It seems like centuries ago just after World War II when he was 12 years old and pulling in a quarter share of the day’s catch working the dragging nets with his father John “Gouzie” Gaspa and his uncle Joe Captiva for whiting and scallops and haddock and cod aboard the Polaska and the Cormorant.
That world in his hometown Provincetown seems like lifetimes ago and for all… [MORE]