{"id":966,"date":"2024-04-09T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2025-01-28T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:46:08","slug":"spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"50 states: North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We needed to get out for a few days, so we went to the Outer Banks in North Carolina – I can see why the Wright Brothers chose it to learn to fly gliders because it’s WINDY there. We had a great time with kites!<\/p>\n\n\n

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The waves on the beach were really something else – it had been a good number of years since I’d been to a beach along the open ocean, outside a sound or bay of some kind. The Connecticut beaches are protected by Long Island so the waves stay pretty low. Getting out onto the barrier islands on the NON-barrier side … towering whitecaps, obvious V’s of riptides, crashing volume, mist reaching up to the dry sand … Beautiful, but even in the last week of March it was COLD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We visited the Kitty Hawk national historic site for an entire day. The experimenters literally jumped off the top of a dune with gliders to see how far they could go, and there’s a monument at the top now. Along the beach flats, there are markers for the first four from-the-ground flights and their distance. The first three were fairly close together, with the fourth a good distance farther. The plane in the visitor’s center is a replica – the original is in the Smithsonian in Washington DC.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We also visited Roanoke Island – the national park there has information about the lost colony of Roanoke and markers for the original site on a walk around the property. This was also where a freedman’s colony of Black people stayed when they escaped from slavery during the Civil War and shortly after it. I have lots of things to study now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can check off requirements for the Citizenship in the Nation merit badge – we visited two historic sites and learned about what happened there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We needed to get out for a few days, so we went to the Outer Banks in North Carolina – I can see why the Wright Brothers chose it to learn to fly gliders because it’s WINDY there. We had a great time with kites! The waves on the beach were really something else –Continue reading “50 states: North Carolina”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,26,34],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diy-education","tag-eagle-or-bust","tag-road-trip-usa","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}