By Victor Paul Alvarez

PRUDENCE ISLAND — As they hunt the great fish in “Jaws,” Amity Police Chief Martin Brody tells marine biologist Matt Hooper that Amity is “ only an Island if you look at it from the water. ” It’s a matter of perspective. The isolation of the island’s inhabitants, specifically, is only a matter of perspective.

And so, it is with Prudence Island, whose residents enjoy peace if not the isolation, especially around the holidays. Lest they celebrate alone, a group of island residents prepared the Thanksgiving meal for about 50 islanders last week. Not because those islanders can’t afford the meal, but because they’d prefer not to eat it alone.

“I think, basically, it was about the camaraderie. They just wanted to be with somebody, and to me that’s what this is all

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