THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, February 15, 1997 TAG: 9702150352
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B2 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
DATELINE: CURRITUCK LENGTH: 16 lines
``Swan Island Flyway Stopover,'' Hortense Poyner Parker's memories of life growing up in a hunting club on Currituck Sound, has been reissued. Parker began spending time at the club as a baby in 1910.
The 77-page booklet of vignettes of life on the island was first published in 1988. The booklet includes numerous photos of life at a hunt club, managed by her father, up to the late 1920s. The author now lives in Virginia Beach, where she was an educator for 30 years, the last 15 as principal of Bayside Elementary.