To try to prevent the unmasking of his son as a plagiarist and fabricator who wrote a story about oyster fishermen in Louisiana without leaving Brooklyn.
He supported himself as an oyster fisherman, carpenter and house builder and as a photographer of celebrities.
I could see the birds flitting from tree to tree, and off to the right, an oyster fisherman poling his way home from a day's harvesting.
The shrimpers and oyster fishermen have endured numerous hurricanes and floods.
In quick strokes or daubs he'd correctly capture the oyster fisherman at work.
"Are you an oyster fisherman or a carpenter?"
Where there once were oyster fishermen and factory workers, there are now working class people, young families and elderly people, said Ms. Locke.
Nearly 2,000 lawsuits are pending against the plant, and last month a jury awarded $14 million to a local oyster fisherman with multiple myeloma, a form of cancer.
The neighbours were still all oyster fishermen.
But a cousin who was an oyster fisherman in Fishingport had sent money for him and Chris to come to the United States.