The Outer Banks Voice - Living on the Edge: A documentary reckons with the Outer Banks’ past, present and future

Living on the Edge: A documentary reckons with the Outer Banks’ past, present and future

Living on the Edge, a documentary exploring the transformation of the Outer Banks through personal histories, is now in production.

Courtesy The Tamassee Group

By Brian Tress | Outer Banks Voice

Living on the Edge: The Outer Banks Odyssey is an ambitious documentary currently in production that treats North Carolina’s barrier islands as both subject and character — a fragile, shifting ribbon of sand where centuries of human history intersect with dramatic environmental challenges.

The project is spearheaded by Margaret Miller Growe, founder of the nonprofit Tamassee Group, whose mission is to create programs that explore the interconnections between humans and their environment. Growe, who has sp