Travel with Carolina Preserves to eastern North Carolina, where our memories are preserved with the scent of saltwater.

Bland Simpson, author and musician, talks about the importance of water and the ocean in our life. He also travels to the Great Dismal Swamp, one of the largest remaining wild swamps in America.

Betty Ray McCain, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, reminisces about her life growing up in a small town in eastern North Carolina.

James Rose, from the Rose family of shipbuilders, remembers back to his childhood when he would take a skiff onto the water to hear the shantymen sing while they fished.