Jeffrey Reaser is professor of English at North Carolina State University. Walt Wolfram is William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of English at North Carolina State University. His books include Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue and Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina. Candy Gaskill is a board member of the Ocracoke Preservation Society and a fourth-generation resident of Ocracoke.