One of the wonderful things about working on this cause is that we get to meet wonderful folks that are truly the texture of our wonderful community. Icons saving a wonderful Icon...here is a great short reflection of The Stack from John Lowry.
John Lowry was born in 1914 and has lived his entire life in Reedville. He was a menhaden fish boat captain most of his adult life. His father was a pound net fisherman and he remembers his father, Otis Lowry, using the visual of the old brick Morris Fisher stack to set a fix for where he ran his pound net in the bay. Cap’n John supports keeping this treasured landmark in place and restored so the next generations of waterman can enjoy it welcoming them home safely like it has him for most of his 95 years. In fact he once captained the menhaden steamer “Wicomico” which was originally built for the Morris Fisher factory which originally built the stack in 1902.
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