Evers Marina & Seaplane Base - the Bronx, NYTimes.com

Charlie Evers aboard Little Toot, at Evers Marina
and Seaplane Base, the Bronx

Charlie Evers can make it via seaplane from his marina in the Bronx to his lake house in Maine in two hours. - gwc

The Runway Is Clear - NYTimes.com:

by Corey Kilgannon



"If Willy Wonka ran a boatyard, it might be along the lines of Evers Marina and Seaplane Base, on the Bronx waterfront.

Its owner, Charlie Evers, 71, has lived his entire life, at least until recently, at the marina, which was founded as a seaplane base in 1937 by his father, Carl.

By the 1950s, the place had about 40 seaplanes and five ramps for them. By the late 1960s, seaplane storage and charter flights gave way to boat-slip rentals, Mr. Evers said.

But there is still an orange windsock fluttering up there atop a pole at the end of the wide concrete pier, here where the East River turns into Long Island Sound.

The marina still shows up on aviation maps as one of the last seaplane bases in the region. And there is still the four-seat seaplane that Mr. Evers keeps in a metal shed and tools around in once or twice a week.

The marina, located in the Spencer Estates section between Pelham Bay Park and the Throgs Neck Bridge, is dotted with repurposed items that Mr. Evers has found."



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BUZZARDS BAY 19

BUZZARDS BAY 19:





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Treating iron in well water

Mountain Empire Community College

Treating iron & manganese

Plotting the course

From Friendship to Northport.

Doe and fawn

Doe and fawn crossing the Back River

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John Coltrane - volunteer apprentice seaman

In 1945 John Coltrane, at the age of 18, entered the Navy as a “volunteer apprentice seaman” and a year later made his first recording with a Navy band called the “Melody Masters.”

The Melody Masters, a segregated band stationed in Oahu, HI were not officially allowed to play with black musicians. An Excerpt from the book “Coltrane: The Story of Sound” By Ben Ratliff states that Coltrane appeared as a guest of The Melody Masters by evading the knowledge of their superior officers. The band made private recordings together, eventually pressing four copies of a 78 RPM record.
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Sprague's Lobster shack, Wiscasset, Maine

Best baked haddock sandwich on the coast of Maine, Wiscasset, Sheepscot River.

How to make an old man happy

Horace Silver, US jazz musician, dies aged 85 | Music | theguardian.com

Horace Silver was one of the great jazz musicians of the 1950's and 1960's when players like him were Jazz Messengers who expressed sublimely the aspirations and yearning for freedom and peace of black people the world over.  They inspired millions. I believe that those whom they reached were changed forever.  Those musicians and their audience played a big part in the changes that made possible the election of Barack Obama. - gwc

Horace Silver, US jazz musician, dies aged 85 | Music | theguardian.com:

 "Jazz musician Horace Silver, a composer known for pioneering hard bop, has died, National Public Radio said on Wednesday. He was 85.

Silver, a native of Norwalk, Connecticut, was shaped by the Portuguese influence in the islands of Cape Verde, from where his family emigrated to the United States.

Playing alongside noted jazz musicians such as bassist Oscar Pettiford and drummer Art Blakey, Silver, who played piano and saxophone, recorded exclusively for Blue Note Records over three decades before founding his own label, Silveto Records.

Silver composed music featuring percussive, hard-driving beats that was inspired by his philosophy of holistic self-help, jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote in his Encyclopedia of Jazz."



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Bagheera - exploring Greenland's west and Baffin Island's east coasts

There are a few remaining (half price) berths on Bagheera for its summer 2014 cruise of the west coat of Greenland and east coast of Baffin island.  They hope to get as far as 81 degrees north!