Hi David,
Thanks for your email. It's been downright moist and warm here the past two nights on Cuttyhunk, - but on the whole pretty good weather. Glad Harvard Prof Jim McCarthy thinks climate change / global warming is manageable albeit still a ginormous problem (article accessible from here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/05/eurasian-sparrow-hawk-brain-in-harbin.html?m=0).
Just sailed to Penikese in a Laser sailboat - great sail - and walked barefoot to the far side (the cemetery). Crossed my mind once again that landing on Penikese Island like this could be like when Bartholomew Gosnold's ilk may have landed here around 1600. (Met Joan Pierce, there for a week on vacation (but who actually works in her day job for Mass. Fish and Wildlife). Nice to talk, and nice trip all in a wee fast sailboat ... Met Dave and Nancy Twichell coming back in at the CYC dock (who are leading lights in the Cuttyhunk Historical Society -
http://www.cuttyhunkhistoricalsociety.org) ... and Nancy was observing how Penikese has always been a school in recent decades. (I see the Penikese School as a semi-realized vision out of the 1970s -around 1973 - by kind of a bunch of hippies). Hope this school can get up and running again as a state of Massachusetts' program for disadvantaged kids from New Bedford and vicinity, (to get out of their neighborhoods, I think, and to learn skills carpentry skills, at one point). Apparently its founder George Cadwalader is still around - and could be potentially helpful in getting it working again
( - http://www.penikese.org/history/ ...
- http://www.penikese.org/penikese-island-history-and-fun-facts/
- https://www.amazon.com/Castaways-Penikese-Experiment-Chelsea-Classics/dp/1933392207
- https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/03/books/l-the-penikese-island-experiment-651988.html
- https://books.google.com/books/about/Castaways.html?id=8oM0mAEACAAJ
- https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/george-cadwalader/castaways-the-penikese-island-experiment/
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penikese_Island )
Yes, great the Days have got what used to be Muggsy (Malcolm, I think) and Flo Thompson's place ... the old store, (but not the 'old, old' store), 'Abaft the House' was its sign (made by Steve Baldwin in the 1970s I think) - and in which I worked as a teen. Teaching sailing at the Cuttyhunk Yacht Club with you was really fun :) ( https://cuttyhunkyachtclub.wildapricot.org ).
May head to the historical society, and volunteer to docent. My mother comes in the evening, I'm glad to say. In affirmation of history and historical societies, David - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1022643076865642496 & https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1022641784416030722 ...
Keeping my fingers crossed about a position at Stanford, and re World University and School.
Scott
To Sailing at WUaS
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sailing
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Sailing to Penikese Island near Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts,
Glad Harvard Prof Jim McCarthy thinks climate change / global warming is manageable albeit still a ginormous problem
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/07/sailing-to-penikese-island.html?m=0 - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sailing & /History @WorldUnivAndSch -The Penikese Sch
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1022835088726401024 -
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