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Rodney Kemp joins David Yeomans as he croons "The Booze Yacht." Yeomans often spins stories for tourists who stop at his cottage on Cape Lookout National Seashore

Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_16 (find matches)
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Publisher: (Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina
Digitizing Sponsor: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

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School Performance For a group of students at Cooper Elementary School in Clayton, Golden dressed like an Elizabethan sailor in a white belted shirt, olive green breeches and tan moccasins. "I am a minstrel bringing news from 400 years ago from Queen Elizabeth's court," he says. "Queen Elizabeth never married, and men were coming to her court to impress her," says Golden. "She was the most powerful woman in the world and had a great armada of ships." Golden asks the students to sing "Froggy Went A-Courting" with him. Later, he engages the students with bean games and more tales about Sir Walter Raleigh's voyage to the New World. At the end of the performance, Golden strums his guitar while singing "Virginia Dare." "I wrote these words to tell the sad story of the mysterious fate of the little girl to go along with the beautiful melody composed by my songwriting partner, Rob Nathanson," he says. Ann White, fourth grade teacher, says that the historical tale was perfect for her students who are learning North Carolina history. "They have heard the legend of 'Virginia Dare the White Doe,' " says White. "This is a good culminating activity. For the fifth graders, it reinforces what they have learned. It gives the third graders a good introduction to our state's history." For younger students, Golden relates less serious subjects like animal tales. "I tailor my stories to the audience," says Golden. Sound Country Stories When spinning yarns about the coastal plains, Chapel Hill author and musician Bland Simpson draws on his roots in Pasquotank County. "I learned stories from my father who was a lawyer and a good yarn spinner and also in the Merchant Marine and Navy," says ABOVE: Rodney Kemp joins David Yeomans as he croons "The Booze Yacht." Yeomans often spins stories for tourists who stop at his cottage on Cape Lookout National Seashore. Simpson, a member of the Red Clay Ramblers. In the book Into the Sound Country: A Carolinian's Coastal Plain, Simpson relates childhood memories, including that of his father "coming home at breakfast time with a brace of ducks from his first-light Currituck hunts." His stories and songs also draw inspiration from North Carolinian John Harden's The Devil's Tramping Ground and Other North Carolina Mystery Stories and Nell Wise Wechter's Taffy of Torpedo Junction. These books were Simpson's and his schoolmates' "first literary inklings that real and noteworthy things of history — and mystery — had occurred right in the small towns and country crossroads where we lived, and that the telling and retelling of these stories in class- rooms and living room were no small part of what bound us together as Tar Heels, as Southerners, and as Americans." Simpson wrote in the foreward to the 1996 reissue of Taffy. B Want to hear more coastal tales? Rodney Kemp and Sonny Williamson will perform together on Oct. 4 at noon at the 17th Annual N. C. Seafood Festival in Morehead City. For more informa- tion, visit the Web: www.ncseafoodfestival.org. COASTWATCH 11

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