Grate Fishing gifts-mother's-day 'We'll have to go down

'We'll have to go down the hole

I almost didn't make it to the event in Pennsylvania

we meet beside the waters of New York harbor

this illustration accompanied “Goodnight

Of glistening skipjacks and smoldering cigarettes

Grate Fishing gifts-mother's-day 'We'll have to go downA 12 year old boy goes fishing with "uncanny skill" for coins and other treasures in the city's subway grating in 1959. His only tools: a small rock tied to a 12 foot piece of string and some lard (which is used to make the rock sticky). He then lowers the line and hauls up his catch. Sometimes a dime, sometimes a subway token, sometimes a ring of gold. Times photographer Allyn Baum captured the boy as he was surrounded by a large crowd in Times