Federation Blog

Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending some time with two longtime residents of the river and very good friends of the Federation, Manfred and Azalea Leckszas.  Azalea's family has owned property on Crab Creek (formerly Crabb's Creek) for 80 years and she has some great stories about growing up on the river, having free rein throughout Church and Crab Creeks.  She and her siblings harvested soft crabs and oysters in the shallows, dove through underwater grasses so thick they fouled propellers, and swam in creeks far clearer than they are today.

She showed me several albums of photos, including one which contained this shot: A image looking out towards the South River, across Child's Point, taken some time in the 1940s.