For Mrs. Iris Tanner, a true Southern lady
See, when you are a kid, you do not listen to all this [stories from old fishing families]. It just goes whisp. Then, when it is too late, you wished you had listened to a whole lot of that stuff.
CAPT. ESPERANZA WOODRING
(1901-1992)
Quoted in
Fisherfolk of Charlotte Harbor, Florida
by Robert F. Edic
IAPS Books,
University of Florida