. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Crab Shack is a popular restaurant in the community. Willis Seafood Market is one of only two seafood businesses left in Salter Path. • In a bygone era, residents would gather at Stephen Guthrie's store. • Marty Frost repairs his flounder net. • Doug and Kathleen Guthrie enjoy gillnetting. • Oak Grove Motel is a community landmark. • Salter Path's heritage is as a fishing village. On a recent night, dozens of families come out to celebrate Salter Path Community Night at the Core So
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Crab Shack is a popular restaurant in the community. Willis Seafood Market is one of only two seafood businesses left in Salter Path. • In a bygone era, residents would gather at Stephen Guthrie's store. • Marty Frost repairs his flounder net. • Doug and Kathleen Guthrie enjoy gillnetting. • Oak Grove Motel is a community landmark. • Salter Path's heritage is as a fishing village. On a recent night, dozens of families come out to celebrate Salter Path Community Night at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum on Harkers Island. While eating boiled shrimp and other local dishes, they share memories of the small village where people worked the water, ran through each others' yards, opened scallops in tiny houses, hunted ducks and waterfowl, attended church suppers and raised vegetables to feed themselves. "I call Salter Path 'paradise,'" says Betty Willis, the choir leader, who has curly salt-and- pepper hair. "It was a good place to live when I was a little girl. All the families were unique in their own ; Even "outsiders" like storyteller Rodney Kemp, who lives in Morehead City, see the tiny village — sandwiched between Emerald Isle and Indian Beach on Bogue Banks — as a special place. "I remember riding through Salter Path in the 1950s," says Kemp, who shared stories during the community night. The village had a warmth felt only in the "Promise Land" portion of Morehead City — home to descendants of people forced to float their homes from Shackleford Banks after two hurricanes, he adds. Before 58 was paved during the 1950s, Kemp says the village "lay quiet and peaceful, nestled in ; "It had property separated by well-worn paths," he adds. "It seemed like an old quilt pieced together with an old ; Once the road came in, motels, restaurants and busi
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