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“You know, there are over a hundred ways you can die from pigeons,” volunteers 10-year-old Vineyarder Zale Narkiewicz. “Sometimes when they poop it has toxins that can kill you, sometimes you just have to breathe it in.”
“Well, that’s really great,” replies California-based filmmaker Gabriel Cowan, “because this movie is all about parasites.”
As the farmer brings in the last vegetables, in autumn the lobsterman’s season is starting to slow down.
Capt. Paul MacDonald of the lobsterboat Shearwater was putting some of his yellow-wire pots away at the dock at Menemsha Tuesday afternoon. “It was a good season, though I had to work hard to make the same amount of money as last year,” the captain said.
There is good and bad news in the stories he and others shared about his past summer.
Motorcycle Rally
The second annual Antique Motorcycle Rally will take place at noon on Sunday in the Menemsha parking lot. Collectors of all makes and models of antique motorcycles are invited. Last year, 200 people attended to view 22 motorcycles. Rain date is Sunday, Sept. 28.
Summer’s End Bazaar
The Friends of the Tisbury Council on Aging will host a Summers’s End Bazaar on Saturday, Sept. 20 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Tisbury Senior Center, located at 34 Pine Tree Road in Vineyard Haven.
The sale will offer jewelry, vintage linens, books, antique framed, tinted prints, unique seashore collage and more.
Interested vendors can get details at 508-693-5661. All ages are welcome.
At 6:30 a.m. this morning, I was floating in my boat off Chappy’s East Beach. The wind was light from the North but was expected to pick up very strongly by mid morning, and I was keeping a wary eye out for the pick-up.
A new leader was weighed in at weigh station this morning. Morgan T. Taylor of West Tisbury, an avid angler, came in with a 11.68 pound bluefish at 8:09 a.m.
Mr. Taylor’s fish outweighed the previous shore leader, a fish caught by Matthew P. Wilkins and weighed in on Monday. Mr. Wilkins’ fish was 11.34 pounds.
The derby central headquarters opens at 8 a.m., so when Mr. Morgan walked in this morning with his big blue, he had everyone’s attention.