History

  • The Myth and Poetry of the Black Pearl

    The Myth and Poetry of the Black Pearl

    Beneath the endless hush of the ocean, where light grows dim and the world becomes a secret, there is born a treasure unlike any other. Not a gleam of white purity, but a dark shimmer, deep and iridescent, a jewel that whispers of the night itself: the black pearl. It is not an easy…

  • The Rodeo Clown

    The Rodeo Clown

    he wasn’t there for the glory,hell, no one writes ballads for the painted fool.the cowboy gets the buckle,the bull gets the legend,and he…he gets the hoof printacross the ribs. painted face,a drunk Picasso of red and white,sweat carving little rivers through the grease.he laughs for the crowd,but he ain’t laughingwhen the bull swings its…

  • Blackbeard & The Outer Banks: Legends of the Pirate King

    Blackbeard & The Outer Banks: Legends of the Pirate King

    “Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.” – Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates (1724) The Devil of the Outer Banks If there’s a ghost that haunts the windswept shores of the Outer Banks, it’s the fearsome pirate Blackbeard, real…