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Article: LOBSTERMEN COPE WITH SHIFTING CURRENTS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 30, 1987
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FIVE ISLANDS, Maine - The air and the ocean speak of
evening, and at a table in the lee of the Love Nest snack bar, the
lobstermen ogle sleek women from Boston and chaw upon the day and
times.
By unspoken custom, tourists on the dock tack wide of the
fishermen's table. The liar's bench, it's called: a place where
watermen congregate after hours to munch Diane's fine grinders and
catch the breeze from Sheepscot Bay.
There are jokes of how Will, while trawling, caught a pine
tree in his net. Tales of how Ira picked a game warden's holster,
to replace the revolver with a silver mackerel. News of a violent
feud between two fishermen.
But the lobstermen talk, too, of their fears, for ...