Hurst learned many trades growing up along Hewlett’s Creek. 56 WBM november 2014 separate the lumber. Adrian then hired Lesmon Hansley, a carpen-ter, and the two built the Hurst family home. It had no electricity. “When we moved in, it was nothing but rough subfloor. And my youngest sister was in diapers and she would drag those diapers over this old floor and they’d be just as dark as your shirt,” Hurst says with a laugh. After the war, finish work, like the addition of oak flooring, was completed. Bill Hurst inherited a portion of his mother’s land on Hewlett’s Creek. “I could never in a hundred years make enough money to afford this property here, if it hadn’t been in the family,” he says. He and his wife cleared the land, built a road and built their home, moving in dur-ing spring 1976. The house his father built is just one mile away and now owned by his sister Patsy. Hurst learned many trades grow-ing up along Hewlett’s Creek. “If you grew up in a rural envi-ronment when I did, you learned to farm, you learned to build, you learned to fish, you just learned to do all these things because it Top: Bill Hurst’s father, Adrian Hurst, built the family home during World War II. Right: Bill Hurst uses his poling paddle to drive fish to a net. Bottom: Hurst’s workshop houses the tools of his various trades.
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