The East

Bland Simpson
Novelist and musician

"At the midnight hour we wandered out onto a deck that was snug against the dunes, and there found what we had come for, drawn without knowing why or what for all this way up the Outer Banks. We sat alone together beneath the Full Wolf's unalloyed brilliance, staring up in awe at an enormous double ring around the moon, two perfect concentric silver wheels filling the coastal night sky and rolling us imperceptibly along with them into a vast and endless future."

Bland Simpson is a historian, author, musician and storyteller. His own childhood growing up around Elizabeth City has since inspired his many tales of coastal life and history. He recalls the legacy of heroic lifesavers that once populated the outer banks, leaving their now-famous names to their descendants along with the names of the lifesaving stations themselves.