Reader Comments on Best Places in Nantucket from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:36:10 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/foodblog/nantucket When I was a teenager fresh out of the navy after WW-2 I went commercial fishing on a sea scalloper named the Anna O. out of New Bedford MA. I vividly recall passing Nantucket Island several times as we headed toward the Nantucket lightship and always thought to myself, someday I'm going to visit that beautiful island but never have til this day and I'm now 83 years of age. After passing the lightship on her port side we set a course for George's Banks then steamed approximately 18 hours NE toward the eastern edge of George's Banks where dinner plate size scallops were plentiful at that time. On my last trip to George's in the fall of 1948 we were hit a fatal blow by another scalloper and the dear old Anna O now rests somewhere on George's, the graveyard of ships. Shortly thereafter I joined the army during the Korean war, married a WAC on a Friday the 13th. after dating less than a month and we've been happily married for 55 years. After my discarge from the miltary I went to work for the state of Georgia and after serving 39 plus years in law enforcement am now retired Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:19:17 +0100