First Flight Rotary does the Chicamocomico
No, the Chicamocomico is not the latest dance craze in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
The Chicamacomico Historic site is a life-saving station on Pea Island in the Outer Banks that is currently undergoing renovation. According to the sites website, "visitors will find heroes, the early history of US Life-Saving Service/US Coast Guard in North Carolina and the home of the state’s first trained, shore-based rescue responders at Rodanthe’s Chicamacomico Life-saving Station."
The First Flight Rotary Clubs October 16th meeting was held on the campus of the Chicamacomico Historic site.
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The FFRC "Crew" shown in front of the 1874 station that is currently undergoing renovation.
  
Our tour guide regaled members with some interesting facts and folklore about the facility over the past 150 years its existence.
Some interesting information from their website.
"Chicamacomico was the first of seven Life-Saving Stations built in North Carolina in 1874"
"The original building at Chicamacomico, commissioned Dec. 4, 1874, was the first Life-Saving Service in NC."
"It houses all the equipment for fundamental Life-Saving Service training, such as drill pole, breeches buoy and cart, a rare life-car and an original surfboat."
No Rotary meeting would complete without food and fellowship either before or after.
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