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had been towed about ten or fifteen miles before that though. As Conklin 

 reported, their evidence suggested that the whale was a finback, and prob- 

 ably even Dahlgren would have failed to wear him out. 



This "fishing expedition of a lifetime" all ended by 11:00 a.m., much to 

 everyone's astonishment, as they observed that people back in Woods Hole 

 would just be going to church. As a student at Hopkins, then a professor at 

 University of Pennsylvania and later head of biology at Princeton, Conklin 

 loved telling stories: especially this one, where he stalked up and down the 

 beach wielding a harpoon. He also observed that the group never quite 

 wanted to embark on such an adventure again, even though the sunfish 

 provided a great wealth of parasites for a number of research projects back 

 in the lab. They all felt tliat a second excursion would be anticlimatic. 



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The more normal fishing enterprises also provided fi-esh fish in the shops 

 that used to line Water Street. Now, as in most of America, MBL folk 

 generally hop in their cars to drive to the nearest town, Falmouth, for the 

 bulk of their groceries, buying only smaller items in the small Woods Hole 

 store. But within the recent memory of many. Woods Hole housed a meat 

 market and several groceries, which provided a variety of fresh food. Sam 

 Gaboon's fish business provided dockside seafood for the village, "a place of 

 distinctive and pleasant smell, which was a blend of fish and smoke and 



