Here's an email of interest: (published by permission)
While surfing the Internet I ran across this page under the Alta Vista Search Engine about a future Knotts Island Home Page. Please keep up the effort for those of us not fortunate enough to live in that Garden of Eden.
I am now almost 73 and live in Los Altos Hills, CA. I still visit Knotts Island every year or so to see relatives and to just enjoy the area.
I was raised on Knotts Island having moved there when I was six weeks old from Creeds, Va. I left to work with the Corps of Engineers in Norfolk in 1940 and on into the Navy in 1942. In 1946 I enrolled at NC State and I believe I was the first State graduate from Knotts Island. I still credit much of my success in life to the great beginning at the school on Knotts Island built and almost run in my day by Joseph P. Knapp. We had about eight teachers for 85 to 90 students and a curriculum that much of the country is still dreaming about- sex education, music, home economics, drama, etc. We also enjoyed a balanced diet thanks to the lunch program and milk and veggies from Mackay Island.
I could go on and on about life in the 20's and thirties on Knotts Island, but I'll stop for now.
Good Luck with your Home Page,
Tunis Corbell
