Word: oysterman
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...coastal management, whether they are motivated by greed or by genuine concern for the well-being of coastal communities, will probably lose in the end -- to the sea. Says Coastal Geologist Griggs: "In the long run, everything we do to stop erosion is only temporary." John Tesvich, a Louisiana oysterman, perhaps puts it more feelingly, "The land has shrunk. It looks like a lake out there. My heart sinks to see the land get lost...
...Indeed, the loss of the state's marshes affects more than just local residents: the area provides almost 30% of the nation's fish harvest and 40% of the fur catch, and is a winter habitat for some two-thirds of the migratory birds in the Mississippi flyway. Says Oysterman Matthew Farac, speaking of the 32-mile stretch from the mouth of the Mississippi to Empire, La.: "There is no land left. It's all gone...
During solitary confinement, white-haired, rheumatic Correspondent Denny had been sustained by one thought: When he got to Manhattan again he would go to Billy the Oysterman's. "I would have clams-all the clams I wanted. Then I would have the finest steak the world ever saw. After that I would have the best strawberry shortcake in New York." But when he went to Billy's last week, Correspondent Denny could only gnaw a pig's knuckle and go home. Said he: "After I got where I could get decent food I ate too much...
...that point Lieut. Ridgely and Sergeant Weber arrived. They grabbed the women, waded back through the non plussed mobsters, clubbing their way when someone tried to stop them. The report, later denied, was that they had fired one shot, pinked an oysterman in the hip. They stuffed the women into their car and drove away. By next morning one other Negro was in their custody-Charles Manuel...
...might well have paraphrased his own remark and said that nothing gives such dignity to a man as a genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into the past, and see what he can find; like the oysterman who drops his rake through the dark waters with the hope of bringing to light at least a few of his stolid prey and perhaps sometimes a rare gem, or like that other, humbler artisan who enriches--but then that is beside the point...