THE COVER

The waters of the Atlantic are nowhere more treacherously capricious than along the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This is particularly true of the region of Cape Hatteras where, for unnumbered years, ships have tossed mercilessly ashore, buried in the restless sands, disinterred, entombed again. Samuel O. Smart, Assistant Landscape Architect, has caught with his air brush the spirit of desolate helplessness which is the tragic lot of one of the sea's rapidly disintegrating victims cast up on Chicamacomico Island, a part of the area authorized for inclusion in the proposed Cape Hatteras National Seashore.