A nationwide “Victory Speed Limit” of 35 miles per hour, instated in an effort to conserve gasoline and rubber during the war, ends in August 1945. One month later, in his column “Random Shots,” John G. Bragaw speculates: “By the time this is set in type, Governor Gregg Cherry may have proclaimed a change in the legal speed limit for automobiles in North Carolina. He may have upped it to 45 miles per hour, or 50, or 60. I hope not … In any event, I think I shall stick to the 35-mile limit.”
From its northernmost point in Corolla to its southern terminus on Cedar Island, this scenic byway — bound between sound and sea — links the islands and communities of the Outer Banks.
For the owner of The Country Biscuit, welcoming diners is the fulfillment of a decades-long dream. And diners’ dreams come true when they try the glazed biscuit doughnut holes.
Black bears are the embodiment of North Carolina’s adventurous spirit, immense and wild.
After nearly a century — or just a couple of years — these seafood restaurants have become coastal icons, the places we know, love, and return to again and again.
