Bath News

Seeking serenity? Needing tranquillity? Consider these six places in the Carolinas: BATH, N.C. Bath, tucked onto an estuary of Pamlico Sound, has always been small - the village never grew larger than 300 residents and still exists largely within the boundaries marked by colonial surveyors.

In a pirate-worthy broadside on conventional history, a Raleigh , N.C., author claims that Blackbeard and many of his henchmen weren't rogue Englishmen, but sons of North Carolina landowners.

A Raleigh author is attempting to reopen the 274-year-old estate of a Beaufort County man he thinks was once a member of Blackbeard's pirate crew -- and whose bones may be stored in a box in Raleigh.

Blackbeard knew how to make a splash. Foremost among pirates of his time, Blackbeard would put sparklers in his beard to look more imposing.

Published: Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 4:00 a.m. Ten of North Carolina's 14 outdoor dramas will perform scenes from their plays at an amphitheater this weekend in Bath.

If you liked the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films ... If you have a jones for Blackbeard ... If you've heard the state has been working since 1996 in the Beaufort Inlet to excavate the Queen Anne's Revenge, ...

Angie Best and her daughters Hannah, left, and Mary Scott watch as Blackbeard tells the tale of his life as a pirate.

Let's start with saying that my family is a bunch of PYROTECHNIC rednecks, and the Fourth of July has always been a huge celebration for us in the back country of Bath, NC.

Local banker Milo Gibbs Jr. always knew his cousin Bobby would go places. He just never expected it would be the White House.

Morgan takes a long look back at his role at the newspaper, his days and nights helping put together articles that told the stories of Washington, Chocowinity, Pinetown, Belhaven, Bath, Aurora, Pantego, Old ...

We left the docks at Bath, North Carolina, on a day hot enough to stun a catfish.

By KEVIN SCOTT CUTLER Lifestyles & Features Editor BATH - Folks started lining the parade route in Bath well over an hour early because they didn't want to miss the show Sunday afternoon.

The Christmas flotilla is over. So are many of the area's Christmas parades. The Turnage Theaters Foundation's Christmas Homes Tour is over, too.

By MIKE VOSS Contributing Editor This weekend, like many Christmas stockings will be later this month, is filled with lots of goodies like the Christmas Flotilla off Washington's waterfront, but there are ...