O/T Glouster and Rockport,Mass

[Dave Suponski]

Danny and I spent the weekend with Dean and Kathy Romig. We went to Rockport,Mass where I spent summer vacations of my youth. Haven,t been there in many ,many years. A great trip down memory lane..Thought you guy's might like to see some pictures of the New England coast.

[Dave Suponski]

A few more

[Dave Suponski]

We did manage to go look at a few Paaka's today at Kittery Trading Post in Maine....:whistle:

[calvin humburg]

Hey Dean glad 2 c u didn't have thoes short pants on still a few men out there. No disrecept Dave:) ch

[Dean Romig]

Thanks Calvin. We've all told Dave he shouldn't wear shorts but he just won't listen. He's one stubborn, hard-headed OP :biglaugh:

[Dean Romig]

We had a great time with Dave and Danny. Dave fulfilled his wish - to have a heaping Ipswich (Essex actually) fried clam dinner and Danny had his very first lobstah and I get the impression it won't be his last.

Dave, remember to call KTP back on that sweet little Parker.

[Dave Suponski]

To be perfectly honest..At 56 comfort is more important than look's. Soo....Ah never mind...:whistle:

Dean the call is already made..

[John Dunkle]

...Dave, remember to call KTP back on that sweet little Parker.If you guys had called me BEFORE you went to KTP, rather than on your way home - I could have arranged for you to see some of the other Parkers stashed away...

Great pics - and to be honest - if I saw Dave in shorts - prolly would have denied ever knowing him..??? ;)

Best to ya'!

JD

[Dean Romig]

Ahem.... now that Dave is safely back in Connecticut.... how about Monday night??? :whistle:

[Dave Suponski]

I,m leaving now.....:rolleyes:

[Rich Anderson]

Dave, It's good you srtive for comfort because your not much to look at:rotf:

[Dave Suponski]

Thanks Rich......

[Bruce Day]

Nice travel piece about the New England coast. Looks interesting.

[Bill Murphy]

My ex was raised in Rockport in the summers, worked with her mother in a friend's restaurant out on the Neck. They lived winters in Lexington. Her father was a Navy officer and was away for the war and a bit after. Her mother later lived up on a hill above the harbor in Rockport, don't remember the name of the road. In the seventies, we moved her out of the house and she relocated in Florida. It was a nice town then and I assume is still a great place to live.

[Dean Romig]

Thanks Bruce and Bill. A few pictures just do not convey the rugged beauty of the coastline nor the picturesque little harbors and villages. A vacation of from two to four weeks staying at B&B's or inns for a few days at a time at various spots along the coast all the way up to Machias, ME and then back down through the lakes and streams and mountains of western Maine, the White Mtns of New Hampshire, and finally the Green Mtns of Vermont will give one an idea of Northern New England.... but you'll want to stay longer and I certainly won't blame you. Now, if you've got a couple of years to spend, you can start at Greenwich, CT and work up the coast into RI and then Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha's Vinyard....

Dave and I were commenting just yeaterday that we have no reason to leave New England - we've got it all right here. :bigbye:

[Bruce Day]

Sure, sure. Well you don't have THIS:

[Dave Suponski]

And your point?

[calvin humburg]

The point well maybe is that the fact that there an't nothing in that picture crouding u in. and i can see the bad guys coming.:rolleyes:

[Bruce Day]

Just think Dave, for $1500/acre, you could buy yourself a few acres out in central Kansas, put in a garden, raise a beef cow and have yourself a little bit of heaven. If you start now and plant a tree and be sure to water it, in 10-20 years you could have a shade tree.

Bring John Dunkle. I know he likes to fiddle with high performance engines, and an old tractor( the Porsche of the Plains) always needs fixing.

[Dave Suponski]

Ok fair enough Bruce. But I'll go ya one better. Near my brothers place in Vermont I can buy an acre of land for $1000.00 a beef cow for about $500.00 and I will have all the oaks,maples,beech,ash and soft wood's to last a life time.Plus some grouse and woodcock to keep me outta trouble. That's my little piece of heaven....But I really think that this country we all call home has more natural beauty and diversity than anywhere on earth. I just love my New England because "It's what I know"...:)

[Bruce Day]

No doubt it is beautiful and I'd love to tour New England some time. I've been around Bangor ME and Bar Harbor and it was gorgeous. I've always wanted to travel up the coast and see all those little fishing villages. You are fortunate.

[Dean Romig]

When you come to New England Bruce, time it so you can attend the fall Julia auction in Fairfield, ME. Right across the street is the Kennebec River and there are fishing guides with MacKenzie River Driftboats who will take you on a memorable fly-fishing trip for browns, rainbows and smallmouth bass. I did it three years ago and saw plenty of action. The grouse and woodcock season is on then as well....

[Rich Anderson]

You boy's don't have Dah U.P. eh. Mtns, swamps, hardwoods, deer, bear ,grouse no electric, water or sewer......lots of solitude:) I'm looking at property and had an idea what with all the state land I'd get 5 acers. Well a 40 acer parcell isn't much more than a 5 acer piece.

My Great Aunt lived in Newton Centre MA. I remember going down to the waterfront and haveing dinner at Dergen Park. Red and White plaid tablecloths complete with stains and holes. Great food, good times.

[John Dallas]

If you get a bit further north in Maine, stop in at Southwest Harbor and see the Wendell Gilley Museum. A great spot if you're interested in bird/decoy carving.

http://www.wendellgilleymuseum.org/

[Dean Romig]

Durgin Park is still there but is a bit more 'upscale' than stained tablecloths with holes in them these days. There are hundreds of places in Boston to visit.... if you like cities. I don't so I stay away for the most part.... but I get dragged there kickin' and screamin' about once every two or three years.

[Bill Murphy]

Dean and Dave, the ex (don't recall the name) lived on Nantucket Island for several years in the forties. What was it like out there sixty years ago?

[Dave Suponski]

Bill, Comparativley speaking probably just as expensive as it is now..:rolleyes:Last time I was on Nantucket I was in diapers. Spent a week on Marthas Vinyard about 20 years ago. Great place to relax..Very quaint and great stripe bass fishing!

[Fred Preston]

In the late '40s my Dad took my Mom and me on vacation for a couple of years to Moosehead Lake. We stayed at Wilson's, right at the Kennebec outlet. Dad tried to show me the finer points of tempting squaretails, but I was a little young to catch on. Later I visited them when they had a summer place at Sorrento on Frecchman's Bay. Dad, though born in Lowell, MA, grew up a Down Mainer. Beautiful country, but too many people in season unless you go further Down East or inland.

[Fred Lowe]

Those shots bring back many memories for me Dave.
In the mid sixties our family spent a good bit of our summers from Sandwich to Rockport, Glouster, Provincetown, and Bearskin Neck?
My mid eighties parents recently sent my 12 year old son "Parker" a very old cast reading lamp of the fisherman memorial in Glouster.
I have good memories of leaving the Glouster docks for a day of Cod fishing on the party boats and shucking clams for real clam chowder.
It's been a long time. The Cod are gone I believe.

Thanks!

[Dave Suponski]

Fred,In the last picture that is Bearskin Neck in the background. Except for a few new condo complex's on the outskirt's of town Rockport has stood the test of time.

[Dean Romig]

Fred, the cod are still there though they have been overfished by the draggers. New commercial fishing regulations have brought them back to sustainable stocks as long as the regulations are adhered to. It depends on where you go. For the best cod, those in the know go out for "winter cod" on Stelwagon Bank, due-east of Gloucester, in April and May. At that time there are no parasites in the flesh and it is as pure white as it can possibly be. The stripers have not arrived yet until mid-May and people can concentrate on replenishing their depleted freezer stock of cod.

[Fred Lowe]

I'm glad to hear that Dean. I read a book 10 years ago entitled "Cod" written by Mark Karlansky. It painted a pretty grim future for the fish. They're great eating.

Dave, Thanks for pointing out Bearskin Neck. As I remember it most of the boats were some type of lobster skiff and made of wood. Marblehead is another spot that I remember the name if nothing else.

[Bill Murphy]

When my ex first took me out on Bearskin Neck, she introduced me to a fish dealer she had known since she was a baby. We bought one claw one pounders for a dollar each. She showed me the restaurant on the neck where she had spent her teen years. We stayed in a wonderful bed and breakfast in town that had recently been purchased by one of her Lexington High School classmates. We spent a couple of days packing her mother's house, a high up place with a view of the harbor. I would gladly have moved there if I thought I could have learned the language.

[Dean Romig]

I would gladly have moved there if I thought I could have learned the language.

But if you had lived in coastal New England for fifty years you would never be considered a native...

As an example - if the cat has kittens in the oven ya don't call 'em biscuits do ya?? :rolleyes:

[Larry Frey]

No offense Dean but the only good reason I can find to go to Massachusetts is it's on the way to New Hampshire! :duck:

Who says the grass isn’t greener on the other side.:bigbye:

[Dean Romig]

No offense taken. If I had my druthers I'd be living in Vermont or Maine. Eastern Massachusetts is the bastion of liberal politics and PC busybodies.... oh, and did I mention "taxation without representation"? Who would have thought the commonwealth wherein that cry resounded among the early colonists and led to the original Boston Tea Party, tossing all of King George's heavily taxed bales of tea into Boston Harbor, would be suffering the same injustice in 2010? Please Pray for us.... :usa:

[Dave Suponski]

Geez Larry...And a statement like that coming from a Red Sox fan...:shock:

[Larry Frey]

Geez Larry...And a statement like that coming from a Red Sox fan...:shock:

Dave,
You are absolutely right there is a second reason, Fenway Park.

Now please don't ask me how I feel about New York.:cuss:

[Dave Suponski]

No...No...No...I already know how you feel about the Bronx...Oh well maybe next year for you guy's...:crying:

[calvin humburg]

pitty me i'm a royals fan:banghead:

[Dave Suponski]

Sorry to hear that Calvin...:rolleyes:

[Fred Preston]

Calvin, Your guys are just going to have to sleep a little longer if they want to take over the Indains record.

[Dave Suponski]

:whistle: