Besson, 5, RUE MAURICE BERTEAUX - 78711 MANTES-LA-VILLE - FRANCE

Pictures tell a lot of tales...perhaps of little to no interest but if you take a look inside Salter's Saloon in Greenport about 110 years ago you might find this scene.

I was tempted to go the "Music Man" route with "Ya' got trouble right here in River City....." but the kid already is in a band so Harold Hill; too late.  As I write this, I actually know where that pool table is...no kidding...maybe 200 feet away in a sun room buried under mounds of stuff.  Incidentally, the picture on the far left - the little square one -has in it a composite of  the USS Maine that was sunk in Havana and started the Spanish American War and the Plum Island/Fort Terry lighthouse...drawings actually....

Of note, however is the kid with the band instrument - a fine

Besson Tenor Horn made about 1910. You see most of these little towns had bands through the fire department or just to have one.  The kid's horn, was some pumpkins and he must of been proud...all the way from France...so proud as to show up at the saloon, horn in hand and playing something for the patrons.

Proud indeed!