<p><span class="deck">What the Wright brothers did in a wild and distant place made its name famous around the world. Their biographer visits the Outer Banks to find what remains of the epochal outpost.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A town forced to earn its living by its wits from the very beginning—most spectacularly, through the work of two young bicycle mechanics—and is now remaking itself into a Colonial Williamsburg of the industrial age.</span></p>
