On weekends I went to The Red Bar
to hear Dread Clampitt play. I was the Band Paparazzo
and Stage Father. Also the webmaster. I designed a web site
for them. Took pictures. I had a gimme cap from Full Box!,
a book about boatbuilding and fishing in
that mentioned Uncle Ed, and the Friendship.
The boys both fished on the Friendship. Once, I was walking along
Crooked
the second sandbar, the green reef, and Owen saw me, and waved,
and I waved back at Owen. He recognized me from my green crab net
and red Vidalia onion sack full of speckled speeder crabs and
giant Atlantic cockles. Also known as the great heart cockle.
Its foot is as long as its shell. And of course
Potter wrote a song called
“Crooked
