In this fourth photo-essay in my "Working Lives" series, we can see a quartet of Hatteras fishermen getting their gill net ready for fall fishing: patching holes, mending tears. The date is August 1939.
Dare County N.C.
“A Collection of Log Huts, Inhabited by Fishermen”: Stumpy Point, 1888
Traveling down Pamlico Sound in 1888, a New York Times correspondent found "a collection of log huts, inhabited by fishermen" at Stumpy Point, N.C. He wrote, "The ground on which these huts are built is so boggy that the lowest tier of bunks . . . is generally half full of water."
The Road to Mashoes
Today I am focusing on the history of Mashoes, a fishing village, now almost gone, that sits on a remote and solitary hammock on the mainland of Dare County, North Carolina, in a place of breathtaking beauty.
David Cecelski 