THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, March 1, 1996 TAG: 9603010465
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
LENGTH: Short : 23 lines
Project engineer Joe Lassiter, right, takes questions from Hatteras
Islander Bonnie Williams, center, and Bill Barley during a tour of
the Fessenden Center, a multipurpose building in Buxton for the
residents of southern Hatteras Island. The 12,619-square-foot, $1.2
million Dare County-owned facility is scheduled to open by late
April. It will include a 3,000-square-foot meeting room, tennis
courts, a basketball court, an outdoor walkway and pier. The center
was named for Reginald A. Fessenden, ``the father of wireless
communications,'' who made the first wireless broadcast of musical
notes from an antenna near Buxton in 1902.
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