Oscar
Bunting has been fishing as long as anyone can remember. He tells me that, in
fact, he started in 1951, and that he was eighteen at the time. He guesses that
there were only about three-thousand people living on Nantucket in those days.
Oscar has never done anything but fish, scalloping in the winter, clamming in
the summer. His wife Joan began scalloping with him fourteen years later, when
they were married. Doing my own math, they have eighty-two combined years on
the water.
Photos
and text copyright Jim Patrick and Rob Benchley, 2002
