CURT SALTER CAMP

Contents


Story
Decoys
Credits

🟡 AVERAGE RESEARCH VOLUME

OWNERS

Curt and Martha Salter
Monroe Taylor

1970s

OTHER ASSOCIATIONS

camp #25 on 1977 NPS structure survey


LOCATION
Shackleford Banks, Bell’s Island (“Little Miami”)

Story


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Title

CURT SALTER

Grant Salter (son)–4/26/21 phone interview

Grant remembered their camp being behind and to the west of Clarence Willis.

Martha looked after the Willis store when they (the Willis’) were at the banks.

He remembers  that James Moore and wife Ollie had a cabin/banks home with knotty pine paneling–rigged up just like their home on the mainland.

Clarence’s camp had an old garage built onto the back–in which he kept his  jeep.

Grant remembers the deck off the back of the Salter camp–not a screened in porch but a deck with a bench and on that bench was a large white sink. Grant says that they had the best water–“it made the best iced tea”.

The camp was near the edge of a cemetery.

Val  (Grant’s sister)

–related they lived at the camp a great deal in the summer

Val still has the green army duffle-bag that they would pack with sheets, towels, and items for the banks–and they would shove the bag up in the bow of the boat as they took off for the camp

Val members Rose Marie Lawrence and Nettie Lou Styron  as names from the banks.

Val also remembers the horse pennngs and Clarence /willis’s involvement in them.

Curt’s branding iron and “penny penning” gear–Jerry and Amie Talton Collection

25–Harvey C. Salter and Monroe Paylor–HI

Decoys


Curt was one of the founding members of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild and the guild building is named in his honor. Curt mentored almost all of us–author included.

From his first rig of decoys made with Blanchard Lupton–1957

Credits


  1. Grant Salter
  2. Valerie Oden–Harkers Island
  3. Jerry and Amie Talton–Stella
  4. Other references within text