Chappy Town Column: Nov. 13

The “Final Trip” gathering to remember Clarence A. Barnes III will be held on Saturday, Nov. 21 starting at 4 p.m. at the Ag Hall in West Tisbury. Bring a potluck and Trip stories to share. It was postponed from back in September due to stormy weather. I’m sure that as well as you might have known Trip, new information will be revealed on Saturday from unexpected sources. You need not doubt any of them. As I mentioned before, when it comes to Trip stories, he lived a life of “you don’t need to make this stuff up!” I’ll be away on a previously planned journey with my Mrs. to the southwest, but I’ve had my opportunity to tell a couple of Trip stories here already. Hers’s another one. Way back when the Schifter house got moved, Trip was hired to haul the big beams back to the Ferry Point to get loaded on the barge with all of the other paraphernalia used in that project. Two empty flat bed tractor trailers were at the point one evening when I was getting off of a shift driving the ferry.

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