The Captain and the Farmer: One Fairhope Couple Works the Bay and the Rows
The Captain and the Farmer: A Fairhope Couple Living Off Land and Sea “The Captain and the Farmer” sounds like the title of a summer novel, rich with characters and…
Mahogany, Cypress and a Fading Craft: Bayou La Batre’s Last Wooden Boat Builders
David Bosarge and Rena Landry carry the last of Bayou La Batre's wooden boatbuilding tradition, a craft that once turned out a skiff every day and a half and a…
A Day Trip Through Bayou La Batre, Coden and Grand Bay: Seafood, Shrimp Boats and Satsumas
There is a stretch of Mobile County’s coastline, west of the city, where the landscape flattens into bayou country and the pace drops to the speed of a shrimp boat…