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Surfcasting Rhode Island  Online tackle shop with useful and unique items and fishing content. |
12-29-2008, 09:50 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Originally Posted by Chris in Mass
Joe, Third person? Get out of the house!
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Joe says "IT PUTS ON IT'S LOTION!" 
Yeah, the Block was a special place for me as a young man in the long ago - and more beautiful than anyplace I ever lived in the Caribbean without a doubt - but the locals - of whom I knew more than a few - were always the jewel in the crown for me.
I suppose the atmosphere probably has changed a good bit with the downturn - haven't spent time there in probably 10 years or so - man, looking back I wish my great-grandfather had bought the cottage he stayed in there many years ago - I still have an early 1900's photo of him in front of that place with his arm around a heifer - the BI Cumby's of the day, I guess...that house still stands today.
I'd be willing to bet Papa probably fished the old bass stands that once stood behind The Surf, too -
You're right Joe - it will always be a special place, regardless of the latest wave of off-Islanders. They come and they go...  |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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12-29-2008, 10:19 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Originally Posted by Crafty Angler
They come and they go... |
"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it for a little while."
Willa Cather, O'Pioneers.
Gee Crafty, I'm impressed. We don't get literary references on the message boards very often. |
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12-29-2008, 10:55 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe
"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it for a little while."
Willa Cather, O'Pioneers.
Gee Crafty, I'm impressed. We don't get literary references on the message boards very often.
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Thanks, Joe - but all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, I'm actually literate. Even taught humanities at a university - I don't tell many people that, I don't wanna ruin my image...  ...I still find it funny for a kid who grew up on the wharves of Newport when the people there actually worked hard for a living and drove late '40's pick-ups instead of Beemers and 500's and the effluvia was more wooden bait barrel than haute cuisine.
Sometimes when I write snippets pop up - like obscure pieces of music - and I forget where I get them from at times.
Willa Cather... ...boy, I have no where that tidbit might have come from in the Crafty subconcious... 
So, yeah, I'm an ex-English department owl...sans rumpled tweed jacket and pipe.
BTW, real nice hoodies, gotta get one for Spring schoolie-wear...
Last edited by Crafty Angler; 12-29-2008 at 11:03 AM..
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"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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01-13-2009, 05:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: On the Island
Posts: 541
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I saw this post, got the credit card out and  the one I want is not even on the list.
I'll have to think about it now.
Nice hoodies though. |
"It's not about the fish, it's about fishing for the fish. The fish is gravy."
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01-13-2009, 07:33 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Sorry about that. Some like, "PI" I have in stickers only. Some I have in both. Eventually, I'll have more and more available.
Joe
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01-14-2009, 06:38 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: On the Island
Posts: 541
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That's alright Joe. I still may get one.
My husbands says he's glad, don't advertise  .
We are a quiet minority up here, it's kinda nice.  |
"It's not about the fish, it's about fishing for the fish. The fish is gravy."
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