Thursday, June 17, 1971 The Tar Heel 15 1 uter anics nave sun and fu by Rick Gray Special to the Tar Heel MANTEO-During the day it's hot. At night it gets cold. But despite the temperatures and the unpredictability of the weather, there are few places in North Carolina more worthy of a weekend than the beaches of Dare County. If you're looking for a weekend in the sun away from the rest of the world, there's no place that's much more remote than the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. If you want a weekend of fancy hotelmotels and restaurants, there are few places that have better. If history is what you're looking for, there's a lot of that here too. The only drawback to a weekend on the North Carolina Outer Banks is that they are about four hours away from Chapel Hill, but the drive is well worth it. The best way to get there from Chapel Hill is to go to Raleigh and take U.S. 64 straight to Manteo, the county seat of Dare County and the headquarters of the Dare County Tourist Bureau and the home of The Lost Colony, the oldest outdoor drama in the nation. Offices for both the tourist bureau and The Lost Colony are easy to find. They're right at the stoplight. That's the only stoplight in Dare County. Motel accommodations are hard to come by unless you make reservations, and even then thev cost plenty -like a tLjiJiMMijmHJi.Mw ' 1 j wnn,M nf Sir Walter Raleieh's Lost Colony mend fishnets in a scene from the Paul Green play about the early attempts to settle the New World. The Lost Colony, the nation's oldest outdoor drama, is performed nightly except Sundays at S:30 in the Waterside Theatre near Manteo. 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As for what to do for a weekend on the Outer Banks, take your pick of just about anything. For history buffs there's the Wright Brothers Memorial, complete with a lecture by a Park Service Ranger, a museum and the monument high atop one of the Kitty Hawk sand dunes. About an hour down the banks from the Wright Brothers' monument is Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, the only lighthouse in the nation that's open to the public. You're welcome to climb to the top if that's what you want. From the top of the lighthouse, some 214 steps above the ground, you can actually see the tides meeting in a "vee" off shore from the cape. There's also a museum at the lighthouse, and a nature trail at the Bodie Island Lighthouse, about 10 miles north of Hatteras. But the biggest historical spot on the Banks is back in Manteo. The northern end of Roanoke Island is the site of the first attempts of Englishmen, under the sponsorship of Sir Walter Raleigh, to establish a permanent settlement in North America. The attempt at colonization failed, and the colony was "lost," disappearing from the island and leaving only scant clues as to where it want. Nightly, The Lost Colony, Paul Green's dramatization of the colonists' struggle for survival on Roanoke Island, is performed in the Waterside Theatre at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Showtime is 8:30 p.m. except Sundays. ..'-The theatre is located in a man-made arena on the shore of the sound separating Roanoke Island from the beaches. Directly across the sound from the theatre stands the Wright Monument, and the lighted granite pillar can be seen from the theatre at night. While Green's "The Lost Colony" wouldn't last past opening night on Broadway, or even Off-Broadway, it is the best of the nation's outdoor dramas. The Lost Colony prides itself on professionalism. The show is directed by Joe Layton, winner of Broadway's Tony Award for "No Strings" and the director of Danny Kaye's return to Broadway in 'Two by Two." Working with Layton as set and costume designer is Fred Voepel, one of Broadway's best-known designers who worked with Layton on several shows in New York. Lighting design is done by Nananne Porchere of the American Ballet Theatre who has also done lighting work for the Metropolitan Opera. The cast is also highly professional, or at least has high professional potential. Top actors from numerous college campuses are in the company, including Ron Osborne of Chapel Hill who played Emory in the Playmakers' production of "Boys in the Band." When the show originally began, it was staid. It was simply a pageant, but Layton has changed all that. The narrator who once sat in a booth to the side of the main stage now weaves in and out of the drama, appearing on the parrapet of the fort for one scene, emerging from the bushes on one of the side stages for another. The pageant characteristics are still there. The show probably wouldn't draw if they weren't. Compared to most plays, the message and the plot are a bit weak, but for the type of production The Lost Colony is, there isn't an outdoor drama that can come Close. M O N T U E S W E D T H U R S Night Specials 7:30 to 9:00 Only GRILLED STEAK . $1.45 On A Sizzling Skillet W Vegs., Tossed Salad & Toasted French Bread ITALIAN SPAGHETTI 1.40 All You Care To Eat! W Tossed Salad V2 B.B.Q. CHICKEN 1.45 W French Fries, Tossed Salad & Toasted French Bread PIZZA . . . V2 Menu Price Plain Or Pepperoni

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