Here you are around Labor Day in your bare feet or flip-flops, reading this while contemplations of the end of the summer season are starting to come to mind. No doubt you’re feeling that you’ve become some part of the Island and, likewise, it a part of you. Or maybe not.

Remember in the movie “Jaws” – right before the little Kintner kid got eaten – when Chief Brody’s wife, Ellen (played by Lorraine Gary), was on the beach and asked some friends, “So when do I get to be an islander?”