I am standing next to the Earthenwork Fort on Roanoke Island where the first English settlers were. Saving yourself from an enemy in a crude fort such as this makes a lot of assumptions and is subject to failure at every turn. When their sponsors returned, the settlers had disappeared with no explanation, hence they are know as the Lost Colony.
The middle photo is of us standing near the top of the main sand dune at Kill Devil, NC, where the Wright Brothers flew over a thousand glider flights learning about how to control an aircraft. The final photo is the least impressive from a photo standpoint - but, the most significant of them all. It was on a roughly 40' wooden monorail - depicted on the ground - where Orville Wright took off in the first powered flight in history. My camera was about where he approached the plane. The large rock in the foreground is where he lifted off. The next four rocks are where the brothers landed on the four flights that day. And, since I am a private pilot, this was pretty exciting to be standing on the spot where it all began. Richard