Buzzards Bay

Based on the true story of my friend Simond Ponsart Roberts, who lives in Louisiana now.

And when she was a little girl at Cuddyhunk Lighthouse in Massachusetts in Buzzards Bay off of Cape Cod in the 1940s, Edward Rose Snow as the Flying Santa dropped a package with a doll for her.

And the doll was broken when it hit a rock.

which is very sad, but there's a happy ending to the story, which I don't want to do any spoilers here.

What are some potential areas that you'd recommend, Sam, uh, you know, folks poking around for these fish?

Yeah, the, you know, the, so the folks that are closer down into Buzzards Bay, the, there are so many rock piles down there, and any kind of just long, uh, you know, extending breakwaters are, uh, really fantastic spots, and any kind of old wrecks.

Uh, there's a lot of wrecks that are really inshore, you know, only a mile offshore.

Um, a lot of those in, in the bay that, that would get into there, and, uh, obviously some big breakwaters and, and big jetties.

Whoa.

And the record, dug off of Cape Cod's Buzzards Bay, was 106 years old.

How big was it?

[laughs] It must've been huge.

This report is still in the hands of the public printer, but by the courtesy of General W. W. Duffield, Superintendent of the Survey, the National Geographic magazine is permitted to present its readers with the following summary of its contents.

the report covers the fiscal year ending june thirtieth eighteen ninety five it gives a progress of the work in the field and office with customary detail and the necessary references to several boundary surveys and other special surveys of precision of the class usually assigned to this bureau upwards of seventy-five parties were actively engaged in various branches of the field operations work was carried on within the limits or on the coasts of sixteen states and territories along the seaboard and in nine states and territories in the interior it included reconnaissance baseline measures triangulation topography hydrography physical hydrography time latitude longitude and azimuth determinations boundary line surveys geodetic levelling magnetic declination dip and intensity observations laying out meridian lines gravity determinations tidal and current observations oyster-bed surveys c Among the surveys of special importance are the completion of the topographic and hydrographic re-survey of Boston Harbor and vicinity, the beginning of the re-survey of Buzzards Bay, the continuation of telegraphic longitude determinations in the southwest, the progress on the transcontinental triangulation in Colorado and the oblique arc in Alabama, points furnished in aid of the state surveys in tennessee kentucky new jersey and minnesota the completion of the reconnaissance of the rio grande from its mouth to el paso the completion of the reconnaissance survey of pensacola bay and its tributaries the surveys for the location of the boundary line between southeastern alaska and british columbia the survey of the california oblique boundary line and the topographic and hydrographic resurvey of san francisco bay and harbor The line of precise spirit levels from tidewater was continued to Kansas City, and the usual progress was made in surveying those portions of the coast not yet fully charted, including the channels of Washington Sound, the Strait of Fuca, the hydrographic development of the intricate channels of the Alexander Archipelago in southeast Alaska.

The report records the death of Lieutenant F. H. Crosby and four men engaged in the prosecution of the fieldwork, who were drowned while attempting to land through the surf on the coast of Washington.

This is commented upon as the most serious casualty that has happened to any of the field parties of the survey since the loss of the Walker in 1856. in accordance with the provisions of law one of the assistants has continued to serve as a member of the mississippi river commission and another by appointment of the president is a member of the international boundary commission organized for the location of that part of the united states and mexican boundary line extending from el paso to the pacific at the request of the secretary of the navy two assistants were temporarily detailed one for special triangulation in connection with marking the speed trial course in long island sound and the other for a survey on a large scale of the vicinity of the dry dock at port orchard puget sound assistants were detailed during the year at the request of the governor of virginia for surveys of the virginia oyster beds and a special survey of the fox islands chesapeake bay for the settlement of some questions of riparian rights and at the request of the commissioner of fish and fisheries to make further examination of the oyster beds in mobile bay and vicinity the detail of an assistant for the massachusetts state town boundary survey also continued during the greater part of the year the surveys for the location of the boundary between alaska and british columbia that have been conducted by the superintendent for several years past in his capacity as commissioner on the part of the united states will continue during the season of available working weather and the parties organized in the spring of eighteen ninety five completed all work necessary for the compilation of the maps required under the head of special surveys mention is also made of the act of congress of august first eighteen ninety four requiring the superintendent to lay out a circle around the new naval observatory for the deflection of the street extensions of the city the work was duly completed and the results with maps showing location delivered to the navy department the report of operations in the office is given in great detail the publications of the survey relate essentially to the navigation of the coasts of the united states but in the preparation of the tide tables for the new year a commendable departure seems to have been made by including predictions for the principal ports of the world seventy-five new charts were issued and one hundred and twenty-eight charts were revised and reissued the new chart publications complete the series of the atlantic and gulf coasts on the uniform scale of one to four hundred thousand designed especially for the use of navigators and the series on the coast of maine on the large scale of one to forty thousand designed for the safe navigation of the intricate passages of that broken and rock-bound coast the distribution of the charts during the year is reported at fifty one thousand four hundred and fifty six copies more than half the number having been sold by agents in the principal maritime cities there were also distributed one hundred and fourteen thousand copies of the monthly notices to mariners describing the important hydrographic developments and changes in aids to navigation on the coasts of the united states the bureau of standard weights and measures which is also under the direction of the superintendent of the survey reports that duplicate sets of standards had been furnished to the states of north and south dakota besides the customary routine work reference is also made to the new kilo balance of precision recently obtained by the bureau it is a duplicate of the balance of the international bureau and is the second brought to this country

I oppose option C, a cap that, sorry, my dog's attacking me, a cap that rises without hearings Don D' takes the public out of the process of a cap is critical for conservation not quoted a move elsewhere in November, please cut the coast wide quota and hold it for 2007 and 2028 our waters are very different without men hating without.

When bunkers are here, bass hold in Buzzards Bay, Vineyard Town, Cape Cod Bay, up here in Massachusetts for weeks.

Ospreys, bluefish, gandits, and whales beat alongside them.

When bunkers are scarce, the fish move through.

I don't know where they're going to land.

Is this the type of thing that sweeps them up into Buzzards Bay in the canal? Is it the type of thing that moves them east? We're all waiting to find out.

But I think it's going to happen over the next couple days.

It sounds like people were out yesterday, found some bonito, heard there were some... a little ways away.

I know also I'm thinking of rain.

I'm thinking about, you know, what's happening out in Buzzards Bay.

We come forward with money for shellfish testing because I want to make sure that, you know, our fishermen have access and our shellfishers have access to water and to beds when they need it, you know, for their livelihoods.

So we're going to continue to invest in New Bedford.

It's a really interesting island.

It's the end of an island string, the Elizabeth Islands, off of Falmouth on Cape Cod between Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay.

And Cuddyhunk has the lighthouse structure.

isn't there anymore, but it was a really fascinating history there.