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1720 Drysdale Drive | Wilmington
910.256.6111
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Selling from Landfall. For Landfall. Exclusively Landfall.
1209 Arboretum Drive
$499,000
1064 Ocean Ridge Drive
$2,750,000
1817 Gleneagles Lane
2408 Ocean Point Place
Woody White
— serving southeastern
North Carolina for 18 years
Criminal Defense
All felonies and misdemeanors
in State and Federal Court
Personal injury
Auto accidents
Damages against drunk drivers
Pedestrian accidents
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(800) 807-4783
(910) 313-3336
$329,000
$649,000
Woody White is a senior partner with
White & Hearne, L.L.P., a general
practice, criminal and personal injury law firm
in Wilmington. Since 1994, Woody has focused
on representing defendants charged with serious
criminal offenses, as well as plaintiffs who have
been victims of negligence or abusive conduct.
Woody is a Board Certified Specialist in State
and Federal Criminal Law, and an experienced
trial attorney. He has received the highest peer
review rating of AV from Martindale/Hubbell.
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Carolina Beach to Topsail Beach to
make a living digging up littlenecks,
middle necks, top necks, cherrystones
and chowder clams. In an age of
extreme competition in the commercial
fishing industry, he is one of a few
local fishermen who solely relies on
the clam. He compares himself to the
prospectors of the Gold Rush.
“It is like the Gold Rush because
when I’m out here and I find just
one clam, I get a rush,” he says.
“Sometimes when I pull the rake
up, I don’t know what the heck I’m
going to get.”
Although Harrell’s comparison
draws the image of glittering hidden
treasures lying in wait under the mud,
he is the first to admit that he didn’t
get into the business for the riches.
Before he was a clammer, Harrell was
a contractor and says he wired most
of the television stations’ antennas
in the area. After experiencing severe
burnout with his job, he revisited the
skill he had learned as a boy growing
up around the fishermen in his
family.
“You won’t get rich doing it,”
Harrell says. “When you see a raggedy
expletive old truck and trailer
at the boat dock, you can tell that is a
clammer or an oysterman.”
Crossing the Intracoastal Waterway
and deftly guiding his 12-foot johnboat
through the creeks and around
the sandbars an hour after low tide,
Harrell idles up to one of the many
spots he keeps in his rotation, hoping
to find a honey hole. Since one area
can take around six months to replenish
its stock of clams, his rotation is
planned around that time frame.
Clammers have their own techniques.
For his, Harrell says he has
been called the laziest clammer in the
world. Situating a cutoff bucket seat
on the bow of his johnboat, he hangs
his legs over the bow and his booted
feet rest into the mud below. In the
summer he rigs an umbrella above the
chair to protect him from the sun.
“Well … it works,” he says to the
naysayers.
Grabbing his seven-foot rake, he