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
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