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The Face of America: RELIC. For sixty-five years, off and on, there has been a ferry at Marlow, Alabama, across the Fish River, a tidal stream flowing into Mobile Bay. The present craft - fifth in the line - is not unlike the original: Juniper logs, with a deck over them, pulled across the river by a rope stretched from one side to the other. The ferryman is C.C. Cook, standing by the cable at right. C.C. pulls the ferry across the 300-foot-wide river by seizing the cable with a billet of wood - called a pull peg - that is slotted on one end. His fee is fifty cents per vehicle. Although many travelers come this way just to use the ferry, one of the last of its kind, the state makes occasional gestures at bridging the river here. Someday, progress will have its way. D.Z. Grove, of Marlow, who operated the ferry for many years, and whose father built the original one, says, "A ferry is an antiquated means of travel. It is indeed a mark of backwardness for the Great State of Alabama. Ferries are too slow today. It will soon be Good-by, dear old ferry." Photograph by Bill Shrout. ..... 1958 Saturday Evening Post Picture, A5231A.


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The Face of America: RELIC. For sixty-five years, off and on, there has been a ferry at Marlow, Alabama, across the Fish River, a tidal stream flowing into Mobile Bay. The present craft - fifth in the line - is not unlike the original: Juniper logs, with a deck over them, pulled across the river by a rope stretched from one side to the other. The ferryman is C.C. Cook, standing by the cable at right. C.C. pulls the ferry across the 300-foot-wide river by seizing the cable with a billet of wood - called a pull peg - that is slotted on one end. His fee is fifty cents per vehicle. Although many travelers come this way just to use the ferry, one of the last of its kind, the state makes occasional gestures at bridging the river here. Someday, progress will have its way. D.Z. Grove, of Marlow, who operated the ferry for many years, and whose father built the original one, says, "A ferry is an antiquated means of travel. It is indeed a mark of backwardness for the Great State of Alabama. Ferries are too slow today. It will soon be Good-by, dear old ferry." Photograph by Bill Shrout. ..... 1958 Saturday Evening Post Picture, A5231A.
The Face of America: RELIC. For sixty-five years, off and on, there has been a ferry at Marlow, Alabama, across the Fish River, a tidal s...
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