17 when the dredge got to weeks island, the company changed everything. a guy i was working with named curly had told them he was a leverman, which he wasn’t. then they brought in a new crew, captain tom greer, yves acosta and old man oscar. while getting the dredge ready to go work, they found out that me and not curly was an operator, a leverman. i hadn’t planned to stay too long, but was asked to stay until they started the job. then on the day they got ready to start up, the operator, oscar, was so drunk that i had to do his job. so i had a fair amount of work. i worked there a long time. the mosquitoes were ter- rible that year. but i liked it at weeks island. they had par- ties, dances and things like that. 17 on the day they got ready to start up, the operator was so drunk i had to do his job.