He spent the summer skating with his three brothers — Eric, Jordan and Jared of the Carolina Hurricanes — and attended Team Canada's Olympic orientation camp.
They went out boating in summer, skating in winter on the nearby dam; they rode ponies, went swimming in the nearby Firth of Forth, and went for long walks with wealthy friends.
NOTES The 2009 Skate America will be in mid-November in Lake Placid, N.Y., United States Figure Skating officials announced Friday.
It was a disappointing debut for the former world champion Kimmie Meissner, the 2007 Skate America winner.
For inspiration, see "Lords of Dogtown," the 2005 film starring Heath Ledger, or flip through "Locals Only," a photography book by Hugh Holland capturing 1970s skate culture.
The blackboard announces what is for sale today: skate, flounder, hake, blackfish (tautog), cod, clams, mussels, squid, sea bass, striped bass, monkfish, razor clams, swordfish.
Mr. Anderson grew up in Connecticut and went from unknown to skate-famous after a standout part in a 1996 skate video called "Welcome to Hell".
In summer you can swim in water that heats up to a comfortable 27 degrees and in winter skate on the frozen surface.
The fishes examined were winter skate (Leucoraja ocellata), little skate (Leucoraja erinacea), haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus), and longhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus).
