A fitting burial at sea marks the end of an era
July 30, 2013
My notion of what a proper fishing boat should look like was shaped in boyhood by the iconic eastern-rigged side trawlers that chugged through Watch
My notion of what a proper fishing boat should look like was shaped in boyhood by the iconic eastern-rigged side trawlers that chugged through Watch
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“I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later realized that what I had seen was not a
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By chance, I recently opened a notebook containing some thoughts and scribblings I made more than five years ago as I was researching a column.
About 24 hours before Superstorm Sandy made landfall in southern New Jersey, my brother and I stooped in the drizzle and found the old mark
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