Time to bring this thread back up to the top!

I was at the seaport today, and it was a sunny, cold, windy one, but any day at the seaport is a great one. I saw the Morgan for the first time since early December, though of course I've been following her restoration on the seaport's website.

I found a dime on one of the dirt walkways. Nobody was around, so I picked it up and put it in my pocket.

Don was today's chantey singer. A large group of students from Japan, probably high school age, came with a translator and guide to the seaport and heard him. He asked if any of them played an instrument. One plays a mandolin, another drums, and a third the koto. They were an attentive audience and Don got them to participate on a chantey. After, the koto player and some of her friends asked Don to write the name of two songs ("Molly Malone"--this was Music of the Sea and Shore, and tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day--and the chantey "Haul on the Bowline" and to sign his name. The koto player came over to me to show pictures on her phone of her playing the koto. I asked if she played "Sakura." She smiled and said yes, and I started singing the song. Okay, I only know the first two words, "Sakura. sakura," but I hummed a little more. She smiled again, said with surprise, "You know it!" and hugged me. Then she showed me a video of her koto teacher playing it.

Like I said, it was a great day at the seaport, and the days and evenings of the Sea Music Festival will be great!