Wilson > wrote:
> sometime in the recent past Nick Cramer posted this:
> > [ . . . ]
> > Do you sail? Lobster fish? Holmes Bay looks like a well-protected
> > steep-to deep-to harbor. Never been there. Hung out around Owl's Head,
> > lo, some 60 years ago.
> >
> Cutler Harbor (just to the east at 44.655, -67.206) is more protected and
> as a kid, I always heard that it was the deepest natural harbor on the
> east coast. It gets a fair amount of summer sailers, but is a working
> harbor year round. Holmes Bay is much shallower with a 9' to 13' tide
> change twice daily that empties it out quite a bit.
>
> I don't sail, but did lobster fish for a bit. We do avail ourselves to
> fresh lobster, clams, urchins (uni)and whatever else is in season.
>
> Owls Head is, of course, down state a bit. The wife & I stayed with
> friends in Rockland about 4 years ago for the annual North Atlantic Blues
> Festival. Nice area, but too built up for me. Holmes Bay is much more
> rural, but not for long I fear.

My Grandfather owned an island off Owl's Head. We used to bucket-steam
clams, crabs and the lobsters that my Grandfather's friend, Mr. Papagallo,
used to bring us. We ate the sea urchins raw and my Grandfather's Cumpara
Patsy Goluta used to bake sea snails on the fireplace rocks. Guess who
wrote the following:

My granddaughter is a good piano player and like she knows how to play ode
to joy, jingle bells, and the bagpipes and other music songs and she is
great at playing and I have a great granddaughter.

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