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Kids learn about LI's maritime culture
Photo credit: Newsday / Audrey C. Tiernan | Ava Plataroti, 5, of Dix Hills, plays with a fish reel at the Long Island Children's Museum. (Jan. 9, 2011)
In a room of the Long Island Children's Museum that smelled intensely of fish, 11 baymen explained their trade Sunday to young museum patrons who wanted to know: How do you tell a boy crab from a girl crab? What do fish eat? Can I hear the ocean in this shell?
The baymen were there at the behest of Nancy Solomon, a folklorist with Long Island Traditions, a Port Washington nonprofit group working...
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