Almost four years ago, just after her 12th birthday, Jessica Rose
Seidman ordered a half dozen chicken eggs from a catalogue and built her
own incubator. One hatched. She named him Chickie and raised him as a
pet in her backyard coop.

A docile, tame and beautiful Rhode Island Red rooster, Chickie in
the time since has earned four first-place awards in Martha's
Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair - three
times best in show.

From his perch in Poole's Fish Market, which he ran for half a
century, Captain Everett H. Poole watched Menemsha harbor fade from
being one of the busiest fishing ports on the East Coast.