Coils of rope are seen in the parking lot as lobstermen head out in a thick fog in Vinalhaven.
An older lobsterman passed by Tanner Lazaro as he hauled up his traps in his boat Used N Abused on Aug. 24. During the summer Tanner hauled his own traps on whatever days Frankie Thompson or another lobsterman doesn't need his help.
Sternman Kelsey Barker wore a T-shirt emblazoned with her son's name on the back as she went out to haul aboard Johnny McCarthy's True North on Sept. 7. A single mother, Kelsey says her job has allowed her the financial freedom to purchase a home and provide for her son in a way that few other jobs on the island would.
Frankie Thompson looked down toward his three steersmen as they began to haul his traps for the first time since June on July 24. The month-long break from hauling, due to a heart attack and a new repair to his boat, Obsession, was the longest Frankie said he has ever taken.
Jack McCarthy, 9, waved to the crowd from atop a float pulled by his dad, Johnny, at the Fourth of July parade as he passed along Main Street in front of the Star of Hope Lodge, the longtime home of artist Robert Indiana. Johnny McCarthy had been hesitant to make a political statement at the parade but his wife, Ali, was resolute, writing out the posters to attach to the small lobster boat herself.
Celena Scott and her son Scotty Thompson, 6, watch the sunset from their back porch on Sept. 2. Scott said she isn't sure what her middle son, Tanner, would do if he didn't have lobstering. Sitting on Tanner's boat one afternoon, Scotty said he doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up. "Maybe a policeman, maybe in the SWAT team," he mused. "Or maybe a hauler like Tanner, my daddy and my gramps."
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