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Vol. 12, No. 2
.4 Shoreline Community, Pine Knoll Shores, N. C.
March 2017
Tree Cities Are
Sprucing Up for Arbor Day
By Mike Wagoner
North Carolina observes Arbor Day this year on Friday, March 17, and the focus
in Carteret County will be on the two municipalities that have achieved Tree City
USA designations—Pine Knoll Shores and Beaufort.
Only 85 communities in North Carolina are on the Tree City USA roster. That is
less than one per county in North Carolina, and one wonders why there aren’t more.
Pine Knoll Shores has been a Tree City since 2000 and is proud of it. The Tree
City USA program was established in 1976, under the canopy of the Arbor Day
Foundation. The Pine Knoll Shores town website (townoj^ks.com) has a historical
section that pays tribute to the towns green heritage, noting that the place was oiice
known as the “Isle of Pines.”
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the purchase of about 2,000 acres
of property in the middle of Bogue Banks by Alice Green Hoffman of New
York City. It was to become the location of her “Shore House,” a little getaway from the
hustle and bustle of New York or from what was her second home at the time in Paris,
France. She was 55 years old and an independent woman of more-than-modest wealth
when she moved into Shore House back in 1917.
In her autobiography, Ms. Hoffman wrote about life at Shore House: “It was a
wonderful place... one of the last remaining retreats, isolated from all the world & its
fripperies. No telephone, electricity, radio or noise ....” Those modern conveniences
would eventually come to Carteret County, but there still aren’t many fripperies around
here, as in-ostentations, adornments or gildings.
Ms. Hoffman’s niece was Eleanor Roosevelt, married to Theodore Roosevelt Jr.,
eldest son of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. This helps explain why the Roosevelt
name is so much associated with Pine Knoll Shores.
The Pine Knoll Shores History Committee blog (pineknoUhistory.blogspot.com)
contains many entries on Alice Hoffman, her house, her interest in the natural
environment and the conservationist values of the Roosevelt family who developed
Pine KnoirShores.
In a way, Pine Knolls Shores citizens have dedicated their Tree City achievement to
Ms. Hoffman as a memorial. The town will have an Arbor Day observance on March
17 at noon. At press time, the location had not been determined, but residents will be
notified of the venue by town-wide email prior to the event.
■ Beaufort became a Tree City in 2013 and, working with the North Carolina Forestry
Service, the town now has a database of age, size and condition of each of the town’s
1,174 trees in public areas. For information about Beaufort’s Arbor Day plans, go to
beaufortnc.org.
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PKS History Exhibit on the Move
By Walt Zaenker
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Reflections of Pine Knoll Shores
Since March 2016, the History
Museum of Carteret County has hosted
the exhibit “Beach Town in a Forest—
The Story of Pine Knoll Shores.” Dismantling the display is scheduled to start this
month.
The Pine Knoll Shores History
Committee wiU move graphic
elements of “Beach Town in a
Forest” to town hall and display
them in the board room along
with some additional new
material. The east wall in the
board room (to the right when
entering the room) will feature
the exhibit’s six tall graphic panels
that describe periods in history
that shaped Pine Knoll Shores.
The right side of the south waU
will highlight the story of the
museum exhibit. Also sharing that
wall will be a Roosevelt family
photo and a family tree illustrating
Alice Hoffman’s relationship with
the Roosevelt family The left
side of the south wall will have a
photo collection of all the boards
of commissioners and mayors
since the town’s founding in
1973. Planned for the west wall
is a detailed timeline presenting
the history of Pine Knoll Shores
in images and text. The History
Committee is planning to have
this new display fully mounted
by April or May The material
currently on display in the board
room will be removed and stored
in the history archives.
One of the graphic panels that will be moved to the
Pine Knoll Shores town haW.-Photo by bhi Fiexman
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