnings
This year we chose Dare County (the easternmost county within our immediate territory) to spend an extended weekend in for two reasons: 1) it is the location within our territory that was “our beginning” of becoming the USA; and 2) it is a place where we could “go beyond” to add our prayers for redemption, reconciliation, & restoration for the First Peoples of our region, the Europeans, and the enslaved & then freed Africans (see Stories from Fort Raleigh). More history notes can be found at these links for: the Croatoans, an Algonquian tribe; the story of the Lost Colony and Virginia Dare for whom the county was named; and the Freedmen Colony. Continue reading Riding The Wind: Dare & Onslow Counties, NC – January 2018