Small Town Gothic

St. Andrews, NB - jeeff - Monday, April 18th, 2005 : goo

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I hadn't been to St. Andrews in eight years. I didn't see the passage of time much, except in the lines on my grandparents' faces. St. Andrews is an old Loyalist town on the Bay of Fundy. It's full of regal old clapboard houses and churches painted gleaming white, with the Algonquin up on the hill. Most of it owned by rich Americans. Funny what money can do.

The wharf is new, rebuilt after a suicidal boat owner set the old one ablaze with a spark from his welding torch. His boat was being repossessed. The volunteer firefighters who responded drove their truck out too far and the flames swept through the piles underneath, ultimately engulfing the truck (and nearly the men too).

Now the wharf is rebuilt, but not busy. The tourist season hasn't hit yet. The fish are all gone and Passamaquoddy Bay is contaminated, though Pa still digs clams sometimes. What has he got to lose? It's beautiful here.

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kobe: so quaint so pretty

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