While my father made a living and raised us seven kids, my Uncle Charlie had become a household name down along the Barnegat and Great bays. He lived in West Creek, along the mainland side of Barneget Bay, and worked as a commercial clammer, an occupation he’d adopted after retiring from a career at a box-making factory in Camden many years before.

Charlie Hohing owned one of the last original garveys, the preferred boat of baymen at the turn of the century.