A Concise History of My Weekend So Far

The following scene takes place at the Greenport Maritime Museum on the North Fork of Long Island.

A: We’re closed.

Q: The Greenport Maritime Museum is closed during the Greenport Maritime Festival?

A: We’re closed.

Q: Where are the tall ships?  There are supposed to be tall ships!

A: They only come once every four years.

Q: But there are tall ships on your web site!  There’s a tall ship on the cover of the free program book that you’re distributing to everyone!  The official schedule has ship tours and ship sail-aways!  We came thousands of miles to see tall ships!

A: We’re closed.

You can tell that this part of Long Island was settled from New England, because it has all the convenience and caring customer attention that I remember from when I lived in New England, thirty-odd years ago.