Rosie And Daughter Hawthorne Check Out The Arts And Crafts Fair In Manteo.

 Last week,

I met Daughter Hawthorne in Manteo

to check out the Arts and Crafts Fair.

Manteo is one of my favorite towns.

Next to the word "quaint"

in the dictionary,

there should be a picture of Manteo.

Our various parties parked on Fernando Street

and walked to the Manteo waterfront.

 "My Buddha - she's faux."

A Sandra Lee quote which will never not be funny to me.

 Manteo is such a clean town.

 And it's full of neat gardens.

 Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse,

on the Manteo Waterfront,

is an exterior reconstruction 

of the original 1877 cottage style lighthouse

which stood at the southern entrance to Croatan Sound,

near Wanchese.

Operated by the U.S. Coast Guard 

until decommissioned in 1955,

it was lost in the Sound and destroyed

during an attempt to move it to private property.

 The Elizabeth II in Shallowbag Bay.

The Elizabeth II was built as the centerpiece

of America's 400th Anniversary Celebration

to represent one of the ships used to transport

Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists to the New World

between 1584 and 1587.

The ship is located across from the Manteo waterfront

at Roanoke Island Festival Park.

Living history interpreters recreate a day aboard

the original Elizabeth as she rode at anchor

off the Outer Banks in the summer of 1585,

sending men and supplies ashore to establish a settlement.

After their return to England about ten months later,

a second group of settlers arrived in 1587,

only to disappear from history in the unsolved mystery

of "The Lost Colony."

 

 Giada and Daughter Hawthorne

with unknown woman in Manteo.

We visited this garden last year

and the lady was kind enough to give us

some of her agave, which is doing very nicely in my garden.

Expert House Movers

was there moving the house to a second level.

This is the same company that moved

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.

I guess ThatBitchIrene did a number here

since all Manteo was under water.

You know, the name of a company is very important.

Would you use a company called

Mediocre House Movers?

Discount House Movers?

 "My Buddha -  she's faux."

Heh.

 Giada taking five.

 Daughter Hawthorne

and another unknown, and rather unstable,
 woman in Manteo.

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