Word: bays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reggae for Unity '98 at the Boston Center for the Arts Theater. Why not? They'll probably play "No Woman No Cry." 3 p.m. to 1 a.m., 539 Tremont St. (Back Bay or Copley T-stop...
...Boston, he attended Massachusetts Bay Community College, heading for a degree in computer science...
...want you to meet a fish," Earle says to me. Without a submersible handy, we take the easy way and visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium, directed by marine biologist Julie Packard. Her Deepness takes to the place like a five-year-old. She leads me from exhibit to exhibit, dividing her attention between my education and anyone else staring at a fish. To a girl in pigtails eyeing a flounder she says, "See? He's looking at you too!" Earle is one of those dangerous people whose buoyant charm can make people do preposterous things. At a mere signal...
...Wheeler decided to use the story of the great auk to dramatize what was happening. A former U.S. Navy deep-sea diver and a veteran kayaker, he set out on a solo 1,500-mile kayak trip from Newfoundland to Buzzards Bay, Mass., following the seasonal migration route of the great auk--as much a feat for a man with a paddle as for a bird that could not fly. He hoped the attention the perilous journey would receive would send a clear message: "What we did to the auk, we are now doing to other species...
...four months he fought head winds and towering swells, sometimes discovering that after hours of struggle, he had not moved an inch, and always knowing that capsizing in the 45[degree]F water would mean "starting to die within minutes." By landing triumphantly in Buzzards Bay, Wheeler brought the great auk back from extinction, at least in the human imagination. PBS featured his trip on its Nova science show; a recounting of the voyage by professional storyteller Jay O'Callahan continues to delight and move thousands of listeners each year; schoolchildren from Nova Scotia to Fiji retrace Wheeler's journey...