Above the Salt Marshes, Terns Gather as One
Editor’s Note: What follows is an essay titled At the Turn of the Tide, taken from Salt Marsh Diary, a book by Mark Seth Lender, a writer and producer for the National Public Radio program Living on Earth. Mr. Lender will speak tonight upstairs at the Bunch of Grapes in Vineyard Haven at 7:30 p.m. At the Turn of the Tide is copyrighted by the author and appears here with permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC. In an e-mail to the Gazette this week, the author explained the Vineyard story behind Turn of the Tide:
