Joe Frazier, the baritone of The Chad Mitchell Trio, was ambling along humming “Queen Eleanor’s Confession” when he fell into the Atlantic Ocean. Well, it wasn’t exactly the ocean. He fell off the boardwalk in Halifax, into the water beside one of those dam ships, Ms Eurodam, and that harbor is sort of part of the ocean.
He was there because The CMT was cruising, along with their fans, from NYC to Quebec City, sitting around singing together each night after supper. It had been a good concert the night before, and now Episcopal priest Joe had ridden the funicular up into the city to visit the cathedral, and now he was feeling pretty good but a little tired, and he saw the bottle, bobbing in the water. It looked like it had a note inside.
Trying to reach the bottle, he fell into the drink. “The Ballad of the Greenland Whalers” came to mind as he grabbed the bottle and paddled his way back to shore. An old lady from the ship reached her walker out to him to pull him in.
He sat on the boardwalk, drying off in the sun, uncorked the bottle, and pulled out the note. It was written on stationery from the Ms Hotdam, a ship of The Ancient Mariner Cruise Line. The ink was runny, but he managed to work it out.
“So that’s why we haven’t heard from anyone from Periwinkle County in so long…” he muttered.
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