Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_11 (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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A HISTORIAN'S COAST
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workers who traveled every spring to Chadbourn, in Columbus County, to labor in the strawberry fields. Though no longer the world's largest strawberry market, as it had been from 1895 to 1905, Chadbourn still attracted pickers from all over southeastern North Carolina. To say that this photograph ignores the girl's plight because she looks so content — as many defenders of the FSA school of documentary photography might — misses Wootten's point entirely. In fact, you cannot miss the signs of the girl's hard life: her frayed dress full of holes, missing buttons, ragged shawl, work-worn hands. Wootten's home- state audience would also have known that, being in Chadbourn, the girl was from a family in the direst straits. A North Carolina tobacco laborer A fisherman mending nets, 1930s Loading tulips, Pinetown But Wootten's photograph shows the girl's shining spirit rising above all that misfortune. Look, too, at the photograph of Ben Owen turning a pot in Jugtown, in Moore County, in the 1930s (page 21). For a century, craftsmen and women had been making pottery out of the central piedmont's crude red clay. They lived in a hard, unforgiving region of the state for farming, where the clay soil was more curse than boon. But potters like Owen took what little the land gave them — the clay — and created breathtakingly beautiful shapes and glazes. Wootten's genius was to catch Owen at just that moment when the 20 HOLIDAY 1998

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