Kitty TV
We really need a creative, professional, strong town manager, and the search has been long. Now it recommences with a glowingly optimistic ad.
What they don’t say, and perhaps why the two previous candidates backed out: divided town council, fractious citizenry, largest employer in region on the way out.
Uncle Frank’s 90th
The real excuse to get everybody together was to celebrate Uncle Frank’s 90th, and we did so at Stonington’s Fishermen’s Friend. The company, of course, was 99% of the point, but the restaurant did a surprisingly good job of food and service for the 27 of us. Frank is still as inventive and analytical and good-humored as ever, we should all be so lucky.
Kudos to Ed and Vickie for organizing and we look forward to seeing y’all again soon, or at least sooner!
Under the boardwalk
Beer run
JohnPaul and Bob
Crabby
On successive nights, we had lobster dinner and crab dinner. Lobsters are easy: boil, crack, eat. Crabs by contrast are a chore… It takes a whole lot of effort to make a mouthful.
Victory Chimes
The Victory Chimes cruises up and down the Maine coastline, and it looks like a fun way to spend a day or three.
Before this trip, we bought Robert McCloskey’s book Time of Wonder, about summering in Maine. Reading it again on the island, it was a cool surprise to see the Victory Chimes mentioned, a detail we’d overlooked the first time. Almost 60 years later, the rhythm of that area hasn’t changed much.
The Penobscot Narrows Bridge
In Brattleboro you get extra points for fixing your truck with both plywood AND duct tape, and even more points for echoing those super-fly factory upgrade portholes in your repair job.
Brattleboro Adventure – the Auckland Edition 