The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-30
HERE is OUR HOME AND OUR JOB.

The whole coastland smiling with prospects of
rich harvest during the and fall No matter what
business in which engaged things looked mighty
good who is farming in the fields is de-
pendent his for living than is the who has
other living except to cater tourists and sportsmen
The who grows hogs and cattle does these things
order to eat and thrive and be happy and his family be
likewise For the does the who lives
the barren sands and low where farming is not posi-
BILE, cater to the business of sport fishermen.
1t takes all kinds of business to make the world co.
and it is better for the farmer that many people out
of his and engaged in other things is good for the
fishermen and guides that are farming and not en-
gagged in taking fishing parties 1t is good for the hotel
men that not everybody is in the hotel business.
When disaster and caused the hotel the
fishing guide or the garage the store keeper to lose
his business and perhaps face disaster he in just bad
of sumps is the farmer who loses his crop What's
the difference, the kind of crop it Isl it's lost 1t lost and
the owner will suffer thereby
We have seen the of coming hurricanes destroy
the crop of the hotel the fishing guide and drive away
their business before the blast and wiped out the
farmer We have them all suffer alike throughout
August and September. Through all the had
signs of bountfu harvest such have had but
seldom in lifetime We in the early summer business
forecast for such an income from tourists and sporsmen
as had never before come to coastal We
prospects good for in the pockets of all this
fall than we had ever known before Great had
been made anticipated ncome great plans in the
making for the FUTURE great dreams being dreamed
and hopes arising and the future looked
the young people bent on going away to school,
To repeat had things looking better
all the when the blow struck and wiped
hopes for the harvest and for the next years prospects
All alike have suffered yet perhaps it is only human
te for each person to think his lot is than that
his neghborS But to there is little difference
in which boat in if all boats leaking and about
to sink.
There have been disasters BEFORE and this years dis
asters have been visited upon unfortunate people
other areas and lot is bed of compared with
theirs Our losses have not been great by comparison when
recall that they have lost addition to all their possess
ions, their loved and sometimes their lives we'll
Of a certainty we know that we have been more for
tunate through the years. We know still have the
finest place to live We have the best of neghbors and
have hopes for prospects We going have pull
in the belt little; well have to and corners but
perhaps out of adversely will blessings and in these
times is the test of that otrepeated axiom in which
Maybe it is when understand it. This know: This
is home and here is all in the world Here lie
bones of ancestors here children about
will rest when the last day has ended going to stick
by person. and do best and pull together the
future prosperity and welfare of this Coastland region We
going to come back on top