Paul Wade Of All Trades

About Paul Wade Of All Trades

Margate lives on one road out — over the bay and across the Thorofare toward the mainland — and in a snowstorm that fact concentrates the mind. Paul Wade Of All Trades clears drives, aprons and walks on the island so the people who need to make that crossing can actually get out of their own driveway to do it. Storms here blow off the bay with salt in them, packing wet snow into the end of every drive where the plow trucks have gone by. Cutting that back, opening the apron wide, scraping the walk clean and salting it down is the difference between a stuck morning and a normal one. Quiet work, mostly done before anyone sees it, and Margate moves again because of it.