Mount Pleasant Magazine March/April 2013

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ON aN uNseasoNably warm
day in January, I dined at Red’s Ice
House on Shem Creek, a familiar
place to nearly all residents and
visitors East of the Cooper, and
daydreamed about what Shem
Creek was like during the golden
age of local shrimping. The restaurants and bars we cur-
rently love would be gone, of course, replaced by rustic
fisheries, where shrimp boat captains would stop in with
the morning’s bounty. Make no mistake, the creek would
be just as populated as it is today – mostly with shrimp
boats vying for the best spot to occupy until the time came
Tales frommounT PleasanT’s
shrimP BoaT heyday
story by Denise K. James
Shrimpin’
Shem Creek
was once
a bustling
location
for local
shrimping.
Photo by Bill Macchio