Crab picking is a way of life for some women in Eastern North Carolina. Ruley uses this first in a three-part series to introduce women for whom picking crabs has provided a lifetime of employment and a sense of pride.
This second installment in a three-part series continues an examination of crab-picking and the crab industry as it exists in Eastern North Carolina. Ruley places special emphasis on the folk aspects of the industry.
Eastern North Carolina crab house owners are turning to labor imported from Mexico as a remedy for the dearth of willing crab pickers in this part of the state.
Eighty-three year-old Llewellyn \"Miss Lue\" Lewis, whose husband owns the Luther Lewis & Son crab plant in Davis, starting picking crabs at age fifty and now teaches the art to new pickers.