After adventurous New York journalist John Randolph Spears undertook to visit Cape Hatteras in spring 1890, he wrote of miles and miles of deadly sand waves that threatened to swallow islanders and their homes.
While some organizational executives may relish the limelight, Jean Carideo, president of the Great Bridge Battlefield and Waterways History Foundation, prefers to work behind the scenes – in relative anonymity.
The more than 160-year-old Trent House in Chesapeake is on the market. It was constructed shortly before the beginning of the Civil War and was used as a hospital during the conflict.