John Putnam, the Melville of the South Street Seaport, Dies at 82

Splendid life.

I am reminded, reading Jack’s obituary, of his association not only with Melville but with another great New York writer - Joseph Mitchell. By Jack’s telling, he and Mitchell would ramble through the seaport and the Fulton Fish Market, stopping at Sloppy Louie’s for a meal - places that now exist only in memory, and in Mitchell’s writing for The New Yorker. I can only hope that the two of them - along with Melville - are now, in spirit, circumambulating city of a dreamy Sabbath, together.

Did Mr. Putnam also give tours of the Fulton Fish Market prior to its closing?

I can only wish Mr. Putnam; "Fair winds and following seas!"