Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Down the Tidewater coast to the Outer Banks: the Great Dismal Swamp's maroon communities, the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, the Life-Saving Service crews who rowed into hurricanes, and the Graveyard of the Atlantic. It ends at Kitty Hawk, where the wind was reliable and the sand was soft.
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.