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ROUNA STATE LIBRA** 

 RALEIGH 



June, 1980 



N. C. 

 Doc. 



^ MAN 19 1981 



Photo by Steve Murray 



"Things just don't hold a straight line/' says Harkers Islander Irvin Guthrie 



Storm carved an inlet 

 And broke island's sleep 



One evening in September, 1933, Irvin Guthrie walked out 

 of his house and felt water rising around his ankles. A huge 

 storm, one of those nameless but historic hurricanes, was 

 shoving water up in Back Sound, flooding Harkers Island. 



"Up in the road, somebody had a lamp lit," Guthrie 



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