Pleasure Island — Wakefield, Massachusetts

I have an inkling that maybe my lifelong fascination with Moby-Dick
derives from a visit to this amusement park in the summer of 1960, when I was six.

Esperanto

I could easily believe the boy in the striped T-shirt was yours truly ...

Thar she blooooows!

1959 photo by Ken Saunders, Park Announcer

( from http://www.wakefield.org/pleasureisland/ )

The background tune is "The Golden Vanity", an English folksong
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