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Five years on since the UK officially left the EU and, so far, Brexit has not been as bad as oysterman Tom Haward thought.

The hospitality sector was "struggling" and the oysterman said his customers were not selling the same volumes of oysters in the past year.

Jules Melancon, a third-generation Louisiana oysterman who, rather than giving up after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ravaged the Gulf Coast, found an innovative, sustainable and much tastier way to bring his briny delicacies to New Orleans restaurants, died on Aug. 31 at his home in Cutoff, La. He was 65.

The oysterman’s house still exists — as does, on nearby Money Hill, the one in which Edmund Wilson lived in a fractious marriage with Mary McCarthy.

One of the chapters describes his encounter in Wellfleet with an old oysterman.