re: Serendipity and the night sky
I too just got back from sailing. Moored at the Isle of Shoals, I saw two very bright late Persieds Tuesday night plus a plethora of satellites. Anita Shrieve's "Weight of Water" is a book about the hatchet murders in the 1800s on Smuttynose Island, one of the Isles of Shoals. Made into a movie. Any flick with Liz Hurley in a one piece two piece bathing suit and where Sean Penn dies is a good flick.