07/24/2019
A little story about the Creekers and Pointers...
“Creekers and Pointers”
You might not can tell the difference here, but the Pointers talk different from the Creekers. Right here on the island. Some expressions and some are still different. But used to-it was really, really different. And the reason for that was because it was like two communities. I mean they were really divided, the Creekers and the Pointers. I’m a Creeker, people who live on this side of the creek-Silver Lake, you might know it as here; it’s not a lake, it’s a creek. It opens and closes to the sound. Anyway, the people on this side are the Creekers , and the people that live on the other side by the lighthouse are Pointers.
And at one time from the creek to the beach there were what we called drains. There were two streams of water-ditches-that went, run right where Creekside Cafe is-right where the road turns there. One cut through there. And there was another one right about where Sharon Miller’s Realty, was another one that went on through. And there were two bridges on each ditch. One on the creek side of each one of them, and one over by the Island Inn and one over further. And those two bodies of water separated the Creekers and the Pointers. And the one time it was like, you just didn’t have anything to do with the Pointers, or the Pointers didn’t have anything to do with a Creeker. By Ellen Cloud courtesy “Ocracoke Speaks”. Photo📸from:”Digging Up Uncle Evans” by Philip Howard.
