Word: kegler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "belong to the business." Nobody knows how old the songs are. Among the menhaden fishermen, most of them Negroes from the tidewater South, the chanteys have been handed down from father to son, from crew to crew. Chaplin also learned from the Barnegat's song leader, Walter Kegler of Fernandina, Fla., that menhaden fishermen are picked "almost as much for their music as their muscles." The singing has two functions, Kegler explained: it provides a rhythmic pulse for hauling in the seine, and it is "thanksgiving" for a good haul ("No need singing when the catch is small...