Endangered Species By Amy Kilgore Mangus 5 Photography by Allison Potter Seated at a picnic table under a large magnolia tree, Bill Hurst, 79, is waiting for me when I pull into the driveway at his modest home off of Masonboro Sound Road. He stands and greets me with a warm smile. “Come over here,” Hurst says. “I want to show you something.” We walk over to a row of stakes beside the house. A cast net is draped over them — it’s about 130 yards long. “Have a seat,” Hurst says. He has already set up two plastic chairs in front of the net. From his pocket, he pulls a wooden tool that looks like a small, flat loom shuttle. He sits down beside me and says, “You won’t see much of this anymore, because it’s just about a lost art.” Bill Hurst navigates Hewlett’s Creek in a 16-foot flat-bottomed bateau he built. 53 www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com WBM
2014-11
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