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The author recalls her youth and summers spent at her grandmother's home near Beaufort.
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Disasters have struck those who live around Core Sound several times when severe winter weather brought icy conditions. For example, on January 11, 1886, a three-mast schooner, CHRISSIE WRIGHT, bound for her home port of New York, was overtaken by an extremely cold gale off of Cape Lookout. The cook and four crew members huddled down on the deck under a sail, but only the cook was still alive when a whaler was finally able to reach the ice-covered ship. In 1898, when the sound froze over, the fishing village of Davis, accessible only by boat, suffered near-famine conditions. Many people became ill, and several died. Close by, a ship, the PONTIAC, had shipwrecked. Survivors made a fire which produced a black column of smoke visible to the townspeople in Davis. Three rescuers set out and found the survivors and their ship full of molasses and grain. When the sound froze again in 1917, Davis's food supply again dwindled, but no one died.
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Bessie Hoyt recalls the two-week revivals she attended as a young girl at Davis, a coastal town on the North Carolina coast. The revivals were called protracted meetings, and they took place during the summer when farm work was light and people could spend time outdoors. Protracted meetings included all-day services that were interrupted only by meals. At the end of each day a hymn of invitation was sung as sinners walked forward and accepted the Lord. Hoyt remembers that the preachers always gave sermons about the wrath of God and his vengeance against sinners. Rarely was the God of love spoken about. At the end of the two-week meeting, all those who had been saved were baptized and accepted into the church. Then, the church members would travel to Core Island for an all-day picnic. Following the picnic, friends would sadly say their goodbyes and the revival was over. The protracted meetings were the forerunner to today's revival services.
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