Remembering the Old Duck, Where Bliss Cost $65 a Week

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If it hadn't been for Duck we wouldn't have discovered Great Bridge. Not the duck that waddles and quacks. Duck of the Outer Banks, once less than a pinpoint on the Carolina map, now a trendy, touristy town with quaintly named shops and a website.

But in the 1960s, it consisted of a few weathered houses, a small wooden church and - no fooling - a bombing range. It also had a cabin purchased by a couple of our Norfolk neighbors and put up as a rental at $65 a week.

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Remembering the Old Duck, Where Bliss Cost $65 a Week

We rented that cabin for a week each June over the next dozen years. Our route there took us through Great Bridge, then rural with a...

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