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Belhaven, NC Coast Guard Environment - Jimmy Courson 1944- Environment

Information: "Jimmy Courson's fascination with the Coast Guard has led him to build a small fleet of Coast Guard vessels from scavenged scrap wood and sheet metal. He keeps his fleet berthed in an elaborate series of homemade docks and piers in his back yard. Each time he makes an improvement to one of the ships he carries it on his bicycle to test it in the canals near his home, because it is important to him that his vessels not only closely resemble real ships but that they be seaworthy as well. Clearly something more than a hobby, his obsessive interest in building the ships from found objects has been recognized by a local Coast Guard station, which has made him an honorary Guardsman." © Copyright Roger Manley, "Signs and Wonders, Outsider Art Inside North Carolina" by Roger Manley , out of print.

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Bibliography: Roger Manley, "Signs and Wonders, Outsider Art Inside North Carolina" by Roger Manley , out of print. "Weird Carolina" by Roger Manley, Sterling Publishing Co. 2007.

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