Several primitive wooden bridges spanned the guts. I discovered this never-before-published photo after my father died. It was probably taken in the 1930s.
From left to right (back to front), to the best of my knowledge: Juliana Guth (my mother's mother), Kunigunde Guth Howard (my mother), Helena Guth Webster (my mother's sister), Lawton Howard (my father), and an unknown man.
Our latest Ocracoke Newsletter is a 1921 letter written by a former slave, Harrison Williams, to Ocracoke native, Martha Ann Howard Wahab. You can read it here: http://www.villagecraftsmen.com/news112113.htm.
Unless people print their digital images for posterity and store them properly.... There is nothing like a black and white photograph from long ago to document life, everyday life in your hometown to day, captured image by image on a phone to be lost stolen or broken is worthless to some extent unless the technology doesn't change to access the files in 2054 --- and then would some bother. I suppose some forward thinking group is amassing a system to preserve and protect what means of accessing the files and or the internet.of today; perhaps so ,perhaps not. Actually, what I meant to comment on was...As a child growing up in Miami, visiting the beach weekly , did not cause me to ponder the names of the beach Haulover hmm Haul over Haul what over,?? the catch of the day your boats?? I suppose when the bridge was built over the channel, Government Cut , I think it was cut not gut anyway, your charming essay brought both these curious thoughts to my mind. DD
ReplyDeletePhilip - Thanks for this great photo of one of the bridges over the guts, with the bonus of your mother's family pictured. Those bridges hold strong memories from my childhood. I went barefoot all the time (as did everyone else, adults as well as children), except on Sundays when I had to wear shoes to church. Walking home after church, I had to keep the shoes on until we got to the first bridge, when I could get back to bare feet. Wonderful memory of that bridge.
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Bobby, Happy to help bring back fond memories. Thanks for sharing.
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