Seasoned by Salt: A Historical Album of the Outer Banks 



Barfield, Rodney. 1995. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2231-0 



By Lundie Spence 



The cultural environment of the 

 Outer Banks of North Carolina has 

 had a sparse nature. Lacking big cities 

 or diverse industries, the people who 

 lived there mostly depended on the 

 resources of the sea. The inhabitants 

 of small fishing villages extracted 

 their living from coastal waters. Yet 

 the richness of life in the sounds — 

 if you count the bountiful fish and 

 oysters as coins of the realm — 



contrasted sharply with the lack of 

 household luxuries and material 

 things. Rodney Barfield explores 

 maritime life in North Carolina 

 through the lenses of early cameras 

 and the eyes of illustrators and 

 engravers. 



"Seasoned by Salt" is an album of 

 photographs selected from archival 

 collections of the University of North 

 Carolina at Chapel Hill, Outer Banks 

 History Center, North Carolina 



Division of Archives and History, and 

 Cape Lookout National Seashore. It is 

 our coastal family scrapbook. These 

 reproductions of mostly faded 

 photographs require that you use your 

 imagination. The still images invited 

 me to hear the sounds of sawing and 

 sanding in the Albemarle boathouse 

 where George Washington Creef 

 created a unique workboat for fishing 

 shad. They led me round the wharfs in 

 Washington, where schooners heavy 



20 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1996 



