Dallas Sutton Fishing Camp

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Interview with James Rose, by Connie Mason-excerpt–

BR: Connie, his mom and dad had a fishing camp on Cape Lookout. JAR: It’s still there, Hon.
BR: It’s under the sand, now.
CM: Is it really? Can you show me where it is on this map? 

JAR: Yeah, yeah. 

CM: If I can get out from this chair. 

JAR: I wrote Sickle there, Connie. That one will bring you back. 

CM: Show me where your mom and dad’s camp was. 

JAR: That’s over on Cape Lookout. 

BR: Yeah, Cape Lookout. 

CM: Oh it’s on–, well, here, I mean, I’ve got this map. I’ve got the most maps. 

JAR: Yeah. Now this is just the west side of the drain right here. 

CM: Now this is the lighthouse up here and that’s Les and Sally’s, that’s Casa Blanca, and that’s the Coast Guard Station. Those are the landmarks you’ve got. 

JAR: Ok. Now it’s right–, let’s see now. We call this the head of the cove? This would be Billy’s Hill here, right here. 

CM: Write that down for us. Put–, just write on it. Billy’s Hill. Is that Billy Hancock? JAR: Ummmm.
CM: Now don’t let me put words in your mouth.
JAR: Billy Guthrie, I believe it is, I was thinking. 

CM: Billy Guthrie. Billy’s Hill.
JAR: Umhum, Billy’s Hill.
BR: They had a camp there, too, fishing camp. JAR: Yeah, they had one up towards The Glade. BR: We went there one time. 

JAR: Yeah, that would be up in here. This is marsh and sand, made up of marsh and sand, and they called that The Glade. For some reason or other, they said they would go up in there ever so often and shoot a couple of ducks or something, you know, right here. Because it was tall grass and water, you know, standing. 

CM: So right in here? Right in here? JAR: Right in here.
CM: Right in here.
JAR: Umhum. Yeah. 

CM: I’m going to put “The Glade.” JAR: The Glade, that’s right.
CM: Ok. 

JAR: Some of it is. Some of it is, yeah. But right here in–, right in this area–. 

CM: Go ahead and mark that for me. 

JAR: Is where we had the camp. 

CM: Ok. 

BR: It’s buried now. It’s under the sand. 

CM: What was left? Just the pilings? 

BR: The whole camp–. 

JAR: The whole camp. 

BR: Was covered. 

CM: So it is like the sand, a dune, over it? 

JAR: It’s a dune and it all looks natural. 

BR: The way we saw it the last time we went. It’s been a long time. 

CM: Omigosh. 

BR: Bunk beds, everything that they had in there. An old wood stove 

JAR: Yeah, we just–, I reckon they took what they wanted out of there and left the house. 

BR: Well, he sold it to another guy. What was his name? JAR: Dallas Sutton.
BR: Yeah.
CM: Dallas Sutton? 

JAR: Dallas Sutton. CM: S.U.T.T.O.N.?