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Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_9 (find matches)
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Publisher: (Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina
Digitizing Sponsor: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

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desperately wanted to buy more land to expand its facilities and protect the adjacent natural resources. But the corporation recently clear-cut the balance of its acreage for timber, and Bland says it's no longer valuable as parkland. A few obvious remnants of the Hurst-Sharpe saga are visible. One of Hurst's descendants still looks after the land. A park ranger since 1965, Hurst's grandson Jessie Hines makes the rounds every day and gives interpretive talks to visitors. A granite rock and plaque erected by the Sharpe family in 1990 pay thanks to the doctor's contribution. So far, no monument acknowledges the black teachers or John and Gertrude Hurst, although it is reflected in park brochures and literature. The executive director of the Hammocks corporation, E.B. Palmer, wrote a letter to state parks director Phil McKnelly request- ing a complete acknowledgment, but no action has been taken. Much of the story of this park can't be told on a piece of paper. You have to dig your toes in the sand and unearth it like a hard clam from a mudflat. Or feel it as the soles of your feet squeak against the fine, silicon sand that blows through gray skeletons of myrtles. You follow it with your eyes to the sand-colored spots of a fawn hunkered in a grassy dune. You hear it in the clack-clack of a rail hidden somewhere in the marsh. Or the splash- ing beside your kayak as a spotted baby flounder matches your strokes for a few seconds. We paddle toward Bear Inlet an hour before sunset. We'll turn back as Continued COASTWATCH 9

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