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by Stan Grayson
BENJAMIN MENDLOWITZ
Long a familiar sight in Florida waters, STING RAY V (today renamed STINGRAY) proved to be an able passagemaker on her many voyages between Fort Lauderdale or Boca Grande and New England. Evident here are some of the changes made over time. Originally white, the hull was painted its current color at a later date.
Those with local knowledge will tell you that the New River at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is a tricky place. There are tight bends, bridges, and of course, currents. There are shallow places and channel markers that can be confusing, especially where the river’s South Fork meets the Intracoastal Waterway. There is plenty of boat traffic, too. Writing about the area some years ago in
Barbara Leedom: Opting out
Barbara Leedom
People want to secede. They want their places to get out of the places they are. If you’ve heard anyone on Cape Cod wanting to secede and be its own country or state, they better have good reasons. How could we go it alone without support from the feds and our Massachusetts?
Geology experts and climate change non-deniers believe our Cape may sink. Sinking into the ocean is not the same as succession. Succession is opting out, going it alone, being a new state or no state at all. Scary thought, but thousands of people want to do just that. Sinking isn’t elective, secession is. It doesn’t seem to matter to successionists or maybe they don’t know they can’t secede. After the Civil War, aka the War Between the States, the Supreme Court, in a Texas case, ruled no state can “unilaterally” secede.