On the Run
Oct 02, 2018
3 minutes
STORY BY JOHN LEE
PHOTOS BY TOM LYNCH
It was early October when I landed my first job. I was between high school and college, undecided, uncommitted, a bit lost. The job interview occurred among barrels of skate and circling gulls. It lasted less than a minute. “Be here tomorrow morning at 4,” the captain said. And just like that, I was lobstering out of Newport, Rhode Island.
That was nearly 30 years ago, and I didn’t
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