When I first interviewed Lane several years ago he had about 600,000 oysters growing at his oyster farm in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Today it's about 30 million. His distribution is now far and wide but he's still going through the back doors of restaurants, shucking his oysters for the chefs, and taking their orders when they're surprised to learn these tasty delights orginate in the Gulf. Lane's kindness, generosity and optimism stands out each time I speak to him and I learn that it springs from a wound that, Lane says, he hopes never heals. Check out the Oyster Cook-Off presented by Murder Point on November 19th. (Very cool Murder Point Video!)

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