Marine Heritage Festival

This weekend Southampton is celebrating its 2nd annual Marine Heritage Festival featuring all kinds of activities including a cardboard boat judging contest. In fact, we just witnessed a cardboard sailboat being hauled down in the street in the back of a trailer. How many of them there will be, I don’t know, but we’ll soon find out when we walk down the street to Pioneer Park. In addition to the cardboard boat contest there will be a pancake breakfast, a barbecue, cannon demonstrations (hope they don’t hit the cottage), a fish fry, and a special exhibit at the museum. The museum exhibit will focus on the War of 1812 and will feature the General Hunter, a warship of the era that was recently discovered by our friends. It had been buried (and safely preserved) all these years in the beach behind their house. Perhaps we’ll partake of a few additional activities today such as a stop at the beer gardens also in Pioneer Park, or the vintage boat show at the Coliseum. But then, maybe not. Maybe that book I’m reading will take priority. Then, too, the beach is always calling . . .