. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. would watch the moon rise over Core Sound. Family quilts are carefully folded on the beds, the dining room table set with the family china. In the main parlor, he taps on an ancient organ his grandmother played. Currently, Gillikin spends much of his time working with marine biologists who are exploring new ways of cultivating oysters. He's justifiably proud that he farms the same water granted to his great- uncle for an oyster garden in 1891, and he pulls up net bags bulging with oysters grown from tiny s
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. would watch the moon rise over Core Sound. Family quilts are carefully folded on the beds, the dining room table set with the family china. In the main parlor, he taps on an ancient organ his grandmother played. Currently, Gillikin spends much of his time working with marine biologists who are exploring new ways of cultivating oysters. He's justifiably proud that he farms the same water granted to his great- uncle for an oyster garden in 1891, and he pulls up net bags bulging with oysters grown from tiny spat. If I return later in the fall, he promises, he'll teach me what a Jarrett Bay oyster tastes like. That is a visit, I assure him, he can count on. Hancock House typifies the attractions Down East has to offer — little known and easily passed by. Likewise, I would have driven right past Homer Fulcher's house in Stacy, had I not been offered an introduction by Curt Salter of the Waterfowl Museum back on Harkers Island. At age 77, "Mr. Homer," as Fulcher is known, has "made a living out of the water" all his life, Salter says. He has captained tugs, menhaden fishing vessels and charter fishing boats. He is best known, however, for his hand-carved wooden decoys. I find Fulcher sitting in his small garage workshop, in a rusty chrome chair with a torn green vinyl seat, packing a pipe with Carter Hall tobacco. "Any direction I looked," he says of his boyhood home on Piney Point, Riders from Cedar Island's White Sands Trail Rides gallop rented horses along a deserted Down East beach. Cedar Island sunsets provide serene backdrops for hour-long rides or weekend horseback "every one of those guys carved their own ; With hatchet, handsaw and a wood rasp, Down East carvers fashioned thousands of decoys during the 1940s and '50s, many for personal use, but hundreds more for the large duck clubs that dotted the barrier islands. Turn
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