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Lucille worked for the Westfield Insurance Co„ and Sari, an Industrial Engineer, worked for the Gersten-Slager Co, which manufactures special trucks like book mobiles and rescue units. Lucille has some great antiques, including a fine collection of Staffordshire dogs. ^-.^len Earl isn't help ing her refinish their prized iTOod pieces, he likes to fish. They have a bumper sticker that says ’’Caution: I brake at antique shops". And on h'imosa, Kill and IiIKE UILEY, right beside Kim’s mom, Martha Flynn - both are these busy young bees: Kike opened Fishin' Fever in Indian Beach last spring, offers fresh seafood of all kinds, as v/ell as bait and tackle. Kim is director of the Station Club in Beaufort - that’s the Retarded Adult Mental Health Center, sponsored by the state through the Neuse Clinic, By the v/ay, Mike is a licensed sea captain - hov/ about that? PAM and DAVID SHORT moved into the Reefstone condominiums in September. He is a dentist practicing in Beaufort, He came originally from Connecti cut and she from Illinois, and they both went to college in Kansas. He took his degree in dentistry in Pittsburgh. Then they chose this area because Pam likes the climate and David likes sailing and the coast. She likes to work with ceramics and sev/s v;hen she has time, but v/ith a three month old baby, she finds time rather sparse. On the corner of ^-fillow and Cypress are BILL and BRENDA BARFIELD and their young son, William, Many of us already knov/ Bill who heads the insurance service of the Carteret County Farm Bureau in Beaufort, Brenda plays bridge and golf, and Bill plays golf when he gets time. Brenda would like to learn to play tennis. Just moved into their home on Oakleaf Drive are I'JLTON and MARIE BL/\ITD. They are native North Carolinians and moved here from Morehead City. Milton has his ovm business (oil) which has taken him all over the country, indeed all over the v/orld. He is a golfer. Also, he is interested in art. He tells us he has fished all his life, and he nov; has an l8 foot boat to go out on the Sound. He is a retired Colonel, Corps of Engineers. The Blands have six children of whom tv/o are still in college, JIM and LINDA SPIELOR moved here from Morehead City and are living on the canal at the end of ^-^alnut Circle, Jim ,was born in Atlantic Beach, and both of them went to Chapel Hill. They have tv;o daughters, one almost thirteen, the other four and a half months. Jim is the agent for Metro politan Insurance in Morehead. They both love tennis, enjoy theater, and like to read.. Jim fishes and is proud to report that he caught a speckled trout in his ovm back yard, THE SAGA uF THE HOUS.^ FROM RICE PATH ... ''•^hen Abner Guthrie became concerned that erosion of the beach and other conditions on the island were beginning to adversely affect his agricultural activities he decided it was time to move. And move he did. He packed his house, then located on the Sound at v;hat was knov/n as Rice Path (novi Emerald Isle) onto some carefully selected Cypress logs and simply floated it over to a previously selected locatio.n at v;hat is nov; 12th Street in Morehead City. This was in 1893, and ever since then people of Bogue Banks have been con cerned about erosion of the island, but none have taken such drastic action to improve their situation, Abner Guthrie v/as a man of his times. He v/as keeper of the Cape Lookout Lighthouse during the Civil War and thereafter moved to Bogue Banks where he took up farming and building the famous "Sharpie" boats upon specific orders for such craft from fishermen. At. the time of the move from Rice Path, Morehead City did not extend beyond 12th Street. In fact, the land on which the house \-/as located was farm land. The house was unique, but at the same time more or less standard for the times. It was L-shaped with a long porch extending across the front and facing the Sound. . When relocated the porch faced what is now 12th Street with a viev/ across the western farm lands. The kitchen v/as separate from the house and v;as not moved from the island. The beams on which the house was built were hand-hewn from the heart of pine and today are still as solid as the day they v/ere cut about a century ago. Nails v/ere used sparingly in those days and much of the construction was v/ood-pegged. But the move to Morehead City was not the end of the saga of the "House from Rice Path", It continued its peripatetic v/ays, not seeming to find a home, until a fev/ years ago:.. ^
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