Lewes net reel must be placed with true vision
William W. (Bill) Collick January 22, 2021 I am writing in support of the Lewes Historical Society’s recent restoration and relocation of the historically significant menhaden fishing net reel to the society’s Second Street campus, overlooking a no-longer-extant but one-time rich and diverse African-American neighborhood of the last century. This reel identifies with a pre-Civil Rights-era industry that sustained the Lewes community for more than a century while affording a rare opportunity for blacks and whites to collaboratively work side-by-side in a mostly segregated America...
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