Wit and wisdom by the water

The Sunshine Gang may sound like a bank-robbing enterprise, but it’s really a distinctive Port Washington version of a coffee klatch.

This coffee klatch, sans coffee but with plenty of conversation and laughs, occupies a bench along the harbor walk near the entrance to Rotary Park from around 9:30 to 11 each morning, dispensing decades’ worth of local knowledge to visitors.

It’s information “with a smile,” group leader Randy Kasten said. “It’s a friendly sort of gang.”

Members are all Port residents, but each  brings a different background to the bench.