Cast Up By the Sea

It’s the Story
  • Photograph of sand sculpture on the banks of Taylor Branch, done by artist J. B. McCord in April 1921. This may be the best surviving image of McCord’s work. Photo Courtesy of the Table Rock Historical Society.
    Photograph of sand sculpture on the banks of Taylor Branch, done by artist J. B. McCord in April 1921. This may be the best surviving image of McCord’s work. Photo Courtesy of the Table Rock Historical Society.
  • Cast Up By the Sea
    Cast Up By the Sea

    In 1921, the Table Rock Argus carried this curious story.

    Tuesday morning, there drifted into Table Rock a quiet man who stopped at the bridge between upper and lower town, and after looking around for a time, he climbed over the railing on the north side of the bridge and began digging in the dirt.

    After a while he took some of the dirt and with water from the creek mixed a lump of mud; this lump h…