The midcoast of Maine, between Brunswick and Belfast, is an idyll from an idealised past, where children run to the ends of docks to catch crabs with pieces of chicken on a string.
And the captains of tugboats would look up and wave at the brides, and soon we saw great signs painted on the ends of docks, and on the roofs of pier buildings that said "Welcome Home" and "Well Done".
It occupied all of the area which had been Fabian Bay, and so a lock was constructed to enable boats to reach tidal water by passing through the dock, and a wharf for the canal was constructed at the eastern end of the dock.
Reports vary on the fate of the two tankers that were in the dock; they were either swept away by the wall of water and sunk, or swept to the far end of the dock, but not sunk.
I walked to the end of the dock.
At the end of the dock, Andrea had us do a few ear-cleaning exercises.
"That was my green light at the end of the dock, that yearning," he said.
It was, forever, his lost paradise, the green light at the end of the dock.
At Big Sand Lake, I could still see the bottom, and millions of minnows, from the end of the dock.
It's a little much, but this paper goes way beyond the green light at the end of the dock.
At the far end of the dock is Hugh Doyle, who is accused of helping to store the loot.
