b'C H A P T E R T W OIn 2000, FCWs board decided to step up its support of the communitys commercial fishermen. That led to devoting the August 2001 annual meeting to the subject of bycatch, the unwanted fish tossed back into the sea, where they often die. At the same time, FCWs nominating committee had approached Pappalardo about joining the board. Naturally curious about the organization, he found the idea appealing.I was reading about it in the paper, he says, and they seemed very involved and proactive in protecting the environment.So he said yes, and began quiedy raising searching questions at board meetings, while briefing the directors on the issues, often job-threatening, faced by the areas commercial fishermen.Young or otherwise, FCW board members have tried for years to, as Big John perceived, protect the environment. That was very much on their mind in the summer of 1983 when a burst of real estate energy seemed to put the shoreline of Stage Flarbor in serious jeopardy.At the eastern end of what is now Scatteree, in about 1900, stood Minister George Kents home, between a salt pond and Pleasant Bay.This was how the site came to be known as Ministers Point.The picture is proof, if any is needed, that Chatham has had unique and fascinating waterways long before memorys ancestors roamed the area.Courtesy of Joseph A Nickerson31'