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On The Hurricane Deck

On the hurricane deck Of the Spirit of America Staten Island ferry Departing St. George’s Bright sun on the Inner Harbor____ I’ve taken this ferry Hundreds of time Mostly to see a good friend Dr. Nepola We go back to 1970 I left him in Berkeley Telegraph Avenue 1973 Got a ride in a Ford […]

THE WAY OF SAIL by Peter Nolan Smith

Once the world traveled by sail. One side of my ancestors arrived in America on the Mayflower. The trip lasted 66 days. My great-grandaunt Bert circumnavigated the globe in the 1870s. Her father’s clipper ship powered by wind. Steam engines replaced sail by the beginning of the 20th Century. Proud schooners and brigantines retired from […]