We met Clivens when he was 10 years old. Our schooner Charlotte was anchored in Port Morgan on Ile a Vache, Haiti.

The Vineyard Haven waterfront lost one of its most valued advocates when Jim Lobdell passed away two weeks ago.

The recent blizzard here on the Island took me back in time, to my life as a child growing up in Garrison, N.Y. before sailing brought me to the Vineyard.