By Jim Reece - Halloween is approaching the Mother Lode, and Pirates have invaded North Main Street in Jackson over the last few weeks as a local resident and area youths have constructed a haunted pirate ship. Kevin Clark, advertising representative with TSPN TV, said he has been building the project in his front yard for a number of reasons. First, he said it was a way to give back to the community and the children around Jackson. Also, he said it was a way to get the community into the Halloween Spirit. Clark said that Halloween was a big event in his youth and he has spent the last few weeks constructing the ship on his lawn – despite having a broken right arm in a cast. Neighborhood schoolchildren have help with the project, including mounting a teetering main mast with a crow’s nest, hanging a wide variety of skeletons, heavy anchor chains and painting several Jolly Rogers – that is, skull-and-crossbones flags – the trademark of the pirates. Clark said the theme came about from the popularity over the last several years of the film trilogy “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Clark also gives back to the community by allowing the Arc of Amador And Calaveras County’s participants to tend a community garden in the yard of a house he owns in Sutter Creek. And the latest, the Haunted Pirate Ship of North Main Street, should be a popular destination come Halloween night. Friends at TSPN have also urged Clark to haunt the ship in Pirate’s garb, with his trusty right cast fixed into a pirate’s hook. See Kevin Clark’s community Haunted Pirate Ship in his front yard at 425 North Main Street in Jackson.