TOURIST ATTRACTION TOO BIG TO IGNORE IN CURRITUCK.(DAILY BREAK) From: The Virginian Pilot | Date: August 14, 1996 | COPYRIGHT 1996 The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: LAWRENCE MADDRY

GRAVE DIGGER PICKS BONE. The ink on last Wednesday's column was barely dry when Bettye Lee, an employee of Grave Digger in Currituck County, N.C., phoned to pick a bone with it.

I wrote that Grandy, N.C., was a sleepy community whose only tourist attraction, prior to the opening of Mel's Diner, had been the town's only stoplight.

``You forgot the Grave Digger,'' she said. That's a tourist attraction about five miles north ...