Down in the County
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Welcome to Pamlico County

Andrea Bruce

Jun 28, 2021
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No more than 12,000 people live in this rural county in eastern North Carolina. We have two stoplights (one is very new) and several dollar stores. The farmlands and backyard creeks that snake through the county from the Pamlico Sound are as beautiful and unknown as the people who live and work here.

Starting this fall, I will introduce you to the people who make this community--celebrating the people who call it home. I will cover school board meetings, proms and church and all of the things that make us who we are. Missing, will be the politics that often divide us.

Join me on a visual exploration of a place often overlooked. A place I call home.

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  • Dina Litovsky
    Writes In the Flash
    So great to see you here. Subscribed and looking forward!
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  • Samantha Lazarus Bennet
    Can't wait to see what stories you're share! Thanks for being here 🙂
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  • Bob Decker
    I'm looking forward to your newsletter. As a photographer living on the other side of the river, Carteret county, I've made several trips over to Pamlico for photography and to hang out with friends. If curious you can find some of my Pamlico photos on…
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  • Gloria Smith Russell
    Good morning, I was born and raised in Oriental on Lovick Lee road. Attend Holt's Chapel school 1st through 5th grades, Pamlico Central School 6th through 11th grades and graduated 12th grade at Pamlico High Schooll! My mother and youngest sister liv…
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  • Gray Whitley
    nice to have met you briefly at Union Point Park - looking forward to seeing your work here about the area - twas able to explore Pamlico County sometimes by occasion and sometimes by necessity - mysterious in its way, across the river since time began.
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  • Becky Mitchell
    I'm excited to hear the story's and keeping up to date!
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  • Susan Clark Jaeger
    My husband and I recently moved to Oriental and it has quickly become home. Thank you
    for such wonderful introductions to our new area.
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  • Martha Knight Crowder
    I live over in aurora as my husband is working at the mine with Yates we are from florida so we are here working for a couple years but I do all my shopping and laundry and just about everything else in palm ice county !
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  • Lela Cahoon McClanahan
    Looking forward to your newsletters!! DC native -now living in Craven county. I still have lots of roots and ❤️ down In the county. AkA: Ms Lela Mac
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  • Margaret Dixon Spaugh
    I was raised in Reelsboro! I stilll have family and friends there. I now live in Kinston, NC but hope to one day return to the county!
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