Tag: Bay Boy
Crawfishing
  ABOVE Watt’s daughter, Mary Michael, his son, Albert, center, and Albert’s friend, John Michael Nipper, take...
The Honeybee Man
A chance encounter following a bee infestation changes Watt’s mind about the buzzing, stinging insects.
Smokey the Squirrel
Early spring on the Bay brings high tides and wet, windy weather like a fitful ending to a nasty winter. But to an...
The Perfect Pond
AÂ couple of years out of college, I was still living with my parents in Point Clear, but I was ready for a...
Point Clear Towing
Point Clear never really had enough year-round residents to support a whole bunch of services. If you had a fire, Â you called the Barnwell...
Dirty Jobs
First and foremost in my memory of horrible tasks was cleaning out the grease trap. I didn’t get suspicious of this particular responsibility until I...
Into the Wild: Part II
Read Part I of "Into the Wild" IÂ was determined to spend two weeks in the Alabama River bottom swamp with little more than...
Into the Wild: Part I
Watt Key poses in front of his makeshift shelter in the forests of Alabama. ...
A Tennis Racket
Employment opportunities have never been abundant for 13-year-olds in Point Clear. After my position as fly killer at the Grand Hotel snack bar was...
Government Housing
Watt Key poses with one leftover parallax computer that was discovered on the property of his...