In 1955, an old man named Robert Harrill gathered what remained of his broken life and hitchhiked to Carolina Beach, looking for someplace quiet to nurse the scars life had mercilessly kicked into his ...
Robert E. Harrill, better known as the Fort Fisher Hermit, died more than 50 years ago. But his story isn't quite finished. An upcoming documentary by Wilmington filmmaker Rob Hill will take a close ...
Pickler said the man called him in 2010, shortly after a film documentary, "The Fort Fisher Hermit: The Life & Death of Robert E. Harrill," in which Pickler appears, was released on DVD and told him ...