Our house was furnished with plenty of bath towels but very few beach towels ... “Super Wings” places are all over the Outer Banks. This is where you go for your obligatory sweatshirt ...

There’s the kind of history you read about in books, fact-based like the bricks and mortar of the historic beach hotels and motels of the Outer Banks ... we turn her bath towels into sea ...

Thompson photo A spectacle is underway on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, and it’s playing ... are blanketing spaces typically devoted to beach towels and lounge chairs.