Crossbreed

it is my mission this holiday to collect

every photograph on the island from way back when

to the late 60's, my parents got me a scanner. I think i may just skim the

surface of this goal. Today alone I traced the island's

roots back to the 17th century, collected maps, last wills and testaments

and got flung around by names like Ephraim, McPherson, Isaiah

John Peter, Abraham, Jane, Eleanor and Rose. All reduced

to stories that have trickled down and are now untrustworthy.

I come from the whalers.