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Photographer Documents Workboats Of The Core Sound

For decades the primary industry of the Core Sound was the fishing industry which used workboats. Although the fishing business in the area has declined, workboats remain a source of social memory for residents there. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with Larry Earley, fine art photographer and author of the new book, “Workboatsof The Core Sound: Stories and Photographs of a Changing World” (UNC Press, 2013). 

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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