Cherokee Sound Crawfish Season Opens
By Lee Pinder - the Abaconian - 1 August 2002

Family and friends gathered for a community prayer service on the abutment to send our fishermen on their way. Many of our men still go to sea and their wives still wait on the shores for their return. This is a time-honored tradition in Cherokee that takes place every year before our crawfishermen head out on their first trip. Our prayer is that they have A Safe Voyage and A Bountiful Catch Sign of the Times

Once again we are replacing our sign on the road from Marsh Harbour. Everyday Cherokee is having more and more visitors to our little settlement and this all-important sign helps them find their way.

This time, however, we have a local resident and artist to thank for her time and effort. Kathy Hura has taken her talents and put them into painting a new sign for us. Kathy works in her open-air-studio-on-the-hill turning out fantastic works of art, mostly on pieces of driftwood that she has salvaged from nearby beaches. Her work includes an unbelievable rendition of The Last Supper, but it is apparent that her real love is nature. She has many paintings of local birds and fish and even a mother Loggerhead Turtle laying her eggs on the beach. She is a multi-talented lady who has done us a great favour and we would all like to thank her.

In fact, if you see her walking through the settlement, as she does almost every afternoon when she takes Bear (her big black dog) for his daily walk to the pig sty to present some little treats to the hogs, don't hesitate to thank her in person, I'm sure she will be glad to know it is appreciated.