Currituck County, North Carolina shaped Chandler Sawyer long before he followed his family's tradition of shaping wooden blocks into trational decoys. Growing up in the cadence of tide, wind, and waterfowl flights, his is an 11-generation story rooted in Currituck traditions to include an old-time carver named Bob Morse. Now the director of the Currituck Maritime Museum, Chandler explains why Currituck decoys have bold silhouettes, favored woods, life-shaping facts of island life. Drifting into waterman culture, we discuss changes that threaten it and the stubborn hopes keeping it alive; into carving cultural identity out of a rapidly disappearing landscape.

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