Yerby

Last week, Yerby -- who has shucked an ocean's worth of oysters in her time -- picked up her last one for a while.

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"I never thought oil could stop it," said Yerby, who began in 1952.

For Chesapeake shuckers, Gulf oil spill means the world is no longer their oysters 2010

Last week, Yerby -- who has shucked an ocean's worth of oysters in her time -- picked up her last one for a while.

For Chesapeake shuckers, Gulf oil spill means the world is no longer their oysters 2010

"I never thought oil could stop it," said Yerby, who began in 1952.

For Chesapeake shuckers, Gulf oil spill means the world is no longer their oysters 2010

Not until a few decades later did I learn that Yerby was black.

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Yerby was quite good at churning out potboilers along the lines of Herman Wouk and Leon Uris.

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So, in their gray coats and with their youthful, strangely grim faces, the staff officers arrived at Yerby's for the baptism.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

Would Morrison take an ambulance and go immediately to Yerby's, get Mrs. Jackson and the child, and put them aboard the cars?

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

He had been carried to the Yerby house and there, fully conscious, he dictated a proud dispatch to the governor of his state.

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

Jackson acquiesced; Lacy got the summons and went forthwith to Yerby's.

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