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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ruth Barton
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 11:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [BP] This one for Ruth ...
Depends on what he says. Ruth
At 3:48 PM -0400 5/24/09, [log in to unmask] wrote:
Drove down to Katama Bay to see the cut through the 5 mile long bar
connecting Martha's Vineyard south beach to Chappaquidick. It has been
dry sand, perhaps 100 yards wide, for 30+ years - supposedly Ted Kennedy
was going to drive across it that night in 1969, except he was in a
Dodge
Valiant or something, which is not exactly an over-sand vehicle, and
anyway
he probably made up that story, too.
But a storm two years ago breached it, and the opening (200 yards wide)
has
let fresh (salt) water into Katama Bay and played hell with the currents
the little Edgartown three car ferry has to navigate. The opening is
gradually moving towards the base of Chappy and will close up in another
two or three years.
At the side of the road, near the grass landing strip with the tourist
biplanes (you have never flown until you have had the guy one mile up
over
Edgartown Harbor and then ... cut the engine, and let the nose go over,
absolute silence except the rushing wind) and the usual grizzled island
pick up truck pulls out in front of me.
Bumper sticker: "If a husband speaks in the forest, and there is no
wife
around ... is he still wrong?" c IS IN MY HOUSE.
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Ruth Barton
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Dummerston, VT
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