Right across the sound from the Whalehead is Powells Point, NC. It is one of the last little villages you pass through before going over the causeway bridge to Duck and points south and the "way downs" of Salvo, Rodanthe and Waves. On the left as you approach the causeway bridge is the home of Jarvis Snow, whose father once guided at the Whalehead.
While a private residence, the house could be a premier waterfowl museum all its own with decoys, punt guns, skiffs and sinkbox accoutrements. Jarvis' wife Erleen Snow was postmistress of Powells Point PO for some years, but her real claim to fame was calling Canada geese by mouth. She learned it while accompanying her father who I believe also guided at the Whalehead Club.
She came to the national celebration of the 50th anniversary of the federal duck stamp program, which was held on the national mall in Washington DC in September of 1988 along with Richard Wolters of dog training fame, Harold Harlan who wrote the seminal book on duck call collecting, Sean Mann who went on to develop the Eastern Shore "flute type" goose call, carver Grayson Chesser from Jenkins Bridge on VAs Eastern Shore, and Nick Sapone, maker of the old time canvas over wire goose and swan decoys from Wanchese NC.
To represent out local DU Chapter, my brothers and my son and I put out a field rig of Canada goose silouettes, shells and full-body decoys on the national mall. We even put up a fully camoed pre-fab duck blind! When the scheduled exhibit time was over (5 PM) no one wanted to leave; people who didn't have a dog must have gone home and got one; there were retriever dummies flying all over the place. We didn't get out of there until near dark, but what a blast! It was truly an honor to be a part of it.
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