Field Notes
by Peter B Brace
      GREEN FOR GREEN Small Friends of Nantucket raised $100,000 at its its Spring Down the House fundraiser this past Saturday at the Chanticleer Restaurant and Siasconset Casino.
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The Lighthouse Keeper
BY DANIEL W. DRAKE ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER LETTER FROM ENGLAND ON THE TRAIL
      The South West Coast Path extends for 630 miles from Minehead, Somerset on the Bay of Cardiff to Poole, Dorset on the English Channel. According to one guide, it takes seven-to-eight weeks to walk the entire path and the total height climbed would be greater than that of Mt. Everest.
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YACK on: Spring
Grant Sanders
      It's spring on Nantucket. I can tell because instead of its being windy, spitty, overcast and cold, it's windy, spitty, overcast and not quite so cold that my grass is starting to green up ever so slightly and the flowers in the area around the house that we call "our garden" are attempting to poke up above the surface.
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PTertacks
MINDING PET P'S AND Q'S
with Jan Jaeger
      "No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days." - Miles Gloriosus, act III, sc i "Fish and guests stink in three days." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac Did your mother admonish you to "Mind your P's and Q's?" I was never sure what those letters meant, I just knew I'd better straighten up and behave.
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