tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83051040137613792452024-03-27T02:36:15.064-04:00LDS at SeaA collection of essays about events and personalities aboard ships of the U.S. Merchant Marine from an LDS perspective. Also, some related material after leaving the sea.Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-43706731039810072362023-09-11T11:02:00.003-04:002023-09-11T11:02:27.218-04:00Staring at the Ocean<br /><p>D<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">uring my teenage years
in the 1970s, my family vacationed every summer in Cape May, New Jersey, a
seaside resort at the southern tip of the state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the Delaware Bay on one side of the
peninsula and the Atlantic Ocean on the other, Cape May was all but surrounded
by water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was thus the perfect
location for folks who loved the sea, as my family did.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">My grandfather, Robert
Burns, accompanied us on these excursions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When a friend in New York asked him once why he was going to Cape May,
he replied, “to look at the ocean.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
that was a large part of what we did there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of course, we did other things, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We went swimming. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We strolled
along the boardwalk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We played mini golf.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sailed on the ferries to Delaware and
back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we spent a lot of time just
looking at the ocean.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">We stayed at the
Coachman’s Motor Inn at 205 Beach Drive, directly across the street from the
beach and the ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My grandfather and
I frequently sat together in the canvas chairs on the second floor balcony that
overlooked the beach and the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From
this vantage point we enjoyed an unobstructed view seaward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To my inexperienced and unenlightened teenage
mind, it was simply a nice view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To my
grandfather, however, it was so much more, and he often shared his observations
and insights with me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As a scientific man, my
grandfather thought in patterns of observation, analysis, and conclusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While watching the Atlantic from the
Coachman’s balcony, he studied the conditions of the sea and sky with attention
to the wave action, wind speed and direction, cloud cover, range of visibility,
and air quality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He understood
oceanography and meteorology, and as a former ocean traveler and recreational
boater, he knew well the effects of the sea and sky on waterborne
commerce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he and I kept watch together,
he often pointed out to me aspects of the surf, the play of the wind on the
water, the formation of distant clouds, the longshore current, and the rise and
fall of the tide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a wonderful
educational experience for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
retrospect, I wish I had written down all that he said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a collection of notes would now be a
family heirloom.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In the years since these
happy times in Cape May, I have spent countless hours in school, aboard ship, and
ashore, studying the sea and sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
necessity, it became an important professional habit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A ship at sea is surrounded by two things,
water and air, and the interaction of these elements determines the safety and
comfort or the danger and discomfort of the voyage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took meteorological observations for
transmission to the National Weather Service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I analyzed the clarity of the horizon to assess the accuracy of
navigational sights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I studied the cloud
cover and compared it to the weather forecasts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I paid particular attention to the sea surface and noted patterns and
changes in the wave and swell systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All of this was for the safety of the ship and to estimate how rough or
smooth the voyage would be.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Later in life, when
visiting the oceanfront with Miss Patty and our children, I continued to
observe and analyze the sea and sky in addition to enjoying and appreciating
their tremendous natural beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes, however, I just sat there and stared at the ocean, content to
simply enjoy it without undertaking a professional evaluation of
everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can still do this for
hours on end—it never grows tiresome—and I often wonder, how can anyone not
like this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can anyone not marvel at
this?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Actually, many people do
like and marvel at the sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They find in
it comfort, solace, and even a glimpse of Divinity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something about the sea speaks to the human
soul of higher and greater things, recalling for us the Lord’s words to Isaiah:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">For as the heavens are higher than
the earth, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">so are my ways higher than your ways,
and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">my thoughts [higher] than your
thoughts (Isa. 55:9). <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The supernal quality of
the sea and the counsel of Isaiah remind us of our place in the cosmos and
inspire us to raise our minds to a more sublime level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In so doing, we grow in knowledge, wisdom,
and the Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, we become able to
apprehend more than just a fleeting glimpse of Divinity when we gaze upon the
sea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Sometimes when I am
staring at the ocean from a spot on the New England coast, I think of my
family’s vacations in Cape May.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If only
it were possible to sit with my grandfather again and look seaward with him!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No longer as an ignorant adolescent but as a seasoned
merchant seaman would I speak with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As we recounted experiences, shared insights, compared observations of
the sea and sky, and analyzed recent oceanographic and meteorological
discoveries, we would have so much to discuss!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m certain that it would be a very long, pleasant, and inspirational
conversation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Next, let's look at some photographs:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFZYBcRxFxhchnIa40hwElfO3i4Wp82Z_lSw4AQ8O-9rWyrgBnfUiNNPFg6eBV2pfGkpVAL9MfjaziDFwvB9QAv45jW_ZkJ4eRDUg9l5y20Q2SZoS9yM9j9moF1hJ5a2W5aGZyI10oI-WpbzGP6ArjEgmKOiTREMd6f9q6k3tvc7Ys7UzmdO6ASq3HvJB9" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="686" data-original-width="1098" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFZYBcRxFxhchnIa40hwElfO3i4Wp82Z_lSw4AQ8O-9rWyrgBnfUiNNPFg6eBV2pfGkpVAL9MfjaziDFwvB9QAv45jW_ZkJ4eRDUg9l5y20Q2SZoS9yM9j9moF1hJ5a2W5aGZyI10oI-WpbzGP6ArjEgmKOiTREMd6f9q6k3tvc7Ys7UzmdO6ASq3HvJB9=w400-h250" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An evening view of the Coachman's Motor Inn from a postcard. The street, boardwalk, beach, and Atlantic Ocean lie in back of the photographer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkKvPm939cojW8vgjWV-VDN4uylWMVShdUaVbpxQx6NEesSnX5B5QcLshB61e6YEQLsrzjPVIUrtsfVZy3FJdp98KGtcAHFDFp0gKQScBSnluFPZPHOTSDzomO9pCD-4tIhJPiXFcmTH6WuB7IIbMJqccxDnpmMZkNIMT2gG_iSS5AWNPHBlgItYT8MCAG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1604" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkKvPm939cojW8vgjWV-VDN4uylWMVShdUaVbpxQx6NEesSnX5B5QcLshB61e6YEQLsrzjPVIUrtsfVZy3FJdp98KGtcAHFDFp0gKQScBSnluFPZPHOTSDzomO9pCD-4tIhJPiXFcmTH6WuB7IIbMJqccxDnpmMZkNIMT2gG_iSS5AWNPHBlgItYT8MCAG=w400-h272" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXXq1RblzUrjh9wWIlr7CNODxWWPuplb1wcLrTTXOtwKJ0v3nTY4eoag634Rb0pU98bOK8Uwj2QyIZjRibYuYfevdRfFTXObPlWqR96vHO0pIv1U4KTs3pS2PH9LxYE_KXE1S7-83awB8QGqOUW7qwam5zvy61lo0HTfGn77nDLhxnnc9rPYKJe3e9B7-C" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1608" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXXq1RblzUrjh9wWIlr7CNODxWWPuplb1wcLrTTXOtwKJ0v3nTY4eoag634Rb0pU98bOK8Uwj2QyIZjRibYuYfevdRfFTXObPlWqR96vHO0pIv1U4KTs3pS2PH9LxYE_KXE1S7-83awB8QGqOUW7qwam5zvy61lo0HTfGn77nDLhxnnc9rPYKJe3e9B7-C=w400-h271" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Two views of the Atlantic in front of the Coachman's, taken by my father on an overcast day in the summer of 1967, on our first visit to Cape May. This was actually a few years before my adolescence and before the times that my grandfather accompanied us on our vacations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKYWzXtX7SDmvTzEG9JMF9GMcjcqQn-KaLyeZTN4bRC7VOdvO68GjQOU5lrprZjlRtx-HmSvV2asuUuKbNau2oBN1oePkh2-iTWaaJfUfkOhGwGaeUnqW0XFVbcotyuTa1a0ZirzojMlW2-Au3oPgO2ynI5a3zy3yF5yMkX6YSPsqW4ErPCrLvVm0VNKUm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="791" data-original-width="1189" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKYWzXtX7SDmvTzEG9JMF9GMcjcqQn-KaLyeZTN4bRC7VOdvO68GjQOU5lrprZjlRtx-HmSvV2asuUuKbNau2oBN1oePkh2-iTWaaJfUfkOhGwGaeUnqW0XFVbcotyuTa1a0ZirzojMlW2-Au3oPgO2ynI5a3zy3yF5yMkX6YSPsqW4ErPCrLvVm0VNKUm=w400-h266" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Many years later, on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010, we see the open Atlantic from the beach in Wells, Maine, a wonderful place to contemplate the sublime mystery of this very special day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhysqjBGASEPjhraVqZpuoQbAxNf9k8z4a2kIHgu-MQOXyegFT3TlbFCRrvdzUYaErqoxArdtbvfYAGBZca10FXuXcu2Xu4Ty3h36IMEez4JBl4mHiCKwl4oTiy7l-Wx61DSkgd6Q9ruE59qydwqIKFNzie_xRri1hWGoSwsSlNf-wudxI6kwdk84hxDviz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhysqjBGASEPjhraVqZpuoQbAxNf9k8z4a2kIHgu-MQOXyegFT3TlbFCRrvdzUYaErqoxArdtbvfYAGBZca10FXuXcu2Xu4Ty3h36IMEez4JBl4mHiCKwl4oTiy7l-Wx61DSkgd6Q9ruE59qydwqIKFNzie_xRri1hWGoSwsSlNf-wudxI6kwdk84hxDviz" width="400" /></a></div>Finally, we sail aboard the ferry <i>John H</i> from Long Island to Connecticut on Saturday, October 8, 2022, an exceptionally gorgeous day on the water.<br /></div> <br /></div><br /> </div><br /> <br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> <br /></span></p>
Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-43806670161999124042023-08-20T19:25:00.003-04:002023-08-20T19:25:54.007-04:00The Gray Ghost of the Maine Coast<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A ship that I have
scarcely thought about until recently is the old <i>State of Maine</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was the training ship at the school I
attended when I was young and aspiring to become an officer in the U.S.
Merchant Marine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Built by the New York
Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey, in 1952, the <i>State of Maine </i>began
life as the<i> Upshur</i>, a combination passenger and cargo ship owned and
operated by the federal government in support of military operations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For many years in the 1950s and 1960s, she
carried soilders, their families, and cargo between the United States and
Europe and between the United States and the Far East.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She became the <i>State of Maine</i> when she
began her second career as a school ship in 1973.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this capacity, she remained at her dock in
Castine for most of the academic year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thus, she came to be called “the gray ghost of the Maine coast.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She ventured to sea in the summers, carrying
cadets and their instructors on training voyages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Occasionally, she went to a shipyard for
drydocking and overhaul.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While she remained parked
in Castine, the <i>State of Maine</i> served as a floating laboratory,
dormitory, and tourist attraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my
first year at the school, I lived aboard the ship for several months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spent copious hours studying her design,
structure, bridge, engine room, cargo holds, and mechanical systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a lot to learn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also spent many hours removing rust, painting,
cleaning, and assisting with repairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was often dirty work, but necessary to maintain the ship in her
best possible condition.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The first of my two
voyages aboard the <i>State of Maine</i> took place in the summer of 1976.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As part of the American Bicentennial
celebration, the ship visited historically significant Boston and
Philadelphia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, the ship called
at Norfolk, Virginia, for fire fighting and damage control training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, she visited St. George, Bermuda;
Newport, Rhode Island; and Bayonne, New Jersey, in support of the tall ships
extravaganza for the Bicentennial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Following the Independence Day festivities in New York, she returned to
Castine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While we could go
sightseeing ashore when in port, there was always ample work to do aboard
ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone was busy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an underclassman I was assigned work
everywhere—on deck, on the bridge, in the engine room, in the galley—and
usually under supervision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
upperclassmen tried to cram as much navigation and engineering work as possible
into their schedules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In less than a
year, they faced the daunting prospect of license exams, and after that,
seagoing employment with serious responsibilities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My second voyage aboard
the <i>State of Maine</i> took place in the summer of 1978.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this time, I had become an
upperclassman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I felt the compelling
need to seize the opportunity and do as much as possible to prepare for the
license exams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This included navigation,
radar training, weather reporting, radiotelephone licensing, anchoring,
maneuvering, emergency drills, docking and undocking, lifeboat maintenance, and
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spent seemingly countless days
and nights practicing celestial navigation, at that time a critically important
skill.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On this voyage the <i>State
of Maine </i>sailed transatlantic and visited Rotterdam, the Netherlands;
Portsmouth, England; Nantes, France; and Funchal, Madeira.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the exception of Bermuda, which hardly
counted because it had been full of Americans, this was my first time sailing
overseas to different countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
an eye-opening, educational experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I liked it very much, and I wanted to do more of it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A year later, to my great
satisfaction, I did do more of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
May of 1979, as a brand new third mate, I joined the <i>Rigel</i> in Norfolk when
she was preparing to sail to Southern Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But first, and by a happy coincidence, the <i>State of Maine</i> was
also in Norfolk then, and the two ships were docked within walking distance of
each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a graduate, I had open
gangway to visit the <i>State of Maine</i>, and I took full advantage of this
opportunity when I wasn’t busy aboard the <i>Rigel</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I visited the ship daily for several days,
each time chatting with instructors, crewmen, and younger cadets that I had
known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember one such meeting as
particularly significant.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Professor Captain Louis
S. Hathaway had been one of my instructors both at school and aboard ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He taught meteorology, seamanship,
mathematics, and license preparation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Additionally, as a guest of the Sun Oil Company one summer, he had
sailed aboard the <i>New Jersey Sun</i>, the ship I had sailed on as an
apprentice in 1977.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A professionally
demanding and rigorously conscientious Merchant Marine officer of the old
fleet, he maintained an exceptionally high standard of performance and had been
revered almost as a god by my entire class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Affectionately calling him “Hap” behind his back, we both loved and feared
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We knew that everything he said and
did was for our benefit, and we respected him enormously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aboard the <i>State of Maine</i> on
Wednesday, May 15, 1979, someone suggested that I go topside and knock on Hap’s
door to say hello.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Finding Hap’s door open,
I timidly addressed him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He turned
around in his desk chair, saw me, and responded very enthusiastically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Well, well, look who’s here!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come right in!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come in and sit down!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he motioned me to a chair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a great visit and chatted for an over
an hour about the <i>State of Maine</i>, the <i>New Jersey Sun,</i> the <i>Rigel</i>,
my school days, his upcoming retirement, and much more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hap shed his stern magisterial formality and
spoke with me as if I were his equal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was very, very pleasant, and I saw a side of him that I had never seen
previously as his student.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This occasion left a
lasting impression on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, when I
told a friend about it, he explained, “You’ve made it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You stayed the course and graduated with your
license.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hap saw you accomplish what you
set out to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why he’s so friendly
now.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Well, yes, I had made it
through school and aboard the <i>State of Maine</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next, I needed to make it aboard the <i>Rigel</i>
and subsequent ships, and also through the second mate’s and chief mate’s
license exams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was plenty of hard
work behind me, and plenty more of it lay ahead of me!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I remember my formative
years aboard the <i>State of Maine</i>, looking back beyond the times of trial
and tribulation that full adulthood provided later, I see that</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 1.0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A marvelous stillness pervaded the
world, and the stars, together with the serenity of their rays, seemed to shed
upon the earth the assurance of everlasting security.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The young moon recurved, and shining low in the
west, was like a slender shaving thrown up from a bar of gold.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
golden stillness and security of a sojourn aboard ship without full
responsibility but with the hope of a bright future eventually became a happy
and treasured memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, it was
not perfect; life never is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it had a
certain ineffable quality, a particular uniqueness, which only the mates and
engineers who graduated from the <i>State of Maine</i> can truly understand and
appreciate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now,
let’s look at some photographs of the <i>Gray Ghost</i>:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgenFoY5E_HLp2vy_sOnZbLhk4UZe7Aasd_WOweDdI5HHEWH0vJ-HFYWIy0XICt72dyxVYruyldng_SiKC2qsGJ4CD6uQbhK5Z36-gyMCUIPQBm5W1wSowx6CIvU4QXur052og1ahOEm_LlPVQbkXQFH3eLb316ACqRf9SERPEiTXeHtav9NdA2wNFvAXsv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="1244" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgenFoY5E_HLp2vy_sOnZbLhk4UZe7Aasd_WOweDdI5HHEWH0vJ-HFYWIy0XICt72dyxVYruyldng_SiKC2qsGJ4CD6uQbhK5Z36-gyMCUIPQBm5W1wSowx6CIvU4QXur052og1ahOEm_LlPVQbkXQFH3eLb316ACqRf9SERPEiTXeHtav9NdA2wNFvAXsv=w320-h277" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My father took this photograph of the <i>State of Maine</i> on Saturday, August 23, 1975, the day I reported to Castine as a first-year cadet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5iAjWIoGlcGILtc0vfIe4n5RxGDpE33n4xYJcXHdntFJtA2W5qJZtTv29Yyrp0974y75ewK64InUwsfmiNCzfXoJzl6C0D_1egEdpngfxgrQSdb50TwldgKIj-scQBHm1jWX13tibCBmk2b4CwUBZwqHN95n1M7qekryJJ7si3nDgXbEbyE9W78T_jES7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="696" data-original-width="674" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5iAjWIoGlcGILtc0vfIe4n5RxGDpE33n4xYJcXHdntFJtA2W5qJZtTv29Yyrp0974y75ewK64InUwsfmiNCzfXoJzl6C0D_1egEdpngfxgrQSdb50TwldgKIj-scQBHm1jWX13tibCBmk2b4CwUBZwqHN95n1M7qekryJJ7si3nDgXbEbyE9W78T_jES7=w309-h320" width="309" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Almost a year later, I took this picture as the <i>State of Maine</i> sailed down the Delaware River from Philadelphia on Friday, June 4, 1976. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnDgoUcjzP-4-vDJtMGuJ_K7Q6LO1UzeJyQirf0iZRxtEGroIhmeBwUqYOGwA19LLssSFjphJJrvs7hdcld9ReJVg451uQjGlUgkOmT5IJ6UJuolIdqxolh05FlSSYJaZZX09TtkIz_E0MSUvMeCZjSILPBq1XpxU4AEwwudRuTq-h6XgwPWha6ATYsBI4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="196" data-original-width="383" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnDgoUcjzP-4-vDJtMGuJ_K7Q6LO1UzeJyQirf0iZRxtEGroIhmeBwUqYOGwA19LLssSFjphJJrvs7hdcld9ReJVg451uQjGlUgkOmT5IJ6UJuolIdqxolh05FlSSYJaZZX09TtkIz_E0MSUvMeCZjSILPBq1XpxU4AEwwudRuTq-h6XgwPWha6ATYsBI4=w320-h164" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On the same day, the Goodyear blimp supervised as the <i>State of Maine</i> got underway from Penn's Landing in Philadelphia and started downstream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIevQ3C7RgmdmOeK4204Y9Z_u70HkwXlrnbCrTMx9IkiiWL_nkrpmpwxHLv-Volh11eqaXdqIHjKIbTp43TI-sOMPXJ9aa-6d5D21VbBs6KiSBegddQaACxT6W6YRTMV598OAAC-ZVjH__iVBekPclSCPhIQkckzPgn_4iH92NVbYRnhXKbxSicR_dNha9" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="697" data-original-width="683" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIevQ3C7RgmdmOeK4204Y9Z_u70HkwXlrnbCrTMx9IkiiWL_nkrpmpwxHLv-Volh11eqaXdqIHjKIbTp43TI-sOMPXJ9aa-6d5D21VbBs6KiSBegddQaACxT6W6YRTMV598OAAC-ZVjH__iVBekPclSCPhIQkckzPgn_4iH92NVbYRnhXKbxSicR_dNha9=w313-h320" width="313" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A few weeks later, the <i>State of Maine</i> departed from St. George, Bermuda, on Sunday, June 20, 1976. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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M. S. <i>Victory</i>, Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar, seen in this postcard view.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4X2r_YlRSyts2Vtn44q9jWsizmtPyte2x9QubP-zwManddyrH_Ak6-iXIyH2eGFoJHZM4r2OpdzTMXV-oR3eTRZcGqRLbCFQ9tu4zDFa8TKIY3qREDA3C4CtmsOQSzlQs6ncutAjQ6WDwDNSCRMo8rA2rq5cw1yWindMFUhUObsDwCxfsjaWjdzI1BCch" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="676" data-original-width="709" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4X2r_YlRSyts2Vtn44q9jWsizmtPyte2x9QubP-zwManddyrH_Ak6-iXIyH2eGFoJHZM4r2OpdzTMXV-oR3eTRZcGqRLbCFQ9tu4zDFa8TKIY3qREDA3C4CtmsOQSzlQs6ncutAjQ6WDwDNSCRMo8rA2rq5cw1yWindMFUhUObsDwCxfsjaWjdzI1BCch=w320-h305" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On Friday morning, June 16, 1978, the <i>State of Maine</i> anchored off Funchal, Madeira, while waiting for dock space to become available. An unidentified passenger ship passed the <i>State of Maine</i> as she departed Funchal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPsbExE2sKBZuBo8weNGB-_DPWxIhSSE13FRzvAdqbrrqABWAjP-tDF2JlQ0-msy0_CBDba4JCJYeGfFYXDlTPf2p5AYrdFddfmKsOxb008HlwItKB9QzXE9YFeQcomNuzSnbNq4_jPCwrktUQHFl7gxVkgDfOYRizI5mI76KBEL-uWEHdPEPC06AcXUk8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="303" data-original-width="612" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPsbExE2sKBZuBo8weNGB-_DPWxIhSSE13FRzvAdqbrrqABWAjP-tDF2JlQ0-msy0_CBDba4JCJYeGfFYXDlTPf2p5AYrdFddfmKsOxb008HlwItKB9QzXE9YFeQcomNuzSnbNq4_jPCwrktUQHFl7gxVkgDfOYRizI5mI76KBEL-uWEHdPEPC06AcXUk8=w320-h158" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Finally, the <i>State of Maine</i> arrived in Castine following a shipyard overhaul on Monday, April 9, 1979. That week I took the series of examinations for the third mate's license, which I received on Saturday, April 28. <br /></div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">For a detailed and
informative history of the <i>Upshur-State of Maine</i>, see
https://vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov.</span></p>
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<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Joseph Conrad, <i>Lord
Jim</i>, Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1920, p. 12.</span></p>
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Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-28711006109569928992023-07-30T16:11:00.003-04:002023-09-12T23:00:41.375-04:00Missing Out On Paris<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This past winter, my son
James and his wife Lindsey went on vacation in Miss Patty’s native
Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While there, they made a brief
side trip to France and visited Paris from January 4 to 8, Wednesday to Sunday.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following in the footsteps of James’
four grandparents and two of his great-grandparents, they absorbed as much of
this great city as they could in the limited time that they had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Afterwards, they spoke enthusiastically about
Paris and recommended it to me as a vacation destination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their visit reminded me of an opportunity I once
had to visit Paris, an opportunity which I fortunately passed up. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The training ship <i>State
of Maine</i> arrived in Nantes, on the west coast of France, at 9:30am on Friday,
June 9, 1978.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She remained there for
four days, departing at 8:00pm on Monday, June 12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During this time, I was busy with several
shipboard duties, but I also had some leisure to go ashore and see the
sights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it was not all work and no
play.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Nantes was a medium-size
provincial city with a modest port facility on the Loire River about 25 miles
upstream from the sea. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A group of us explored
the city on Saturday afternoon and found it quite interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Sunday morning, we attended Mass at the fifteenth-century
<i>Cathedrale Saint-Pierre</i> and afterwards lounged in the eighteenth-century
<i>Jardin des Plantes</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
afternoon, we rode a train to nearby La Baule, a quiet beach resort on the Bay
of Biscay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Monday morning found us all
back at work aboard ship, but with an unpleasant surprise from a few of our
shipmates.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A weekend bus trip to
Paris had been offered as an alternative to remaining in Nantes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thinking behind it was that prospective
Merchant Marine officers should receive a cultural education in addition to
technical shipboard training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
sounded like a fine idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My parents
endorsed it, and they offered to give me the money to pay for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They urged me to take this wonderful opportunity
to visit Paris because of its stature as one of the great cultural and
educational capitals of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted
to go, but I didn’t feel right about them spending this extra money on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More significantly, I had a vague notion that
something about this weekend in Paris just didn’t seem right.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">On Monday morning we
cadets were ordered to assemble on the sun deck to hear from the commandant,
the man in charge of discipline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was rip-roaring,
red-in-the-face angry, and he erupted in a vicious shouting rampage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Shouting long and loud, the
commandant informed us that our shipmates in Paris had not pursued cultural
activities but had instead engaged in a drunken riot of vandalism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hotel, reportedly one of the finest in
Paris, suffered shattered windows, broken furniture, damaged walls, and
shredded draperies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vomit and urine saturated
beds, couches, carpets, and bathrooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Liquor
bottles were strewn everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other
guests complained bitterly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
management was outraged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The police came
and quelled the riot.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">While the commandant was
absolutely right in condemning this orgy of destruction, we thought he was
absolutely wrong in spewing his venom at everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vast majority of us had not gone to Paris
and had not carried on like a wild horde of ugly Americans. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We knew better than that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In directing his unbridled wrath at all of
us, the commandant seemed to be blaming the innocent majority as well as the
guilty minority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In doing this so
theatrically, he succeeded mostly in making a fool of himself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was bad enough that a crowd of intoxicated
adolescents had gone berserk while guests in the French capital; to have a
supposedly responsible adult also go berserk added insult to injury.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Furthermore, this grand
display of bluster and bombast carried no real bite. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The culprits did not get in serious
trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the contrary, the bill for
repairs sent by the hotel was distributed evenly to all the cadets’
accounts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The innocent were thus
required to pay as much as the guilty for crimes which they had not
committed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Howls of protest arose afterwards
from angry parents, but in an egregious display of administrative arrogance, the
school refused to take corrective action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We had a choice of either paying up, or not paying and forfeiting
graduation and licensing as Merchant Marine officers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All would be lost then.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">When my parents learned
of these events, they were disgusted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
educated and cultured people, they naturally wanted me to become such, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When my mother had attended college in the
late 1930s, she was selected to spend a semester at the Sorbonne in Paris, but
the political instability of the time prevented this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The threat of war had cancelled her program; the
premonition of drunken depredation cancelled mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Happily, however, additional opportunities
for higher education and cultural development came to both of us.</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Frequently, such higher
education and cultural development come in the sacred scriptures,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">not in rioting and drunkenness, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">not in chambering and wantonness, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">not in strife and envying (Rom. 13:130, <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">as the Apostle Paul wrote
to the Romans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A wise man will hear, and increase
learning; </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">and a man of understanding shall
attain </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">unto wise counsels….but fools despise
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">wisdom and instruction (Prov. 1:5,
7). <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The <i>State of Maine</i>
sailed as scheduled on Monday evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The pilot brought her down the peaceful and placid Loire, and then she
proceeded into the calm and quiet Atlantic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For most of us on board, the ship’s time in Nantes had been a pleasant
occasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nantes had shown itself to be
a charming city of considerable historic and commercial significance surrounded
by beautiful rolling farmland.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As for wintertime Paris, James
and Lindsey had a wonderful but too-short visit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remembering their childhood stories about Madeline,
Ludwig Bemelmans’ fictional heroine of the Parisian boarding school, they visited
the sights of her adventures and found them just as edifying as the churches,
museums, and monuments!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Now, let’s look at some
photographs from off the beaten tourist path: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXkzWY5omXPEMLR-XGMqQxEvmK3wa6UXtyDHzDm403yRM_8kG6Dcmy4M5bOcpz1yvJ9TxabQkP7H7d98hyfZQhWqP_qdlE90-4EBPkuAnII3zG2dLyQmhnNuhlIVTvgvprB2kOlpLBJ00FZRUUG1xE4AxwJhdhdYwCI3MAdEs0dXV9lcvoOYD1WaLs6-5P" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1168" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXkzWY5omXPEMLR-XGMqQxEvmK3wa6UXtyDHzDm403yRM_8kG6Dcmy4M5bOcpz1yvJ9TxabQkP7H7d98hyfZQhWqP_qdlE90-4EBPkuAnII3zG2dLyQmhnNuhlIVTvgvprB2kOlpLBJ00FZRUUG1xE4AxwJhdhdYwCI3MAdEs0dXV9lcvoOYD1WaLs6-5P=w400-h280" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>La Cathedrale Saint-Pierre</i> in Nantes in a postcard view. A historical summary on the reverse side informs us that the cathedral was begun in 1434. Subsequently, it survived the ravages of the French Revolution, an explosion in 1800, bombing in 1944, and a fire in 1972. When I saw it in 1978, it had been almost fully restored.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2PL-oSuQKN2xmI05mPANNUpcBDQWZNYx2ugLjzPRXEVqzFno7WDrt1yUsXl6QylzmfVFRKRHcLYyWrzChDz-AG7HsqiMmM-SQvfKIU6t3xxOj2aZMgNoyegpKcbxSy42awCK1_w7boa_It2z5VtUE1T0z9T6pn5i99ehB7H91Soi6RPooVJ3lPAv8w2rA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1164" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2PL-oSuQKN2xmI05mPANNUpcBDQWZNYx2ugLjzPRXEVqzFno7WDrt1yUsXl6QylzmfVFRKRHcLYyWrzChDz-AG7HsqiMmM-SQvfKIU6t3xxOj2aZMgNoyegpKcbxSy42awCK1_w7boa_It2z5VtUE1T0z9T6pn5i99ehB7H91Soi6RPooVJ3lPAv8w2rA=w400-h281" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Le Jardin des Plantes</i>, a short walk from the cathedral. Families gathered here after Mass for their day of rest. <br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6kNqzncUVFwUKpnVRUgI_8lZNdOOUq_fUcmXd5xBR88fU-ddyYysP3nc-xcK9mRfqoro3fGsHZC_eUHDvhGS_mX2QnbR2BcIcMjjr-T-aCb8u-HtljRqZ3sPgZ2g7oO1JeSijicGPbAE6d4jy98DkVz_cEV7GRcv1LI1lV4X7aFZgpp4q4ZVHQY6bLTOe" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="821" data-original-width="1173" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6kNqzncUVFwUKpnVRUgI_8lZNdOOUq_fUcmXd5xBR88fU-ddyYysP3nc-xcK9mRfqoro3fGsHZC_eUHDvhGS_mX2QnbR2BcIcMjjr-T-aCb8u-HtljRqZ3sPgZ2g7oO1JeSijicGPbAE6d4jy98DkVz_cEV7GRcv1LI1lV4X7aFZgpp4q4ZVHQY6bLTOe=w400-h280" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Le Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne</i>, also near the cathedral. Moated and barricaded for safety in a different era, it now welcomes visitors, but remains closed on Sunday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcIX-eOnddPruEytwQklHp8ACzATUFoo4g_9Z4i3Tlb2-ZRjiwjY8O9YAHZx8mZYouCe1E1Ph8HTyDe_KgVOEdlK6byUkoj1vo5ucsCopExIrydk_lV22c7asv_JwQJMEFaPiX0eS-W5boSBchgXMk7plWKcUW8kcA_dFRH-GJzLGDoSid_mczEQomed02" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="413" data-original-width="524" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcIX-eOnddPruEytwQklHp8ACzATUFoo4g_9Z4i3Tlb2-ZRjiwjY8O9YAHZx8mZYouCe1E1Ph8HTyDe_KgVOEdlK6byUkoj1vo5ucsCopExIrydk_lV22c7asv_JwQJMEFaPiX0eS-W5boSBchgXMk7plWKcUW8kcA_dFRH-GJzLGDoSid_mczEQomed02=w400-h315" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The railroad station in La Baule, within walking distance of the beach. I took this picture because I found its architectural style intriguing. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgd1AUL2LW_uFJHs2osEqaTGHwgz-RL_NQ90ZtJOFh3933L3HxkalEj92UcrhKlh2OFg43svmahVheg1InCkWCV-oU8QecTccUcV9z7kxnlmJ5A7cHZ7oVwcB-AVqzjKawQO2eDY4fJc4LnTWjy3R6RYrlpxjfcqnCAHVUAoAQjyPbWpcTi3Yhics7-P_7E" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="698" data-original-width="662" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgd1AUL2LW_uFJHs2osEqaTGHwgz-RL_NQ90ZtJOFh3933L3HxkalEj92UcrhKlh2OFg43svmahVheg1InCkWCV-oU8QecTccUcV9z7kxnlmJ5A7cHZ7oVwcB-AVqzjKawQO2eDY4fJc4LnTWjy3R6RYrlpxjfcqnCAHVUAoAQjyPbWpcTi3Yhics7-P_7E=w380-h400" width="380" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Finally, we see the bridge and forward superstructure of the <i>State of Maine</i> as she leaves Europe behind and sails westward across the Atlantic toward Portland, Maine, in late June of 1978. </div></div></div></div>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-44509004445981276652023-07-23T18:48:00.000-04:002023-07-23T18:48:54.019-04:00The Man on the Moon<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Celestial navigation was
always one of my favorite parts of going to sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a long transoceanic voyage, this included
taking sights of the Sun and stars to determine the location of the ship on the
great expanse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A typical day’s work with
the Sun included several sights, two or three running fixes, a latitude by
meridian altitude, and amplitudes to determine compass error.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morning and evening twilight meant star
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this interval when the stars
and the horizon were both visible, a round of five or six star sights yielded
positions before the Captain retired for the night and before he arose in the
morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Moon played a unique
navigational role and was always most useful at night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a clear night, a full or nearly full Moon
illuminated the horizon sufficiently to make star sights possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always liked taking “midnight stars” during
a peaceful and quiet night watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also
liked to sometimes take sights of the Moon as I would of the Sun in the
daytime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This could be a bit tricky, as
the Moon moved across the sky so quickly compared to the Sun and stars, but
proficiency came with practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There was always
something special about the Moon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
seemed different from everything else in the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It traveled on its own schedule and radiated
its own unique and stark beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
produced no light of its own, but reflected the Sun’s light instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the Sun it created the tides, but its
closer proximity to the Earth outweighed the Sun’s greater mass in determining
the range of the tides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was not
using the Moon for navigational work, I often enjoyed studying its craters and
ridges through a set of high-power binoculars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes I paused to think that several humans had actually travelled
to the Moon and walked on its surface. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I had watched Apollo 11
make the first Moon landing on television in July of 1969.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was eleven years old then, old enough to
know what was happening, but not old enough to fully understand its
significance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two years later, a chance
encounter brought me face to face with one of the Apollo 11 astronauts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My older brother—the
smart one in the family—attended the University of Notre Dame and graduated on
Sunday afternoon, May 23, 1971.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
parents and I made the long trek from New York to Indiana for this auspicious
occasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the academic ceremony
was over my head, but I remember one salient feature of the day very clearly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Notre Dame awarded nine
honorary degrees that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
recipients of these honors were all high achievers, of course, but one was, and
still is, a man of unique achievement who now holds a correspondingly unique
place in human history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was Neil
Armstrong, the first person to walk on the Moon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was quickly followed by his colleague
Edwin Aldrin, but only Neil Armstrong was present at Notre Dame that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He received the degree of Doctor of Laws, <i>honoris
causa</i>, in recognition of his accomplishment in travelling to the Moon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He accepted this award graciously, and
afterwards he remained seated quietly and inconspicuously while the graduates
received their credentials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Following the conclusion
of the ceremony, everyone left the arena.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As my parents and I were walking toward the family car, we noticed Doctor
Armstrong, escorted by a detail of the Indiana State Police, exiting through a
back door and heading toward a waiting automobile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Numerous well-wishers, autograph-seekers, and
photographers lined his route.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father
pulled out his camera and said to me, “David, quick, go over there and say
hello!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I joined the crowd, which
included several boys about my own age, and took a piece of paper from my
pocket for Doctor Armstrong to sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
waited my turn, then extended the paper toward him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Doctor Armstrong spoke to
me pleasantly but regretfully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I don’t
have a pen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you have a pen?” I said
that I did not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’m sorry,” he replied,
“I don’t have a pen, either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sorry.”
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wished me well and off I went,
realizing that the other boys had come prepared with their own pens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On returning to my parents, I learned that my
father had quickly taken snapshots of this encounter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fifty-two years later, we still have these photographs
in our family archives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of them is
labelled, “David asking Neil Armstrong for autograph.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I seriously doubt that a signature on a small
scrap of paper would have lasted as long as the pictures have.. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So I had met and been
photographed with the first man to walk on the Moon!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a big deal for a thirteen-year-old
boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a great moment for my
parents, too, and it soon became a treasured family memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At sea several years later, I sometimes
thought of this chance encounter with Neil Armstrong when I was using the Moon
for navigation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an adult, I came to
realize that meeting him had indeed been a very special privilege.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ashore now, I still enjoy
gazing at the Moon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I keep track of its
phases and point them out to my grandchildren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think of the Moon as an old friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In addition to illuminating the horizon and governing the tides, the
Moon brings back memories of pleasant nights at sea and a happy meeting with
its first visitor from Earth.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCMQf0s3gYdTYcU-NK6VR4VpXfHhubNUqbGsC4_vukbXPIxJCGb1sU_RbJUBEqIB2AH3UbiQ4CJ48mBGkHwaHoczAPDPuFleXY9a0UCgGuxNGvJ1bKpXzgVkbNP6TrPRWs702qlWAUtLVwItVkEL58CoBIX4G1ixjblIk6udcD2MpwDnLYIQ6-EyYhieXU/s915/53-Notre%20Dame-Convocation%20Center-Neil%20Armstrong%20&%20police%20escort-May%2023,%201971.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="915" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCMQf0s3gYdTYcU-NK6VR4VpXfHhubNUqbGsC4_vukbXPIxJCGb1sU_RbJUBEqIB2AH3UbiQ4CJ48mBGkHwaHoczAPDPuFleXY9a0UCgGuxNGvJ1bKpXzgVkbNP6TrPRWs702qlWAUtLVwItVkEL58CoBIX4G1ixjblIk6udcD2MpwDnLYIQ6-EyYhieXU/s320/53-Notre%20Dame-Convocation%20Center-Neil%20Armstrong%20&%20police%20escort-May%2023,%201971.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Neil Armstrong leaves the Athletic and Convocation Center at the University of Notre Dame on Sunday afternoon, May 23, 1971. He is escorted by a contingent of the Indiana State Police. The boy approaching him is an autograph-seeker ahead of me in line for Doctor Armstrong's attention.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiubXYNU1VWK40xnQzS7fdUgofD79lKIyZl50fmtutkB28PwXEmJ0txwSnNd8Dc1raJuqi9CYstg0K4qDyxjkUbY9sYjZT_wmSqi8bWl6tbXi46jMy4NbhA4HJzNBDeuMJ-f9QFmE_ml51IUeiV3CvQaS2o7_QaHAiVa2xCuham7RjCimautYtxSVZetxqc/s1083/54-Notre%20Dame-Convocation%20Center-David,%20Neil%20Armstrong%20&%20police%20escort-May%2023,%201971.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1083" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiubXYNU1VWK40xnQzS7fdUgofD79lKIyZl50fmtutkB28PwXEmJ0txwSnNd8Dc1raJuqi9CYstg0K4qDyxjkUbY9sYjZT_wmSqi8bWl6tbXi46jMy4NbhA4HJzNBDeuMJ-f9QFmE_ml51IUeiV3CvQaS2o7_QaHAiVa2xCuham7RjCimautYtxSVZetxqc/s320/54-Notre%20Dame-Convocation%20Center-David,%20Neil%20Armstrong%20&%20police%20escort-May%2023,%201971.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yours truly with my back to the camera. Doctor Armstrong stands in front of me, also not facing the camera, and I am patiently waiting my turn with him. A truly major moment for a thirteen-year old boy.</div><br />Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-5608825315450072212023-07-09T17:38:00.000-04:002023-07-09T17:38:06.807-04:00Come Sail Away<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A strange memory occurred
to me recently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About twenty years ago,
Miss Patty and I were planning a family vacation to Nova Scotia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day after work, I went to the AAA office here
in Nashua to pick up some road maps and travel brochures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clerk who assisted me asked if we wanted
to take the international ferry between Portland, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova
Scotia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I replied that we hadn’t
decided yet, he made his recommendations.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“If
you do take the ferry,” he began, “take it going <i>to</i> Nova Scotia and not
coming back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It leaves Maine at 6:00pm
and goes overnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can sleep, then,
and get to Nova Scotia early the next morning. You won’t waste any time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming back to Maine, it goes during the
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re stuck on the boat for twelve
hours with nothing to do but look at water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s boring as hell.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here he
rolled his eyes and shook his head disgustedly to emphasize his point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I made that mistake once,” he continued.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I was bored out of my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never again!” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">On
hearing this, I nearly burst out laughing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If only he knew who he was talking to, I thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twelve hours of looking at water sounded like
a great day to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wished I had
brought my Merchant Marine license to show him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I would have told him that I looked at water to earn a living for
several years, and I would gladly do it again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would most definitely <i>not</i> be bored!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This
man certainly caught my attention and provided some amusing entertainment for
me with his memorable remarks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two
decades later, I still remember this monologue vividly, and I can’t think of it
without laughing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I did not laugh
then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, I politely thanked him
for the road maps, the travel brochures, and his professional advice regarding the
international ferry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As
things turned out, we did not take the ferry between Maine and Nova
Scotia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in two summers of
vacationing in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and
Newfoundland, we did make several voyages aboard the several ships that
connected these provinces. These voyages ranged in duration from one hour to
fourteen hours, and none of us were bored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the contrary, we all agreed that even the fourteen-hour journey was
too short and went by too quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
impressed that four teenage children would unanimously agree with their middle-aged
parents on this point.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Our
first voyage took place on Tuesday, June 24, 2003, aboard the <i>Princess of
Acadia.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This lovely old vessel sailed
across the Bay of Fundy from Saint John, New Brunswick, to Digby, Nova Scotia,
in a leisurely three hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all
enjoyed this passage tremendously, and the children were especially intrigued
by the extreme drop in tide that we saw on arrival in Digby.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Two
days later, on Thursday, June 26, we sailed from Caribou, Nova Scotia, to Wood
Island, Prince Edward Island, aboard the <i>Holiday Island.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a shorter voyage across the
Northumberland Strait on a hazy, hot, and humid day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The comparatively cool breeze on the water was
refreshing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Two
days later, on Saturday, June 28, we recrossed the Northumberland Strait from
Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick via the new Confederation Bridge. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we recognized the Confederation as a
marvel of modern civil engineering, we would have been just as happy to sail
aboard the historic ferry that it had recently replaced.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Returning
a year later, we sailed aboard the <i>Joseph and Clara Smallwood</i> from North
Sydney, Nova Scotia, to Argentia, Newfoundland, on Monday, June 21, 2004.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This grand voyage took fourteen hours and
thirty minutes across open ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had
been concerned that our four teenagers’ interest would not last for this
duration, but it did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all loved it
and wanted to do it again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A
week later, we did do it again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
Sunday, June 27, we sailed aboard the <i>Lief Ericson</i> from
Port-aux-Basques, Newfoundland, to North Sydney, Nova Scotia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A shorter voyage of only six hours, it seemed
slightly anticlimactic but was nonetheless a wonderful way to spend a large
part of the day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In
recalling these events of twenty years ago, I also remember a popular song from
over forty years ago, when I first went to sea, and which I recently heard
again:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m sailing away. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Set an open course </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">For the virgin sea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ve got to be free,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Free to face the life</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">That’s ahead of me.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As
a teenager looking ahead to a seemingly endless and limitless future, I felt
impatient to leave home and go away and get on with life, a life of following
the sea wherever it took me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sea to
me meant freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It gave me the freedom
to “search for tomorrow on every shore,” and to learn and grow from the
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This experience, acquired
both at sea and in port, inspired me to upgrade my license and advance
professionally, and later, to pursue higher education in the humanities in
college.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, at retirement age, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I look to the sea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Reflections in the waves </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Spark my memories.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">These
memories of my seafaring experiences, “some happy, some sad,” have to a large
degree formed my character, guided my thinking, and shaped my outlook on life, and
they continue to provide a foundation for philosophical inquiry, reasoned
analysis, and the eternal search for <i>lux et veritas</i>, light and truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this way, I have found many tomorrows on
many shores.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Not
content to remain ashore, though, I have taken many opportunities to return to
the sea and again partake of the inspirational beauty and majesty of this
unique element of Creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the
opportunity arose to sail among the eastern provinces of Canada, my family and
I jumped at the chance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we all have
fond memories of these voyages.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In
all the years that I have felt drawn to the sea, I have frequently sensed the
presence of the Divine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is usually
difficult and sometimes impossible to articulate, but despite its inherent
ineffability, the spiritual aspect of the sea remains undeniable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is often as if</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A gathering of angels</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Appeared above my head.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">They sang to me this song of hope,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">And this is what they said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">They said:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Come sail away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Come sail away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Come sail away with me now.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Come sail away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Come sail away.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Come sail away with me.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Whether
standing on the shore and looking out to sea, or boarding a ship and going to
sea, the experience is always sublime, and there is never any occasion for
boredom!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Now
let’s look at a few photographs of Canadian ships:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjox0zRi33UduCYq1AkWnAGkKCmjh0gmvlbcY6NtuIkbSp4mY_8uUC68sT2Vfkh5W9KIbeDrf4d9yx8PyfblO48-YwQQL-fH3rKEQeD22KSzSfXO1xJR8jTui4ahmhapyeUFWDwzklYBHFl3SFqka94azQolV2TOoXF-N542thykHI6920lBeWn0J2m67Rx" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="309" data-original-width="965" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjox0zRi33UduCYq1AkWnAGkKCmjh0gmvlbcY6NtuIkbSp4mY_8uUC68sT2Vfkh5W9KIbeDrf4d9yx8PyfblO48-YwQQL-fH3rKEQeD22KSzSfXO1xJR8jTui4ahmhapyeUFWDwzklYBHFl3SFqka94azQolV2TOoXF-N542thykHI6920lBeWn0J2m67Rx=w400-h127" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <i>Princess of Acadia</i> approaches her dock in Saint John, New Brunswick, on Tuesday, June 24, 2003.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7MxPYpVZk603ddcm5ibhU9XhOn9OdG_iUFcHM20nLLHP3tDHrX89Ql9h80E0EPDz3qdgsJulMFBUoEayMQIoMBEYNZKhiznIbsJokjR5LkJQirKSsZtDf16MXzAL04E_-YNHNgdNcj1z4PlL-zZmNDRi8z3H8YVuXb0xXCvrdeWhFELug_CJviIkJxfqV" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="322" data-original-width="673" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7MxPYpVZk603ddcm5ibhU9XhOn9OdG_iUFcHM20nLLHP3tDHrX89Ql9h80E0EPDz3qdgsJulMFBUoEayMQIoMBEYNZKhiznIbsJokjR5LkJQirKSsZtDf16MXzAL04E_-YNHNgdNcj1z4PlL-zZmNDRi8z3H8YVuXb0xXCvrdeWhFELug_CJviIkJxfqV=w400-h191" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <i>Confederation</i>, as seen from her running mate, the <i>Holiday Island</i>, as the two vessels ply the route between Caribou, Nova Scotia, and Wood Island, Prince Edward Island, on Thursday, June 26, 2003.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxdX2Da0EU9pw1OCE96wZAH3Yt4AIo87BnisnDMDgI6mCCqcNueRApoYNw5uiXXBMB5ufq2bT4czrCdZYzZ6R_Q8iU6lP8eX8V99xUuDGebx663C1BA1I-2i5BX1gi-r0F1KzRhnENINOKnOKolpCgurFZBvhx-MxdzSnPb4h0ZNMJj9Z4FTUKNMGmLg5G" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="688" data-original-width="975" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxdX2Da0EU9pw1OCE96wZAH3Yt4AIo87BnisnDMDgI6mCCqcNueRApoYNw5uiXXBMB5ufq2bT4czrCdZYzZ6R_Q8iU6lP8eX8V99xUuDGebx663C1BA1I-2i5BX1gi-r0F1KzRhnENINOKnOKolpCgurFZBvhx-MxdzSnPb4h0ZNMJj9Z4FTUKNMGmLg5G=w400-h283" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view from the bridge of the <i>Joseph and Clara Smallwood</i> on her voyage from North Sydney, Nova Scotia, to Argentia, Newfoundland, on Monday, June 21, 2004.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFyq6KHLJfrHxNKkwW6XXpRy7gvuExlsaiKFH-I9Lu4--XPplTgS573Tp_kamrtFDBWtBhjM2G_MTKUcvg89lxTLMQcKCmHxLNTg8rIfAhNkszr4xXQtg2XKkB1mtvzs44GKcWAg-jSl12_NFxyoEK9GojRuBbe7_vh75XcMh3wJSmKSINzGbs6H46Av1_" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="698" data-original-width="975" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFyq6KHLJfrHxNKkwW6XXpRy7gvuExlsaiKFH-I9Lu4--XPplTgS573Tp_kamrtFDBWtBhjM2G_MTKUcvg89lxTLMQcKCmHxLNTg8rIfAhNkszr4xXQtg2XKkB1mtvzs44GKcWAg-jSl12_NFxyoEK9GojRuBbe7_vh75XcMh3wJSmKSINzGbs6H46Av1_=w400-h286" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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the fog in Port-aux-Basques, Newfoundland, prior to loading passengers and cargo
early on Sunday morning, June 27, 2004.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHI3Ts8Z1eXjNhyu2KJHhOEJrOR5heJLXWlYX3XvoWbt-KkPLb9tcUMx8WcFmr21oU6tdon6Lgm50jdEBxaQ83TkyXMGlJpIkgHzvps-jOd0G2sc5TbrMOdsBYQHb9mudxPqV-hDCQMz8IiYkz3WhIHCqDzL5MiO4ASiD3DF3Xk8NzPodzZNJln2LyEtuE" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="673" data-original-width="1179" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHI3Ts8Z1eXjNhyu2KJHhOEJrOR5heJLXWlYX3XvoWbt-KkPLb9tcUMx8WcFmr21oU6tdon6Lgm50jdEBxaQ83TkyXMGlJpIkgHzvps-jOd0G2sc5TbrMOdsBYQHb9mudxPqV-hDCQMz8IiYkz3WhIHCqDzL5MiO4ASiD3DF3Xk8NzPodzZNJln2LyEtuE=w400-h229" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption">The <i>Abegweit</i> sails beneath the new Confederation Bridge that took her place on the route between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick on June 1, 1997, in this postcard view.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;"> This and all
subsequent quotations are from Dennis De Young, “Come Sail Away,” in Styx<i>,
The Grand Illusion</i>, A&M Records, 1977. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Found on </span><a href="http://www.AZLyrics.com"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;">www.AZLyrics.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;">, <i>et al</i>.;
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<![endif]--></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On Sunday afternoon,
November 4, 1979, the <i>General Hoyt S. Vandenberg</i> sailed from Roosevelt
Roads, Puerto Rico, bound for a special operations area in the Caribbean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to depart at 3:00pm, the ship rested
patiently alongside the dock in the beautiful tropical weather while her crew
tended to their duties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Captain C.H.
Harriman stood with the harbor pilot on the starboard bridge wing, watching as
the last mooring lines were brought aboard. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stood at the engine order telegraph inside
the bridge and next to the helmsman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
were to get underway in just another minute, when suddenly an unexpected
visitor arrived.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Entering through the
chartroom, Mitchel Salem, the first assistant engineer, asked me quietly,
“Where’s the old man?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Somewhat startled by this
soft-spoken apparition, I pointed and replied, “He’s on the starboard wing.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I watched as Mitch approached the old
man and said something privately into his ear. Captain Harriman, the taller of
the two, bent over to listen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a
moment he stood up straight, looked around, and exclaimed in a very loud voice,
“I can’t sail without him!!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the commotion that
followed, it was revealed that the Chief Engineer was not on the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had been searched for everywhere, but to
no avail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The obvious conclusion was
that he was still ashore and would miss the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Captain Harriman hurriedly instructed the
linehandlers to leave one head line and one stern line on the dock. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then stepped inside the bridge to examine
the Certificate of Inspection, which listed all the crewmen and their specific
qualifications that the ship was required by law to carry. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the engine room of the
<i>General Vandenberg</i>, there were five licensed officers: a Chief Engineer,
a first assistant engineer, a second assistant engineer, and two third
assistant engineers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four of these five were
required for the ship to legally sail from an American port; only the second
third assistant engineer was not required by the Certificate. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this extra third assistant, an older man
from Spain named Castro, held a Chief Engineer’s license, the only one besides
the actual Chief who did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, whether he
wanted the job or not, it suddenly became his.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Captain Harriman called the engine room and spoke with him briefly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Mr. Castro,” he barked into the phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You’re the Chief Engineer for this voyage!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t sail without you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You got it down there?” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An on-the-spot promotion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With the crewing crisis
concluded, Captain Harriman returned to the bridge wing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last lines were taken in, the pilot gave
the helm and engine directions, and a tugboat helped ease the <i>General
Vandenberg</i> away from the dock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon
she was turned around and heading out to sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once the ship cleared the harbor, the pilot left and was taken ashore in
a launch.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Just when we were settling
in to a normal underway watch, a radio call came in from the tugboat
dispatcher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had our Chief Engineer
and would send him out to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would we
please slow down so the tugboat could catch up to us more easily?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At a much reduced speed, and with the pilot ladder
again lowered, we waited for the tug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
it arrived, it nudged along the starboard side, and the missing Chief Engineer climbed
aboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I watched from the bridge wing
with Captain Harriman, whose annoyance at this entire episode was obvious but
restrained.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The scriptures inform us
that “unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required: and to whom
men have committed much, of him they will ask the more” (Luke 12:48).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve often heard this paraphrased in
contemporary English as, “More is expected of those to whom more is entrusted.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Captain Harriman’s translation, related to me
in a litany of complaint afterwards, was “It’s one thing for an ordinary seaman
to miss the ship when it sails, but it’s altogether different when the Chief
Engineer does the same thing.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever
the wording, though, it’s the same principle. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Working one’s way up to
either Master or Chief Engineer is a long and arduous process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it were easy, the licenses would be
meaningless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it is not easy,
these licenses make a statement about the men who hold them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They certify that these men are competent and
trustworthy, that they have made the grade and paid their dues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simply put, the Master’s and Chief Engineer’s
licenses command respect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it is
natural for those who respect the Master and Chief Engineer to expect professionalism
in return.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Over the years, I’ve seen
that the majority of educated and professional people conduct themselves appropriately
and responsibly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The small number who
don’t are the exceptions and not the rule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I recall a few such standouts of egregious unprofessionalism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the worst of these was the director of
a college library, a place where we asked people to keep their voices down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She frequently threw public hissy fits and
vicious temper tantrums over trivial matters, one day shrieking at maximum
volume and with eardrum-splitting intensity at a staff member about his lack of
political correctness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Witnessing this
performance, I thought but did not say, this woman is educated to the PhD
level, and <i>this</i> is how she behaves?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Unfortunately, not
everyone “to whom much is given” returns what is “required.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put another way, “it’s one thing for an”
illiterate street urchin to scream like a banshee at another person, “but it’s
altogether different when” a highly educated professional librarian “does the
same thing.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The standards for and the
expectations of the two are completely different.</span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">After the Chief
Engineer was safely returned to the <i>General Vandenberg</i>, he resumed his
duties in the engine room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Castro stepped
down and resumed his duties as third assistant, but he received a day’s pay as
Chief for his brief promotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i>General
Vandenberg</i> then set forth on an uneventful voyage to her operations area, and
after that, northwestward to Port Canaveral, Florida. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She arrived there on Wednesday, November 14,
1979.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These events took place so long
ago, but I’ve always remembered the day the Chief missed the ship and was
almost left behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was very young
then, and this episode made an impression on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It showed me that I could learn valuable
lessons by simply observing the actions of others.</span><p></p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-71070291310746156592022-06-05T19:37:00.000-04:002022-06-05T19:37:02.355-04:00Commuting to Alaska
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With two of my
grandchildren resident in Alaska, I must endure an uncomfortable imprisonment
in the middle seat of an airplane for seemingly endless hours in order to visit
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, two middle seats aboard
two airplanes, first from Boston to Seattle, and then from Seattle to
Anchorage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miss Patty occupies the
window seat; a stranger sits by the aisle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thus confined through the long and dark night, I sleep intermittently and
occasionally study the on-screen navigational map.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite the discomfort, I realize what a
blessing it is to be able to travel so far so quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More importantly, I know that the reasons for
this travel, our granddaughters Miss Katie and Miss Abby, are themselves the
most sublime and supernal of all blessings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is always an honor to visit with them. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This point became all the
more clear in church one Sunday morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As the speaker held forth on the importance of family, the two girls
took turns climbing on laps, alternating between me and their <i>Oma</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their sweet innocence, unfeigned affection,
and complete trust spoke volumes, “for of such is the kingdom of God” (Mark
10:14).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Our visits to the Alaskan
grandchildren often involved opportunities to visit the Alaskan coastline as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The majestic beauty of Nature showed
forth in a grand confluence of geology and oceanography as the snow-capped Chugach
and Kenai Mountains intermingled with cold North Pacific waterways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far-flung seaport villages dotted this
sparsely settled coast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of them, Seward
and Whittier, lay near enough to Anchorage to make day trips feasible.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On Monday, October 4,
2021, then, we drove to Seward on the Kenai Peninsula and visited the Alaska
Sea Life Center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This marvelous facility
consisted of an aquarium, an aviary, a museum, and a research laboratory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birds, fish, and marine mammals abounded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One sea lion in particular took a liking to
Miss Katie and Miss Abby and put on an impromptu demonstration of diving,
jumping, splashing, and making faces at them through the glass wall of the
tank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naturally, the two girls loved the
attention.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The back porch of the Sea
Life Center overlooked Resurrection Bay. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This view was magnificent with the snow-capped
Kenai Mountains nearly surrounding an expansive and placid fjord of Pacific seawater.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Local lore held that Captain James Cook of
the Royal Navy discovered Resurrection Bay on Easter Sunday and named it in
honor of the occasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The historical
record indicated otherwise, however. This showed that it was actually named by Alexander
Baranov, a Russian colonist and the first governor of Russian America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His ship took refuge in the bay during a
severe North Pacific storm and then emerged in calm weather on Easter Sunday.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also founded the port of Voskresenskii,
which was later renamed Seward, on the bay’s western shore in 1793.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The discrepancies between
fact and folklore notwithstanding, our visit to the Alaska Sea Life Center and
Resurrection Bay was a fascinating and unforgettable experience filled with
breathtaking natural beauty evocative of “the works of the Lord, and his
wonders in the deep” (Ps. 107:24).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On Sunday afternoon, May
15, 2022, we drove to Whittier and visited the commercial shipping docks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two grand vessels were in port that day, the
cruise ship <i>Nieuw Amsterdam</i> of the Holland America Line, and the ferry <i>Aurora</i>
of the Alaska Marine Highway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both of
these ships were part of our family history, and it was good to see them
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our family, then lacking
grandchildren, had sailed aboard the <i>Nieuw Amsterdam</i> in the Caribbean in
February of 2012, and I had seen the <i>Aurora</i> at her dock in Whittier on
my first visit to Alaska in October of 2015.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Whittier stood on the
south side of the Passage Canal, which was not a canal at all but an alcove
adjoining the larger Prince William Sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Captain James Cook discovered this body of water in 1778, and it was
subsequently named after the third son of King George III.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In time, Whittier developed into a busy
commercial, military, and fishing port with highway and railroad links to
Anchorage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i>Nieuw Amsterdam</i>
docked there so passengers could make a convenient connection to the Alaska
Railroad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i>Aurora </i>docked there
to load and discharge passengers and their private automobiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surrounding both ships was a pristine oblong
fjord nearly encapsulated by tall and jagged snow-covered mountains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was truly a view of the majesty of Creation,
one that “let the beauty of the Lord be upon us” (Ps. 90:17).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The two granddaughters
watched in rapt attention as the diminutive but elegant <i>Aurora</i> made her
approach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She passed directly in front
of us as she turned and then backed down to her dock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the stern ramp was lowered the traffic
started off the ship, and this, too, held the girls’ attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With her business concluded after only half
an hour in port, the <i>Aurora</i> took in her mooring lines and got underway
again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The <i>Nieuw Amsterdam</i>,
by comparison, was much larger and more stationary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She would sail late in the evening, long
after our return to Anchorage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Meanwhile, she dominated the waterfront with her immense size and
graceful lines, and yet she was dwarfed by the surrounding mountains that
towered over her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found a small
floating dock and attached gangway near her bow to be the best vantage point
for viewing, photographing, and reminiscing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On Thursday, May 19, 2022,
I set out alone and on foot from the house during the granddaughters’
naptime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fifteen minutes of walking
brought me away from the activity of the city to a pedestrian and bicycle trail
paralleling the Cook Inlet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This stretch
of water extended from the open Pacific northeastward to the Anchorage
International Airport and thence to downtown Anchorage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trail connected these two areas, covering
a distance of several miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scenic
lookout spots, where one could sit quietly and imbibe the view, dotted the
path. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My favorite of these
lookout spots gave me unobstructed views in several directions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the northeast stood the modern skyscrapers
of downtown with the Chugach Mountains behind them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the northwest and across the inlet from
the city the Panamanian cargo ship <i>Bunun Wisdom</i> of the Wisdom Line<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a></span> lay anchored near the opposite shore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To southwest the airport occupied a
peninsula from which every ten minutes or so an airplane took off into the
northerly breeze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surprisingly, the
distant roar of the jet engines did not seem intrusive, nor did the occasional sounds
of locomotive horns from the freight trains on the nearby railroad tracks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More quietly, though, spread out directly in
front of me were the extensive low tide mud flats of the Cook Inlet backed by a
much larger expanse of blue water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was a truly magnificent vista. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could
have stayed there all afternoon, but the granddaughters’ nap time would not last
that long!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Of course, these
granddaughters, along with our sons and daughters-in-law, were the reasons why
Miss Patty and I had <span style="font-size: small;">traveled </span>to Alaska in the first place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the sightseeing was a nice bonus and an
uplifting spiritual experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
family, however, was paramount.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
this family we had wonderful vacations, times that went by much too quickly,
but also times that reminded us of how fortunate we were to have both children
and grandchildren, as well as good children-in-law.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Two great spiritual
events took place during these family reunions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The first was Miss Katie’s baby blessing on Sunday, March 4, 2018.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following the family tradition, she wore the
christening gown which her great-great-grandparents, Robert Burns and Julia
Murphy, had purchased in 1949 for their first grandson, and which has now been
used by three generations of our family.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The second, and the true spiritual
summit of our visits, took place in the evening of Wednesday, October 6, 2021,
in the Anchorage Temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miss Patty and
I gathered in the sealing room with our two sons and daughters-in-law and
carried out the requisite sealings for my deceased parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First they were sealed to their parents, then
to each other, and finally to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Afterwards,
we retired to the celestial room for an interval of quiet contemplation before leaving.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While one need not fly to
Alaska in order to enjoy a happy family gathering and a meaningful religious experience,
the investment of time, effort, and discomfort in traveling makes the trek seem
like a pilgrimage, and thus it enhances the intensity of the occasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such were my thoughts during my confinement in
the awkward middle seats of the airplanes on the long nocturnal flights home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, I look forward to going back and doing
it all again!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Next, let’s look at some
pictures: </span></p>
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The <i>Aurora</i> discharges passengers and their vehicles at the dock in Whittier.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibz0Tm5JkEV2xExqhdHz6TtCDZlKk9szVdoM3juYBv2ok28w7DrPVAbvNW_uayFwzF_lRzPkKYWLRPC5km2MwuwvWYNnnD05w6VweFKs-XwhRZSxldoHG-jXoqHHgpn4qnl1wypgU_c3G13rOiVuZ97L7rwrNDiFZXQimU9j9-JdyrmwTG1VPopUvcpg/s4032/IMG_0146.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibz0Tm5JkEV2xExqhdHz6TtCDZlKk9szVdoM3juYBv2ok28w7DrPVAbvNW_uayFwzF_lRzPkKYWLRPC5km2MwuwvWYNnnD05w6VweFKs-XwhRZSxldoHG-jXoqHHgpn4qnl1wypgU_c3G13rOiVuZ97L7rwrNDiFZXQimU9j9-JdyrmwTG1VPopUvcpg/w400-h300/IMG_0146.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same day; different ship. The <i>Nieuw Amsterdam</i> reposes quietly at the main commercial dock in Whittier. She is a large vessel, but the mountains easily outsize her.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69rBdMQDwEc8bVTAkDmqx-3NRrEDhofmSpXVDFv_BmDGM6vzEEtcsmwVIUr8cxSXS_fNN1Zey8IYHK6GUfsQVEMHDiO2A34DRbFaE0npNrEGuWO44EM8-LBDkeaid3S1tak4vNZFnOEneQb_Zgp1WM8ZwFEzQY43K9THGKelXQGQiCgH4j7qbSrEXUQ/s702/IMG_0173.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="702" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69rBdMQDwEc8bVTAkDmqx-3NRrEDhofmSpXVDFv_BmDGM6vzEEtcsmwVIUr8cxSXS_fNN1Zey8IYHK6GUfsQVEMHDiO2A34DRbFaE0npNrEGuWO44EM8-LBDkeaid3S1tak4vNZFnOEneQb_Zgp1WM8ZwFEzQY43K9THGKelXQGQiCgH4j7qbSrEXUQ/w400-h281/IMG_0173.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view of the Cook Inlet in Anchorage on Thursday, May 19, 2022, with the anchored cargo ship <i>Bunun Wisdom</i>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQxWda0Mxj4juGU7K7ykwq4x-odVKPZ_1PZG37jTA4WVWJXenKPDtBxJnPwmSt3Gyx4lTsF3cpkiBLzdjTwyfyo5UmEGDboJkKXUiCGEQtglDN50T5z44yCI5Ls7-iy8AEqd1cjAN4w0WIz4VoeNNgglD8EmwkKjFG9WTIqv6Cto6TvVbX_KBHMQrrVQ/s569/6362be9c-668c-4a38-9a05-3a570a37b33c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="345" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQxWda0Mxj4juGU7K7ykwq4x-odVKPZ_1PZG37jTA4WVWJXenKPDtBxJnPwmSt3Gyx4lTsF3cpkiBLzdjTwyfyo5UmEGDboJkKXUiCGEQtglDN50T5z44yCI5Ls7-iy8AEqd1cjAN4w0WIz4VoeNNgglD8EmwkKjFG9WTIqv6Cto6TvVbX_KBHMQrrVQ/w242-h400/6362be9c-668c-4a38-9a05-3a570a37b33c.jpg" width="242" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"And the light shineth in darkness" (John 1:5). The steeple of the Anchorage Temple on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, following the completion of my parents' sealing ordinances.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ZfN_Bd0v2S4O77RmAvj-IkpN0YjdznNywcX6-RX-jOScIxkpY0aHr08zL18qM9JC_HN6nqeSmnAJL35rgJguhZz8mdErun0_kiXWD6eV8K_Jv4NcuBdQvc0pbOAd--R_eDf03ki3xmsI7am-jO5x-UHaoSJdwea0OkhTYcOtyBNlq7Rzq8zAHA0v4w/s1435/IMG_0114.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1435" data-original-width="989" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ZfN_Bd0v2S4O77RmAvj-IkpN0YjdznNywcX6-RX-jOScIxkpY0aHr08zL18qM9JC_HN6nqeSmnAJL35rgJguhZz8mdErun0_kiXWD6eV8K_Jv4NcuBdQvc0pbOAd--R_eDf03ki3xmsI7am-jO5x-UHaoSJdwea0OkhTYcOtyBNlq7Rzq8zAHA0v4w/w276-h400/IMG_0114.JPG" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some lights shine just as well in the daytime. The steeple of the meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on West 40th Avenue in Anchorage, where my sons and their families attend church, on Sunday, May 15, 2022.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPamoZM1qWoTpJR1cUcHc9MnI0wXo4i3QaUQrtDMUtoe1hFhd6sYkK1uSk3-e6IPc5J6VNjCGQaXYIOCtDk36RbVDmn4977asW6AD2yDH6apnDZwaqDGgjpJ8-xVqEyMPL6rTaED1SdcdiWREV1SKDnga6LuQ3KbDvyBxIJ8qSKzAVWRMlRbbc5rMnA/s825/IMG_0105.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPamoZM1qWoTpJR1cUcHc9MnI0wXo4i3QaUQrtDMUtoe1hFhd6sYkK1uSk3-e6IPc5J6VNjCGQaXYIOCtDk36RbVDmn4977asW6AD2yDH6apnDZwaqDGgjpJ8-xVqEyMPL6rTaED1SdcdiWREV1SKDnga6LuQ3KbDvyBxIJ8qSKzAVWRMlRbbc5rMnA/w291-h400/IMG_0105.JPG" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Neighbors. Across the street stands Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral. Built in the Spanish Mission Revival style, the cathedral has twin belfries, each topped with a Mediterranean-style red tile roof surmounted by a Latin cross. A traditional symbol of Christianity, the cross reminds us of the brutality and suffering involved in the Atonement, a point we should always remember and appreciate.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_Bay.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Andreyevich_Baranov.</span></p></div><div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William_Sound.</span></p>
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</p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sitting in the darkness
at the water’s edge at Falmouth Beach on Cape Cod on Wednesday, September 22,
2021, I gazed into the night and almost felt as if I were aboard a ship at sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could have been on the bridge wing of the <i>Rigel</i>
or the <i>Waccamaw</i> or the <i>Victoria</i> or the <i>Bartlett</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overhead, the full Moon shone down on the
surf and sand from the west.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the south,
the constellation Orion, with its navigational stars Rigel and Betelgeuse, hung
in the heavens just offshore of Martha’s Vineyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This great island, with its omnipresent cloud
cover, loomed large but subtle on the southwest horizon, a dark gray mass on a
darker sea and sky. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additional stars
interspersed with cumulus clouds dotted the sky in all directions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A cool breeze from the south hurried across
the black expanse of Vineyard Sound, and on the beach the calm rush of the wind
combined with the gentle landing of the waves to produce a musical harmony
capable of lulling one to sleep.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But I had not come to
sleep. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, I had made the twenty
minutes’ walk through dark and deserted residential streets from the Mariner
Motel to Falmouth Beach to look upon the sea at night, to watch the night
become twilight, and to see the Sun rise out of the sea and usher in the new
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had witnessed this on the 4:00 to
8:00 morning watch aboard ship many times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had also spent many hours in the dark on the 12:00 to 4:00 night
watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On both schedules, I always enjoyed
seeing the stars in the firmament overhanging the ocean, and when sailing
coastwise, seeing the navigational lights beckoning seaward.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Three such lights shared
navigational duty tonight. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two miles to
the southwest, the Nobska Lighthouse flashed white every five seconds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four and a half miles to the southeast, the
East Chop Lighthouse on Martha’s Vineyard flashed red every six seconds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And closest to me at a half mile to the east,
the breakwater light marking the entrance to Falmouth Harbor flashed green
every three seconds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, a small
scattering of street and window lamps contributed their soft luster.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As on a many a dark night
at sea, the black canvas of this dark night at the seashore was punctuated by
starlight, moonlight, shore lights, and diligently flashing navigational lights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a masterpiece of both divine creation
and human habitation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The night had an <i>ambiance</i>
that was palpable and distinct and spiritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was quiet, but for the sounds of wind and wave, yet it spoke volumes
at the sublime level, far above human speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The magnificence of the night at the seashore was ineffable.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Like any form of
perishable art, however, it could not last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fifty minutes before sunrise, the first faint stirrings of daylight
appeared on the eastern horizon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Light
gray at first, then a gradually brightening and spreading luminosity replaced
the darkness of the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stars faded
into invisibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Moon, soon to set
in the west, lost some of its brilliance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The sea and sky changed from black to several shades of blue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Precisely at 6:30am, the upper limb of the
Sun emerged in the east from below the horizon. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The night watch ended, and the day watch
began.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was no longer alone, as
several other folks had come to the waterfront during the interval of twilight
to watch the sunrise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some remained in
their cars and drove away, presumably to work, after the big event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others stood on the beach or sat on the
seawall, some in small groups and some alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A few stayed and continued to gaze upon the sea as the Sun rose higher
in the sky and the brilliance of the daylight increased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seagulls, ducks, and cormorants emerged from
their nocturnal hiding places and began swimming and flying in search of food. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the water, the ferries <i>Island Home</i>
and<i> Katama</i> emerged from their overnight berths in Woods Hole and Vineyard
Haven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first voyages of the new day
were beginning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I began the business of the
day by returning to the Mariner Motel through streets no longer dark and
deserted but humming with activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miss
Patty and I had places to go and things to do, and we needed to get
underway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever the day ahead would
bring, it had already started in a most outstanding way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spending much of the night almost but not
quite at sea enabled me to commune with the cosmos and experience an epiphany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tomorrow and the next day I would return to
Falmouth Beach and stand the night watch all over again. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now for some
pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joseph Conrad once described
England as a place “where men and sea interpenetrate.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span> </span></span>The same can be said of Cape Cod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a centuries-long history of seafaring,
the Cape in our time is home to such sea-associated learned institutions as the
Marine Biological Laboratory, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and just
across the canal, the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Falmouth and Woods Hole Public Libraries offer
books on maritime history and display nautical artwork created by local
artists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Steamship Authority’s fleet
connects Cape Cod with Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally, private ferries, recreational
yachts, and fishing boats are ubiquitous. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In our first photograph,
we see the Nobska Lighthouse at dusk on Tuesday, September 21.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the largest of the lights that
“shineth in darkness” (John 1:5) over Vineyard Sound. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFM-R7O0_5yVY6ziLFTwUxBNMvgUmVc2baVpASBMDou8-tQQiCSx6OsGrUMw7c1sfIlBFF481lJ9IaZv4h5QBZPEnyccyLA-L-xx-JOjY6YigYMV2CG4VPKjhyBaknEsOOrJ2TTXdCoBXj/s2449/Nobska+Lighthouse%252C+Falmouth+MA%252C+taken+on+21+September+2021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2449" data-original-width="1212" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFM-R7O0_5yVY6ziLFTwUxBNMvgUmVc2baVpASBMDou8-tQQiCSx6OsGrUMw7c1sfIlBFF481lJ9IaZv4h5QBZPEnyccyLA-L-xx-JOjY6YigYMV2CG4VPKjhyBaknEsOOrJ2TTXdCoBXj/w198-h400/Nobska+Lighthouse%252C+Falmouth+MA%252C+taken+on+21+September+2021.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On the same day but
before dusk, we see the ferry <i>Island Home</i> plying her route between Woods
Hole and Martha’s Vineyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, she is
just off Nobska Point.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizRCh1Ct14bdelZrpi4OUV4pbtaCg93iOPbA-ITExDOilbhCsrVFQbddmP5IEpHMufPN5QXryx3SVAQMVrOanh_VtJkge6gdBZvlCrMMrP3dFrVm5dzYjwU_sl5V-eUhBm5gcrp3XmXKRe/s2048/IMG_7255.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizRCh1Ct14bdelZrpi4OUV4pbtaCg93iOPbA-ITExDOilbhCsrVFQbddmP5IEpHMufPN5QXryx3SVAQMVrOanh_VtJkge6gdBZvlCrMMrP3dFrVm5dzYjwU_sl5V-eUhBm5gcrp3XmXKRe/w400-h300/IMG_7255.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Next, my favorite of all
the art works in the Woods Hole Public Library is this beautiful model of the
iconic British clipper ship <i>Cutty Sark</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had discovered this treasure previously and returned on Friday,
September 24, to photograph it.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6cRQ4MNx509FzdqvE95rrNzpMuYMOa5Ja2ikms9ErOTg-ks0aFmRQfPg57rRcvooaaxbcdpxDTMRBjmOqv16tH4hYRJNjFsrh2gN12aSWtq-aj7bI4AL4URpTLR6PsNOYyzsYIp9FCS9d/s2048/IMG_7264.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6cRQ4MNx509FzdqvE95rrNzpMuYMOa5Ja2ikms9ErOTg-ks0aFmRQfPg57rRcvooaaxbcdpxDTMRBjmOqv16tH4hYRJNjFsrh2gN12aSWtq-aj7bI4AL4URpTLR6PsNOYyzsYIp9FCS9d/w400-h300/IMG_7264.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally, on the same
Friday, we visited the statue of Rachel Carson, the famous marine biologist and
author of books about the sea, which graces Waterfront Park in Woods Hole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" />
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<div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>Joseph Conrad,
“Youth,” in <i>Tales of Land and Sea</i>, Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1953,
p. 7.</span></p>
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</span></span></span></span></span></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">After seven months aboard
the tramp freighter <i>Comet,</i> I arrived home in New Hampshire on Wednesday,
May 23, 1984.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had sailed as third mate
and second mate, made four transatlantic and two transpacific voyages,
transited the Panama Canal, hauled many tons of cargo, and visited several interesting
seaports, including two of my all-time favorites, New Orleans and San
Francisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next, I planned to study for
the chief mate’s exams, work on the house, and visit family.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A few days after
returning home, I received a phone call from a lady in New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was a fleet personnel manager with
American Trading and Transportation, a tanker outfit headquartered in midtown
Manhattan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had once filed a job
application with AT&T, but I had never heard back from them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now this lady desperately needed someone to
take a just-opened-up third mate’s job on a tanker that was docked in Port
Jefferson, Long Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was I
interested?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She needed to know right
away.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Well, yes, I was
interested—but.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After seven months at
sea, I had work to do at home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had
already visited the Coast Guard office in Boston, gotten my sea time approved,
and signed up to take the chief mate’s exams in July. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I needed to study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides that, I had to get busy on the
unfinished second floor of our house, and I wanted to spend some time with my
parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt very reluctant to change
my plans and sail away on a whim with a new employer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps another time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The lady on the phone
listened politely, assured me that she understood perfectly, and finally said
she would call back in half an hour, at which time she would need a definite
answer. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In this interval Miss
Patty and I discussed this unexpected job offer and concluded that it was
impractical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was unwilling to postpone
the license upgrade to chief mate, especially as I had already invested so much
time at sea in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was also unwilling
to jeopardize future shipboard assignments with my present employer by going on
a lark with another fleet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, I
had just arrived home, and I really did not want to leave again after a mere few
days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the lady called back, she
accepted my decision, and she also agreed to meet with me for an interview the
next time I was in New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This meeting took place
about a week later, on Tuesday, June 5. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was cordial, but strictly business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Underlying the discussion was the fact that I
could have had a job with this company if I had dropped everything and run off
to sea with them a week ago. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But how
long this job would have lasted, or in other words, whether I would have been a
permanent employee or just a temporary replacement, remained unresolved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No promises were made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, this lady stated unequivocally
that she already had sufficient seamen for her fleet and that she would not over
hire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These remarks seemed to contradict
the urgency of her initial phone call and thereby diminish her credibility
somewhat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the interview concluded,
we parted pleasantly, but I began to think it had all been a waste of time. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Back home in New
Hampshire, I carried on with my original plans. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I studied diligently for and passed the
license exams, and I worked feverishly to finish the upstairs bedrooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a busy and productive summer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In October, I joined the <i>Bartlett</i>
with my new chief mate’s license as second mate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was 27 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even with the deteriorating job market, my
prospects still looked reasonably good, and I was on track to attain the
unlimited license as Master before reaching the ripe old age of 30. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How young that seems now! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In the years since these
events took place, I have sometimes wondered, what if?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Of course, if I had taken
the AT&T job, my license upgrade and house projects would have been
postponed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This would have been inconvenient;
more importantly, stalling on the license would have retarded my professional
advancement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the new job had turned
into permanent employment, this would have become a moot point, but if the job
were only temporary, the delay would have been problematic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, jumping impulsively from one company to
another, with no better prospects for the future than I already had, seemed reckless
and irresponsible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, after 37 years
and with 20/20 hindsight, I’m certain that declining this offer was the wise
course of action. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Occasionally, I have
rethought other major decisions, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What if I had attended Fort Schuyler in New York instead of going to
Maine?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those were my two options at age seventeen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike Maine, Fort Schuyler offered a broad
academic curriculum in addition to the Merchant Marine license program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I likely would have studied meteorology and possibly
had a second career in weather forecasting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But unlike Fort Schuyler, Maine sent its children away as apprentices
aboard commercial vessels during the summers. To my teenage mind, shipping out
seemed far more exciting than doing more schoolwork!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">What if I had attended law
school, as I briefly considered, after sailing for several years? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was an ample supply of law schools where
I grew up, and a second career in admiralty law may have had some appeal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except in this narrow field, though, I think
studying the law would have proved more interesting than actually practicing
it. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Throughout life we travel
metaphorically on many roads that diverge in the forest, as Robert Frost
artfully expressed in one of his most famous poems:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in 0in 1in; text-indent: -0.5in;">And looked down
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As we go along, we reach
junction points, make irrevocable decisions, follow our chosen paths, and for
good or ill live with the consequences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
we are fortunate, we are happy with our choices most of the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m happy with most of my mine, but sometimes
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>Robert Frost, “The
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<![endif]-->Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-6398878993210021792021-06-27T19:32:00.011-04:002021-06-27T19:37:46.707-04:00The Mirror of the Sea<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As is my custom now in
the summer weather, I make the twenty-five minutes’ hike from the house to the
boat ramp behind Greeley Park in Nashua in the predawn darkness on Sunday
mornings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twilight has started to fill
the neighborhood by the time I arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
perfectly flat surface of the Merrimack River reflects the multi-colored sky
above, acting as Nature’s mirror and displaying the beauty of the sky a second
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sit on my favorite fallen tree
trunk as I watch the colors of the sky change and the twilight brighten into
full daylight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except for my own
breathing, there are no sounds of human activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birds chirp, ducks quack, fish splash, and
occasionally something drops from a tree branch and plops into the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These sublime sounds of silence generate an
other-worldly atmosphere that serves as a welcome respite from the usual daily
fare of canned music, blaring televisions, and incessant blabber from folks who
have mostly nothing to say.</span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Going to the boat ramp
once a week is like going on retreat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the time that I have before the first boaters arrive, I like to think quietly
and reflect on whatever comes into my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Usually this involves remembering time spent at sea, and I admit that I may
tend to idealize, perhaps even romanticize, these years of my youth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One recent morning, though, two early morning
boat launchers caused me to reconsider this.</span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">After thirty or forty
minutes of peace and quiet and solitude, a pickup truck towing a trailer rattled
noisily down the dirt road to the boat ramp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One man got out and began directing the driver as he backed the trailer
with the boat down the ramp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a voice as
strident and stentorian as a drill sergeant’s, the traffic director barked
orders at the driver: “Go straight back!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fifteen feet!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t turn it!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five more feet!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go straight!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Don’t turn!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stop!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re in the water!!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With impressive military efficiency, the two
men launched the boat, parked the pickup truck and trailer, and then
accelerated upstream with a deafening roar from their oversized outboard motor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, my treasured peace and quiet and
solitude were temporarily shattered by this invasion. </span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">When I was left alone
again after their departure, it occurred to me that what I had just witnessed mirrored
to some degree life aboard ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going
to sea was not always peaceful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
not always quietly taking star sights from the bridge wing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was not always quietly plotting the next
transatlantic voyage in the chart room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
every ship, some crewman got into mischief, and in the newly restored serenity
of the boat ramp, a few such episodes came to mind.</span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">On Thursday evening,
December 13, 1979, the <i>General Hoyt S. Vandenberg</i> was shifted from one
of the piers to the drydock at the Todd Shipyard in Brooklyn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A pilot came aboard to direct this operation,
and he worked with a tugboat to guide the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Drydocking is a routine enough procedure, but it does require precise
workmanship with everyone involved paying strict attention to business.</span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As the ship was getting
underway, there were difficulties with the linehandlers on the stern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Communicating with the bridge personnel via
walkie-talkies, the third mate in charge there became increasingly incoherent
and nonsensical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This useless and distracting
verbiage confused the pilot and infuriated the Master, Captain C. H. Harriman,
a no-nonsense, iron-willed legend from the old school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At length, one of the deckhands got the
walkie-talkie away from the third mate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He informed us that he was taking charge aft because his boss, the mate,
was so hopelessly intoxicated that he simply could not do his work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On hearing this news, Captain Harriman
exploded in a fit of rage and let loose an unprintable stream of invective that
I was certain all of Brooklyn could hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The pilot, however, remained completely calm, and with the linehandling situation
resolved, he expertly brought the <i>General Vandenberg</i> into the drydock
with no further problems. </span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I had been on duty since 8:00
o’clock that morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The move to the
drydock started at 5:00 in the afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The third mate directing the linehandlers was scheduled to be on duty
from 4:00pm to midnight, at which time I would relieve him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The chief mate and second mate, as I recall, had
gone ashore earlier and were not due back on board until the next day.</span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">With no one else to turn
to, then, Captain Harriman apologetically asked me if I would remain on board and
fill in for my inebriated colleague. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
assured me that I would be paid overtime for it and added that it should be a quiet
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I accepted his invitation, and so
I worked a twenty-four hour shift. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By
morning the next day, I was very, very tired.</span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Five years later, in
January of 1985, I was the second mate on the four to eight watch aboard the oceanographic
survey ship <i>Bartlett</i> in the Gulf of Mexico. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Engaged in a routine operation, the <i>Bartlett</i>
was proceeding back and forth through her designated area. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With warm weather, a slight swell, no traffic,
and a gradually brightening twilight, it was a very pleasant morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walked out onto the port bridge wing to
check on something, and I noticed Gordy, one of the steward’s boys, manhandling
an exceptionally large cardboard box on the stern. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was an odd sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wondering what exactly he was up to, I waited
and watched.</span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The stern section of the <i>Bartlett
</i>consisted of a wide expanse of open deck space with removable railings not
far above the waterline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This area was
used for launching, monitoring, and recovering survey equipment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along the port and starboard sides stood
several fuel tank ventilators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These did
not interfere with the survey operations, but with the possible presence of
fuel vapors, one did not clown around near them.</span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Gordy set the box down on
the deck and then reached inside it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
an instant, he pulled his hand out and a giant fireball erupted from the open box.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he picked up the flaming box and awkwardly
threw it overboard. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I gaped in
astonishment as this brilliant conflagration danced on the waves astern of the
ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gordy remained in place and gazed
at the spectacle, too.</span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I dispatched one of the deckhands
on my watch to go aft and bring this pyromaniac up to the bridge wing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He arrived with a very sheepish expression on
his face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What do you think you’re
doing?!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What’s the big idea?! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could have incinerated yourself with that
stunt!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could have thrown yourself
overboard with that box!!” </span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">He replied that he just
happened to think of it, and it seemed like it would be fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t mean any harm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did not know that flames at sea are an
internationally recognized distress signal, nor did he realize that a pilot
seeing them from an airplane would radio a report to the FAA, who would then relay
it to the Coast Guard, who would then send ships and aircraft to the scene. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was nineteen years old, uneducated and
irresponsible, and he just did not foresee the possible consequences of playing
with fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I finished reprimanding
him, he apologized profusely and promised to never do it again.</span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">News of this event traveled
around the ship quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Captain Kim
Giaccardo came up to the bridge an hour later to say hello and check on things,
as was his daily custom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had already
heard the news in the chow hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Six in
the morning and this is how I start my day,” he commented sardonically, and added
that the Chief Engineer was especially annoyed about it because of the fuel
tank vents.</span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">When I got off watch and
went below to eat breakfast, Gordy was on the job, serving food and clearing
dishes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Normally a very cheerful and upbeat
shipmate, this morning he seemed uncharacteristically subdued.</span></p><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In the restored peace and
quiet of the Nashua boat ramp, I remembered these and other episodes that punctuated
my seafaring years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They certainly made
life interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More importantly, they
contained valuable lessons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Happy is
the man that findeth wisdom” (Prov. 3:13).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Aboard ship we often discerned wisdom through its absence in the
annoying and occasionally dangerous behavior of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tumultuous boat launchers, while not
drunkards or firebugs, mirrored benignly some of the commotion and
consternation of shipboard life. </span></p>
Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-51722188724196386322021-05-23T20:15:00.009-04:002021-05-24T18:12:24.692-04:00Sailing Through Coronavirus
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In the brave new world created
by the coronavirus, I unwillingly joined the afflicted multitude with a very
minor head cold that surprisingly caused me to test positive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cold itself lasted two and a half days;
the vacation required by my employer lasted two weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the frigid second half of January, then, I
sought relief from my medically imposed home confinement by going outside and
hiking around the neighborhood twice every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bundled from head to toe in multiple layers, I marched through the
snow-plowed residential streets and pretended that I was actually going
somewhere. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As my feet dutifully tramped
along the pavement, my mind wandered off to its customary destinations of the
sea, the ships that sailed it, and the ports they visited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One series of memories in particular lodged
itself in my consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I looked
upon houses, snowbanks, and bare trees, I saw salt water, big ships, and motley
crewmen from a winter four decades past.</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The <i>General Hoyt S.
Vandenberg</i> arrived at the Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey, in
the late afternoon of a raw and overcast Wednesday, November 21, 1979.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chilled to the core by the weather, I
suddenly realized how easily I had become accustomed to the comparative
comforts of the South Atlantic and Caribbean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Back in the real world of the American Northeast now for an extended
period of shipyard repairs, it seemed like a long winter lay ahead of me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But mitigating this circumstance was the fact
that I had returned to my childhood home, a welcome respite from my normal
vagabond life.</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">At 5:00pm on the Friday after
Thanksgiving, during which I saw my parents and grandfather briefly, the <i>General
Vandenberg</i> left the Bayonne headquarters and went to the shipyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since many of the crew, including the Master,
had departed for a long weekend ashore, this shift of berths was carried out
with a reduced workforce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Captain Glenn
Sowash, one of the office folks, came aboard with the pilot for the uneventful passage
across the Upper Bay to the Erie Basin. He was thus my boss for about two hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the ship was secured to one of the Todd
Shipyard piers in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, a chauffeured automobile collected
Captain Sowash and the pilot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
kindly gave me, the junior third mate, a ride to the nearest subway station,
and then I found my way to the Flatbush Avenue Terminal and caught a train
home.</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Beginning the next day, I
commuted to the <i>General Vandenberg</i> via trains to downtown Brooklyn and
then by bus to Red Hook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Todd
Shipyard, fronting on Beard and Halleck Streets, was conveniently situated at
the end of the bus line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
arrangement was necessitated by the shutdown of the ship’s engineering
plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There would be no heat, no hot
water, and no food service during the shipyard overhaul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The skeleton crew that remained with the ship
was placed on “S & Q,” that is, subsistence and quarters, for the duration.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This meant that the company gave us cash
and told us to use it for room and board ashore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was fortunate. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Staying at the nearby family headquarters was
much more palatable than putting up in a waterfront flophouse!</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This arrangement lasted through
December and most of January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We worked
on rotating shifts: 12:00 midnight to 8:00am, 8:00am to 4:00pm, and 4:00pm to
12:00 midnight. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With these schedules, I
commuted to and from the <i>General Vandenberg</i> at both normal and off-peak
hours. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trains and buses ran all day
and all night, though, so this was not problematic except for one brief transit
strike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise, it went well, and I
became quite familiar with several of the old landmarks of downtown Brooklyn as
I made the connections between buses and trains.</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This part I found quite
interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had always enjoyed sightseeing
by walking around town in the seaports I visited, and Brooklyn was no
exception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Borough Hall, the Municipal
Building, Cadman Plaza, the Flatbush Avenue Terminal, and the Brooklyn Law
School all became well known to me by both day and night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In two months’ time, I hiked many miles
through downtown Brooklyn and got plenty of fresh air and exercise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always felt comfortable and safe, and never
had any trouble with or felt threatened by anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was true at the end of the bus line in
Red Hook as well, despite that neighborhood’s less than stellar reputation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bus stop was only a short walk from the
shipyard entrance, and I came and went there in the early morning, late
afternoon, and midnight without any difficulty at all.</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Some of the <i>General
Vandenberg’s </i>deckhands felt differently about this, though, as I learned later.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These fellows gathered late at night at
Sam’s Bar and Grill on Beard Street, diagonally across from the shipyard and close
to the bus stop, and they frequently saw me walking between the shipyard and
the bus stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I noticed the lights and
heard the music from Sam’s, and sometimes saw men loitering by the front door, but
otherwise, I scarcely gave the place a thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of much greater interest to me was the Brooklyn Law School, at the
corner of Fulton Street and Boerum Place downtown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I walked by this iconic structure and
saw the students studying at the big library tables inside, I thought that
maybe I should look into it for myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
then, I realized that the shipping business would likely not last forever.</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Misgivings like this
notwithstanding, the <i>General Vandenberg’s</i> overhaul at the Todd Shipyard
was a busy time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Major repairs were done
in the engine room, the crew’s accommodations, and on the weather decks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ship was drydocked, and the entire hull
sandblasted and repainted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, all
lifesaving and firefighting equipment was inspected, tested, and repaired as
necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Day shifts were thus filled
with commotion; night times were comparatively quiet with reduced activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One interesting fringe benefit was the
view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Erie Basin itself was not much
to look at, but the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan, two and one quarter miles away
to the northwest, were clearly visible both day and night over the rooftops of
Red Hook.</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">All this came to an end
on Monday, January 28, 1980.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following
some last-minute work on the sewage pumps, the <i>General Vandenberg</i> left
Brooklyn three hours late at 3:15pm and sailed south toward Florida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went with mixed feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shipyard period had proved a bonanza for
me with a return to my childhood home and time spent with my family. Most
significantly, in early December I met Miss Patty, the girl who would one day become
my wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That day stood off in the distance,
as did the day I would sail with a <i>General Vandenberg</i> crewman on another
ship.</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">One of the deckhands who
patronized Sam’s Bar and Grill was Steve Zander, an ordinary seaman and often
the overnight security patrolman on the <i>General Vandenberg</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steve
was a quiet, introverted, and bright young man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He did not talk very much, but when he did he spoke thoughtfully and
philosophically. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was through him that
I learned that I had unwittingly been the star of the show at Sam’s.</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In the latter part of
1980, I sailed with Steve aboard the <i>Wilkes</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One warm and quiet night in mid-Atlantic, he
told me the story of Sam’s. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the
guys from the <i>General Vandenberg</i> who watched me coming and going at
midnight became convinced that I would sooner or later be “rolled,” that is,
attacked, robbed, beaten up, and left for dead in the dark alleyway next to
Sam’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They passed a calendar around the
bar, and everyone picked a date for my expected demise and put money on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One fellow was chosen to safeguard the cash,
and later he would award it to the winner when the inevitable happened.</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">By the time the <i>General
Vandenberg</i> sailed in late January, I had safely made my commute many
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never did get rolled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boys at Sam’s were reportedly happy for
my safety, but disappointed that no one had won the jackpot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The custodian of the cash gave all the money
back, and the lottery concluded uneventfully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In discussing how it could have ended this way, the guys reasoned that I
was either a whole lot tougher than I looked and therefore safer than they
thought, or that since I was a native New Yorker I instinctively knew how to
get along in the city without getting into trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever, I thought with a laugh!</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Four decades later, I was
walking around Nashua, patiently waiting to go back to work after my
coronavirus quarantine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have returned
to downtown Brooklyn a few times over the years, but I never rode the bus back
to Red Hook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Todd Shipyard there
closed down in 1986.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the property passed
through several owners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, all the
shipyard buildings and facilities were demolished in 2006.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An Ikea store now occupies much of the site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adjacent to this structure sits a parking
lot, built on top of the now filled-in drydocks. Only a few vestiges of the
Todd years remain.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><sup>[1]</sup></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I don’t know if Sam’s Bar
and Grill is still there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m inclined
to doubt it, though, because without the shipyard, Sam would stand to lose a
lot of business.</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The <i>General Vandenberg</i>
is long gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She went out with a bang,
quite literally, when explosives were detonated in her lower holds in order to
sink her as an artificial reef near Key West, Florida, on Wednesday, May 27,
2009.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;"><sup>[2]</sup></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">For my part, I never did
look into attending the Brooklyn Law School or any other law school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, I sailed as long as I could, got
married, bought a house in New Hampshire, and had a family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps if I had gone to law school I would
now be a big shot attorney or a distinguished federal appeals court judge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’m content where I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d rather play with my grandchildren than do
paperwork in a law office or settle disputes in a courtroom.</span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As my feet marched and as
my mind sailed through my coronavirus exile, I thought in Conradian terms and
turned “for sustenance to memories,”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><sup>[3]</sup></span></span></span></span></a></span> and these memories carried
me a long way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At such a distance of
time, they were most of what was left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
far reaches of the past were “Only a moment; a moment of strength, of romance,
of glamour—of youth!”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><sup>[4]</sup></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span> </span>Yes, I was young once, and in a world which
was very different from the one that we inhabit now.</span></p><br />
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><sup>[1]</sup></span></span></span></span></a> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;">Information from </span><a href="http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;">www.shipbuildinghistory.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;">, </span><a href="http://www.ltvsquad.com"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;">www.ltvsquad.com</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">, and Google Maps.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><sup> </sup></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><sup>[2]</sup></span></span></span></span></a> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;">This event is
depicted in several YouTube videos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
full episode is at </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fI8JsunVQ0"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fI8JsunVQ0</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;"> but partial
versions can be found elsewhere.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><sup> </sup></span></span></span></span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><sup> </sup></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><sup>[3]</sup></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;">Joseph Conrad, in
Jerry Allen, <i>The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad</i>, Garden City, NY: Doubleday
& Company, Inc., 1965, p. xii/</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><sup> </sup></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><sup>[4]</sup></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;">Joseph Conrad, in
M. Harriet M. Capes, <i>Wisdom and Beauty from Conrad</i>, New York: Doubleday,
Page & Co., n.d., p. 131.</span></p></div><div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div id="ftn4" style="mso-element: footnote;">
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<![endif]--></div></div>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-21410940887013487502020-10-04T15:55:00.003-04:002021-10-10T18:27:36.390-04:00Watching the Waves<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A
very long time ago, in the 1950s and 1960s, my family vacationed in Falmouth on
Cape Cod in Massachusetts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many New
Yorkers flocked to Cape Cod every summer in search of peace and quiet, rest and
relaxation, and uncrowded beaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
parents and grandparents rented a cottage within easy walking distance of the
beach on Vineyard Sound, and the six of us, including my brother and myself,
stayed there for a couple of weeks every summer for several years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was very young then, so I remember these
vacations rather vaguely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I
remember better is my parents’ and grandparents’ subsequent reminiscences of
these happy times.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Since
then, I’ve scarcely given Cape Cod a thought, until quite recently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few years ago, in September of 2015, Miss
Patty and I had some family history business in southeastern Massachusetts, and
when we had finished up in Buzzards Bay, we drove across the Bourne Bridge to
the Cape on the spur of the moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
this impulsive sojourn, we visited the historical society in Woods Hole and the
lighthouse at Nobska Point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Favorably
impressed, we agreed that we must return sometime for a longer duration.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This
second and extended visit to Cape Cod took place last month, five years after
the first. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In three days we combined
additional family history research with quiet moments at the waterfront<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Returning to Nobska Point on Tuesday morning,
September 15, we took in the magnificent view of Vineyard Sound, the island of
Martha’s Vineyard beyond, and the ferries <i>Island Home </i>and <i>Martha’s
Vineyard</i> plying their routes between the mainland and the island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A pristine and peaceful location, Nobska
Point silently invited us to linger and leave behind the cares and concerns of the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This we could not do completely,
however, as the site was tinged with tragedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A bronze and stone monument surrounded by flowers and American flags
commemorated the untimely death of Nellie Anne Hellernan Casey, a local
resident who was killed in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very sad, of course, but also very
fitting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The view of the sea beyond the
memorial bespoke the necessary existence of a supreme Creator-God, and his revelation
of the eternal Gospel gave assurance that his omnibenevolence would ultimately
and inevitably prevail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An atmosphere of
peace and serenity thus surrounded the site </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I
could have gladly spent most of the day at Nobska Point, basking in its quiet beauty
and peacefulness .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The strong, late
summer Sun was becoming too much for Miss Patty, however, and we had additional
ground to cover, too, so we needed to move on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Mid-day
found us briefly in Hyannis, visiting the John F. Kennedy Memorial that overlooked
the port.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another beautiful site tinged
with sadness, it also spoke silently of the Divine and exuded a sublime serenity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the distance, the ferry <i>Eagle</i>
sailed across the placid surface of Hyannis Harbor as she departed for
Nantucket, asserting thereby that despite tragedy, the voyage of life would
always continue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">These
two spiritual havens on the Cape Cod seashore testified quietly of the Lord’s
plan for his people, even in the face of tragedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scriptural admonition to “let your hearts
be comforted” came to mind, “for all flesh is in mine hands; be still and know
that I am God” (D&C 101:16)..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I
have long thought of God in seafaring terms, as the Master and Chief Engineer
of the universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recognizing him thus as
the supreme authority has enabled me, when considering events too monstrous for
the human mind’s limited understanding, to accept what he said through the
prophet Isaiah: “as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts” (Isa. 55:9).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This counsel, coupled with the knowledge that
we all came into this imperfect world to grow through experience and prepare
for life in the perfect world hereafter, has given me a better understanding of
the human condition and its ultimate purpose. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
next day, Wednesday the 16<sup>th</sup>, we needed to leave Cape Cod and return
home to Nashua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not too early, though,
for I was in no hurry to pry myself away from the seashore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That morning, I arose before dawn and made
the twenty minutes’ walk from the motel to the beach on Vineyard Sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Few people were out and about at that time of
day, so I had the waterfront almost entirely to myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting on a park bench and facing seaward, I
spent an hour and more in the gradually growing daylight feeling the onshore
breeze and watching the waves wash up on the sand and then recede.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would have been happy to remain there all
morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watching the waves has always
helped me to feel at peace in an often unpeaceful world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Additionally,
as I gazed seaward I thought of the family vacations of so many years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cluster of nearby cottages where we had
stayed was now mostly gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a moment
I wondered if my parents and grandparents, all of them now gone as well, could
see me back at the beach where we used to go swimming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After nearly six decades, I had returned to
Cape Cod and rediscovered its peace and quiet, its rest and relaxation, and its
uncrowded beaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A perfect setting for
a memorable spiritual experience!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Now
I would like to share a few photographs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This first one shows yours truly at the age of two and a half on the
beach in Falmouth in the summer of 1960.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Six decades ago now!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ch0aLSR_0S4om9ODr3XXSscE-eu3CwzQlRqX_uHT9S69AEk4eR2-re02IhC5qZLpo3uPILVvwcCqNk-qxUy4c6k4o5BYugcjjlXy0l5qMYtIlPrDiM1M7Evz22A8mjGcJ_GJpaABCvOh/s1167/Falmouth+1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1167" data-original-width="1019" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ch0aLSR_0S4om9ODr3XXSscE-eu3CwzQlRqX_uHT9S69AEk4eR2-re02IhC5qZLpo3uPILVvwcCqNk-qxUy4c6k4o5BYugcjjlXy0l5qMYtIlPrDiM1M7Evz22A8mjGcJ_GJpaABCvOh/w349-h400/Falmouth+1.jpeg" width="349" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Fifty-five
years later, on Saturday, September 19, 2015, we see the Nobska Light at Nobska
Point in Falmouth:</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic89eUpBq9-Nd-0GsQezYLeCjBNyZcSqxf01cYC386K3KCbEXBcOTnBfqMqQh-ku5q0etCf-VFkdEzxYO2jGVnI6yAVNg_bldnPNSw_3j_NFBUe3u4j9DDKHg0goiCvuDrCpj8dWi_ELBi/s2048/IMG_4888.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic89eUpBq9-Nd-0GsQezYLeCjBNyZcSqxf01cYC386K3KCbEXBcOTnBfqMqQh-ku5q0etCf-VFkdEzxYO2jGVnI6yAVNg_bldnPNSw_3j_NFBUe3u4j9DDKHg0goiCvuDrCpj8dWi_ELBi/w400-h300/IMG_4888.JPG" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">On
the same day, looking seaward from Nobska Point, we watch as the ferry <i>Island
Home</i> approaches the terminal in nearby Woods Hole at the end of her voyage
from Martha’s Vineyard:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3x1C-mbRNXpLfXH1jdb_9wU2nkmjaFG8lJls1k4sne6E6hPRkyxiBI9NdmbfbNPJIXME0ILzOLjqtKEiq7H22m5z_Co-qJLEe82llqJL2vkSahlfET7vw1DR1eMlsUO_xNmSVjdNLBAf6/s2048/IMG_4886.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3x1C-mbRNXpLfXH1jdb_9wU2nkmjaFG8lJls1k4sne6E6hPRkyxiBI9NdmbfbNPJIXME0ILzOLjqtKEiq7H22m5z_Co-qJLEe82llqJL2vkSahlfET7vw1DR1eMlsUO_xNmSVjdNLBAf6/w400-h300/IMG_4886.JPG" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Same
ship; different day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here the <i>Island
Home</i> sails in the opposite direction, toward Martha’s Vineyard, on Tuesday, September 15, 2020:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8zKCFLkk_P3Kcl_JcfKcteU9WUDuKYO3xx0nRnV0hkwnjGTO-4rMtbaCEzEfI1uayX5hThwfoRHhxISWgErj-5mwiqS_o90brt7fTxWCs71dgQmzgYz6iuIGh2tm7Ywr69Q1Wf-m_yaZG/s2048/IMG_7161.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8zKCFLkk_P3Kcl_JcfKcteU9WUDuKYO3xx0nRnV0hkwnjGTO-4rMtbaCEzEfI1uayX5hThwfoRHhxISWgErj-5mwiqS_o90brt7fTxWCs71dgQmzgYz6iuIGh2tm7Ywr69Q1Wf-m_yaZG/w400-h300/IMG_7161.JPG" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Same
day; different ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not entirely
certain, but I believe this is the <i>Martha’s Vineyard</i>, returning from her
namesake island and bound for Woods Hole:</span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvy2NLCV5bPNccB6tJiZig4zC2Lw1VcMeJQehh3rGVi9GNdrXpXWAD0zvyNrdzyjiqRq5UMKjFdbfMwgW77cUMSkXKKspKhcCOcewlJ6z6NNttzxF6A300c24EeuH8vM3Wt_bfM47my-OD/s2048/IMG_7184.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvy2NLCV5bPNccB6tJiZig4zC2Lw1VcMeJQehh3rGVi9GNdrXpXWAD0zvyNrdzyjiqRq5UMKjFdbfMwgW77cUMSkXKKspKhcCOcewlJ6z6NNttzxF6A300c24EeuH8vM3Wt_bfM47my-OD/w400-h300/IMG_7184.JPG" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Next,
we view with sadness the monument to the local victim of the terrorist attack
of nineteen years ago:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtVYyvkMAuPHKyf9-MVtcvt0yHsM42kXGqoNoyq7TEtnyvOd8FFdXMrbf1_6Q0t-gJeT7aA2hZsffIqkpVeqPbNKvdGpzmzB8koMpR_kWwUBpiPc9pAkjbsij6aGi_4lkPju_R75BfbZVL/s2048/IMG_7173.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtVYyvkMAuPHKyf9-MVtcvt0yHsM42kXGqoNoyq7TEtnyvOd8FFdXMrbf1_6Q0t-gJeT7aA2hZsffIqkpVeqPbNKvdGpzmzB8koMpR_kWwUBpiPc9pAkjbsij6aGi_4lkPju_R75BfbZVL/w400-h300/IMG_7173.JPG" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Now
in Hyannis later on the same day, we visit the memorial to President John F.
Kennedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hyannis Harbor fills the
background beyond the fountain and plaza:</span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ-2jzn12VVr4Itj0FhQI3rqSbhdX8j6nOBmpq4DWnU0vxa36ULEaBKX8vPxwrEwaZ4gnNBUip2YF13gVfrA_Wco0-IFyDeKkac3TzN1cq5LeymK0QDjrDkuurNH6L_STYq67GQqnFUxB1/s2048/IMG_7198.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ-2jzn12VVr4Itj0FhQI3rqSbhdX8j6nOBmpq4DWnU0vxa36ULEaBKX8vPxwrEwaZ4gnNBUip2YF13gVfrA_Wco0-IFyDeKkac3TzN1cq5LeymK0QDjrDkuurNH6L_STYq67GQqnFUxB1/w400-h300/IMG_7198.JPG" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Finally,
watching from the JFK plaza, we view the ferry <i>Eagle</i> leaving Hyannis and
beginning her voyage to Nantucket:</span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJm2ju9aVlsUeOTWIsUEcwiOZKz9VN70bgeRMNKzg3Zx6t49Oax8q4RqvRGRYA8TSv8zf596gn5CMVB2C2gccASdaQjvjuA7XdCWhE20rY0ntVlBS8T4nxnI5Db-rfubG8_Y0qjMIIDjyc/s2048/IMG_7191.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJm2ju9aVlsUeOTWIsUEcwiOZKz9VN70bgeRMNKzg3Zx6t49Oax8q4RqvRGRYA8TSv8zf596gn5CMVB2C2gccASdaQjvjuA7XdCWhE20rY0ntVlBS8T4nxnI5Db-rfubG8_Y0qjMIIDjyc/w400-h300/IMG_7191.JPG" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span><p></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-5586933990380062382020-09-20T17:33:00.005-04:002020-09-20T18:35:23.986-04:00Set in Stone<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This
past summer Miss Patty gave me a book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This gift did not mark any special occasion such as a birthday or
anniversary, so it arrived unexpectedly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She had found it at a local bargain shop, thought that I would like it,
and then surprised me with it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For two
reasons, I liked it very much, and so I was pleased to receive it and add it to
my library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, it concerned a
sublime and uplifting subject, and second, it brought back memories of a
special event that had taken place during my time aboard the <i>Rigel</i> in
the Mediterranean.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
<i>Rigel</i> sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, on Tuesday, May 22, 1979, with me
on board as a brand new third mate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She transited the Strait of Gibraltar during
the midnight hours of Saturday, June <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,
and docked in Malaga, Spain, the following morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then spent the summer hauling military
cargo around the Mediterranean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A busy
ship with a crowded itinerary, the <i>Rigel</i> made many short voyages and
visited many ports.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opportunities to go
ashore and see the sights abounded, but usually for only brief intervals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Occasionally, an exception arose, and one of
these yielded an especially remarkable experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the weekend of June 16 and 17, the ship
rested idly at the <i>Stazione Maritima</i> in Napoli. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With no work to be done other than basic watch
standing, most of the crew seized the opportunity to enjoy a weekend off in
sunny Italy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Early on Saturday morning, then,
four of us boarded a train at the big Neapolitan station and set out for
Rome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On arrival at <i>Roma Termini</i>,
we took a taxi to the Hotel Bramante on the <i>Vicolo delle Palline</i>, a
quiet side street near the Vatican.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Long
acknowledged as one of the premiere cities of the world, Rome was a truly fascinating
place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturated with centuries of
history, magnificent art and architecture, and of course, Christianity, the
eternal city offered more to see and do than we could possibly fit into one
short weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Undaunted, though, we
took in as much as we could in the limited time that we had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Sunday evening, we returned to <i>Roma
Termini </i>and took the last train back to Napoli.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Monday morning found us all back at work
aboard the <i>Rigel</i>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Of
all the artistic treasures in Rome, one marble statue in particular stood out
because of its tremendous beauty and simplicity and its unique historical and
spiritual significance. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was
Michelangelo’s masterpiece, the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pietà</span></i><style><!--
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the best known and most admired statue
in all Christendom, the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pietà</span></i>
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and held me there for a very long time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It stood silent and sublime, radiating spiritualty and witnessing to the
atoning sacrifice of the Savior and the eternal truth of the Gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A reverent isolation surrounded the statue,
which was remarkable in a building otherwise filled with visitors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thus gazed in quiet solitude at the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pietà</span></i><style><!--
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</span>Even my shipmates had disappeared for a while and left me to experience
the</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pietà</span></i>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And
what an experience it was!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pietà</span></i>
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marble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mere words in pedestrian English
cannot describe the marble </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pietà</span></i><style><!--
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silently to the human heart, and to testify infallibly of the divine work of
salvation for all people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me, it was
simply an ineffable experience that left little to say but so very much to quietly
contemplate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forty-one years afterwards,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">There is so much in the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pietà</span></i>
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that if you lived a thousand years and </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">he had to be an artist, but art
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
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div.WordSection1
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inwardly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A prayerful spirit comes over</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It changes people.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This
book, a collection of photographs with only limited text, contained striking
black-and-white images of the</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pietà</span></i>
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div.WordSection1
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that studying them almost became a second visit to the statue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, the inward transformation and change
wrought by the</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And
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June 23.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She returned to Napoli several
weeks later, but without the leisure time for a second Roman holiday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A unique opportunity at the time, my weekend
in Rome and experience of the</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pietà</span></i>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> photographs helps me to remember and relive this special occasion.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">While
I was in Rome, I bought two postcard depictions of the</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are much better quality than any
pictures that I could have taken, but still only a substitute for actually seeing
the statue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nonetheless, I’m happy to
share them here: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITkg7E10HpdlRQVVc5HkYKeKy824kEbR6r61zfKAPIArDl3eu96MKPFzAJNRvr3GxFACyz-6K5IGbpxeI-8Awcs8lPtGFRsPIRMpDA6f6Ll510u9erfu5YfIWj_S4StFdkkES2jUTWtsz/s2048/Pieta+1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1417" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITkg7E10HpdlRQVVc5HkYKeKy824kEbR6r61zfKAPIArDl3eu96MKPFzAJNRvr3GxFACyz-6K5IGbpxeI-8Awcs8lPtGFRsPIRMpDA6f6Ll510u9erfu5YfIWj_S4StFdkkES2jUTWtsz/w276-h400/Pieta+1.jpeg" width="276" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4EdX9PytQJT_oJu-mOg6svEZvbg1JQ_FWa4UZKL6ZbHqbuRMtZHw97uWIeGBqcdnRGaEbZoIGxgFmUOQAIuWfINqVWnBnFzXRpZqH70qFCjuUJifQMBVeHPry8NazY-dFE9Ap4lTiMoXw/s2048/Pieta+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1414" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4EdX9PytQJT_oJu-mOg6svEZvbg1JQ_FWa4UZKL6ZbHqbuRMtZHw97uWIeGBqcdnRGaEbZoIGxgFmUOQAIuWfINqVWnBnFzXRpZqH70qFCjuUJifQMBVeHPry8NazY-dFE9Ap4lTiMoXw/w276-h400/Pieta+2.jpeg" width="276" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span> </span>Charles Rich,
quoted in Robert Hupka, <i>Michelangelo </i></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Pietà</span></i></span><style><font size="1"><!--
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p. 80.</span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-72698290592092701752020-08-30T12:31:00.006-04:002020-08-30T12:46:40.152-04:00The Seas of Tranquility<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This
past summer our home city of Nashua undertook two noteworthy construction
projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One involved the tearing up
and repaving of Pennichuck Street, which provided an excitement and
entertainment extravaganza for the grandchildren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other was the rebuilding of the boat ramp
near Greeley Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This primitive
facility, located in the woods at the end of a badly beaten up dirt road, has
long enabled recreational boaters to launch trailered boats into the Merrimack
River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>year the launching ramp was rebuilt with
better materials, the access road and parking area, though still dirt, were
enlarged and improved, and a small trash dumpster and porta-potty were
added<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise, it remained a bare
bones set-up, with no electricity, no illumination, and no running water. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Situated
within the city limits yet far from the madding crowds of busy streets and
noisy neighborhoods, the boat ramp had an atmosphere of peace and quiet in the
early mornings and thus offered a respite from the commotion and confusion of
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Located about a mile from our
house, it lay within easy walking distance along the largely untrafficked
Boston and Maine Railroad and dirt access road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I went there once or twice each week, and I always arrived in the
pre-dawn darkness, well in advance of the boaters. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Perched
in quiet solitude on a large rock or fallen tree trunk, I gazed eastward and
watched the dawn break over the farmland of neighboring Litchfield.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only artificial lights came from a farm
house directly across the river and from a residential neighborhood a mile
downstream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise, Nature lit the
scene with several stars, the occasional Moon, and the soon-to-emerge Sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scattered clouds reflected the Sun’s
light in pink, orange, and purple, and these colors were in turn reflected on
the unrippled surface of the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
its water as flat and undisturbed as a mill pond, the Merrimack, like a mirror,
reflected all the colors of the sky above and the rows of trees along its
banks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the light grew brighter and
culminated in sunrise, the effect was sublime and spiritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The still small voice carried clearly through
the cool dawn air over the tranquil Merrimack, and this pristine natural
setting became supernatural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A perfect
way to start the day! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I
usually had at least half an hour before the first boaters arrived and broke
the silence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this interval my mind
wandered to other locales of peace and quiet and solitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have known several such places over the
years, but here at the boat ramp one in particular stood out in memory, and my
wandering mind eventually settled on it. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
South Atlantic between South America and Africa is a calm, quiet, and lonely
ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There has long been commerce on
it, of course, mostly between the European nations and their former colonies,
but this has never rivaled the volumes of traffic that have plied the North
Atlantic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ships would go for many, many
days without seeing another vessel on the South Atlantic. Vast stretches of
this great sea have always been and still remain isolated from the outside
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the seaman <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who likes solitude and wants to make a quiet
voyage on a calm sea with mild weather, the South Atlantic is the ocean of
choice. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">My
first encounter with the South Atlantic occurred not aboard ship, but on an
airplane. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the mid-afternoon of
Wednesday, September 12, 1979, and accompanied by five other crewmen, I left
Patrick Air Force Base near Melbourne, Florida, aboard a military cargo
aircraft bound for Ascension Island, The airplane made a stop for dinner and
refueling at Antigua, and then travelled overnight across the equator to
Ascension, arriving early in the morning on Thursday the 13<sup>th</sup>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A
British colonial outpost located at 7</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">°</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> 56’ south latitude and 14</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">°</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> 25’
west longitude, Ascension Island was a dormant volcanic mountain used mostly
for military purposes by both the United Kingdom and the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also a port of call for the range
instrumentation vessel <i>General Hoyt S. Vandenberg</i>, which my five new
colleagues and I joined when she arrived from Recife, Brazil, on Saturday, the
15th.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ship anchored off Georgetown,
the main settlement, in the late morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We and several pallets of freight and provisions were delivered
alongside in a cargo launch at 1:00pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four
hours later, the <i>Vandenberg</i> weighed anchor and got underway again. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
two and a half days of enforced leisure while waiting for the ship on Ascension
Island had not been popular with all of the new crewmen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I rather liked it, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ascension had a nice library, great food,
unique scenery, and enticing beaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
were free to roam pretty much as we wished, and I naturally gravitated toward
the beach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was all set to jump into
the beautifully inviting, clear, warm water of the South Atlantic, when a
hammerhead shark appeared right in front of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I quickly changed my mind about going swimming! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">After
two and a half days, though, it felt good to see the <i>Vandenberg</i>
arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I needed to be going somewhere,
getting on with my career, upgrading my license, and so on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These things were very important to me then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so that Saturday evening, with the ship
on a southeasterly heading and making about eleven knots, I stood my first 8 to
12 watch as the new third mate. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
<i>Vandenberg</i> headed for a special operations area a few hundred miles off
the coast of South Africa and arrived there on Sunday, September 23.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She remained on station there until Thursday
the 27<sup>th</sup>, and then proceeded to another special operations area in
mid-ocean, about a thousand miles south of Ascension Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On station at this new site from Monday,
October 1, through Friday the 5<sup>th</sup>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>she then returned briefly to Ascension on Tuesday the 9th. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reached the ripe old age of 22 at sea on
Sunday the 7<sup>th</sup>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">To
call this voyage peaceful and quiet would be a masterpiece of
understatement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this entire time, the
<i>Vandenberg</i> came upon one other ship and sighted one island, Saint
Helena, on radar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise, this large
tract of the South Atlantic remained devoid of human intrusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, the weather was consistently
mild with warm air, excellent visibility, a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>mostly clear sky, and a calm sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After spending the summer aboard the <i>Rigel</i> in the hustle and
bustle of the Mediterranean, this voyage on the placid and remote South
Atlantic seemed like a vacation! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Since
the <i>Vandenberg </i>provided such an easy life, and since I was young and
ambitious, I used this leisure time for professional development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the 8 to 12 morning watches, I took hourly
sun lines, worked up running fixes, calculated local apparent noon, and worked
out a latitude by meridian altitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
the 8 to 12 evening watches, I studied the constellations of the Southern
Hemisphere and selected the Southern Cross as my favorite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frequently around dinner time, I returned to
the bridge to observe the green flash at sunset.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my off-duty hours, I studied oceanography
and meteorology, particularly ocean current circulation, surface wind patterns,
and tropical cyclone formation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
though my third mate’s license was only five months old, it was never too early
to prepare for the next round of exams for the second mate’s license.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more recreational reading, I had brought
along a history of Christianity. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">During
this voyage in the South Atlantic, the <i>Vandenberg</i> carried a contingent
of technicians who worked with sophisticated electronic equipment in carrying
out the ship’s national defense mission for the federal government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We Merchant Marine crewmen sailed the ship
for them and took them where they needed to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When the ship arrived back at Ascension Island at 6:00am on Tuesday,
October 9, the technicians’ work in the South Atlantic was finished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On sailing again that afternoon, the <i>Vandenberg</i>
went north to Monrovia, Liberia, and arrived for a weekend visit early on
Friday the 12<sup>th</sup>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along the
way, she crossed the equator and left the South Atlantic behind. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I,
too, left the South Atlantic behind and returned only twice, in February and
May of 2016.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not join a ship on
these occasions, but traveled to Brazil to visit my daughter and newborn
granddaughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I encountered the South
Atlantic fleetingly from airplanes, from the coast road on the east side of
Salvador, and from the lighthouse and promenade at the southern tip of Salvador.
About 400 miles up the coast stood Recife, the city where my daughter was
married in July of 2014 and the port from which the <i>Vandenberg</i> had
sailed for Ascension Island 35 years previously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After such a long time, it felt wonderful to
gaze upon this magnificent sea of tranquility again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could have remained at the South Atlantic oceanfront
indefinitely, but the baby needed attention. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I
thought I could have remained at the Nashua boat ramp indefinitely, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But after the Sun rose over the Merrimack
River, this inland sea of tranquility always lost some of its idyllic peacefulness
when the first boaters arrived and noisily launched their boats and revved
their engines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this point, it was
time to walk home again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A busy day
awaited me there, a day filled with household chores, tumultuous street repairs,
and very excited grandchildren. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">No
matter how busy and tumultuous the day, however, my dawn retreats at the
waterfront<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enabled me to “Go placidly
amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence,”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
and thereby to “be at peace with God.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Next,
I am happy to present two photographs of the South Atlantic from our family
archives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the first, we see Ascension
Island, including the principal settlement of Georgetown. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took this picture on Saturday, September 15,
1979, from the starboard bridge wing of the <i>General Hoyt S, Vandenberg. </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought that I might never return to this
uniquely beautiful island, so I seized the opportunity and took several
photographs of it. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU2fBa4l8jnpQQA6EHHmcF5JL1781yej2KItcmyjP_CuaBEuWnZY71gRh1En-kmwEp42RGrQZEnGCn69Qw9ALscYs80xAbuaiu52IqVLeMZGiRtAM-DT08C90bisYYDEVyzcsj4jIxzMsj/s2048/Ascension+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2002" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU2fBa4l8jnpQQA6EHHmcF5JL1781yej2KItcmyjP_CuaBEuWnZY71gRh1En-kmwEp42RGrQZEnGCn69Qw9ALscYs80xAbuaiu52IqVLeMZGiRtAM-DT08C90bisYYDEVyzcsj4jIxzMsj/w501-h512/Ascension+2.jpeg" width="501" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
the second picture, taken four decades later on Monday, March 30, 2020,, the majestic
South Atlantic Ocean stretches out to the horizon from the beach and lighthouse
of Itapuã on the east side of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My daughter took this photograph, which
features my granddaughter Miss Lydia Elizabeth gazing seaward from the beach. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such attraction to the ocean seems to run in
the family! <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqgQF2wmOoeoQVe8v3uPiIFn6KS-Km3vqx2bpiYsJIvDe0QibxK4N_g5vknUJI_LfGguF1kBIZJy8h87T1LhTaqoeXLHP5ujwEvW3abFo9SsTp6RHqHHKMkzRIf8i0zZce9Y6Kcqh-PgY/s1273/Beacjh+%2526+LH.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="955" data-original-width="1273" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqgQF2wmOoeoQVe8v3uPiIFn6KS-Km3vqx2bpiYsJIvDe0QibxK4N_g5vknUJI_LfGguF1kBIZJy8h87T1LhTaqoeXLHP5ujwEvW3abFo9SsTp6RHqHHKMkzRIf8i0zZce9Y6Kcqh-PgY/w512-h384/Beacjh+%2526+LH.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;"> Max Ehrmann,
“Desiderata,” 1927, found at www.desiderata.com.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9pt;"> Ibid.</span></p></div><div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-78238262621819335822020-07-26T18:16:00.002-04:002020-07-26T18:16:57.759-04:00Sailing Away
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
cable ship <i>Furman</i> rested at her dock at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in
Kittery, Maine, on Saturday morning, March 15, 1986.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two tugboats nuzzled alongside her forward
and aft and waited patiently as the old ship prepared to get underway and go to
sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wisps of black smoke curled upward
form her single stack into the gray overcast and light rain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The deck crew hauled in the gangway and the
mooring lines, and then the tugs tooted their whistles in response to the
pilot’s commands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Underway now on the
Piscataqua River, the <i>Furman</i> eased away from the Navy Yard and headed
downstream and seaward, bound for Guam.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Miss
Patty and I watched the <i>Furman’s</i> departure from Prescott Park, on the
opposite shore of the Piscataqua in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had served aboard this ship from June 10,
1985, to February 11, 1986.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of this
time had been spent slowly loading cable at the Simplex Wire and Cable Company
pier in Newington, New Hampshire, a few miles upstream from Portsmouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This process was interrupted several times by
visits to the Navy Yard and by sea trials following some engine room repairs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When all of this was finished, a largely new
crew came aboard to take the ship out to sea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">During
her long visit to the Portsmouth area, the <i>Furman</i> served as a
convalescent ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several of us in the
crew were recovering from serious illnesses, and this was a pleasant and
non-strenuous job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many, like myself,
lived nearby and commuted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i>Furman</i>
was a good ship in a nice port close to home, and so she grew on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was sorry to see her sail away without me
on that rainy Ides of March.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Memories
of the <i>Furman</i> and my association with her have occupied my mind
recently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I often do when such
thoughts linger, I started composing an essay discussing the ship, my time on board,
and her subsequent departure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had recorded
some interesting information with detailed descriptions, and then disaster
struck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By accidentally clicking the
wrong thing on the computer, my essay was in one split second deleted forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
attempts to recover the prose failed, and I had to accept the unpleasant fact
that my composition, like<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <i>Furman</i>
herself, was irretrievably gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
could such a thing happen?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quite
easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never been very comfortable
with computers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, I’ve always
felt more at home communing with the Cosmos by gazing into the heavens and
taking navigational sights from the bridge wing of a ship at sea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But
not all was lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several photographs of
the <i>Furman</i> remained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kept in a
separate file, these were unaffected by the fate that befell the essay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So while I am unable to reconstruct my
original writing, I am happy to present the pictures with some explanatory
notes. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">These
first two photographs feature the <i>Furman</i> at the Simplex Wire and Cable
Company pier in Newington, in July of 1985.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the first, we are looking forward from the starboard bridge wing, and
we see the foredeck and bow of the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The metal channel that runs along the starboard deck edge is a guideway
through which the cable traveled when it was being loaded into the cargo holds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLe_9OS7l1FzEt3DyxXGQQbwF7mS5FdJdOE3cUORuOyudwBjf8ddqTaz21sd62jhVf2MIFepLYz9TuQlmv0xM96MoELD3epa8c5IvkUARFg6sdRavYWOjneTTIf1DYS08YIoC6ONYzuyDs/s2048/1-bow-July%252C+1985.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1636" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLe_9OS7l1FzEt3DyxXGQQbwF7mS5FdJdOE3cUORuOyudwBjf8ddqTaz21sd62jhVf2MIFepLYz9TuQlmv0xM96MoELD3epa8c5IvkUARFg6sdRavYWOjneTTIf1DYS08YIoC6ONYzuyDs/w400-h320/1-bow-July%252C+1985.jpeg" width="400" /><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Next,
from the after end of the midships house, we see the stern section and the
somewhat makeshift gangway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Several
months later, in February of 1986, and with the <i>Furman</i> realigned at the
pier, we enjoy from shoreside a view of the ship from the midships house aft. </span></p>
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from the stern of the <i>Furman</i> on a cold morning that same February, we
watch the Sun rise over Kittery, Maine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The steel arch bridge carries Interstate 95 over the Piscatqua between
Maine and New Hampshire.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9_gaSoIQtgLHCDz0L-rMjgJsht1Auw1R9d1LX6xs9NuxupqpV1sHUj0G09G_x8cbU4EVemLuZegaeWvxkJQdK3kolpL9ryfkbOlzlO-bj3liFD1i1dHtsklK_-0a1Qx8lDFrz0oamU9Vr/s2048/4-sunrise-Feb%252C+1986.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1616" data-original-width="2048" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9_gaSoIQtgLHCDz0L-rMjgJsht1Auw1R9d1LX6xs9NuxupqpV1sHUj0G09G_x8cbU4EVemLuZegaeWvxkJQdK3kolpL9ryfkbOlzlO-bj3liFD1i1dHtsklK_-0a1Qx8lDFrz0oamU9Vr/w400-h315/4-sunrise-Feb%252C+1986.jpeg" width="400" /><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Departure
day, Saturday, March 15, 1986.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
tugboats in position forward and aft, the <i>Furman</i> prepares to leave her
berth at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This view and the one following were taken
from Prescot Park, across the river in Portsmouth.</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Underway
and outward bound in this broadside view, the <i>Furman</i> departs from the
Navy Yard.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDcf87Quu1opIV57WgQWaCFpAJDsQ8IMkbLINHbOJc2qiq97DsYd9F39fSqdNKfOLuBPFNq2E3pK1zR1HAs3ERgj2FQYH6MgU0835_pdJ9WNzrFpcZadYYV9cAQIWp8xgbZBxNxCpShqK/s2393/6-dep-Mar+15%252C+1986.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1109" data-original-width="2393" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDcf87Quu1opIV57WgQWaCFpAJDsQ8IMkbLINHbOJc2qiq97DsYd9F39fSqdNKfOLuBPFNq2E3pK1zR1HAs3ERgj2FQYH6MgU0835_pdJ9WNzrFpcZadYYV9cAQIWp8xgbZBxNxCpShqK/w500-h231/6-dep-Mar+15%252C+1986.jpeg" width="500" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.0866in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Finally,
the <i>Furman</i> heads out to sea in this view taken from Fort Constitution,
downstream in New Castle, New Hampshire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Off the ship’s port side stands Whaleback Light in Kittery, one of the
two lighthouses that mark the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor.</span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-46285020992888728872020-02-16T19:16:00.000-05:002020-05-18T17:14:04.732-04:00Reunions at the Rare<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">On
the day after my father’s service at Holy Rood, I returned to New Hampshire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traveling first by train into Manhattan and
then by bus to Nashua, I had a few hours’ layover in the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the weather unusually mild for the first
day of February, I took this opportunity to walk around and revisit some of my
favorite spots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though I hadn’t
actually lived in the area for a long time, I remained a native New Yorker, and
I still felt very much at home there.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>From Penn Station, I went first to the Franciscan church on West 32nd Street and spent some quiet moments there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Next, I walked six blocks south with the intention of briefly stopping
by the Rare Bar and Grill for old time’s sake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Located on the first floor of the Hilton Hotel at 152 West 26<sup>th</sup>
Street near Seventh Avenue, the Rare was an easy walk from Penn and has been
the site of several happy meetings with my friend and former colleague Walter
Burke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had happy memories of the Rare,
just as I had of many places in the city, and I thought it might be nice to
stop by for a moment and reminisce.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">When
I arrived, something didn’t seem right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The signs were gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The outside
menu was gone. The inside was dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
one was there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A notice on the door revealed
that the hotel was seeking a new tenant for the restaurant in order to improve
the dining service for its guests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
I realized, to my utter astonishment, that the Rare was closed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not closed in the sense that it just hadn’t
opened yet for the day, but completely shut down and out of business!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was shocked and disappointed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How could this be?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had been there with Walter only the
previous May, although admittedly, that was now eight months ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walked away feeling very dejected.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">This
dejection soon turned into sentiment and nostalgia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remembered the first time I had met Walter
at the Rare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That had been by his invitation
on Monday afternoon, March 28, 2016, and it was an exceptionally happy and truly
memorable occasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That first reunion
after so many years<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>proved to be so enjoyable that we met at the
Rare again several months later on Wednesday, November 2, and then again a year
afterwards on Wednesday, November 1, 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most of these meetings took place when I was in New York visiting my
parents; thus, their timing was very convenient.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The
Rare was a great place for two alumni of the sea to meet and dine and remember
the voyages of their youth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a quiet
and uncrowded restaurant with great food and attentive service, and it was very
convenient to Penn Station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, in a
neighborhood that was practically saturated with sports bars and fast food
joints, it was neither of these.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
a cut above the ordinary, but not so fancy that two merchant seamen wouldn’t
know how to behave there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore,
since the Rare formed a link to our past seafaring careers, it was easy to start
feeling some attachment to the place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
never felt sentimental about any other restaurant, but then, the Rare was
different.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Dinner
alone at the Rare would not have been any fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The enjoyment lay in the companionship and camaraderie even more than in
the food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the palpable common
ground of the fraternity of the sea, and with a shared outlook on life formed
by the rigors of going to sea, our conversation flowed as freely and as strongly
as a flood tide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was always so
much to talk about!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time seemed to
stand still as we recalled ships and shipmates, voyages and destinations, adventures
at sea and in port, and so very much more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But of course, the time did not stand still at the Rare any more than it
had all those years ago aboard ship. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always
too soon, we needed to return to the present day and walk back to Penn Station.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Our
last reunion at the Rare took place on Tuesday, May 28, 2019.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost a year ago now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It never occurred to me then that the Rare
would be shut down and that our reunions would never take place there again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But “time marches on,” as Walter remarked, “whether
we’re ready for it or not.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Indeed,
time has been marching on relentlessly since the very beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone and everything have lasted only so
long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We recognize the brevity of our
own lives, of course, but even grand creations that were built to last for
centuries, such as the World Trade Center and the original Pennsylvania Railroad Station,
have lived only for brief moments of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, too, did most of the ships that Walter and I sailed on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To my knowledge, all but two have gone to the
scrap yard. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only the <i>Mercury</i> and
the <i>Comet</i> remain, moored in the reserve fleet on the West Coast.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">As
family members, former shipmates, old friends, and even great ships and iconic
buildings leave this life and return to dust, it becomes easy for one remaining
to think as the Psalmist: “I am a stranger in the earth” (Ps. 119:19).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As everything that was familiar becomes lost,
one can feel out of place in the world as it changes incessantly and becomes increasingly
different and even strange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The demise
of the Rare Bar and Grill has come to symbolize for me the loss of so much more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With it closed, one of the last links to my irretrievably
gone seafaring past is now itself irretrievably gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will miss the Rare just as I miss going to
sea.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">But
as the deacon asserted in the service at Holy Rood, “we have our citizenship in
heaven” (Phil. 3:20 NAB).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No longer will
we be “strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the
household of God” (Eph. 2:19).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On an
earthly voyage that by its very nature is fraught with uncertainty, change,
loss, and sorrow, there can be no better future than to ultimately return to
our celestial home port.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Now,
we have photographic documentation of a reunion at the Rare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A member of the wait staff took this portrait
of Walter and me after dinner on Wednesday, November 1, 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walter stands on the left, and I’m on the
right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a wonderfully happy and
festive occasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br />Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-71702464235209675032020-02-09T13:48:00.000-05:002020-02-09T13:48:00.610-05:00The Passing of the Torch
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Buoyed
by the happy memory of his recent last voyage aboard the ferry <i>Cape Henlopen</i>,
and sustained by frequent visits from his children, grandchildren, and
great-grandchildren, my father spent his final months in quiet repose at Nashua
Crossings, an assisted living facility near the family home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The staff there took good care of him and
kept him comfortable, well-fed, and safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the summer, he enjoyed the great outdoors of the courtyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the winter, he appreciated the warmth of
the great indoors, thankful that cleaning up the snow and ice was no longer his
responsibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In all seasons, he
enjoyed the company of his family and took special delight in his three
great-grandchildren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They eased the
loneliness and mitigated the infirmities of his old age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But
just as his time aboard the <i>Cape Henlopen</i> went by too quickly, so did
his time with the family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
debilitations of advanced age overtook him. He passed pleasant holidays at Easter,
Thanksgiving, and Christmas, but in this new year he required hospitalization
and then hospice care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, on
Friday evening, January 24, 2020, my father quietly rang up “Finished with
Engines.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Concluding an earthly voyage
of 98 years, 2 months, and 22 days, he returned to the celestial sphere from
which he had arrived almost a century ago. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There he joined our Mom and many other family
members and old friends who had gone before him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the last of his siblings and cousins to
leave this life, he has passed the torch on to a new generation that must now preside
over the family.</span></div>
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week later, on Friday the 31<sup>st</sup>, I attended an interment service for
my father at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury, Long Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had made his return to New York for this occasion
not aboard a ship, but in a hearse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
followed him on a bus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In our last
moments together as father and son at Holy Rood, the deacon intoned the
customary prayers for the dead and, quoting Saint Paul, reminded us that “we
have our citizenship in heaven” and that “we await the coming of our Savior” (both
Phil. 3:20, NAB).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These good points remind
us that all of our earthly voyages are temporary and imperfect. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best is yet to come.</span></div>
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who now carry the family torch in this life have the obligation and the opportunity
to serve both the living and the dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This year, we plan to continue the temple ordinances for my Mom and
several of her cousins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next year, we will
start the temple ordinances for my father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For many years, we will help with the temporal and spiritual needs of the
grandchildren and great-grandchildren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These family projects are “a sacred duty”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
because “the family is ordained of God”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
and is “central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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two photographs from the family archives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Mom took this father-and-teenage-son
portrait on the bank of the Penobscot River at Fort Knox in Prospect, Maine, in
October of 1976.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the background, an
unidentified tanker was discharging cargo at the oil dock in the paper mill
town of Bucksport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many voyages lay
ahead of us when this picture was taken.</span></div>
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view of the rusty tanker that we were admiring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Regarding my choice of a career in the Merchant Marine, I recall my
father remarking that there was more opportunity for advancement aboard ship
than there was in his field of school administration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every ship had a Captain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every ship had a Chief Engineer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I worked hard and studied diligently for
the license exams, I could make it to the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It didn’t quite turn out that way, but he did have my best interests at
heart!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>“The Family: A
Proclamation to the World,” Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, General Relief Society Meeting, September 23, 1995. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Every
place of human habitation needs a good housecleaning every so often, and our home
is no exception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With plans to retire,
relinquish the property, and relocate to a milder climate in the not-too-distant
future, the time has come not only for a good housecleaning, but a major
downsizing as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this thought in
mind, I’ve packed up and given away many household items in recent months, but
of course, more still needs to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing
in the house, not even the family archives, may be exempt from inspection and
possible ejection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Last
month’s project, then, involved a thorough examination of the children’s
picture albums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had about a dozen
of these, all filled mostly with mediocre photographs taken with toy cameras
and with some duplicates of pictures taken with more sophisticated equipment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a motley collection, but it did contain
a few gems that I wanted to save.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
bulk of the collection was jettisoned, as we had much better quality
photographs of the same subjects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Redundancy
is a wise course in both archival work and shipboard engineering systems, but it
can sometimes be taken to unreasonable extremes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Not
surprisingly, the photographs that I saved are of ships and ship-related
subjects. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some are quite good. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few are not so good but unique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of them bring back memories, and I’m
happy to present them here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s start
with a visit to the Cunard Line’s <i>Queen Elizabeth 2</i> as she reposes at
the passenger ship piers on the West Side of Manhattan.</span></div>
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bow of any large passenger liner is an impressive sight when viewed from the
street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, the great, curved, black
steel port bow of the <i>QE2</i> rises magnificently from the placid Hudson on Saturday,
July 3, 1999.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s awe-inspiring to
think that this great bow was designed to cut gracefully yet purposefully through
the largest waves and swells of the Atlantic between New York and Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Few, if any, of the ship’s pampered
passengers would give this matter a thought.</span></div>
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great bow, like every other part of the ship, requires regular maintenance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, on the same day, we see two seamen on a
camel rolling on a fresh layer of black paint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not a job for the faint of heart! </span></div>
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these two photographs, taken on Sunday afternoon, September 1, 1996, from the
top level of Pier 90, we have a close-up view of the <i>Queen’s</i> port side superstructure.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From this vantage point, we can look through
the oversize windows into the ship’s public rooms and promenades and admire her
luxurious accommodations. </span></div>
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the West Side piers now and taking the subway down to the Battery, we next
embark on the Staten Island Ferry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always
a family favorite, these half-hour voyages are great fun, and it’s easy to lose
track of the time and spend half the day sailing back and forth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first picture here shows the pilothouse
of the <i>American Legion</i> on an overcast Saturday, April 3, 1999. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A
year later, we see the same view of the <i>Gov. Herbert H. Lehman</i> on a bright
and sunny Saturday, March 4, 2000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
blue sky and sunshine make all the difference in these two photos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Switching
vessels on the same day, here we view the southbound <i>Gov. Herbert H. Lehman</i>
from the northbound <i>American Legion</i> as the two ships pass “at sea” on
the Upper New York Bay. </span></div>
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</span>First, we see the anchored bulk carrier <i>Amphitrite</i> on Saturday, April
3, 1999. </span></div>
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we see the anchored container ship <i>Maersk Valentia</i> on Saturday, March 4,
2000.</span></div>
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on the same day, we watch as another Maersk Lines container ship emerges from
the Kills between Staten Island and New Jersey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She is rounding Saint George and will soon pass through the Narrows and
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Leaving
New York now, we go next to Maine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Portland area is always a great place to see ships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, we admire the academy training vessel <i>State
of Maine</i> as she rests alongside the Bath Iron Works pier in Portland on a
cloudy and warm Saturday, July 11, 1998.</span></div>
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breakwater are excellent vantage points from which we can watch everything that
enters and leaves Portland Harbor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Heading
south now to Massachusetts, we watch the Dutch freighter <i>Schippersgracht</i>
discharging cargo in Fall River on Monday, August 27, 2001.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Free to roam the pier and watch the ship unload,
we did not know on this date that our unrestricted access to the docks would hereafter
be curtailed as a result of the terrorist attacks that were only two weeks away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Moving
farther south to the Delaware Bay, we have an noontime view of the northbound <i>New
Jersey</i> silhouetted in the sunlight from the southbound <i>Delaware</i> on Sunday,
Christmas Eve of 1995.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When driving to
Virginia to visit family, the voyage across the Delaware Bay comes as a welcome
break from the holiday traffic!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Returning
now to New England, let’s visit some lighthouses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First we have the storied Portland Head Light
in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on Saturday, August 30, 1997.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A popular tourist attraction, this site
commands a magnificent view of Casco Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One can spend many hours there and never tire
of the scenery.</span></div>
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the farther end of Maine, we have this view of the famed West Quoddy Head Light
in Lubec on a cloudy and foggy Monday, June 23, 2003.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This site is often cloudy, foggy, windy,
damp, and cold, and it has a rugged beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s also peaceful and quiet, with very few visiting tourists, even at
the height of the summer season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
Massachusetts again, we see next the diminutive Plum Island Light at the mouth
of the Merrimack River in Newburyport on Friday, June 23, 2000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blue sky and sunshine abound at this lovely site
which is often overlooked by Boston area residents who flock to Maine instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
New York again, this time on the spring vacation from school, the children go
with their grandparents to the iconic Fire Island Light on a brilliant April day
in 2001.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My sons Steven and Michael pose
on the boardwalk that leads through the dunes to the light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Finally,
we return once more to New England, specifically to the Piscataqua River that
forms the boundary between New Hampshire and Maine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Memorial Bridge spanned this waterway for
about a century before it was replaced with a more modern structure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the children were little, they were
thrilled to walk across this bridge from New Hampshire to Maine and back and watch
the tidal current rushing beneath their feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This view is taken from nearby Prescott Park on a beautiful but chilly Monday,
October 8, 2001.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">All
these photographs from so many years ago bring back a sea of happy memories for
everyone in the family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are indeed
fortunate to have these memories, just as we were fortunate to go on so many
family outings to the oceanfront when the children were younger. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps even more to the point, we were extremely
fortunate to have a house full of happy and healthy children in the first place.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many blessings, and so many reasons
to be thankful!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The psalmist said it
well when he asserted, “It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord” (Ps.
92:1), and when he exhorted, “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into
his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name” (Ps. 100:4).</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></div>
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</style>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-16935980051932695152019-11-03T19:36:00.000-05:002019-11-04T04:20:08.694-05:00An Academician on the Water<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Several
years ago, I visited the archives of Manhattan College in the Riverdale section
of the Bronx in order to research the life and career of my great-granduncle,
Joseph Lawrence Scanlon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was born in
Nyack, on the Hudson River in upstate New York, in 1878. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a teenager in 1893, he entered the Institute
of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a religious order less formally known
as the Christian Brothers, and he took the name Brother Apelles Jasper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This pursuit of the consecrated life enabled
him to receive an extensive education at Manhattan College, Columbia
University, and the Catholic University of America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This prepared him for a distinguished
academic career as professor, dean, president, and trustee at Manhattan College.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, he edited and wrote for several
academic and religious journals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Subsequently,
he became a librarian at the LaSalle Military Academy, a Christian Brothers
high school in Oakdale, on the South Shore of Long Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, he died in New York City in 1944.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">In
the course of my research, I had the privilege of meeting Brother Luke Salm, a
professor emeritus of history and an archivist at Manhattan College.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he was a young man in the 1930s, Brother
Luke knew Brother Jasper, and he remembered him well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brother Luke recalled that when he was a
college student, he spent his summer vacations at the LaSalle Academy in
Oakdale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During these times, he <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>observed Brother Jasper setting out on the
Great South Bay early every morning in a small motorboat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, Brother Jasper enjoyed sailing on
salt water!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Of
course, this is a very tenuous connection to the sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brother Jasper was not a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>merchant seaman, but it would be accurate to
call him an amateur bay man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides, in
this era before many of the bridges and tunnels in New York were built, he most
certainly sailed on ferries across the Hudson River and other waterways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, Brother Jasper was acquainted at least with
the tributaries of the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">My
interest in Brother Jasper stemmed from our being related. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting to know him was facilitated by the
lengthy paper trail he left behind,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
archives yielded a storehouse of material written both about him and by
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In perusing this collection, it
became clear to me that Brother Jasper was a very intelligent and very learned
man as well as a highly accomplished academician.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This assessment was confirmed by a confrere’s
notation that he was “remembered as a teacher for his intimacy with many areas
of learning.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[1]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span> </span>His connection to the Great South Bay came as
a bonus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Among
Brother Jasper’s writings was some poetry which illustrated his range of
subject matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writing on a religious
theme, he incorporated, for example, philosophy and biology, subjects that he
taught, into some of his poems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
while never having been a merchant seaman, he did include the sea in one of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naturally, this one is my favorite:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Though stormy seas about me roll,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">And angry waves conceal the goal,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I need not fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Though my frail bark is tempest
tossed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">And strangers crowd, yea, all seems
lost;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I should not fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Though friends rebuke and foes malign,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Unholy ones their strength combine;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I will not fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">For Thou whom winds and sea obey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Will all my pains and grief allay,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">When Thou art near.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[2]</span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">As
these verses demonstrate, Brother Jasper was a man of great faith, and he used
his literary skills to share this faith with others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this, we who read his poetry owe him a debt
of gratitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also feel honored that he
included the seafaring profession in his work, and I appreciate his use of the
metaphor of the storm at sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Brother
Jasper’s abiding religious faith was evident in all of his poetry and prose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also clear was his admiration for the works
of charity and acts of selfless service to others that such faith engendered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He admired holy and Christ-like men who quietly
did the Lord’s work without calling attention to themselves. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, as a man of quiet contemplation, he
recognized that the Lord operated through the still small voice and not the
splash of sensationalism, and he asserted, “The divine call to a higher life is
a gentle influence.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[3]</span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps
Brother Jasper experienced some of this “gentle Influence” on the Great South
Bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sea and its tributaries have
bespoken the existence and genius of God to many of us, and certainly Brother
Jasper would recognize such a manifestation of the Deity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet he would also realize that while we live
here on the created Earth, we are not entirely a part of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a spiritual man, he understood the human
capacity for something higher and greater, and in another poem he exhorted: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">O mortal, rise above the clod</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">That holds thee down so low:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Enjoy the presence of thy God</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Wherein all blessings flow.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[4]</span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">A
colleague wrote that Brother Jasper possessed “a quiet nobility of soul”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[5]</span></span></span></a></span>
and had “a remarkable devotion to duty.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[6]</span></span></span></a></span>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another stated that he had “a kindness
of disposition, an urbanity of manner, an evenness of temper, a goodness of
heart, and a never-failing cheerfulness.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[7]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was in addition to his “more than
ordinary intelligence,”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[8]</span></span></span></a></span>
which made him “a walking encyclopedia of language, science, mathematics,
philosophy, and literature.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[9]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, he was described as “one of the
truly great men that every once in a while the Lord sends to the earth.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[10]</span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">It
seems to me that the faith and spirituality of such a great man could only have
been increased by his experience on the Great South Bay, and it would have been
much further magnified if he had actually gone to sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am certain that a transoceanic voyage would
have been a truly grand epiphany for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Now
let us put a face to the name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have only
four photographs of Brother Jasper, and this is the earliest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is believed to have been taken in a studio
in New York in the early 1900s when he was in his mid-twenties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> Br. Casimir
Gabriel, F.S.C., <i>The Tree Bore Fruit: Manhattan College 1853-1953</i>,
Riverdale, NY: Manhattan College, 1953, p. 71.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This splendid volume recounts the history of Manhattan College in its
first century and was a gift to me from Brother Luke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> Joseph L. Scanlon
(Br. Apelles Jasper, F.S.C.), “Fear Not,” in <i>The Manhattan Quarterly</i>,
April, 1914, p. 42.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> Joseph L. Scanlon
(Br. Apelles Jasper, F.S.C.), <i>Life of Venerable Brother Benilde of the
Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools</i>, p. 33, unpublished
typescript held in the Manhattan College archives and dating from the 1940s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>Joseph L. Scanlon
(Br. Apelles Jasper, F.S.C.), “The Flower,” in <i>The Manhattan Quarterly</i>,
April, 1914, p. 9.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">[5]</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Manhattan College
memorandum on the death of Brother Apelles Jasper on February 20, 1944, and
held in the Manhattan College archives.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> Ibid.</span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">[7]</span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">From a speech given
by an unnamed confrere on the occasion of Brother Apelles Jasper’s Golden
Jubilee at Manhattan College on December 19, 1943, and held in the Manhattan
College archives.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">[8]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> Ibid.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">[9]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> Ibid.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">[10]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> Manhattan College
memorandum previously cited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">One
day this past summer a pot full of sunflowers mysteriously appeared on our
porch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never learned who put them
there or why, but their big, bright, and cheerful yellow blooms caught my attention,
and I took to watering them regularly because they were so pretty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also reminded me of a family visit on
Long Island that took place about five years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Normally,
I prefer not to travel on Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes,
however, exceptions to this policy become necessary, and because they are
exceptions, they are also memorable occasions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On this particular occasion, Miss Patty and I were traveling to Long
Island on Sunday because on Monday she would depart from Kennedy Airport and
fly to Brazil for our daughter’s wedding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And so in the afternoon of July 20, 2014, we drove to New London,
Connecticut, and then sailed to Orient Point, Long Island, aboard the ferry <i>Cape
Henlopen</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weather on the water was
so beautiful and the crossing was so tranquil and sublime that it seemed, if not
actually sinful, at least morally deficient to <i>not</i> be at sea that Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As always, though, the voyage ended too quickly,
and we drove off the ship and continued westward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Diverting
this time from our usual route through the built-up North Fork villages from
Greenport to Riverhead, we followed Route 25A, a secondary road through the farmlands
of Eastern Long Island instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a
pleasant diversion through less traffic and more open country, a restful
alternative fitting for a day of rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Along the way we passed several roadside farm stands open for business,
and as we neared Wading River, we came upon a roadside floral vender selling
sunflowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">For
many years, I’ve been in the habit of bringing flowers to my Mom when returning
home for a visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually, I picked
these up at the Petal Pusher in Penn Station or at Howard’s in Mineola.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, however, while taking a more bucolic
route, an opportunity arose to get her a bouquet made up entirely of locally
grown sunflowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom would love these,
we figured, with their bright yellow petals, dark brown centers, and green
leaves and stems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uniform but not
identical, all these sunflowers would be strikingly different from a customary commercial
bouquet produced by a florist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">When
we arrived at the family headquarters about 6:00pm, Mom liked the sunflowers
very much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following her usual custom,
she placed them in a vase with fresh water and put them on display in the
living room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several times she remarked
on the brightness and cheerfulness of their colors and added that these ranked
among her favorite flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the days
that followed, she enjoyed the sunflowers very, very much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Also
in the following days, Miss Patty left for Brazil, and I had a pleasant visit
with my parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Thursday, July 24, I
took an afternoon train to Boston and then the bus back to Nashua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our car remained on Long Island pending Miss
Patty’s return from the wedding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
the following years, I’ve come to associate sunflowers with my Mom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aptly named, they have a sunny disposition that
resembles hers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scientifically known as <i>Helianthus</i>,
their simple beauty and bright colors create a cheerful atmosphere wherever
they are displayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How fitting, then,
that they should remind me a of someone who appreciated the beauty of the world
and who saw this beauty as the gift of a Creator-God to his human children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">One
part of the world whose beauty Mom especially enjoyed and appreciated was the
seashore, where the land and the sea intermingle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During her childhood, she spent summer vacations
with her parents and extended family at the seaside on both the North Shore and
the South Shore of Long Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later,
she continued to visit the seashore with college friends, and after that, with
her own family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over a lifetime, she
became acquainted with Long Beach, Lido Beach, Point Lookout, Tobay Beach, Jones
Beach, Cedar Island, Oak Beach, Oak Island, Captree, Fire Island, Massapequa, Lindenhurst,
Babylon, Montauk Point, Orient Point, Mount Sinai, Port Washington, and the Long
Island Sound ferries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, she sailed
the family sailboat on the Great South Bay for many years, and she made one ocean
voyage to Bermuda and the Bahamas aboard the <i>Evangeline</i> as a young
adult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During her last years, with
restrictions on her mobility, Mom could well have echoed the words of the great
seaman and poet John Masefield:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A wind’s in the heart of me, a fire’s
in my heels,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I am tired of brick and stone and
rumbling wagon-wheels;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I hunger for the sea’s edge, the
limits of the land,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Where the wild old Atlantic is
shouting on the sand.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And
so Mom and my father both took great pleasure in visiting the South Shore barrier
beaches and voyaging aboard the <i>Moon Chaser</i> on the Great South Bay when
I returned home to see them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">My
parents still owned an automobile, so I drove them down to the oceanfront. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On these outings we followed the Ocean Parkway
to our first stop at Oak Beach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There,
on a recently built fishing pier, we looked out at the Fire Island Inlet, watched
the fishermen go about their business, and decided if we should cross the
bridge to Fire Island itself or go to Captree for lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often we did both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Fire Island we admired the lighthouse,
sometimes hiking out to it on the boardwalk through the sand dunes and beach
grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the beach, we spent a long
time walking through the sand along the water’s edge and taking in the majestic
view of the great Atlantic Ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
was always a sight like no other, a temporary escape from the densely populated
and heavily built-up urban area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
Captree, we dined in the second floor Captree Cove Restaurant, and we enjoyed
the views of the fishing boat docks, the adjacent waterways, and the distant
lighthouse as much as we enjoyed the food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">On
days when the <i>Moon Chaser</i> was sailing, we drove from the house directly
to the Captree Boat Basin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This vessel
sailed on sedate sightseeing excursions in the afternoons, and my parents
always sat on the upper deck in front of the pilothouse on these voyages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From this vantage point, they had an
unlimited view of everything on the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Leaving Captree at 1:00pm, the ship always proceeded eastward through the
State Boat Channel to the open water of the Great South Bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, she sailed along the northern shoreline
of Fire Island as far as the Fire Island Lighthouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along this route she wended her way among
fishing boats, sailboats, and the small trans-bay ferries that connected the
communities of Fire Island with the Mainland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was always plenty of activity, and thus plenty of sights to see,
on the bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once abeam of the famed Fire
Island Light, the <i>Moon Chaser</i> came about and slowly returned to Captree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After disembarking around 3:00pm, we usually had
an early dinner at the Captree Cove before heading back home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Since
my parents could no longer drive, they appreciated the opportunity to ride down
to the barrier beaches and sail on the bay when I visited them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As much as they both enjoyed these
excursions, though, it was my Mom who always spoke admiringly and even reverently
about the beauty of the seashore and the open ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She saw the hand of God in everything
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The innumerable grains of sand on
the beach, the abundance and variety of life in and alongside the sea, the sun,
moon, and clouds in the sky, and the seemingly limitless sea and sky stretching
out to the horizon and far behind—all of these and more demonstrated the existence,
genius, and perfection of God for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mom never read this verse, but having studied Thomistic theology in
college with the Ursuline nuns, she no doubt would have agreed with the scriptural
assertion that: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">all things denote there is a God;
yea, even the earth and all things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">that are upon the face of it. .
.and also all the planets which move</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">in their regular form do witness
that there is a Supreme Creator</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">(Alma 30:44).</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Like many merchant seamen, Mom
understood that there was much more to the sea than salt water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She appreciated the spiritual aspect of the
sea, and gazing upon it always involved an epiphany wherein the Supreme Creator
manifested himself to her.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This did not happen only at the
seashore, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom saw the hand of
God in such diverse locations as the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, the pine
tree forests in Maine, the Botanical Gardens in Brooklyn, and the birds and squirrels
in the trees of her own backyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
loved the world of Nature in all its forms, and she recognized it as a divine
masterpiece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several times, when viewing
the stars in the night sky, she asked rhetorically, “How can anyone look at all
this and not believe in God?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A poem she
wrote captures this thought more artistically:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A precious orb that floats in space</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Our Earth’s unique, a special place</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Where living things together ride</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">An enormous carousel, and bide</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In a friendly atmosphere</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Of rich black loam and water clear,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Of sun and shade and rain and snow,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Miraculous ingredients to make us
grow.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Dear Earth, some scientists
proclaim</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">You were thrown from the sun,
without aim</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Or design, to become by destiny</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This wondrous planet, this prodigy.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Are you just a freak in space</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Or do you exist through divine
grace,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">A perfect setting for a priceless
gem,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">God’s image and likeness—men?<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Such was my Mom’s view of the sea,
the world, and the cosmos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were all
the work of the Supreme Creator, and she often expressed her gratitude for the
majesty and beauty of his creation.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">And so whenever I arrived back home
with a bouquet of flowers, Mom saw them, too, as the work of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She always remarked on the beauty of their colors
and then arranged them in a vase for display.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She always enjoyed these fresh flowers, and she especially enjoyed the fresh
sunflowers that summer day five years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No doubt she would have enjoyed the pot of sunflowers that mysteriously
appeared on our porch this summer, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Now
let’s look at some pictures!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, in
this vintage photograph from 1947, we seen my Mom on the right with the radio
officer and a fellow passenger aboard the <i>Evangelin</i>e of the Eastern
Steamship Lines on a voyage from New York to Bermuda and the Bahamas and
back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ship sailed from New York on Wednesday,
July 30, and returned about a week or so later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Next,
we see my parents on the fishing dock at Captree on Thursday, June 25,
2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The buoys in the water behind them
delineate the State Boat Channel, which leads eastward to the more open waters
of the Great South Bay and the Fire Island Inlet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Finally,
the million dollar view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the uncrowded,
postseason, bathing beach on Fire Island on Thursday, September 19, 2013, we
look at the great Atlantic Ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
perfect place to contemplate the divine design of the world and the meaning and
purpose of human life.</span></div>
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Wanderer’s Song,” in <i>Salt-Water Ballads</i>, New York: The MacMillan Company,
1913, p. 61; reprinted by Bibliobazaar, n.p., n.d.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Justine Elizabeth
Burns, “The Earth,” unpublished poem, one of many in her personal papers.</span></div>
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order to withdraw temporarily from the responsibilities, tensions, and sometimes
boredom of everyday life, many people turn to such therapeutic pursuits as
light reading, soothing music, or simple daydreaming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A typical bus or train on its afternoon
commuter run is filled with people reading books, listening to music, and
staring out the window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My own withdrawal
takes a somewhat different form, but it still works very effectively.</span></div>
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son Michael often wears a tee shirt bearing the slogan, “Keep calm, and imagine
a place.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taking this counsel to heart,
I not only imagine but remember many places to which I’ve traveled, and in my
mind’s eye, I see them again and enjoy the pleasant memories of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One spot in particular returns frequently to
mind, and I imagine spending a day off from work there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Located
on the North Shore of Long Island, Port Jefferson is a busy and picturesque
municipality at one end of a beautiful natural harbor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shops, restaurants, a hotel, a park, and the
ferry terminal fill the downtown area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When the ferries are in port, they dominate the skyline and command the
town’s attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far larger than
everything ashore combined, these vessels, like great works of art, naturally turn
the eyes of pedestrians to themselves and compel those passing by to stop and
stare at them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a busy day these ships
arrive and depart hourly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve watched
them for brief periods on a few occasions, but I’ve often thought that I could
easily spend an entire day watching them come and go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until this opportunity presents itself, however,
the thought of such a pleasant day serves as my escape fiction, as temporary relief
from “the prosaic severity of the daily task that gives bread.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[1]</span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">On
this imaginary day off, I take the first train to Port Jefferson and arrive at
8:00am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The station sits a mile and a quarter
inland from the waterfront, about 25 minutes’ walk, mostly through a quiet
residential neighborhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traveling
light, I carry only a small shoulder bag containing my camera, notebook, and picnic
lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the docks, I get comfortable
on the wooden pier in front of Danford’s Hotel and Marina and fire up the
digital camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Republic</i> is entering Port Jefferson Harbor through the inlet
from the sound, and this grand event must be recorded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">On
the summer schedule, each one-way voyage across the sound lasts an hour and a
quarter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An arriving vessel docks in
Port Jefferson at fifteen minutes before each hour, takes fifteen minutes to
offload and backload passengers and vehicles, and then departs on the hour. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the case of the now arriving <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Republic</i>, she docks at 8:45am,
sails at 9:00am, arrives in Bridgeport at 10:15am, and sails again at 10:30am. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This predictable schedule is followed
precisely by the three ferries on the route.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In three hours, then, three different ships arrive at and depart from
Port Jefferson, and after that the cycle repeats itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Republic</i> slows as she
gracefully approaches the dock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
further check her progress and ensure a smooth landing, her engines are momentarily
reversed, and a churning propeller wash gathers around her stern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gently, she touches the dock and is made fast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
her bow doors now open, the ramp is set in place, and disembarkation
begins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pier now becomes a beehive
of activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A steady stream of
vehicular traffic spills out of the ship and onto the streets which bear it
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pedestrians trailing suitcases on
wheels go ashore from the stern gangway and fan out toward waiting taxis and
bus stops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few cross East Broadway and
set out for the railroad station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">When
the exodus is complete, the process reverses itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lineup of cars waiting on the pier now
snakes its way aboard the ship and disappears into the cavernous cargo bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pedestrians hike up the gangway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few moments later passengers gather on the
upper decks to soak up the sun and take in the view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The loading is done quickly and
efficiently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At precisely 9:00am the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Republic</i> blows her whistle and
backs away from the dock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Propeller wash
again churns up around the stern and along the sides of the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When well clear of the pier, she turns and backs
down to starboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The engines are now
put ahead to propel her forward and to port.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When this maneuver is complete, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand
Republic</i> settles onto a north-northwesterly heading and proceeds along the
channel, through the inlet, and out to the open sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another voyage to Connecticut begins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Watching
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Republic</i> from Danford’s
pier, I record her arrival and departure movements with my camera, jot down
some observations in my notebook, and review a few points in the company
brochure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Built in 2003 in Florida, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Republic</i> measures 300 feet long by
52 feet wide, carries 120 automobiles and 1,000 passengers, and is the second
ship to bear this name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her fleet mates,
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Park City</i>, named for the City of
Bridgeport, and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P.T. Barnum</i>, named
for the circus entrepreneur who was also the first president of the ferry line,
date to 1986 and 1998, respectively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P.T. Barnum</i> matches the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Republic</i> in dimensions and
capacity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Park City</i>, however, is slightly smaller at 280 feet in length and
47 feet in beam with a capacity of 95 vehicles and 1,000 passengers.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[2]</span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Looking
up again, I see the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Park City</i> herself
now coming through the inlet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she
slows and enters the sheltered harbor, I begin a new series of photographs and
record this second arrival, discharge, reload, and departure sequence of the
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the fifteen minutes allotted for
the task, the exchange of passengers and vehicles is completed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, starting at precisely 10:00am, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Park City</i> blows her whistle, backs away
from the pier, and maneuvers her way across the harbor and through the inlet,
bound once more for Connecticut.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Park City</i> is followed soon afterwards
by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P.T. Barnum</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This third arrival, cargo handling, and
departure cycle runs as smoothly and efficiently as the first two, and at 11:00am
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P.T. Barnum</i> begins her return
voyage to Connecticut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the three
ships of the fleet now come and gone in under three hours in the bright summer
sunshine and photographed on their port bows and starboard quarters, it’s been richly
rewarding morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now it’s time for
lunch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Retiring
to the small waterfront park in front of Danford’s Hotel, I pause at the statue
of the merchant seaman that gazes seaward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Few such likenesses of merchant seamen exist, and that makes this one
all the more special.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the statue’s
pedestal John Masefield’s famous lines are inscribed: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I must [go] down to the seas again,
for the call of the running tide </span></div>
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that may not be denied.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[3]</span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">It’s
always refreshing to know that someone else feels the same way about the sea as
I do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">From
the park I cross over to the ferry terminal building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finding it surprisingly quiet inside, I take
a seat by one of the large windows that face seaward and eat my lunch as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Republic</i> returns to port. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She repeats the same sequence of arrival,
cargo handling, and departure of three hours ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While splurging on chocolate ice cream for
dessert, I make some notes in my book and photograph this grand ship from her
starboard side, a different perspective from earlier today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, with a noon blast on her whistle, she heads
out once more for Connecticut.</span></div>
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head out, too, for the nearby wooden dock of the Port Jefferson Marina, just to
the west of the ferry pier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From this
new vantage point, I observe and photograph the arrivals and departures of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Park City</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P.T. Barnum</i> with the new starboard bow perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next, the cycle begins anew with the return
of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Republic</i>, now at close
to 3:00pm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Park
City</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P.T. Barnum</i> come and
go again, too, an hour and two hours later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I move among a few viewing points in this time to get pictures of the
ships from several angles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, with
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P.T. Barnum</i> passing through the
inlet and sailing for Connecticut again shortly after 5:00pm, I reluctantly
decide that it’s time to walk back to the railroad station. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">On
the leisurely half-hour hike to the station, I contemplate the course of the
day: three ships, nine arrivals and departures, excellent photographic
opportunities, beautiful sunny and warm weather, and uninterrupted peace and
quiet in a lovely little seaport where the land, sea, and sky converge
harmoniously to inspire the mind and soothe the soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Port Jefferson proves to be the perfect place
to spend an idle but productive day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
learned this principle from the Italians in my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rigel</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waccamaw</i> days. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sweetness of doing nothing—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dolce far niente</i>—but spending the time
well, even constructively and for a higher purpose.</span></div>
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leave Port Jefferson on the train at 6:00pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The ride westward toward the city is pleasant but anticlimactic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At some point along the way, I leave the
realm of escape fiction and return to the workaday world and its daily grind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My boss calls over to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s almost time to punch out and go home, he
tells me, and then he asks if I’ve done everything on the list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The day has gone by quickly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Some
well-meaning folks may chide me for my idle thoughts and seeming inattention to
my work,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but I would counter with the
classical Jewish teaching that holds:</span></div>
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understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be
found of thee (1 Chron. 28:9).</span></div>
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have long sought the Lord in both the vast reaches and the coastal shallows of
the sea, and he has always been there for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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near unto you; seek me diligently and ye shall find me (D&C 88:63).</span></div>
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aboard a ship at sea, along the harbor front, or in the memory and imagination
of these locales, our thoughts, intentions, and spiritual yearnings are known
to God, and he abides with us wherever and however we seek him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Now for some photographs taken on real days off! We start at the railroad station, where Port Jefferson's heritage of the sea is commemorated by the weather vane on the cupola. This picture was taken on Friday, August 27, 2010.</span></div>
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Between ferries on the same day, we visit the park in front of Danford's Hotel. This statue of a merchant seaman overlooks the waterfront. I'm very pleased that Port Jefferson honors its maritime heritage and my chosen profession with this likeness of a young man of the sea.</div>
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Returning now to the fleet, we see traffic waiting to board the <i>P. T. Barnum</i> on Tuesday, May 27, 2013.</div>
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Finally, my favorite sequence of photographs. The <i>Park City</i> backs away from her dock, turns around, and begins her voyage overseas to Connecticut on Wednesday, August 2, 2017.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> Joseph Conrad, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lord Jim</i>, Garden City, NY: Doubleday
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">[2]</span></span></span></a> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Information from The
Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Steamboat Company, available online at
www.88844ferry.com. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> John Masefield, “Sea
Fever,” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Salt-Water Ballads</i>, New
York: The MacMillan Company, 1913, p. 59; reprinted by BiblioBazaar, LLC.,
n.p., n.d.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mother, a career educator
in East Meadow, Long Island, taught this poem in several of her junior high
school English literature classes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In
my present employment, I have the dubious opportunity to hear canned music for
much of my workday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of this stuff
simply goes in one ear and then promptly out the other, but occasionally a line
of lyrics becomes lodged in my mind. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
such verse is, “Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hearing this line repeatedly leads to
memorizing it, but more significantly, it sets a train of thought in motion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Many
times in the last several years have I taken “the last train home tonight.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This last train left Boston South Station at
9:30pm every evening, made most of the stops along the way, and arrived in New
York Penn Station at 2:30am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I rode this
train several times each year when I returned to my childhood home to visit and
check up on my aging parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a long
and busy workday, I rode the Boston Express bus into South Station and then got
on the train, and this schedule worked out quite well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bus was always a great soporific.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it left Nashua, I fell asleep, but I always
woke up just in time as it neared South Station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Amtrak train was even more
comfortable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I slept most of the way to
New York, but I always awakened briefly at key points along the Shore Line that
brought back memories for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
first of these spots was along the shore of Narragansett Bay in Rhode
Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the train rushed along, I sleepily
glanced out the window at the black sky and blacker water and momentarily
remembered sailing on this great bay aboard the tugboat <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charger</i> as she hauled the gasoline barge <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Interstate 35</i> toward Providence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then I went back to sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
second wake-up took place as the train stopped in New London, Connecticut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again gazing sleepily out the window, I
noticed most of the Cross Sound Ferry fleet tied up for the night at the floodlit
piers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The larger vessels <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">John H</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape Henlopen</i> always stood out because
of their size, but after a moment the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Susan
Anne</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mary Ellen</i> and
others came into view as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the
train loaded and discharged passengers, I recalled the many voyages the family
had made aboard these vessels when driving between New Hampshire and Long
Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, with my mind comfortably
at sea, I went back to sleep as the train eased away from the station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
third seaside wake-up spot was in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and this one was
always very brief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following the station
stop, the train rolled past the dock used by the Bridgeport and Port Jefferson ferry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often one of this line’s three ships was
spending the night there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I usually woke
up slightly for a moment, just long enough to peer out the window and maybe see
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Republic</i> or the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Park City</i> and recall the occasional voyages
I had made on this mid-Sound route.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
I quickly fell asleep again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At
last, after a quiet and restful journey, the train reached the Hell Gate Bridge
in New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wide awake at this point
and getting ready to disembark, I took in the grand view of the East River from
this landmark span.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the west the
water led to the skyscrapers of Manhattan; to the east it wended its way toward
Fort Schuyler and beyond into Long Island Sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remembered that I had sailed this route numerous
times aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charger-Interstate 35</i>
combination many years ago<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next, and it
always seemed too soon, the train pulled into the subterranean caverns of the Pennsylvania
Station, and the peaceful and pleasant nocturnal railroad voyage ended.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Penn
Station at 2:30 in the morning was everything the ride along the Shore Line was
not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Incessantly crowded and noisy, hot
and humid in summer, cold and raw in winter, it always proved that New York
really is the city that never sleeps, although a few passengers, myself included,
sometimes dozed off between trains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately,
the wait for the Long Island train was never very long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After an anticlimactic ride to Mineola, I usually
disembarked amid a horde of late night party-goers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Separating myself from this crowd and threading
my way through the labyrinth of modern high-rises and parking garages that now comprise
downtown suburban Mineola, I made the ten-minute walk to the old family home and
usually arrived about 4:00am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
odyssey of “the last train home tonight” was then concluded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I
always entered the house as quietly as possible through the garage and
kitchen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the dog didn’t wake up and
raise a rumpus, I went back to sleep for a while in the family room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually the dog always did wake up,
though, and then my father, hearing the commotion, came out to investigate and then
discovered me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually, he had forgotten
that I was coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, about 7:00am,
my mother would wake up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom never
forgot that I was coming, and she was always elated to see her vagabond son
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a happy way to start her
day, and her enthusiasm always made the nighttime traveling worthwhile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Typically,
a visit of two or three days’ duration followed my early morning arrival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These were always pleasant occasions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With both my parents in their nineties,
however, we all knew that their meters were ticking, counting down the limited
time they had left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When my visit with
them ended, I usually took an afternoon train back to Boston.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next day, I went back to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">My
last journey aboard the last train took place on the night of Tuesday, October 31,
and Wednesday, November 1, 2017. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I arrived
promptly on Mom’s 99<sup>th</sup> birthday. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My son Michael arrived by air from Europe for
the occasion, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was a very
special day for Mom, truly a very happy last birthday for her. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, with her gone, the house sold, and my
father in assisted living, it’s doubtful that I’ll ever take “the last train
home tonight” again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These journeys are
now memories, as were the shipboard voyages that I always recalled while on the
train.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The
highlight of these railroad journeys, whether made by day or night, was always
the sight of the sea and the vessels that plied it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My voyages aboard ship, first as an employee and
later as a passenger with my family, were important events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now they are important and precious memories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likewise, the memories of family gatherings,
special family occasions, and deceased family members are important and
precious, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we cannot repeat
the past, we can relive it in memory and share the happiness we find there with
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the scriptures counsel us:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Remember the days of
old, consider the years of many generations:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ask thy father, and he
will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>thee (Deut. 32:7).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But
simply remembering and hearing oral histories often prove insufficient in the
long term.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus we have the more recent
scriptural injunction to “continue writing and making a history of all the
important things” (D&C 69:2).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since
going to sea was—and still is—very important to me, I took both notes and
pictures along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I’m glad I
did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">There
is so much here to be thankful for: the memories of shipboard voyages and
families, the writing and photographs that preserve them, and a random line of
canned music that releases a flood tide of these magnificent memories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> </span>Al
Stewart, “Time Passages,” 1978, found at www.azlyrics.com.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Hanging
on the wall over my desk and next to my Merchant Marine license is a key ring
holder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Normally, such a pedestrian
object would have no business there, but this key ring holder is special.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, it is not there to hold keys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A gift from Miss Patty after a recent visit
with the children, it contains above the key-holding hooks a framed ceramic
tile with a painting of a lighthouse on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While the world’s coastlines are full of lighthouses, this one serves as
more than an aid to navigation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
represents family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">In
the southwest corner of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, stands the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Farol da Barra</i>—the Lighthouse of the Barra—the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Barra</i> being the adjacent neighborhood of
the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Situated on a slight
promontory along the coast road, this light overlooks the confluence of the
Atlantic Ocean and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Baia de Todos os
Santos</i>—the Bay of All the Saints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This bay forms the seaport of Salvador.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The commercial shipping docks line the west side of the city with
anchorage areas a short distance offshore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dating from 1698, this lighthouse has seen many vessels arrive and
depart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A comparatively new feature is
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Museu Nautico da Bahia</i> in an adjoining
building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A timeless feature is the
magnificent view of the great South Atlantic Ocean, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Baia de Todos os Santos</i>, and the adjacent coastline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People traverse great distances to visit the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Farol da Barra</i> and enjoy the
breathtaking beauty of the site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Nearly
every visit to the children in Brazil by family members from the north has
included a visit to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Farol da Barra.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of us have strolled the seaside promenade
leading to the lighthouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The majestic
sight of the seemingly limitless South Atlantic, the gentle washing of the
shore along the seawall by the small waves, and the peace and quiet of Nature
in contrast to the commotion of the city soothe the soul and inspire the mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Similar
vistas are also available, even if only briefly, on one’s arrival in Salvador by
air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On its approach to the runway about
a dozen miles north of the city proper, the aircraft flies over the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Baia de Todos os Santos</i> on a
northeasterly heading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the left one
sees the sheltered bay, the anchored cargo ships, and part of the commercial
waterfront.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the right one sees the
open Atlantic, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Farol da Barra</i>,
and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Barra</i> neighborhood of
Salvador<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A fleeting but nonetheless breathtaking view
from the air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Five
centuries ago, the Portuguese brought the supernal light of Christianity to
Brazil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also established
navigational lights to guide their ships along the coast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visiting this lighthouse in particular has
become a family tradition, and every visit yields a spiritual experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to illuminating the coast line, the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Farol da Barra</i> reminds us of the sublime
light that our children and grandchildren bring into the family, and their
light guides us to the Supreme Light that illuminates not only coast lines and
families, but the entire world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Now for some photography. First, the image of the <i>Farol da Barra</i> that's on the tile in the key ring holder:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgOTmOD-tXyyi6TAEuzDmTrljtDcu9mJ4OTXGxp8z79Wx_KY_87u1ZQTlAgSYxnuuwF6dzw8bM1PxFD6C6chKe8ryJh1J_NNotFkvNesuPLSmKiJ6NynKua58QazX-croieU58zeqNueA8/s1600/Farol+da+Barra.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgOTmOD-tXyyi6TAEuzDmTrljtDcu9mJ4OTXGxp8z79Wx_KY_87u1ZQTlAgSYxnuuwF6dzw8bM1PxFD6C6chKe8ryJh1J_NNotFkvNesuPLSmKiJ6NynKua58QazX-croieU58zeqNueA8/s400/Farol+da+Barra.jpeg" width="400" /> </a></div>
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Next are two photographs of the <i>Farol da Barra</i> taken by my son James on Friday, February 15, 2019:</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiInXFLuOpDADBobSY105q9n_CuHFZnf24FuvwKAu28QHsgU7ao8xm5FcuMF-11WYBU861RC6vUpIT7IEf3mfweBMyGWNKPcxz9XHwGzajsXQSdt1DHtfYcj4_UbQhxA-cOKNSQI7rbI4DF/s1600/IMG_3847.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiInXFLuOpDADBobSY105q9n_CuHFZnf24FuvwKAu28QHsgU7ao8xm5FcuMF-11WYBU861RC6vUpIT7IEf3mfweBMyGWNKPcxz9XHwGzajsXQSdt1DHtfYcj4_UbQhxA-cOKNSQI7rbI4DF/s400/IMG_3847.jpeg" width="400" /></a> </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG-dfkYV0PbEIp9aMreMqxj5sFdczqrDiL1tbnCMMItyhbmTCg_LfkEWVmOQzmtX52Fylr3kUE6vl2koaHhjXwvR6o_qGbtHM-v-PgATXK_GzHwN2O9177NvSoI2y0qg48op2jAA9CFSTK/s1600/IMG_3848.jpeg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG-dfkYV0PbEIp9aMreMqxj5sFdczqrDiL1tbnCMMItyhbmTCg_LfkEWVmOQzmtX52Fylr3kUE6vl2koaHhjXwvR6o_qGbtHM-v-PgATXK_GzHwN2O9177NvSoI2y0qg48op2jAA9CFSTK/s400/IMG_3848.jpeg" width="400" /> </a></div>
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We did have more photographs of the <i>Farol da Barra</i>, but unfortunately most of these were lost when my daughter's computer developed problems. All the more reason to make a return visit, then! </div>
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</style>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-5963334759734921972018-09-16T18:23:00.000-04:002018-09-16T18:23:58.374-04:00The Last Voyage
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">An old cliché holds that there is a first
time for everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Less often repeated
is the obvious truth that there is also a last time for everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I now look back on several last times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some examples are my last transatlantic
voyage (aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Comet</i> in 1983), my
last transpacific voyage (also aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Comet</i>,
in 1984), my last voyage as a paid employee (aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kane</i> in 1986), the last time I took the license exams (in Boston in
1984), and my last visit to company headquarters in Bayonne (in 1987).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">More recently, I have experienced several
last times in my family life ashore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was the last time I rode the train from Boston to the Family
Headquarters in New York to visit my parents, the last time I walked home from
the Mineola station, the last time I brought flowers to my mother, the last
time I showed Mom pictures of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, the
last time I bid my parents farewell when returning to New Hampshire, and so on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We also made a last voyage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When my now-widowed father decided to leave
the old family home and relocate to an assisted living facility here in Nashua,
Miss Patty and I returned to New York to get him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Wednesday, August 15, 2018, he made what
will likely be his last voyage aboard ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At 12:00 noon that day the three of us along with Bradley, the dog,
sailed from Orient Point, Long Island, to New London, Connecticut, aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape Henlopen</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a young man in the 1940s, my father
had sailed on troopships across the Pacific and back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He traveled in less-than-luxurious
accommodations to less-than-idyllic destinations and was happy to simply return
to the United States unscathed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his
middle years, he skippered the family sailboat <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Justine</i> along the South Shore of Long Island. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More enjoyable and much safer than his treks across
the Pacific, these happy times yielded many fond memories and formed the basis of
my own interest in the sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, on
summer vacations, he crossed the Delaware Bay several times aboard the ferries
of the Delaware River and Bay Authority fleet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Still later in life, my parents made numerous sailings on the Cross
Sound fleet to visit their grandchildren in New England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s voyage aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape Henlopen</i> would serve as a fitting
capstone, perhaps a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">grande</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">finale</i>, to a long family tradition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We boarded the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape Henlopen</i> about fifteen minutes prior to her scheduled
departure time and ensconced ourselves in a comfortable spot with a good view
on the port side promenade deck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
meteorological conditions were perfect for making a voyage: a clear blue sky
with bright sunshine, excellent visibility, a very light breeze, a mild
temperature, and a calm sea. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “beauty
of the earth”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
</span>indeed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father took in the
magnificent view of Gardiners Bay and the Orient Point beach with obvious
delight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the appointed time, the
whistle blew and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape Henlopen</i>
backed easily away from her berth and set sail for New London.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the next hour and a half, our little
family, and my father in particular, savored the gentle motion of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape Henlopen</i> through the water. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she accelerated away from the dock at
Orient Point the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Susan Anne</i>
arrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two vessels passed
starboard to starboard, and then the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Susan
Anne</i> eased into the berth that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape
Henlopen</i> had just vacated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Proceeding eastward, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape
Henlopen</i> came abeam of the Plum Gut Lighthouse and then turned to port to
transit the Gut and come out onto the more open water of Long Island
Sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Connecticut hills stood out
clearly in the distance as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape
Henlopen</i> now turned onto a more northeasterly heading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jennifer
C</i> and shortly after her the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mary
Ellen</i> came into view as they sailed in the opposite direction toward Orient
Point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the northwest, close to the
Connecticut shore, the Coast Guard buoy tender <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Juniper</i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
lay stationary as she serviced aids to navigation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape
Henlopen</i> sailed on steadily past Plum Island and across the deep blue water
of the open Sound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she did so, we ate
a light lunch and recalled that five generations of the family have now sailed
on this great ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we discussed this
and remembered previous voyages, Bradley made friends with several of the other
passengers and their dogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the
first family pet to sail aboard one of the ferries, and he seemed to like it
very much. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Soon the New London Harbor Light at the
mouth of the Thames River came into view, and then the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">John H</i> came downstream and passed the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape Henlopen</i> close by to port.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was a busy day on the water!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too
quickly—and these voyages are always too short—the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape Henlopen</i> proceeded up the Thames and slowed for her approach
to the docks in New London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shortly
after 1:30pm, it was time for us to disembark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This was an especially bittersweet moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father had enjoyed his voyage aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape Henlopen</i> tremendously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we all knew, as we continued our journey north
to Nashua and the assisted living facility, that at age 96 he would in all
likelihood not return to Long Island again. Thus, there would be no more
voyages aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape Henlopen</i> or
any other vessel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shakespeare expressed
it very succinctly:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
shall no more to sea, to sea,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here
shall I die ashore.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Very
sad, but time had marched on, and we could not turn it back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Happy memories of the bygone time remain,
though, and some bright future still lies ahead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far from being isolated in a geriatric
infirmary, the family patriarch now resides comfortably in a state-of-the-art
facility with a home-like atmosphere close to a son, daughter-in-law, and
grandson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, with the long
range capability of the cell phone, he receives regular updates from and
photographs of other grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Brazil and
Alaska.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These family ties, both in
person and electronic, dispel the melancholy of loneliness with the happiness
of companionship, and prove the proverb, “As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so
is good news from a far country” (Prov. 25:25).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Photographs of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cape Henlopen</i>, her fleet mates, and landmarks along their route
abound in our family’s collection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
pleased to share some of them here:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The New London bound <i>Cape Henlopen</i> as seen from the Orient Point bound <i>John H</i> on Tuesday, June 21, 2016. The fresh coat of paint really stands out against the gray sea and sky.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <i>Cape Henlopen</i> coming up the Thames River to New London, seen from the outbound <i>John H</i> on a bright and sunny Wednesday, August 17, 2016.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bradley aboard the <i>Cape Henlopen</i> just prior to departure from Orient Point on Wednesday, August 15, 2018. All subsequent pictures are from this voyage.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Plum Gut Lighthouse with Orient Point in the background.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9A8E7oMp10bTbV7FrU8Vj0DqRScr1WVSq5LEDxkwkzDzQy5BRvQ066dAKAIriGu_LBIzn0gGPZfdXX5UIvXrrfENkzpr5lSP1adDTyHtX-ugX1VB4UNgpYnfEeg2nbgtCAQQWjWu3IiN9/s1600/IMG_6902.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9A8E7oMp10bTbV7FrU8Vj0DqRScr1WVSq5LEDxkwkzDzQy5BRvQ066dAKAIriGu_LBIzn0gGPZfdXX5UIvXrrfENkzpr5lSP1adDTyHtX-ugX1VB4UNgpYnfEeg2nbgtCAQQWjWu3IiN9/s400/IMG_6902.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Orient Point bound <i>Mary Ellen</i> passing the <i>Cape Henlopen</i> port-to-port just north of Plum Island.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <i>Juniper</i> servicing aids to navigation on Long Island Sound with Connecticut in the background.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">New London Harbor Light at the mouth of the Thames River.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4vwApB-B9Mrwx-yGIeywVQqnpbe1n247WTU2zCvXulEbGwYwR5iU250IQQ_iGlrRCNV164jlluBxZYrLLAHD5bnOBJDdK5O6eEfNvlCmOTmU8jJGH2xh7xnHKWEfojBhcuImMoKQOQ9U/s1600/IMG_6911.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4vwApB-B9Mrwx-yGIeywVQqnpbe1n247WTU2zCvXulEbGwYwR5iU250IQQ_iGlrRCNV164jlluBxZYrLLAHD5bnOBJDdK5O6eEfNvlCmOTmU8jJGH2xh7xnHKWEfojBhcuImMoKQOQ9U/s400/IMG_6911.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <i>John H</i> leaving New London for Orient Point and passing the <i>Cape Henlopen</i> port-to-port.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>Folliott S. Pierpoint,
“For the Beauty of the Earth,” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints</i>, Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, 1985, p. 92.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Juniper</i> (WLB-201) has an interesting but sad history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She participated in the recovery operations
of Trans World Airlines flight 800 in 1998 and EgyptAir flight 990 in
1999.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, she assisted in New York
immediately following the terrorist attack of 2001.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Juniper_(WLB-201">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Juniper_(WLB-201</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">[3]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Tempest</i>, II:ii:44-45.</span></div>
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</style>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01000938406100882126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8305104013761379245.post-9754518457654610732018-09-09T19:11:00.000-04:002018-09-09T19:11:01.126-04:00All the Girls
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The oceanographic survey ship <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bartlett</i> rested quietly alongside the
wharf in Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Friday, January 4,
1985.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was preparing for a
two-weeks-long voyage in the Gulf of Mexico and would sail on Monday, the 7<sup>th</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Late this Friday afternoon, the day’s work
was winding down, but it would resume promptly the following morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nearly at the end of my own duties for the
day, I went up to the bridge and glanced out the windows in the direction of
the inlet that connects Port Everglades with the open Atlantic, and there I beheld
a great sight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Entering port through this narrow inlet
was the Cunard Line’s famous passenger ship <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queen
Elizabeth 2</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I watched as this
magnificent vessel slowly and gracefully glided in from the sea, turned around
in the basin, and eased alongside her berth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her mooring lines then snaked ashore, and she was made fast directly
across the wharf from the comparatively diminutive <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bartlett</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next, I wrote up
the log, went off duty, and had my dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Afterwards, I went ashore for a closer look at the great <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queen</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almost a thousand feet in length, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queen</i> took up nearly the entire dock
space on the east side of the Port Everglades basin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To look this ship over carefully involved a
lot of walking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This great sight was
worth every step, though, for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queen
Elizabeth 2 </i>was clearly the most interesting <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thing in Fort Lauderdale that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several of my shipmates felt the same way,
and a group of us roamed the pier admiring the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queen</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the early evening twilight, the
passengers aboard the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queen</i> began to
stream ashore to enjoy a night on the town in Fort Lauderdale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They came out by the dozens, and they made
for a somewhat odd sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vast majority
came ashore as couples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without
exception, the men were much more advanced in age than the ladies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was clearly evident in their balding
heads, gray fringes, sagging jowls, and pot bellies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ladies, by contrast, were tall and
slender with long flowing hair and radiantly beautiful faces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were dressed in evening gowns, and the men
wore tuxedos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">After stepping off the gangway, each
couple walked a few steps to a waiting lineup of limousines. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The drivers, also attired in tuxedos, hurried
with lavish gesticulation to open the doors for the young ladies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several of the older men gruffly interrogated
the drivers about their vehicles:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Do
you have a wet bar?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you have a
TV?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you have a phone?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a particular limousine failed to meet
these expectations, the older man turned his nose up in the air and led his
young lady away to a more worthy conveyance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once embarked in their limousines, the couples were chauffeured away
into town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This spectacle continued for quite a long
while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were just so many of these superbly
dressed but oddly matched couples coming ashore from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queen</i> and then being whisked away by this enormous fleet of luxurious
limousines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This ostentatious display of
wealth astonished me almost as much as each couple’s blatant disparity in
age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet there it all was, and doing a
very brisk business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Later in the evening, their shore
excursions completed, these same couples returned to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queen</i> in their limousines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The tuxedoed chauffeurs again held the doors for the young ladies,
received their tips from the older gentlemen, and then drove their now empty
vehicles away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At dawn the next morning,
Saturday the 5<sup>th</sup>, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queen
Elizabeth 2</i> took in her lines and went to sea again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bartlett</i>
remained behind and continued preparations for her own upcoming voyage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">My initial reaction on seeing this parade
of old men and young girls was bewilderment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Somehow it just didn’t seem kosher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In thinking about it, I figured that they were probably not fathers and
daughters, nor uncles and nieces, nor grandfathers and granddaughters. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not hear any of the girls call any of
the men “Daddy,” or “Uncle,” or “Grandpa.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thought of such innocent pairings-up
seemed too idealistic and unlikely, not to mention naïve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By process of elimination, I concluded that I
was most likely seeing what was euphemistically called an escort service. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These old men obviously had money, and they
were willing to spend it on young, pretty girls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they no doubt expected returns on their
investments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fearing that I was becoming too cynical
while still in my twenties, I was relieved to hear an older colleague remark,
“These girls are making hay while the sun shines.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was expensive hay, too, much more than anyone
on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bartlett</i> could afford.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bartlett</i>
was crewed mostly by young men, about the same ages as these girls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That seemed like a more natural source of
attraction than old men so far past their prime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But some such men still salivate over young,
pretty girls, and some girls love what money can buy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise, I could not imagine what they
would have in common socially.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
wondered, though, when the sun stopped shining and the thrill of sailing on the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queen</i> wore off, how would these girls
then feel about their careers as “escorts?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">With their many warnings against moral decadence
and degeneracy, the ancient scriptures attest that the lechery of old men is
not a new phenomenon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These senior
citizens embarked on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queen</i> would
have done well to heed the proverb’s counsel, “Lust not after her beauty in
thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids” (Prov. 6:25).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were not the only ones, though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many years later while working ashore, my
employer feared that I had suffered a hernia and sent me to be examined by a
physician.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miss Patty accompanied
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we and numerous other people sat
quietly in the waiting room, an odd spectacle developed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The administrative area behind the
receptionist was open by both sight and hearing to the waiting room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything that happened there was easily
visible and audible to the waiting patients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When we first arrived, all was quiet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But then an obviously older man (receding hairline, grayish-white
fringe, sagging jowls, and pot belly) approached a much younger lady (slender,
long blond hair, and pretty face) working at a desk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first we thought nothing of it, but after
a moment, the one-sided conversation caught our attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a room full of patients waited for the
physician, this sixty-plus-year-old man flirted publicly, loudly, and
shamelessly with this approximately twenty-year-old girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He laughed at his own inappropriate jokes
while she sat silently and looked extremely uncomfortable with it all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This performance continued unchecked for
several minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we watched in
amazement, I remarked to Miss Patty, “I wonder who that guy is?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I don’t know,” she replied<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Maybe he’s the office manager.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">After a few more minutes, the show ended
and then we were called into an exam room by a nurse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She took care of the preliminaries with us
and then left saying, “The Doctor will be right in.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A minute later, the old man who had just
been carrying on with the young lady entered the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He caught us both by surprise, and Miss Patty
blurted out, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You’re</i> the Doctor?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">He then introduced himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miss Patty and I exchanged inquisitive
glances with raised eyebrows, and the Doctor saw this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The medical checkup that followed was carried
out in what we thought was an unprofessional and condescending manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This man had been caught, and he clearly did
not like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My employer was paying him,
so I did not protest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it had been my
dime and my time, however, I would have left and gone elsewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the good news was that I did not have a
hernia, only a mild muscle strain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Afterwards, I read the Doctor’s posted credentials
in the waiting room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a board
certified surgeon, had medical licenses in two states, and held academic
degrees from two of this country’s most prestigious universities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With all these lofty qualifications, I would
have expected more professional behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instead, I thought of Shakespeare’s famous lament, “How ill white hairs
become a fool and jester!”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8305104013761379245#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">On a happier note, a portrait of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Queen</i> arrived in the mail some time
after my encounter with her in Port Everglades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was part of an advertisement for a travel agency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a beautiful photograph of a beautiful
ship, and it proved that not all junk mail is junk!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m happy to share it here: </span></div>
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