My family has spent vacations at the Outer Banks of North Carolina for at least four generations now. You let the kids think it is for fun in the sun, but they learn a lot of history, too. The Lost Colony. Blackbeard's pirate base, The Wright Brothers' first flight. And getting there, you pass through the Great Dismal Swamp, over engineered roads that weren't possible a couple hundred years ago. Full of mosquitos, snakes, choking vegetation, and unstable ground, the inhospitable swamp was a refuge for enslaved people who escaped and hid out for generations.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
The Great Dismal Swamp
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Sitting here before i click on it, wondering if that is meant to be a blue bear walking upright (in bare feet) or maybe some actual freedom cheese made from the udder perfection of Black Swamp cows injected with the mold from between the toes of them that sang the line from the Queen song as they walked.
My first thought was a blue dolphin, but ... well, that felt too incongruous.
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