Pleasant Living Magazine

For our readers who have joined us in recent years-and also for those who have been following PL for the two decades of our life, we’ll be sharing some of the stories that appeared in previous issues of PL. A bit of River Country history for your enjoyment. The following story appeared in Summer 1989.

photo by Ron Ingram

Bill Parks kept a small crab shed on the Rappahannock River in Lancaster County’s Morattico since 1945. Hurricane Hazel took away the first one that stood over the water. A second shed was built in the 1960s, and today, stands on supports facing downriver. In five shallow floats inside, crabs swim, huddle, and bask in an ideal environment for shedding. Parks remembers when softcrabs thrived in grasses around the shore. “Kids waded around in those grasses and picked up softcrabs all the time,” he said. A tall man in a straw hat, Parks smiles ironically from under his brim.

“The crabs aren’t there anymore. No place for them to hide.” He’s hard put to explain exactly why the shore grass has disappeared. “Maybe it’s all the chemicals,” he says.

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