If you happen upon two contractors leaning out of their truck windows while stopped on North Carolina Highway 12, one facing north and the other facing south, you'll witness how most information is passed on in this part of the world. Insiders generally disseminate information by talking to each other-either on the roads, at the post office, in stores, or by telephone. More options are available, including newspapers, magazines, radio stations, telephone information lines, Internet sites, and, of course, the TV. This chapter highlights those sources.

Before we turn you on to what's available, we'd like to share a little bit of radio history. Despite being an Atlantic Ocean outpost of sorts, the Outer Banks is the site from which the first wireless telegraph signal was sent by Reginald Fessenden in 1902 (see our History chapter). While Guglielmo Marconi has been credited with developing wireless telegraphy, Fessenden successfully experimented on the Outer Banks during the same time period with transmitting sound using an entirely different system that's credited as the true basis for radio broadcasting. Read our section in this chapter on radio stations to see how it's progressed on the Outer Banks since Fessenden's day.