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Noe Welsh, my friends. (pronounced know-ee) A guy who drifted through New Hampshire until he took off for the West Coast, started working on movies, and who knows where he is now. Just one of those guys you never forget, no matter how short a time you knew him. Of course the fact that when you got him laughing, he’d fall down and pass out, made it great to have him around. We worked hard to be funny. It was a real ego booster when your little fart joke could collapse a man.

Sean has a story about working with him at a lobster pound. The lobster pound was on a dock in the mouth of the river that divided New Hampshire and Maine. Guys would come in from deep in the Atlantic having pulled traps all morning and sell live lobster to these guys, who would sort them out in salt water tanks inside a small unheated cedar shake building. The lobster who died from the ordeal were called slow runners. Not good for nothing.

You could also buy bait from Seavey’s, who had the bait fish delivered to them in a big dump truck. Sean was the older guy on the job, and Noe was new. Noe got sent up into the back of the dump truck to push the fish out of the small chute that funneled the bait into 35 gallon trash cans. Blood and fish shit poured out alongside the useable bait, and Noe was in a tilted truck bed unstopping the crush when Sean would throw a loose fish and hit Noe in the head. Noe was good natured and started to laugh, and fell backwards into three and a half feet of chum. It was medical. He couldn’t help it.

A guy like that will always be remembered. Even if he just passes through town and goes on to a new life.