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[guitar melody
leads upbeat folk tune]
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♪
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(Bland Simpson)
The Lockwood Folly River
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is one of the shortest
and loveliest
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of North Carolina's
coastal streams.
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Its black waters run down
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through swampy
Brunswick County,
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below Supply,
past Varnamtown,
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out between Holden Beach
and Oak Island,
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through Lockwood Folly Inlet
to the sea.
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♪
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The name Lockwood Folly
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has been a part
of our cartography
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since John Ogilby's map
of 1671,
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where it was given
as "Look Wood" Folly.
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Lockwood Folly
may be the first
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and thus oldest
named river in our state.
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No one knows for sure anymore
just who Lockwood was
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or what was the precise nature
of his folly,
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though one oft-repeated legend
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holds that Lockwood
built himself
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a nice big ship upriver,
launched her,
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and headed for the open ocean
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only to find that she
couldn't cross the bar.
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She was too big
to get out of the inlet,
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so there she foundered
and went to pieces.
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[geese honking]
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Nowadays, the story
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is more about
a coming together.
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Back in 2006, a coalition
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of the very concerned
about the river and its future
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formed around the shared goal
of cleaning up the river
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at a time when over half of it
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was closed to shellfishing.
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This group included
the Brunswick County-appointed
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Lockwood Folly Roundtable,
municipal governments,
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and the North Carolina
Coastal Federation.
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And to improve
the river's health,
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they suggested
a variety of tools:
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low-impact development,
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better management
of storm-water runoff,
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rain gardens,
and oyster reef restoration,
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over 15,000 bushels
of shells.
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Ten years after its start,
there is considerable momentum
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for this great conservation
effort going forward.
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The lower portion of the river
is open to shellfishing,
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and everyone here hopes
that someday sooner than later
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to reopen the rest of it,
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and that is no folly.
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This is Varnamtown
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on the west bank
of the Lockwood Folly River.
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It got its name
from a bunch of schoolchildren
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makin' up a song about it
and singin' of it that way.
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Well, the Varnams
of Varnamtown
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have been building boats
hereabouts
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for a century and more,
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though the old craft
of the 1920s and '30s
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were much smaller
than the shrimpers of today,
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which might range
to 90 feet or so.
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In those old days,
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the boats
were only 40 feet long,
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12 feet wide,
3 feet deep, round-hulled,
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and crafted
with nothing but hand tools.
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[bright acoustic
guitar arrangement]
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They used longleaf heart pine
for framing and decking
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and cypress for the hulls.
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Though there is
no official, accurate count,
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these Brunswick builders
completed and launched
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hundreds of workboats
over the past century.
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Some of the builders
were John Varnam,
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Clyde Varnam,
Weston Varnam,
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Billy Varnam,
Clyde and Weston's nephew,
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and master rigger
Norman Bellamy.
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And like
their fellow boatbuilders
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up Harkers Island way
in Down East Carteret County,
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the Brunswick County craftsmen
legendarily used no plans.
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Billy Varnam, whose enterprise
was named B-Var,
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once said,
"When a Varnam builds a boat,
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"all he needs to know
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"is the length,
width, and depth
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that the customer
wants his boat to be."
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(mixed chorus)
♪ Ohh ♪
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♪ Shrimp boats
is a-comin' ♪
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♪ Their sails are in sight ♪
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♪ Shrimp boats is a-comin',
there's dancin' tonight ♪
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♪ Why don't you hurry,
hurry, hurry home ♪
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♪ Why don't you hurry,
hurry, hurry home ♪
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(Simpson)
Native Americans,
who inhabited our coast
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for 10,000 years or more
before the Spanish and English
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got here in the 1500s,
used to dip shrimp
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out of coastal waters
with hand nets.
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Around here,
shrimp were calledbugs,
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and those who went after them,
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whom today
we would call shrimpers,
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were known asbug hunters.
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Brunswick County's
first-reported commercial catch
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of these delicious bugs
was back in 1897.
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Now, that year,
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fishermen gathered
400,000 clams,
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worth over $22,000.
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They caught
333,000 pounds of mullet,
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worth almost $10,000,
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but they netted
just 2,500 pounds of shrimp,
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worth $125,
a nickel a pound.
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[woman singing]
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Just a few years later,
it was a different story.
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By the end of World War I,
Brunswick County's fleet
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landed 370,000 pounds
of shrimp.
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By the end of World War II,
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the catch
was almost 3 million pounds.
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Jo Stafford's 1951 song,
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"shrimp boats a-comin',
there's dancin' tonight,"
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really meant something here.
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And it continues to mean a lot
up and down our coast.
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In 2004,
North Carolina fishermen
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brought in 4.9 million pounds
of shrimp,
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worth $9 million,
and in 2013,
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again nearly
4.9 million pounds,
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worth $12.9 million.
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We're here at one
of North Carolina's
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most historic fish houses,
Garland's Fresh Seafood,
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right on
the Lockwood Folly River
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east of downtown Varnamtown,
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an establishment--
an institution
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that just celebrated
its 61st anniversary.
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[guitar leads folk tune]
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Garland's son Nicky Varnam
and his wife Jackie
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are running
the fish house now
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and have been since 1984.
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Shrimp boats pull
into the docks at Garland's
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from spring to late fall,
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having worked waters
south of Lockwood Folly Inlet
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and well to the north,
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including the rich fishing
and shellfishing grounds
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of Pamlico Sound,
the inland sea,
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and the largest part
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of North Carolina's
great estuary,
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the Albemarle lagoon.
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Jackie Varnam also serves
as current president
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of Brunswick Catch,
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one of four fishermen's catch
groups in our state,
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comprising
commercial fishermen,
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seafood dealers,
and restaurateurs
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under the umbrella
of North Carolina Catch.
06:19.245 --> 06:21.214 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70%
These nonprofits
are frontline components
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of the contemporary effort
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to put more fresh, wild-caught
North Carolina seafood
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onto breakfast, lunch,
and dinner plates
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in the homes and restaurants
of our state.
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Whether it's Garland's
or Captain Pete's Seafood
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under the Holden Beach Bridge
06:36.562 --> 06:38.464 align:left position:22.5%,start line:83% size:67.5%
or Holden Beach Seafood
in Supply
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or right here
at Jon Haag & Son, Oak Island,
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or any number of other
Brunswick Catch members,
06:44.804 --> 06:47.473 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
whatever high-grade, down-home
Carolina seafood spot
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we stop in,
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we'll have gone
to the right place,
06:50.843 --> 06:52.645 align:left position:25%,start line:83% size:65%
and we'll have gotten
real good seafood
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from real good folks,
06:54.414 --> 06:57.550 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
and we'll be eatin' better
than Louis XIV, Queen Mary,
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and J. P. Morgan
all put together.
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As the vaunted Cajun cook
Justin Wilson
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would emphatically put it,
"Igarontee."
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♪
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We might just push a few spots
and pompano around the pan,
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frying them for breakfast,
two or three per person,
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along with toast
and fig preserves
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and scrambled eggs.
07:20.072 --> 07:22.875 align:left position:17.5%,start line:83% size:72.5%
We may even scoot a few
butterflied jumping mullet
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or some rockfish
onto the grill,
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for these are gorgeous fish
that absolutely love smoke.
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What'll we have,
and how will we have it?
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When it comes
to the fish house delights,
07:35.655 --> 07:37.890 align:left position:12.5%,start line:83% size:77.5%
the fruits of North Carolina's
legendary coastal
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and sound-country waters,
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no questions are more joyfully
put or answered.
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And that is the word
on North Carolina's catch,
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the boats and the bounty,
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from Varnamtown
in Brunswick County
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and from Lockwood Folly Inlet,
where the river meets the sea.
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[jazzy chord
concludes folk tune]