{"id":2060,"date":"2009-01-16T11:49:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2009-01-16T11:49:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T16:49:29","slug":"gobbler-gang-invades-tony-sailing-hamlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=2060","title":{"rendered":"Gobbler Gang Invades Tony Sailing Hamlet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toms Roam Wild Through\u00c2\u00a0Tony Marion Village<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Gobblers, decked in drab brown gang\u00c2\u00a0colors offset by bright red\u00c2\u00a0neck\u00c2\u00a0& leg wear, roam wildly through\u00c2\u00a0Marion Village, heart of the SouthCoast sailing aristocracy.\u00c2\u00a0 Strutting down this\u00c2\u00a0harbor town’s\u00c2\u00a0main drag, hopping\u00c2\u00a0privacy barriers\u00c2\u00a0and disrespecting centuries old stone fences, they peck through\u00c2\u00a0manicured Tabor Academy, despoil the lawn of President Cleveland’s vacation home, heckle the gentry at the Beverly Yacht Club and ruffle feathers at the Sippican Tennis and Croquet Society.\u00c2\u00a0 Tensions mount near Burr Brothers Marina when rafter and gaggle\u00c2\u00a0cross\u00c2\u00a0paths.\u00c2\u00a0 Clucking American turkeys face off, claw to claw and\u00c2\u00a0beak to beak,\u00c2\u00a0with honking Canada geese.\u00c2\u00a0 West Side Story redux.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, the horror of these nationalist gangs!<\/p>\n

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Rafter of Wild Turkeys\u00c2\u00a0Ride Roughshod Over Marion Gentry<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You may think that herding cats is tough, but it takes a powerful tom to lead a gang of wild turkeys.\u00c2\u00a0 This one drove his rafter through the Marion Art Center and into the church triangle on hallowed Front Street where cameras cornered the\u00c2\u00a0gang scratching for booty in total disregard of\u00c2\u00a0frightened Marionettes barricaded behind frozen doors.<\/p>\n

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Marion Turkey<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gobblers running amok in the tony town of Marion?\u00c2\u00a0 True, there have\u00c2\u00a0been reliable records of two-legged turkeys\u00c2\u00a0haunting the streets, boardrooms and even bedrooms\u00c2\u00a0of Sippican for decades.\u00c2\u00a0 But a gang of\u00c2\u00a0gaudy toms?\u00c2\u00a0 Mon dieu; say it isn’t so!\u00c2\u00a0 At the very least, they should respect the town’s preppy dress code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toms Roam Wild Through\u00c2\u00a0Tony Marion Village Gobblers, decked in drab brown gang\u00c2\u00a0colors offset by bright red\u00c2\u00a0neck\u00c2\u00a0& leg wear, roam wildly through\u00c2\u00a0Marion Village, heart of the SouthCoast sailing aristocracy.\u00c2\u00a0 Strutting down this\u00c2\u00a0harbor town’s\u00c2\u00a0main drag, hopping\u00c2\u00a0privacy barriers\u00c2\u00a0and disrespecting centuries old stone fences, they peck through\u00c2\u00a0manicured Tabor Academy, despoil the lawn of President Cleveland’s vacation home, heckle the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[654],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}