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As the lights dimmed on this year’s final performances of “The Lost Colony” in Manteo, another outdoor drama spontaneously opened 50 miles to the south.

This live show took place on a mile-long stretch of beach in the village of Buxton, on Hatteras Island on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. In mid-August, a series of passing hurricanes and nor’easters started chewing up the Buxton shoreline. At high tide off and on for weeks, huge waves pounded the pilings of houses that had stood three football fields from the water when they were built.

By the end of October, 15 homes in Buxton and one in Rodanthe had twisted and tumbled into the surf , their creaking and cracking captured on video by rapt crowds standing knee-deep in sea foam and splintered

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