Atlantic Standing #downeastaculturalheritage When I finished the painting

When I finished the painting I drove from Durham to Davis

I imagine and I am pulled into a world of stories yet untold

A load of shrimp had just been dropped onto the sorting table and the crew was tossing the bycatch off the back of the boat

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Once on land

Atlantic Standing #downeastaculturalheritage When I finished the painting12 x 25 A legacy in its own right, Luther Smith & Son Seafood is the last standing, operational fish house in Atlantic. After a large fire in 1989, the community banded together to get Smith & Son back to work and they are still, more than 50 years later, supplying NC communities with fresh, local seafood.