Nick was just 10 years old when this picture was taken on Horn Island. He is the great grandson of arguably the South’s greatest nature artist, Walter Anderson. And mom, Rosalie, a biologist, is close to cracking a way to regenerate human joints. So Nick has some big shoes to fill. But on this day, on Horn Island, his main concern was catching enough crabs to feed a party of 10. With his net, he set to work, and within two hours, he had presented us with dinner. Horn Island is Nick’s legacy. There is a story of Walter Anderson roping himself to a tree just before a hurricane hit the island. He wanted to feel it. The older Anderson was inspired by his environs. But even Nick knows that this boyhood paradise will be lost to climate change. He will witness the end of land.
