I remember working on a new salt water pier as an apprentice. Each day there were those who cast crab pots over the side and would collect the catch before they went home or would from time to time boil some for lunch.
The time came when the capstans and such used to tie off large ships were set with enormous bolts and nuts. When they were tightened, lead was melted in large pots and poured into the respective holes to keep the nuts from backing off.
One day on my way to lunch I noticed the carpenters or pile bucks as they were known, pulling out cooked crabs from salt water being boiled in the same pots used to melt the lead. I could hardly believe it, and stopped to make sure I was really seeing what it was I thought I was seeing. Their lead intake with each crab must have exceeded a lifetime limit. I wondered how long they had been doing it and have since wondered how they fared in later years.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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