1.   The careening spot was on a small harbor island, named Madame, where drunken pirates are said to have cavorted with women.

2.   The harbor islands are about to be a national recreation area, but access to them involves money.

3.   The single-digit wind chill bit on shore and would only feel worse on the harbor island from which it rises.

4.   The single-digit wind chill bit on shore and would only feel worse on the harbor island from which the statue rises.

5.   Where better to rendezvous with my forebear, then, than on the harbor island where he first touched America.