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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from State Library of North Carolina https://archive.org/details/northcarolinafol3940nort North Carolina Stats Ut&a&v Raleigh, N. C. North Carolina Folklore Journal Vol. 39, No. 1 Winter-Spring 1992 North Carolina Folklore Journal THOMAS McGOWAN, editor LYNN MOSS SANDERS, assistant editor NORMA FARTHING MURPHY, illustrator KATHLEEN ASH & KATHY MOORE, editorial assistants The North Carolina FolkloreJournal is published twice a year by the North Carolina Folklore Society with the assistance of Appalachian State University and through grants from the N.C. Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Memberships in the Society, which include subscriptions to the Journal and the quarterly Newsletter of the North Carolina Folklore Society, are $ 150 for life members, $ 7.50 per year for individuals, and $ 10 for institutions. Mail membership dues to the North Carolina Folklore Society, c/o Department of English , Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608. Assorted past issues of the North Carolina FolkloreJournal are available at $2 each. Wiseman’s View: The Autobiography of Skyland Scotty Wiseman and the special issue on A Singing Stream are available at $4 per copy. North Carolina residents should add 6 per cent sales tax on back issue orders. The North Carolina Folklore Journal publishes studies of North Carolina folklore and folklife, analyses of the use of folklore in literature, and articles whose rigorous methodology or innovative approach is pertinent to local folklife study. Manuscripts should conform to The MLA Style Manual. Quotations from oral narratives should be transcriptions of spoken texts and should be identified by teller, place, and date. 1991-92 OFFICERS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FOLKLORE SOCIETY President: Karen Baldwin, East Carolina University, Greenville. 1st Vice President: Mary Anne McDonald, Durham Technical Institute, Durham. 2nd Vice President: Elon Kulii, North Carolina A & T University, Greensboro. 3rd Vice President: Shelby Stephenson, Pembroke State University, Pembroke. Secretary-Treasurer: Thomas McGowan, Appalachian State University, Boone. North Carolina Folklore Journal Vol. 39, No. 1 Winter-Spring 1992 LITTLE BOATS: Making Ship Models on the North Carolina Coast Charles G. Zug, III Spritsail sailing skiff by Ed O’Neal Cover Photograph: Model of the trawler David Hartsell by Steve Lewis (29"). ©North Carolina Folklore Society, 1992. All rights reserved. Figure 1. The framing of a 38' vessel in Duncan Willis’s yard. (The basketball goal confirms this is a Tar Heel boatbuilder.) Figure 2. A finished home project, the 35' Sea Raider, built byjames Rose and his son Rodney in the Roses’ back yard on Markers Island.