… airs tonight on PBS at 9 o’clcok.
“The Last Boat Out,” a documentary about the Chesapeake Bay focusing on Peninsula-area families who have worked its waters for generations, will premiere on PBS at 9 p.m. tonight.
The 26-minute film was written and directed by Washington, D.C., filmmaker Laura Seltzer, who grew up in Newport News near the Deep Creek Pier.
She began working on the project after she learned from friends that the pier was being torn down.
Source: Daily Press
Newport News owes much of its existence to its watermen and the seafood industry. Watermen brought their harvest into Deep Creek Harbor for many decades where it was placed on the Deep Creek pier and then hauled over to Oyster Point and shipped out to other parts of the country.
When she became aware of its imminent demise a few years ago, Laura Seltzer, a film maker, visited the Deep Creek pier. Having grown up near the pier, she was interested in memorializing some of the history surrounding the seafood industry, the watermen who work the river, and the Deep Creek pier in Newport News. “Last Boat Out” is the film she made. It will air on PBS tonight at 9 o’clock.
The following video is a clip from “The Last Boat Out.”
Deep Creek Pier 