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. Pending world youth record holder Mason Otis Horn with the 57-lb. striped bass he caught Oct. II, 199~ off Fishers Island. (See story on page 5)
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
To the Editor:
As the owner of a small business on
Fishers Island, I have noticed a definite trend
that is very upsetting and disheartening. A lot
of people either do not pay their bills at all or
think nothing of making payments three to
six months delinquent. "Out of 'site,' out of
mind" is definitely a problem on the Island.
Patrons leave a[ [he end of the summer
with unpaid balances and arrive back the next
year expecting service and charging privileges
when they still have outstanding bills from
the previous summer.
No one likes to talk about uncomfort-
able issues such as this one, so I sincerely hope
you will print this paragraph and heighten
March I 999 Gazette
Deadline: February 28, 1999
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and sustained with subscription and ad-
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Editor
Betty Ann Rubinow
Contributors in tbis Issue
Krysia Bcrcday llumham
E(hvin Horning
Leila Hadley Luce
.John O'Shea, Carol R.idgway
Photographer Emeritus
Albert fl. Gordon
Controller
Su-Ann Seidl
Newsstand Sales
James IIall
Computer Support
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the awareness that unpaid bills do actually
affect business owners on the Island.
Thank you, and also [hanks to the cus-
tomers who are diligent in paying their bills.
Unsigned
To [he Editor:
On behalf of the St. John's and Fishets
Island Scholarship Committees, we would
like to thank Dt. Neil O'Connell and his "aff
at [he Fishers Island School for their contin-
ued support this past year. The success of
these programs depends on their active par-
ticipation.
Sincerely,
Jean Leuchtenbutg
Peter Burr
To the Editor:
The Fishets Island Libtary's new film
program is the result of an extraordinary gift,
a donation of over 300 prime videos by James
R. Benkatd, in memory of Scott Lamb. The
films have proven extremely popular for home
viewing as well as for communal screening,
and the Library Trustees are grateful [hat
Fishers' yearround and seasonal residents can
remember Scon with joy and thanksgiving.
Another special gram is one made in
loving memory of Eileen Wall by her brother
Richatd Gtebe. Ann Banks and the Boatd of
Trustees are studying a suitable memorial so
that Eileen's bright, indomitable spirit will
remain a tangible presence in the library.
Wishing you many happy winter hours
curled up with your favorite books!
Sincetely, Cotdelia F. Biddle
Fishers Island Library President
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j ...alure IS IDe j ...e'ft'S ~
From naturalist Edwin Horning's meticulous observations of
Island anirnallife, to the pride and excitement of children in
their age of discovery-Fishers Island has not lost its treasured
luster. This issue of the Gazette is dedicated to the natural
wonders of Fishers Island and to the peaceful ideal that beck-
ons its seasonal and yearround residents.
NOTICE FROM THE FISHERS
ISLAND FERRY DISTRICT:
All cats currently patked on the ferry
dock at Silver Eel Pond will be moved to
Elizabeth Airport by early February. The
Fetry District has teceived a $640,000
grant from the U.S. Departmentofrrans-
portation to teplace the aging dock, and
construction is expected to begin early in
March and last for several months.
If you are not on the Island, and your
car is parked on the dock, please call fetry
manager Phil Knaufat 516-788-7463.
1999 GAZETTE SCHEDULE
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Vol. 13 No, 2.... March
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An Islander Returns
John 0 'Shea of Rumson, NJ spmt careftee summers as a child on Fishers Island-but that was 50
years ago. After his mother sold the family property, he never expected to return to his Fishers Island
home, until one day. the telephone rang...
December IS. 1998
To the Fishers Island Gazette:
Last Saturday, I had the very good fonune to be paired in a golf scramble in Vero Beach,
Fla. with longtime Islander Brad Burnham. During the course of a delightful morning, I
discovered that Brad was not onlya much better golfer than I, but also that we shared memories,
history and a love of Fishers Island. After swapping anecdotes, he thought my story of the
McGoldrick Cottages might be of interest to Gazette readers and to other Island history buffs.
It is at Brad's request that I now tell the tale.
The McGoldrick Cottages, as they
were called years ago when the
ferry was the Ranger and its Cap-
tain was AI McGowan,
are the three cottages at
the corner across from
rhe Duck Pond. The
Carroll and Glendon
homes, facing the main
road, and the small cot-
tage behind the
Glendon's, abut the sharp
uphill curve leading to
the Hay Harbor Golf
Club.
The McGoldrick
Cottages were so called
after their owner Mary
McGoldrick. Mary came
from Ireland and worked
as a governess fora promi-
nent New York family.
She often visited Fishers
Island and eventually re-
tired here because she
loved the beauty and se-
renity of the Island that
reminded herso much of her home in Ireland.
Mary bought the three cottages. became
a resident and lived happily in her favorite
place in the world. She donated the first
stained glass window on the right side of Our
Lady of Grace Catholic Church. The win-
dow still bears the name of her father, Tho-
mas McGoldrick.
Although she never married, Mary had
one sister, Anna, who did marry and had a
daughter, Anne. After Anna's death, Mary
took her only niece, Anne, into her home in
New Y orkas her own daughter. Anne also fell
in love with Fishers Island as a young girl
where she and manyofher friends spent their
summers. Anne eventually married John J.
O'Shea after he graduated from Holy Cross
College and Columbia Medical School.
fu the years passed. Mary McGoldtick
O'Shea died a young man in 1948. leaving
Anne a widow at the age of 36, with five
children aged 10, 9.7.5,and6months, named
Marie, John, Peggy, Nancy and Dan.
Anne never remarried and continued to
bring her family to the Island every summer.
She and "Doc" had promised each other that
all the children would havecollegeeducations;
so eventually, in keeping with that promise,
she did what she hoped she would never have
to do--sell her Aunt Mary's cottages.
Fast forward to the summer of 1998.
Father Smilga. of Our Lady of Grace Church.
decided it was time to sell his cottage, the
smallest of the three former McGoldrick
cottages. He learned from his attorney that
when Anne had sold it to him, almost 50
years earlier, she had stipulated in the deed, in
the hope that she
would someday re-
turn, that either she
or her children
should have the
right of first refusal
to repurchase the
properry.
His attorney
directed him to in-
form the family.
Problem: how to do
that after so many
years? Father re-
membered that
Anne had lived in
Rumson, N.J. SO he
went to his com-
puter to find the
Diocese and Parish
that corresponded
with that town and
called Holy Cross
Rectory to see if an
O'Shea was still registered. They were. He
then called me and said, "I'm not sure I have
the right party. This is Father Smilga on Fish-
ers Island, and I have some information..."
I spoke to the other members of my
family, and we bought the cottage back so
our own children and grandchildren could
visit and experience the beauty of Fishers
Island as we all know it. Thank you Father
Smilga!
Mary McGoldrick's niece, AnneO'Shea,
who died in 1980, was my mother.
The Island is as beautiful as ever. It's
good to be back.
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. Hay Harbor diving board, circa 1952. (I-r) Marie, John, Peggy, Nancy and Dan O'Shea.
delighted in seeing Anne and John and their
five children grow to love the Island as much
as she always had. The children reveled in the
swimming, tennis and other activities at Hay
Harbor Club as well as the softball games.
picnics, library, fishing, biking, and other
aspects ofIsland life in the summer.
Mary McGoldrick died at Anne and
John's New Jersey home atthe age of 83. The
cottages passed to Anne and John who con-
tinued to summer on Fishers Island with the
children during the turbulent war years when
the Fort was a buzz of activity and then-Capt.
O'Shea was being assigned allover the place,
as were most able-bodied men in those days.
fu fate would have it. Dr. John Joseph
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By KRYSIA BEREDA Y BURNHAM
The flight from Istanbul is a 10 1/2- An angry Redcap back in New York, feeling
hour test of a mother's integrity. guilty that he had lost his temper with my
While my spouse slugs it out at aging mother, had in penance called ahead to
work in the Turkish srock market, planning New London and ordered us a skycap for our
ro join us on Fishers Island at the end of our arrival in Connecticut. Although the gesture
vacation, I go it alone with the little ones. was appreciated, there was one problem: there
We take it in stages. The children's time is were no skycaps in New London. So to get
punctuatedhydrawingpuppetsonairsickbags, around this difficulty, he had said that we
kicking the scats in from of them and watching (my mother, aunt, two children, II suitcases
R-rated movies without earphones. At one and I) were actually passengers in wheel-
point, crumpled by fatigue, I stretch out on the chairs. Heeding the call for disabled passen-
floor beneath their seats. Goal: get horizontal, gerswith special needs that were in fact graver
eyes closed, brain dead, for 10 minutes. AI- than our own, the local sheriff and the man-
though this respite is somewhat disturbed by ager on duty at the train station were called,
ginger ale spilled on my hair and by flying bits via walkie-talkie, to action.
of Leg 0, the result is that I am recharged for the The sheriff was flexible enough to see
rest of the journey ro New York, New
London and that little slice of sand and
rock some call Paradise.
Fishers Island indeed looks like
Paradise after six years of breathing in
Istanbul's air, fighting its insane traffic
and submitting to grim winters and
broiling summers that extend from
May to September. Although it has
assets such as the Bosphorus, whose
shores are thickly wooded and a major
pit stop for birds migrating south to
Africa from Eurasian breeding
grounds, Istanbul's slow-moving re-
sponse to preserving its natural gifts
makes Fishers look like even more of a
perfect world.
In this vein, Fishers Island's uto-
pian allure gains mythic proportions.
It calls to us, interrupting the muezzin
song and banshee shriek of the expatri-
ate four-year-old. Each year, this prom-
ise of P;lfadise is a mighty draw sum-
moning far flung deserters back to the
primal lushness of its Garden. This is
especially true for a family who, after
having lived abroad for so long, is starting to
see the Island's gifts with eyes that have, by
osmosis, become "Turkofied"-that is,
changed by their adopted environment.
So, feeling somewhat like an immigrant
Turk coming at long last to the land of
opportunity, we reach New London. Byany
standards, it is a quirky purgarory to the
apparent heaven across the sound.
The 6:58 a.m. Saturday train from New
York ro Boston expelled us and our gialH
black bags on the platform at New London.
to have ro push it yourself."
In the end, we hobbled to the ferry
generously escorted, cart full, the channel
stretching out before us invitingly paving the
way to the open sea.
But Paradise, just a ferry ride away, was
not yet ours. In the good old days, we used to
arrive with a car filled with luggage and
personal effects. As Turko-American repatri-
ates, however, we were lugging our stuff
across the globe. Now adding to the confu-
sion were 18 bags of groceries that we had
purchased after we bade the sheriff farewell.
Taxi service to the store was reliable, but the
driver who unloaded the bags mistakenly
placed them on one of the ferry district's
flatbeds.
In Turkey, unless the situation is an
unusual one, human encounters involving
any exchange of goods or services are handled
...
Al Gordon Photo
. A peaceful winter scene, circa December 1998, as cars wait in New London for the ferry to Fishers Island.
that, although not technically disabled, we
did indeed need help. His companion from
the train station was less elHhusiastic. As he
dragged an enormous dolly behind him, he
grumbled, "1 had to close down the whole
station for this. No one else on dury today."
Seeing that one dolly could not handle
all our bags, the sheriff, an enormous bear of
a man in a black uniform pinned with badges,
dashed down to the Fishers Islandferry freight
office for help. "You can have a cart," said a
young man working there, "but you're going
in an elaborately polite manner. Traditional
ritual language is used. For example, instead
ofasimple "Hello, may 1 help you?", the ferry
personnel would say, "Has geldiniz. hanim
eftndi," meaning, "You have brought plea-
sure, madam!" To which I would automati-
cally reply, "Hose bu/duk!"-"I have found
pleasure!"
Unconsciously still expecting similar
treatment, I inquired if it would be all right
for all our worldly goods to be loaded onto
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Thrkish Travels
Continued .from page 4
the ferry via the flatbed.
"Sure," growled the old salt behind the
desk," If ya wanna pay freight for it!"
Pay freighr for rhe $200 worrh of gro-
ceries we'd just bought? "No thanks. I'll
load them onto the boat bag by bag. if need
be. But could this young fellow who offered
us the flatbed in the first place lend me hand
when he's got a minute?" I asked.
"Whaddya think, you can gersom 'thin'
for norhin' in this world," growled the
older man.
"I never suggested that... " I said.
"You JUSt did!" he interrupted. "Vou
wam my man to help handle your freight
for free? Take up his time to load you on
board as a favor?"
"Well I...look, sir," I glared, the old
New Yorker in me not dead yet. "You
should set your personnel straight on policy
about flarbeds and freighr."
"Well. he's new here."
"That's your problem, isn't it? I've
been coming to this Island since I was 12
years old, and I've never encountered..." I
let my voice trail off. This was not the
Sultan's private ferry service, I told myself.
This was America. Here, people are allowed
to have a bad day.
Paradise, seemingly unreachable now,
became a possibility when a college kid
friend of ours wheeled up to us on roller
blades.
"Is there a problem here?" she asked,
wavy reddish hair held in check by a natty
baseball cap. She and her parents helped
transport every bag of Rice Crispy Treats,
Crystal Light and Wheat Thins into the
belly of the ferry, wedging them in a line
between the minivans and sport utility ve-
hicles, while my family and I hauled the rest
of our bags.
I wasn'r really mad. The Turks had
taught me a kind of Oriental acceptance in
the face of conflict. Stress melted into the
widening gyre of experience. It was Allah's
will to set challenges in our way before
attaining ultimate peace. But deep down, I
was still a city kid and wanted to get even a
little bit. ''I've got it! I'll put this in the
Gazette!" I said out loud. The young ferry
hand from the flatbed incident was nearby
and murmured, "Well...h-hey, just don't
mention any names, okay?"
I knew no names-in any case, the
ever-friendly Rick, the accommodating
Steve and the unfailingly gracious Mark
were not there that day. Nor would I ever
wish to throw stones at a well-run ferry
operation. This incident took place a couple
of years ago. Maybe, it was just an off year.
I never saw that man in the office again.
It was a matter of contrast, a brief
moment in time as seen by a new old comer
to the area. So there we were. curmudg-
eonly man safely behind his desk in New
London and the new young ferry hand,
young enough to be my son, standing at my
side on the gently rolling ferry.
"He gets that way sometimes--don't
rrouble yourself." I laughed, thankful for
this outburst of polished manners. ''I'm
sure he does," I said maternally.
As rhe fercy pulled away from rhis New
London melodrama, I could not take my
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Fishers Island Gazette Photo
. Krysia Bereday Burnham had a trying trek
from Turkey, but it didn't take her long to
settle in and relax once she and her family
arrived on Fishers Island.
eyes off this lanky youth, whose attempt at
kindness was a token of something I had
forgotten: the spirit. the romance, of home.
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Mason Horn Sets World
Rec:ord flTitL s7-IL. Striper
E leven-year-old Mason Otis Horn
set a world youth record (pending)
when he caughr a 57-lb. striped
bass Ocr. I I, 1998 off a beach on rhe souch
side of Fishers Island.
Wild Bill Photo
MASON OTIS HORN
Mason and his father, Luis Horn,
brought the fish co Wild Bill's Acrion Sports
in Noank ro weigh the 52 1/2-inch-long
striper on a scale officially sanctioned by the
International Game Fishing Association
(IGFA).
According to Me. Horn, the Florida-
based IGFA began keeping yourh records
lasc year, listing Jared Carrer, wirh a 23 lb. 7
oz. carch off Fishers Island, as rhe firsc IGFA
youth world record holder.
Mason was lucky to be fishing during
the fishing blirz. (See srocy on page 11) He is
also lucky to come from a long line of fisher-
men. His late grandfather was famed Island
sportsman, GtisHam. "My father caught 11
stripers over 50 pounds and one over 60
pounds," Luis Horn said.
"I told my family thar anything over 50
pounds was going on the wall-so the prize-
winning striper is currently being mounted.
"The only problem was rhar I had to
carry that fish straight up the hill from Isabella
beach. I can tell you that 1 slept well rhar
night! I told Mason that if he catches any
more, he'll have to carry them up himself,"
Mr. Horn said.
At the rate Mason is going, it appears
that he will have plenty of experience carry-
ing record breakers to Will Bill's IGFA scale.
Congratulations, Mason!
Fish and Wildlife Service illustration
Courtesy of Edwin Horning
. Massesofthisbaitfish, the menhaden, flooded
Fishers Island shores OcL 9 and 10,1998 giving
Mason Horn the opportunity to set the Inter-
national Game Fishing Association Youth
World Record with his 57-lb. stripedbasscatch.
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A SizeaLle Sea"or~e
right around the seaweed for stability.
"It was thrilling! I have never seen
anything like it. The seahorses at Mystic
Aquarium are much smaller. The seahorse
had all sorts of things sticking out of him. It
was surreal. Its fins were moving a mile a
minute until it calmed down.
"I ran to the library to gets books about
seahorses, and we called everyone in to see
it. The children drew pictures,
and we had an instant science
lesson.
"Aftet school, I teleased the
seahorse in Hay Harbor. I just
couldn't face the idea of coming
into school the next morning to
find it floating dead in the water."
Ms. Edwatds said that the
children were excited but that they
were seasoned veterans when it
came to nature's surprises. "In
good weather, we go out for an
hout and a half every Wednesday
for field trips to the ponds and to
the shore where we find things to
bting back ro school fat study and
observation. "
Chtis Edwatds' wife, T rudi,
called Mystic Aquatium at the
start of this adventure. Officials
there did not return her call for
two days, and by that time, the
seahorse had been released.
Mr. Edwards said that once
he found a dried out seahorse on
his boat and that pteviously he
has pulled up sea urchins, two-
inch lobsters, stripped bass and
cormorants in his traps.
"This is the first live seahorse
I have evet hauled up," Mt.
Edwards said. "A friend said
seahorses werelucky,soI bought
a lottery ticker."
(Unfortunately, Mr.
Edwards was not a lottery win-
ner. It's likely he would have
needed multiple seahorses to be
that lucky.)
One for the record books? It's
not official, but some Island
ers are saying that Fishers Is-
land waters have yielded the largest seahorse
ever discovered in this area.
Chtis Edwards said he
ptacticallysteppedon the "pre-
historic-looking" fish as he was
cleaning the deck of his boat
Nov. 17, 1998 after hauling
the last of his lobster pots be-
tween North and South
Dumpling.
The seahorse looked
pretry big, so he picked it up in
his gloved hands, dropped it in
a bucket of sea water and headed
in for one of the most fascinat-
ing" Show and Tells" that Laura
Edwards' kindergarten class at
the Fishers Island School had
ever seen.
"My daughter, Whitney,
is in kindergarten, so I decided
to bring it to her class," Mr.
Edwards said, "bur 1 left im-
mediately to go back ro work."
It wasn't until later that
Mr. Edwards heard abour the
ncar-record breaking size of the
seahorse. According to Fishes of
the Gulf of Maine, by Bigelow
and Schroeder, the largest
seahorse found in that area,
which is similar [0 ours, was 7
1/4 inches. An unofficial mea-
surement by Laura Edwards
placed the Fishers Island
seahorse at seven inches. Ms.
Edwards eXplained:
"It was IO:30in the morn-
ing when Chris Edwards
walked in apologizing for in-
terrupting our class. I told him
to please interrupt us anytime
with something as exciting as
this! He had a large seahorse in
a bucker.
"I immediately poured the seahorse
into an empty aquarium, so the children
could have a better look. Since there wasn't
much water, I tilted the aquarium, placing
wooden blocks under one end. There still
wasn't enough water for the seahorse [0
remain upright, so while it was horizontal I
put a seven-inch plastic ruler next to it in the
water and measured it from its uncurled tail
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"Meanwhile, someone had run down
to South Beach for more water and seaweed,
and when we filled the aquarium, the
seahorse became vertical, wrapping its tail
. The seahorse Chris Edwards discovered on
his lobster boat last November measured
seven inches (rom uncurled tail to snout while
lying on its side. For an approximate compari-
son, the seahorse pictured here was enlarged
to seven inches (rom top to bottom.
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Everyone has a dream garden, an Sissinghurst's most charming aspects, the
image. never wholly fulfilled. from claire-voie. a large round hole cut in the
which to draw inspiration. lattice of a pergola, trellis, or evergreen hedge
My dream garden isboth awhitegarden that provides a view to the gardens beyond
and a moon garden, a garden of annuals and and serves as a window to look up at the sky,
perennials the color of snow, cream, ivory, the moon, the clouds, and the stars.
and milk; with flower textures delicate as Lovely by day, pale scented flowers be-
tissue paper, soft as velvet, smooth as silk and come magical by starlight and the light of
satin. Consider carpets of sweet alyssum, pierced brass Moroccan lanterns, shimmer-
beds of creamy white antique roses, clusters ing, glimmering, drenching the air with sweet
of lilies and clematis. odors to attract pollinators. night-foraging
White is its own harmony, symbolizing lunamothsandhawkmothswirhwingspreads
of up to six inches that leave their daytime
hiding places to respond to the Lorelei per-
fumes of night-fragrant plants.
Victorians called this type of white gar-
den, with the added dimensions of strong
nocturnal fragrance, a "moon garden." For a
Illustrations Courtesy 01 Leila Hadley Luce
. The tuberose, Polianthes tuberosa.
light, putity, gloty and joy. White speaks of
passion and romance. White reflects all the
light rays of the visible spectrum without any
dominant wavelength ofits own, which makes
it achromatic-having no chroma or color.
This reflective phenomena allows any white
garden to appear larger and fuller than it
actually is, with incandescent radiance.
The most celebrated white garden of our
time is at Sissinghurst, the Elizabethan manor
house in Kent, created in the 1930s by Harold
Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, now a
British National Trust Property since 1967.
From it, my dream garden borrows the white
trumpets of Regale lilies, white "Helen
Campbell" cleo me, a yard tall: spires of white
"Butterball" delphiniums: white pansies,
white irises; silvery gray artemisia, Cineraria
maritima: pearly white "Show Pearl" border
pinks; white Veronica virginica a/b: white
eremuti; Phlox paniculata, "Mother ofPeatl;"
the silver willow-leaved pear, Pyrus sa/icifolia
pendula: the deliciously fresh scent of white
tree peonies, Paeonia suJfruticosa; and one of
. The silk tree, A'b/z/o julibrissin.
moon garden's white, night-blooming flow-
ers whose fragrances intensifY at dusk to
attract pollinators, there are inventories of
hundreds of plants. One of my favorites is the
moon flower, Ipomoea alba, a tropical vine
that has been grown in American gardens as
an annual since the 18,h century. Moonflow-
ers flourish in sultry midsummer weather. If
watered frequently and fed occasionally, a
moonflower vine can grow up to 15 feet.
Flowers, some as large as butter plates, of
luminescent white, will remain open through
midmorning and are deeply perfumed. Mi-
gnonette, Reseda odorata: evening primrose,
Oenothera biennis; large white petunia hy-
brids; flowering tobacco, Nicotiana alata and
Nicotiana sylvestis; and dame's rocket, Hesperis
matro1U1lis, are other annuals, attractive by
Fishers Island Gazette 9
day, which bloom at night in clouds of deli-
CIOUS scent.
Native to Mexico, tuberoses, Po/ianthes
tuberosa, are hardy only to zone 8, so need to
be lifted and re-potted for the following
winter after they flower in midsummer and
their foliage yellows. I am so besotted by
them that I have convinced myself they are
worth the extra effort. Their spikes of white
. The glory-bower, C'erodendrum trichotomum.
flowers blossom beautifully in pots, make
terrific cut flowers, and their scent is as in-
toxicating to me as catnip is to a kittycar.
Other plants that are ravishing night
bloomers are four o'clocks, Mirabilis Jalapa;
night-blooming white phlox, evening stock,
Matthiola Iongipetala bicornis; the large white-
flowered angel's trumpet, Datura innoxia-
wildly poisonous, but seductively perfumed;
the large white-flowered "Henryii" clematis.
Sweet alyssum, Lobu/aria maritima,
blooms all summer, is drought-tolerant, per-
fumed hy day and perfumed by night, and
provides a non-invasive underplanting for
lilies of rhe valley, Conva/laria maJal/is, as
well as white scylla, white peonies, white
lilacs, white azaleas, thick rows of white hya-
cinths and narcissus, white rhododendrons,
white hydrangeas, white astilbe, white
Veronica, July fountains of yuccas, white
hollyhocks, white foxgloves, and a carpeting
drift of honey-scemed sweet peas, Lathym;
odoratos, fragram annual climbers that need a
trellis to climb on and mulch to keep their
roots cool.
A moon garden always should have
plantings of Casablanca lilies and Madonna
lilies, Lilium Candidum, used in gardens
since the Minoan culture flourished in 1500
B.C. Their steeples ascend during April and
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'1998 Fishing Blitz
By EDWIN HORNING
Checking Airporr Beach Oct. 9,
1998, I was surprised to see a flock
of 1000 hetting gulls and 100
laughing gulls and a few gteat black. backed
gulls. It was also unusual to see eight to ten
fishermen at the east end of the long runway.
The next day. there were 1500 herring
gulls and 500 laughing gulls, and a few days
later, Sue Horn asked if anyone had told me
about the fish her son Mason had caught.
(See story on page 5) The fish he caught is
bigger than the two we have on exhibit at the
H.L. Ferguson Museum.
ltwasn't until the night of Oct. 21,1998
that I learned about the fishing blitz. John
Thatcher arrived 011 our porch
with a 42.inch long
striped bass, and as ... -~...~).
we removed the r~'<(J~t}.
rubber eel lure, ~.... __oJ'
John told usthat .
this fish was a stray
and not part of what he
referred to as the fishing blitz.
On Fri., Oct. 9 and Sat. Oct. 10 anyone
who wanted a fish got one.
The huge number of bait fish-bun-
kers-that had appeared in masses along
Fishers Island beaches attracted the countless
fish of the blitz. Menhaden is one of the many
names for bunker. In places along Airport
Beach the menhaden were clustered in such
thick masses that together they looked like a
dark band stretching along the shore.
Dick Baker said the masses of fish looked
black that weekend. The black band spread
some 30 feet out over the water. As Dick
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stood at the edge of the black band, he found
the fish swimming all around him.
In order to catch bluefish and striped
bass attracted by the bunker, Dick cast be-
yond the massed menhaden. He quickly
caught more than 20 bluefish and three striped
bass. His wife, Pat, caught a striped bass. At
another spot, also in a very shan period of
time, John Thatchet caught 10 bluefish and
a lesser number of stripers. John said he
caught a fish with almost every cast and
released most of them.
What drew this huge number of
menhaden to Fishers Island? First I
looked up this fish
and found
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an illustration in
the classic fish book {re-
ferred to me by both Catey
Matthiessen and Steve Malinowski}, Fishes of
the GlIlfofMaine, by Bigelow and Schroeder.
When I showed the illustration to John, he
exclaimed, "That's it!"
The menhaden-scientific name
Brevoortia tyrannus-is a member of the her-
ring family. It has no teeth but does have
comb-like gill rakers with which it filters
from the water tiny plants and animals called
diatoms. it is never caught on a baited hook,
and it is far too oily to be a food fish.
Fishers Island Gazene 11
The menhaden migrate in huge num-
bers north to the Gulf of Maine in May and
south in October. The recent blitz was pan of
a southward migration. Fishes of the Gulf of
Maine shed some light on aspects of the
menhaden behaviot Oct. 9.10, 1998:
"The menhaden, like herring, almost
invariably travels in schools of hundreds of
thousands, swimming closely side by side
and tier above tier... Whales and porpoises
devour them in large numbers; sharks are
often seen following the porgy schools; pol-
lock, cod, silver hake and swordfish all take
their toll...
"But the worst enemy of all is the
bluefish...Not only do these pirates devour
millions of mendaden every summer, but kill
far more than they eat. Besides the toll taken
by these natural enemies, [countless numbers
on menhaden often strand...in shoal water
[and] wither in theirattempttoescape
their enemies or for other
The above passage de-
~ scribes just what happened on
~ Fishers Island during the re-
cent fishing blitz. The
book also explains that the
number of mendaden fluctu-
ates tremendously from year to year,
and sometimes they are completely absent
from our waters.
t remember two other great days of
fishing on Fishers Island: Nov. 15 and 16,
1991. At the time, David Zangheui said
he'd never seen anything like it. The bait
fish then were also a eype of herring, prob-
ably menhaden.
Since this is a cyclical event, perhaps
we'll see anomer great two days offishing in
2005.
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Island Od. 9.10, 1998 creating rare and thrilling fishing
opportunities for Islanders. The adult menhaden, pic-
tured in the above story, first begins life in the following
stages: A, egg; B,larva, newly hatched, 4.5 mm; C,larva,
23 mm; D, young fry, 33 mm.
lltustrations from the Fishery Bulledn of the FIsh and Wildlife Service
12 Fishers Island Gazette
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exposure. Swimming pool overlooking
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with door out to the westside deck. Second Floor...Three
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Full Bath, Utilities, Laundry. Askillg Price: $425,000
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Floor...Entry, large Living Room, large Eat-in-Kitchen, Three
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George Robert Leslie
George Robert Leslie III of Westwood,
Mass., formerly of Englewood, N.J. and New
York City, died peacefully ar home April 3,
1998, rwo days before his 85" birrhday.
Mr. Leslie was born in New Jersey and
moved to New York as an infant. He spent
his childhood in New York City and at-
tended Bovee and Pomfret. Affiicted with
asthma. Mr. Lesliewas forced to leave Pomfret
at the age of 14 due to illness.
For the next eight years, Mr. Leslie ran
the family farm in Virginia where he raised
horses and fox hounds. He returned [Q New
York City when he was 22 years old, mended
New York University and worked for Irving
Trust Co., from which he retired as vice
president in the late 19605.
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Mr. Leslie summered at Harcheus Point
in Connecticut and often sailed to Fishers
Island with his first wife, Rosette King. who
died in 1968.
In 1969. Mr. Leslie married Catherine
Mcintire Smith, whose family has a long
history on Fishers Island. "After marrying, we
summered on Fishers Island, which my hus-
band loved.>> Ms. Leslie said. "We also cruised
up and down the East Coast and around
Florida in a 41-foot Hatteras; and in the
winters, we traveled to Egypt, Africa and
South America." For many years, Mr. Leslie's
boat. ViteHe III, was a familiar sight berthed
byrhe long dockar Fishers Island Yacht Club.
"We were very close. It was wonderful,"
Ms. Leslie said. "He was always considerate
and very close to my children. Both of my
boys are in the financial world. just as hewas."
William T. Reed III, 64
William T. Reed lll, ofManakin-Sabor,
Va. and Fishers Island, died Ocr. 4, 1998
after suffering a stroke while vacationing in
Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Mr. Reed was predeceased by his brother,
Frederic Scot< Reed, 58, who died Sept. 7,
1998.
Me. Reed was a devoted conservationist
and environmentalist. In a 1971 newspaper
interview. Mr. Reed said conservation "is so
much in me for one reason. I was born and
raised in the country. I became interested in
conservation 10 years ago when I began
seeing the deterioration of the environmen t."
Mr. Reed founded the Conservation
Council of Virginia in 1968 and was elected
its president in 1971 when it consisted of 49
Virginia conservation groups. A former mem-
ber of the Board of Directors of the Environ-
mental Defense Fund. Mr. Reed was also vice
president of the Atlantic Rural Exposition.
which runs. among other things, the State
Fair of Virginia.
Born Jan. 2, 1934, Mr. Reed mended
St. Christopher's School and graduated from
Woodberry Forest School and Hampron-
Sydney College. He direcred tobacco leaf
purchases for LatuS & Brothers Co. from
1958-1965; and in 1971, he purchased rhe
Fishers Island Gazette 15
Goochland Gazette, serving as its editor and
publisher umil 1986. Mr. Reed was presi-
dent of Chastain Ine. and was a bloodstock
agent and a wetlands mitigation consultant.
Mr. Reed was described by family, friends
and associates as kind. cheerful, a leader and
"just an incredible person."
"I'm going to remember Bill as someone
with a real zest for life,>> said his sister, Rossie
Fisher. ''I'm going to remember him as some-
one who was aware of the fragileness of the
environment and who was working to pro-
tect it way before others-[as early as} the
1960s."
Equally passionate about music. espe-
cially opera, Mr. Reed was a charter member,
former director and vice chairman of the
Virginia Opera. At a 1975 benefit auction for
the Richmond Symphony. he won the op-
portunity to lead the symphony in the Pre-
lude to Acr I of Carmen. Another high bid
placed Mr. Reed, who could not read music,
in the chorus of the Metropolitan Opera in a
New York performance that year.
Mr. Reed was the brother of Fishers
Island residents Elisabeth R. Carter, Alice R.
McGuire and Mary Ross Fisher.
Mr. Reed is also survived by his wife.
Continued 011 page 19
Margaret Hollis Hedge, 62
Margaret Hollis Hedge, known to ev-
eryone as Margie, died Oct. 1, 1998 in
Lawrence & Memorial Hospital, New Lon-
don. She was 62.
Married ro Corbin Hedge since 1953.
Margie was well-liked and respected by the
numerous Island summer residents for whom
she cleaned and cooked through the years.
She was known as a hardworking wife and
mother who enjoyed socializing with fellow
Islanders.
Printed at the request of Ms. Hedge's
daughter, Thelma Shaw, is the following
sentiment, by Benjamin Franklin:
"A man or woman are not completely
e!J
In addition to his wife. Mr. Leslie is
survived by his loving family. Alexander G.
Leslie, Peter D. Leslie, Rhoda MacCallum,
H. Ashley Smith, Catherine S. Leonard,
Patricia S. Perron, William T.M. Smith, 12
grandchildren and one great grandchild.
born until they have died. Why then should
we grieve that a new child has been born
among the immortals? We are spirits, that
bodies should be lent us while they afford us
pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or
in doing good to our fellowcrearures is akind
and benevolent act of God. When they be-
come unfit for these purposes, and afford us
pain instead of pleasure. instead of an aid,
become an encumbrance and answer none of
the intentions for which they were given, it is
equally kind and benevolent that a way is
provided for us to get rid of them; death is
that way."
Ms. Hedge is survived by her husband
Corbin Hedge; a son, Richard Hedge of
Groton; a daughter, Thelma ShawofMiddle
Island, N.Y.; 10 brothers and sisters; and a
granddaughrer, Asha Shaw.
Following a funeral service at Union
Chapel, Ms. Hedge was buried in New St.
John's Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made
to the Sea Stretcher fund.
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Charming 1930s Wilderness Point home on approx. 11 acres has living room, dining room and first Aoor master bedroom. all with
fireplaces and southerly water views. Master bedroom. with bath. also has outside entrance leading to saltwater pool and outside
sitting area. Separate powder room opens off main entrance hall, and there is a guest room and bath on the main Aoor as well as an
old-fashioned but spacious kitchen, butler's pamry area and two maids' rooms and bath. The second floor contains 2 nice-sized twin-
bedded rooms. one single room and one full bath. There are large undeveloped spaces on both sides of the 2nd floor with great
potential for expansion. The house is fully winterized with a reasonably new furnace and new windows and storms on the south side
of the house. A 2-car garage is pan of the house structure. Most furnishings to remain. Asking $1.500,000. Taxes approx. $9.900.
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Charming farmhouse-like dwelling near village center yet affording rea) privacy. 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths. living room. dining room.
2 sun porches. office and/or playroom, kitchen with separate pantry, structurally sound and meticulously maintained. approximately
1/4 acre. nice trees and landscaping. winterized and most furnished. Offered at $345,000. Taxes approximately $3.800.
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Well-maintained 4-5 bedroom, 3 bath house with views over Sil-
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Taxes approximately $3.000.
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nished and in virtually move-in condition. There is a nice side yard,
interesting plantings and a well-built oversized two~car garage. Ask-
ing price $325,000. Taxes approx. $2,775.
This cozy 2-story house on 1/ 1 0 acre is fully winterized and has 3
bedrooms and 2 full baths. Recently remodeled. with a nicely land-
scaped yard. this house on Montauk Avenue offers comfort and style.
Asking $225,000. Taxes $2,080.
Investment property with delightful, well-maintained home. 'Iwo
separate commercial spaces and 2 one-bedroom cottages. all poten-
tial income producers. plus a 3-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath year-round home
with nice living room with fireplace. cozy den, full dining room, and
up-to-date kitchen. Rental income could well carry the mortgage.
Asking price $340,000. Taxes approx. $4,900.
For a complete list of summer rentals, houses and undeveloped property
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Green Thoughts
Continued from pAge 9
May, and by June, as Beverly Nichols wrote
of their fragrance in his book, A Thatched
RoofOonathan Cape, 1993), "are ready to
chime their scented praise to God."
Mock orange, Philadelphus, can be al-
most sensually overpowering in its fragrance
as can some honeysuckles like Lonicem
fragrantissima and the Italian woodbine,
Lonicera caprifolium.
Gardenias planted in tubs that can be
brought inside for the winter and a small
portable pond with a fountain and a few
nocturnal water lilies are important features
that will give you great pleasure in your moon
garden, as will seemed geraniums (rose, cit-
rus, strawberry, clove and dozens of other
varieties) whose foliage "wantons the air," as
Sappho wrote in an ode toAphrodite, "Luxu-
riant, like the flowing hair."
Charming small trees, such as Vibur-
num carleseii, and white-flowering almond,
Pmnus glandulosa, dwarf apples and cherries
and crabapples are always pleasures, whether
in bloom, fruiting or just giving off their
subtle scents.
You can enjoy your moon garden as a
sunlit white garden or a garden that glows
coral and pink at sunset. A moon garden,
though, is meant to be most cherished when
it is bathed in moonlight or illuminated by
the soft light of candles, torchetes or lanterns,
when you and the pollinating moths can
quietly share the exquisite fragrances of night
blooming flowers.
I dream of sitting beneath a Fishers
Island summer moon, inhaling the perfumes
of vanilla orchids from Madagascar and an
Indian frangipani tree, but umil I can achieve
this miracle, the combination of a Fishers
Island evening and the perfumes of easily
grown nicotiana and a few pots of tuberoses
are sufficiently paradisaical.
illustration Courtesy of leila Hadley luce
. The Honeysuckle.
OLiluaries
William T. Reed III
Continued from page J 4
Helen Scott Townsend Reed; three sons,
William T. Reed of San Francisco, Laird
Scott Townsend Reed of Charlottesville, Va.
and Philip Winston Reed of Richmond, Va.
Contributions may be made to the Vir-
ginia Symphony, 300 W Franklin St, Rich-
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where I put them in a jar with moist compost.
Later, DickBaker said there were many earth-
worms in his driveway, and John Goss said he
saw clumps of them when he cleaned his
yard.
Aug. 5: On an adult nature walk to
Beach Pond, we were surprised to find two
endangered species of birds. There were four
least terns and one piping plover on the mud
flat. There was also a familyof oystercatchers,
two adults and twO young. The young, while
as large as the adults, were easily distin-
guished by their orange bills wirh black rips.
Aug. 6: Gordon Tucker and I explored
Island plant life and found two new kinds of
plants here, the American hazelnut and the
wild raisin.
Aug. 18: The children's nature walk was
an afternoon of discovery at Oyster Pond.
We saw tiny oysters, less than two months
old, which would grow to eatable oysters in a
little over a year. We were soon netting many
one-inch shrimp and fewer crabs and killi-
By EDWIN HORNING
July I, 1998: Srephen Gaillard and I
visited Airport Beach expecting to find spot-
ted sandpipers and oystercatchers nesting
there, but walking east of the runway through
a path in the beach grass and over a dune, we
were surprised to see twO dowitchers feeding
at the water's edge. They were newcomers,
migrants from the north. Walking west along
the beach to a mud flat, we discovered five
least sandpipers, also migrants. On July 10,
30 semipalmated sandpipers arrived. The
autumn migration was on.
July 18: Thereisa large elm tree near the
Mansion House with branches that reach out
over the road. A silken strand hung from one
of these branches 30 feet above the road, and
along this strand, at intervals of about one
inch, were small whitish caterpillars, each
about one-third inch long. They marched in
a line down the strand, which was like a
ladder to the road where more than 100
caterpillars slowly crawled from the center to
the northern side of the road. I had never seen
anything like this and would have missed it
had it not been for my granddaughter, Laura,
and others who brought it to my attention.
July21: Ar9:30a.m., rhe young osprey
at the transfer station nest lifted itself from
one side of the nest to the other and a little
later flew up about 15 feet and returned tothe
nest. At 11 a.m. it stood on the northeast rim
of rhe nesr (see picrure on page 3 I of Fall,
1998 Gazette), and at 2 p.m. it stood with its
mother on the nearby pole.
It was not a good year for ospreys on the
Island. The nest at North Hill was flooded
during heavy rains in May, and the young
one at the driving range east nest broke its
wing. At most only three fledged: the one at
the transfer station and two from the Navy
nest.
July 30: (On June 30, ir rained abour
half an inch, and for the entire month of July
only .9 inch of rain fell. A drought was on.
The grass turned brown and the soil to a
powdery dust. Ken Edwards told me that he
had heard rhar July, 1998 was rhe driesr July
since records had been kept.) Ed Scroxton
told me that he had never seen so many
earthworms in the road. Heading east, Ed
pointed out hundreds of dead earthworms
and a few live ones in the road. I picked up six
survivors and took them to the museum
Continued on page 23
Charles Morgan Photo
. The sandhill crane migrates by the thousands from Southern Canada through Nebraska and
Texas to the GulfofMexico, but it has never before been seen on Fishers Island.JR Edwards. John
Doucette and Charles Morgan spotted this rare bird on the driving range Oct. 16, 1998.
Charles Morgan Photo
. A flock of snow geese, numbering 18 at one time. was on Fishers Island during October and
November 1998. This snow goose happened to be at the driving range the same day as the rare
sandhill crane, which was on the Island for only two days.
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fish. (See Japanese crab story on page 23) We
went on ro the little fresh water pond in the
Betty Matthiessen sanctuary where we found
mosquito fish, some whirligigs and a water
insect that I had never seen before. It looked
like a walking stick and is called a water
measurer. There were also dragonflies called
amberwings.
Aug. 20: Walking through the Brick
Yard, I first noticed two chickadees, then a
few more and then more and more. I esti-
mated that there were 30-40 of them, morc
than I had ever seen at one time before. There
were also three to five lufted titmice, and the
same number of black-and.white warblers
and redstans. Another sign of the autumn
migration.
Aug. 23: Feeding in the little pond near
Race Point were shorebirds in migration,
three lesseryellowlegs and one stilt sandpiper
along with the more common sandpipers.
This was the right time and place to view the
stilt sandpiper, which is seldom seen on Fish-
ers Island.
Sept. 7: A storm system passed through
the Island today, and the sky was darkened by
a huge deck of clouds overhead including
cumulonimbus or thunder head. Showers
fell, and the wind turned to the northwest
with the passing cold front. In Movie Pond,
there were five glossy ibises, 12 greenwinged
teal, one greater yellowlegs and one lesser
yellow legs. Many dragonflies. mostly skim-
mers called tenspots, were busy hunting in-
sects, mating and laying eggs. A harrier and a
merlin flew overhead.
Sept. 8: Cold air poured over the Island
last night, and the temperature fell from 73" F.
Exoli<<: Japanese CraL tn't'ades
Easlern SeaLoard and F.t.
There is a new exotic type of crab on
Fishers Island. but the excitement
of this discovery is tempered with
concern about how dramatically a non-na-
tive species can overwhelm native species in
the environmenr.
Carey Matthicssen first showed the
crabs he had dis-
covered to Edwin
Horning Aug. 18,
1998 ar the Oys-
ter Pond. "The
new crabs were
dark, had white
stripes on their
legs, and looked a
little like the green ) I
b ('Ie",,"~r"'fS")
cra , except the 0
fron t of their wider
carapaces had no · Japanese crab.
points. The green crab has five points on
each side of the front," said Mr. Horning,
who two weeks later found several more
crabs under the rockweed on Stoney Beach.
According to scientists, the Hemigrapsus
sanguineus. sometimes called the Japanese
crab, was discovered off the coast of New
Jersey in 1988. probably after being dis-
charged in ballast water from a ship arriving
from Asian waters.This species is now prolif-
erating in Long Island Sound and from nonh
of Cape Cod to Nonh Carolina.
Researchers have discovered that the
Japanese crab is the most numerous crab at
Greenwich Point in Greenwich, Conn. Of
1.1 02 crabs collected in a study rhere, 830
were Japanese crabs; the rest were divided
among three other species, according to
Aquatic Exotics News, published by the
Northeast Sea
Grant Network.
Since this
crab will eat al-
most anything. it
is here to stay.
"We expect the
Japanese crab to
get to Maine, if
not Nova Scotia,"
S tr-./'I'I....~{J l~e!J...s
U said James T.
Carlton, profes-
Edwin Horning illustration
sor of marine sci-
ence at Williams College and director of the
Williams College-Mystic Seapon Maritime
Studies Program. "It is a really. truly
spectacular. ..colonization of New England
in the last five years."
Mr. Carlton, an authority on non-na-
tive marine species, is active in international
effons to control the spread of exotics. This
spring. new regulations will strongly encour-
age arriving shi ps to dump t hei r ballast water,
taken on in foreign pons, at sea.
Fishers Island Gazette 23
yesterday morning (Q 640 F. this morning.
Autumn's northwest wind was upon us, and
it was a perfect day to observe an early hawk
flight. Charles Ferguson had seen a merlin
Aug. 11 and a peregrine falcon Aug. 12. I
arrived a little late at Hawk Watch Mound
near the Race. As I walked toward the mound
at 10:30 a.m., a large hawk flew swiftly
overhead. I followed it out over the Race and
saw that itwasa peregrine. I stayed until 1:30
p.m. and saw 11 kestrels, two merlins, five
harriers and one sharp-shinned hawk. The
next day, following the passage of the cold
front. I counted 15 sharp-shins, 33 kestrels,
7 merlins, 14 harriers and a lone osprey.
Many dragonflies migrate through the
Island. I encountered over 100 as I drove
along the din road to the Race. They were
hunting as they flew. As I returned home at
abuur 4:30 p.m" I noticed many golden
flecks moving in the sunlight. Orawingcloser,
I saw over 100 dragonflies darting this way
and that. With binoculars, I saw the dragon-
flies catching many tiny insects in the air. It
wasn't easy, but I tried to catch a dragonfly to
identify it. With nosuccessaft-erseveralswipes.
I tried one more time and captured a spot-
winged globetrotter, which I seldom see. It
was pictured in Virginia Carpenter's, Drag-
onflies and Damselflies of Cape Cod.
Sept. 9: This is the time to look for
migrating monarch butterflies. Just before
sunset, Katherine and I went to the Race area
and Hawk Watch Mound, which are good
places for viewing. but gave up after a brief
look. At that moment, Marta, one of the
mosquito girls, appeared, camera in hand.
and said, "The monarchs are over here!"
There they were, 200-300 of them, finding
perches on the lee side of a small cherry tree
where they could spend the night. The fol-
lowing day, we were surprised to find a large
yellow butterfly near the mound. It was a
southern type, called the cloudless sulfur,
and one that I seldom see.
Sept. 12: As I neared Movie Pond. a
large greenish bird with black on its wings
rose slowly from the pond; and glossy ibises.
a greater yellowlegs and a lesser yellowlegs
were all feeding in the pond. While writing
rhese words. I thought of what Bishop Henry
Hobson once said, "September is a great time
to be on the Island."
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. Cedar waxings (above), which appear in winter, are not a common sight on Fishers Island. This photo was taken March 9, 1998. The cooper's hawk
(lower left) appeared in David Burnham's Race Rock Garden Co. plant tent March 7, 1998, and the photo of horseshoe crabs mating near a large rock
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Edwin Horning Photos
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FISHERS ISLAND CLUB GOLF
Smith Bowl: Championship flight, Fred Hamilton; 1st flight,
Bill Scott, Charlie Ferguson
Willam R. Kirkland III Memorial Tournament: 1st, An.
drew Dwyer, Cindy Dwyer, 10ny H,lf,t, Marg, H,lf,t; 2nd,
Fred Jones, Christy Flanagan, Richard Goss, Hi Upson; 3rd,
Brooks Robinson, Jean Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Ross; 4th,
Frank Kernan, Cassie Kernan, Henry McCance, Allison
McCance; 5th, Martin Hugley, Robert Crary, Alex Beard,
John Spurdle; 6th, Morris Roberts, Nick Firth, Jerry Bogert,
Margot Bogert
Clinton R. Wyckoff IV MemorialTournament: 1st, Richard
Foyl" Arthur Anthony; 2nd, Alex lynch, Alex lynch; Jrd,
Ranny Wyckoff, George Guthrie
Men's Member-Guest: Championship FlighUwinners, Jim
Skeele, Charlie Jenney; Championship FlighUrunners-up,
Peter B.:mile, Nick Baccile; 1st FlighUwinners, Fred Smith,
M.A. Baxter; 1st FlighUrunners-up, F. Kernan, R. Dutron'
2nd Flight/winners, J. Harris, K. Moores; 2nd FlighUrun~
ners.up, 1. Tamoney, R. Duffy; 3rd FlighUwinners, Michael
Flinn, James Lemon; 3rd Flight/runners-up, Phil Shannon,
AlanGnann;4th FlighUwinners,PeterChapman, Tom Ward;
4th Flight/runners-up, John Blond,I, Henry Williams; 5th
Flight/winners, J,rry Bog'rt, Bill linque; 5th flight/run-
ners-up, Barry Hall, Andy Bawden; 6th FlighUwinners, Rob-
ert Crary, Andy Murray; 6th Flight/runners-up, Kevin
Coleman, MatthewStuart; 7th FlighUwinners,AndrewBurr,
R. Carroll; 7th FlighUrunners-up, Tom Hamilton,JoeGrasso;
8th Flight/winne~, William Sachs, DavidVaughn;8th Flight/
runners-up, Richard Bingham, Carter Walker; 9th FlighU
winners, Jim Rutherfurd, Chris Rulon-Miller; 9th Flight/
runners-up, Stowe Phelps, Robert McAdoo; Long Drive,
Andrew Burr; Closest to Pin, Bill Crossman; Medalist, Jim
Skeele, Charlie Jenney
Women's Member-Guest: 2-Day Low Gross/winners, Kathy
Parsons, Lissa Campbell, Susie Parsons, Janet Field; 2-Day
low NeUwinners, Patsy Hanson, Lynn Brockleman, Peggy
Noyes, Bonnie Tyler; 2-Day Low NeUrunners-up, Kenny
Mettler, Carol Luders, Margot Bogert, Diane MacKey; Low
Net (Wed.)/winners, Elaine Browne, Trish Mulvoy, Ann
Strupp, Barbara Wright; Low Net {Wed.)/runners-up,Nancy
Hunt, Bonnie Trotta, Barbara Rau Zilenziger, Susie Stickney;
Low Net (Thurs.)/1st, Allison McCance, Sandy Gardner,
Wendy Bingham, Ginny Bride; Low Net (Thurs.)l2nd, Mary
Carpenter, Susie Moore, Ginger Getz, Laura Remsen
Men's Club Championship: Medalist, Merritt McDonough;
ChampionshipFlighUwinner, PeterBaccile;Championshipl
runner-up, DaveAlbanesi;GoldT ee/winner, Don McAllister;
Gold Tee/runner-up, Charlie Ferguson
Women'sClubChampionship: Medalist, MissyCrisp;Cham-
pionship Flight/winner, Jennifer Albanesi; Championship
FlighUrunner-up, Charlotte McKim; First FlighUwinner,
Mary Roberts; First Flight/runner-up, Kim Campbell
August Pro-Am (l&M Hospital B.n.fit): 1st low Pro,
Cameron Wood; 2nd Low Pro, Gene Mulak; 3rd Low Pro,
Dan Colvin; 1st Team, Mark Bradley, Doug Holmes, Gaines
Gwathmey, Donnell Guthrie; 2nd Team, Brendan Walsh,
Richard Goss, Ken Edwards, Allie Hanley; 3rd Team, Rob
Foster, Peter Crisp, Kim Campbell, Stowe Phelps
H.O.G. (Harbor Op.n Golf): Winning learn, John Spofford,
Jer,my Spofford, Nick Spofford, Buck Adams, Kirk Bell,
Charlj, Spofford
. . .
Clubs: SUD1ID1Ier 1998
HAY HARBOR CLUB @
ANNUAL AWARDS
Maxwell S. Porter Award: July, Arthur Anthony; August, Alex
Parsons
William P. Becker Award:July, Helen Rogersand Tolly Taylor;
August, Gayley Woolston and Arthur Anthony
SportsmanAward:July, BuckyMarshall;August, Tim Gaumond
SportswomanAward:July,LettyLawrence; August,AstridBorsk
. . .
HHC GOLF AWARDS
Men's Club Champion: Bob Anthony
Women's Oub Champion: Susie Stickney
Senior Club Champion: Art Walsh
Parent-Child: Ages 6-7, Bail,y & lauri, Ma~hall; ages 8-12,
B~cky & Sam Marshall; ages 13.15, James & Jim Bailey.
ColVin Cup: Kathy & Ged Parsons
2.Hole, Boys, July: 1st, Nick Schreiber; 2nd, luke McGeeney;
3rd, Jake Parsons. 2-Hole, Boys, August: 1 st, Robert Bailey;
2nd, David Wilmerding; 3rd, Alex Parsons
Z-Hole, Girls, July: 1st, Bailey Marshall; 2nd, Jessie Parsons;
3rd, Alex Parsons. Z-Hole, Girls, August: 1st, Jessie Par-
sons; 2nd, Bailey Johnson; 3rd, Chandler Rutherfurd
4.Hol., Boys, July: 1st, Bucky Ma~hall; 2nd, Parker Cook;
3rd, Charlie Parsons. 4-Hole, Boys, August: 1st, Win
Rutherfurd; 2nd, Bates Parsons; 3rd, David Walker
4-Hole, Girls, July: 1st, Caitlin Ludeman; 2nd, Linda Duggan;
3rd, Daphne Patterson. 4-Hole, Girls, August: 1st, Gussie
Foshay-Rothfeld; 2nd, Christina Guthrie; 3rd, Daphne
Patterson
9-Hol., Boys, July: 1st, Chester Hall, 2nd, Crosby Cook; Jrd,
Chris Johnson. 9-Hole, Boys, August: 1st, Bill Keenan;
2nd, Thomas Bailey; 3rd, Crosby Cook
9-Hole, Girts, July: 1st, Marilyn Mullen; 2nd, Sarah Mullen,
3rd,SusanSullivan
Putting Champions, ages 6-8, July: 1st, Nick Schreiber,
2nd, Je~sie Parsons; 3rd, Chandler Rutherfurd. Putting
Champions, ages 6-8, August: 1st, Jessie Parsons; 2nd,
Brooks Walker; 3rd, Meghan Borden
Putting Champions, ages 9-10, July: 1st, Luke Parsons,
2nd, Win Rutherfurd; 3rd, Alex Parsons. Putting Champi-
ons, ages 9-10, August: 1st, Bates Pallons; 2nd, Alex
Parsons; 3rd, Sarah Mullen
Putting Champions, ages 11-12, July: 1st, Chester Hall,
2nd, Crosby Cook; 3rd, Daphne Patterson. Putting Cham.
pions, ages 11-12, August: 1st, Bill Keenan; 2nd Chris-
tina Guthrie; 3rd, Gussie Foshay-Rothfeld
HHC Swimming
Most Improved 6 & under: July, James Connelly, Kitty Cook;
August, Henry Patterson, Kate Gaumond
Most Improved 8 & under: July, David Cook, Chand ler Rutherfu rd;
August, Tim Gaumond, Sarah Brim
Most Improved 10 & under: July, Jake Parsons, Sarah Mullen;
August, David Walker, Alex Parsons
Most Improved 12 & under: July, Parker Cook, Caitlin Ludemann
MostlmprovedlSwim Team:July,Katie That<her;August,George
Guthrie
(oach's Award: July, Charlone Kimberly; August, Astrid Barsk
Albert H. Gordon Swimming Award: July, Davis Rand; August,
DanielStrothe
Lap (hart: July, Sarah Mullen (70 laps), Elizabeth Brim (35 laps);
August, Robert Bailey (616 laps), Daniel Strothe (616 laps)
HHC Tennis
Men's Member/Guest: Lincoln Frank,Tim Grimes
Women's Member/Guest: Susan Sullivan, Wendy Bingham
Mixed Doubles Round Robin: 1st, Tim Grimes, Linda Borden;
2nd, Mike Flynn, Ann Flynn
Club Championship 13 & over: 1st, James Bailey; 2nd, Alex
Raff,rty
aubChampionship 12 & under: 1st, Billy Keenan; 2nd, Tho-
mas Bailey
HHC JUNIOR TENNIS JULY
Most Improved:Junior Clinic, Will Bartow, AndyConant, Letty
Lawren<e, Jake Parsons; Junior Team, Arthur Anthony, Eliza
Brauns,BuckyMarshall,AlexParsons
Coach's Award: Bo Cook, Peter Crowley
Match of the Month: Tim Gaumond, Win Rutherfurd; Arthur
Antony, David Burnham
Junior Ladder 13 & over boys: 1st, Peter Allen; 2nd, Chester
Hall;3rd,MattJohnson
Junior ladder 13 & over girls: 1st, Casey Cook; 2nd, Linda
Duggan; 3rd, Helen Rogers
Junior Clinic 12 & under boys: 1st, Chester Hall; 2nd, Crosby
:ook; Jr~, Bucky Ma"hall; 4th, Parker Cook; 5th, lolly laylor
JumorChmc12& under girls: 1st,SusanSullivan;2nd, Daphne
Patterson; 3rd, Leslie Hotchkiss; 4th, Julia diBonaventura;
Sth, Katie Ireland
HHC JUNIOR TENNIS AUGUST
Most Im.proved: Junior Clinic, Betsey diBonaventura, George
Guthrie, Alex Parsons, David Walker; Junior Team, Julia di
Bonaventura, Tim Gaumond, Ashton Harvey, Marilyn Mullen
Coach's Award: William Hugeley, Leigh Davidson
Match of the Month:Win Rutherfurd, Win Hotchkiss, Whitney
Johnson, Graham Wasley
Junior ladder 13 & over boys: 1st, James Bailey; 2nd, Alex
Raff'rty;Jrd,BartH.lf't
Junior ladder1] & over girls: 1st, Linda Mary Duggan; 2nd,
Alexandra Barsk;3rd,ElizabethGuthrie
Juniorainic 12& under boys: 1st, Billy Keenan; 2nd, Thomas
~ailey;. 3~d, CrosbyCook;4th, Parker Cook; 5th, Bobby Harvey
Jumor Chmc 12 & under girls: 1st, Gussie Foshay-Rothfeld;
2nd, Daphne Patterson; 3rd, Christina Guthrie; 4th, Leslie
Hotchkiss; Sth, Julia diBonaventura
HHC Windsurfing
Most Advanced: July, Chester Half; August, Chester Hall
Most Improved:July, Kate Ireland; August, Whitney Johnson
Instructor's Award: July, Sarah Brim; August, Jamie Brim
HHC Junior Kayaking
Most Advanced: July, Charlone Taylor; August, Leslie Hotchkiss
Most Improved: July, Edmund Zagorin
Fastest Umiak: Gussie Foshay-Rothfeld
Fastest Vesper: Daphne Patterson
Instructor's Award:July, Caroline Voldstad; August, T rippCashel
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FIYC/HHC JR. SAILING
Friday Optimist Races: July, 1st, 8u<ky Marshall; 2nd, Arthur
Anthony; 3rd, EHzabeth Brim; 4th, TrippCashel; 5th, Caitlin
Ludemann. August, 1st, Elizabeth Brim; 2nd, Bucky Marshall;
3rd, Arthur Anthony; 4th, TrippCashel; 5th, Graham Wasley
Most Improved Novices: July, Letty Lawrence, Will Bartow;
August, Sarah Brim, Whitney Johnson
Most Improved Optimist:July,Elizabeth Brim,David Burnham;
August,EmilyEnglish,Ri<kyWoodward
Ferguson Cup (Optimist): July, Elizabeth Brim
Salvage Cup (Optimist): August, Elizabeth Brim
Shipshape Award: July, Parker Cook; August, Diana Panerson
Mimi & Margaret Award: July, Bucky Marshall; August, Jamie
Brim
Sportsmanship Award:July,Arthur Anthony; August, Graham
WaslE'Y
Nano Award: July, Luke McGeenE'Y; August, Hannah 5iE'b
Instructor's Award: July, Christian AIIE'n; August, Jamie Brim
. . .
FISHERS ISLAND YACHT CLUB
100 June Series: 1st Sirius; 2nd Norwegion Wood; 3rd Kahoutec
100 July Series: 1st Kahoutec; 2nd Norwegian Wood; 3rd Nut-
meg
100 August Series: 1st Kahoutec; 2nd Sirius; 3rd Pandion
100 Final Season Results: 1stKahoutec; 2nd Norwegian Wood;
3rd Sirius; 4th A/fegra; 5th Pandion; 6th Taiga; 7th Nutmeg;
8th Greyhound; 9th Creole; 10th Go/f,'1lth Pre-emptive Bid;
12th Jane; 13th Celerity;14th Duchess
100 Round-the-Island Race: 1st Golf, 2nd Norwegian Wood;
3rd Pandion; 4th Pre-emptive Bid; 5th Taiga; 6th Allegra; 7th
Duchess; 8th; 9th Sirius; 10th Jane; 11th Celerity
. . .
BullseyeJulySeries: Tiel1stPeregrine, Querida; 3rd Whir/wind;
4th, Shamrock; 5th, Neptune
Bullseye August Series: 1st Querida; 2nd Neptune; 3rd, Sham-
rock
Bullseye Season Series: 1 st Querida; 2nd Peregrine; 3rd, Sham-
rock; 4th Neptune; 5th Whirlwind
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420 July Series: 1st, N ick Malinowski, logan Wasley; 2nd, Peter
Malinowski, Christian Allen; 3rd, Molly Malinowski, Margot
Broom
420AugustSeries: 1st, MollyMalinowski, MargotBroom; 2nd,
Casey Cook, lexiSteil;3rd, PeterMalinowski,5ofieMalinowski
Announ~e...en.s
Engagements
Nancy Hall and Jeff Balding. An April
wedding is planned in Bermuda.
Elaine Munson and David Zanghetti. A
June 19 wedding is planned in South
Dartmouth, Mass.
Lily Rutherlurd and Bruce Kinlin. An
October wedding is planned in New
York City.
Weddings
Nicole Paige Petro and Christopher
Herron Laughlin, May 30, 1998,
Leesburg, Va.
Virginia Travers and Douglas Manelski,
Sept. 20, 1998, Orcas Island, Wash.
Heidi J. Schierloh and Peter W. Gaillard,
January, St. Croix.
Births
Ellen Margaret Waters, Sept. 3, 1998 to
Day (Parker) and Tom Waters,
Lancaster, Pa.
Delilah Rose Righter, Sept. 23, 1998 to
Audrey and Mark Righter, New York
City.
Charles Stuyvesant Coleman, Sept. 24,
1998 to Leslie (Rutherlurd) and Kevin
Coleman, New York City.
Kain Tuttle Upson, Nov. 3, 1998to Sarah
and Peter Upson, Redding, Conn.
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Kristen Noel Ahman, Nov, 23, 1998 to
Karen and Jimmy Ahman, Morristown,
N.J.
Fletcher Dylan Sued meier, Nov. 24, 1998
to Carmen and Tom Suedmeier, Fish-
ers Island.
Edie Serafin Parsons and Nathanial
Geddes Parsons, Dec. 4, 1998 to Liz
(Peishoff) and Harris Parsons, Massa-
chusetts.
Patrick Harris Rose, Dec. 9, 1998 to Sa-
rah and Andrew Rose, Dover, Mass.
Oliver Myles Parsons, Dec. 10, 1998 to
Jennifer and Josh Parsons, Westerly,
R.I.
Molly Shea Cypherd, Emma Taylor
Cypherd, Noah Robert Cypherd, Dec.
13, 1998 to Gail and Greg Cypherd,
Fishers Island.
Clarke Edward Hood, Dec. 31, 1998 to
Eve (Lawler) and Clarke Hood, New
Canaan, Conn.
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FISHERS ISlAND PRo-AM
TOURNAMENT 1998!
On a beautiful August raised nearly $210,000 for
Day on Fishers hospital programs, many
Island, Bill Christopher, of which support islanders
president & CEO of through medical services.
Lawrence & Memorial In addition to playing the
spent a few minutes on 18-hole course, Bill had a
the practice putting green chance to publicly express
before the start of the Pro- his thanks to the people
Am tournament. Having of Fishers Island for their
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Students Rec:;eh'e
Sc:;l.olarsl.ips
The St. John's Episcopal Church
Scholarship Program and the Fish-
ers Island Scholarship Fund last
year awarded a combined total of$23.000 in
scholarships to members of Fishers Island
School's classes of 1994-1998.
Each class of 1998 graduate received a
$1,000 scholarship from both scholarship
funds. The four graduates and the colleges
they are attending are Patricia Imbriglio.
University of Connecticut; Megan Reedy.
Eastern Connecticut State University: Justin
Thibodeau, SUNY Cobleskill; and Wesley
Walters, Keuka College.
The St. John's Church Scholarship pro-
gram gives ascending awards to all graduates
of the Fishers Island School for each year of
college and (wo years of graduate school. The
Fishers Island Scholarship Fund, founded in
1996 byan anonymous donor, awards $1 ,000
each year for four years of schooling to each
graduate of the Fishers Island School. The
fund also offers the same scholarship to gradu-
ates of any other high school, provided that
the studenr has at least one parent living on
the Island.
Members the classes of 1994-1997 cur-
rently receiving scholarships are Sandra
Doherty '94, Merrimack College; Lisa
Faulkner '95, Pittsburgh State University;
MclissaClInningham '96, UniversityofCon-
necticut; Kelly Doherty '96, Boston Univer-
sity; Shannon Thibodeau '96, Middlesex
Community College; Kevin Caldwell '97,
Massachusetts Maritime Academy; and
Joshua Plower '97, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute.
In order to qualify for both scholarships,
seniors must complete an application nalll-
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Cal Beggs Photo
. On Sun., Nov. I, 1989, Union Chapel welcomed its new interim minister, the Rev. Katherine
(Kate) Latimer and her husband, Arthur, who will be assisting in her pastorate. A graduate of Yale
Divinity School, Rev. Kate is committed to interim work with churches that are between called
pastors. She replaces the Rev. Robert Wright, who retired Oct. 25, 1998 after two years as interim
pastor. Arthur Latimer is a former magistrate judge in Connecticut's Federal District Court and
received a M.Div at Yale Divinity School last spring. The Latimers live in Bethany, Conn. On
Sundays and Mondays during the winter, they live at the Island home of Brad and Joan Burnham.
Library's Reading Nigl.t A. Suc:;c:;ess
Fishers Island Library's newly reno-
vated back reading room, which
has drawn non-stop raves since it
was completed last year. appears poised to
become a major social center for the yearrollnd
community.
Last October, 76 adults and children
met at the library for the first Family Reading
Night. "Everybody brought in a shorr story
or poem or song that they liked or had
written. It was about sharing thoughts and
words. It was amazing," said Cordelia Hiddle,
library president. Ms. Biddle said that the
library had previously planned separate ac-
tivities for adults and children, but this was
the first joint event.
The Family Reading Nigbt, co-bosted
by Debra Walrers' third and fourth grade
classes, was organized by Cynthia Riley, the
library's program director. Last summer, the
library hired Ms. Riley, a substitute teacher
and former director of special events for the
Island People's Project, to assist library aide
Ann Banks in creating innovative programs
for children and adults.
"Cynthia is full of ideas and surprises
and is planning numerous special events,"
Ms. Biddle said. "The Book Discussion Group
and Monthly Movies for Seniors cominue
under her thoughtful guidance." Check the
library for dates and details of events.
CATCH THE BOATING SPIRIT THIS SUMMERl
SATURDAY 8;00 -4:30
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ing their chosen college, have an interview
with a member of the scholarship committee
and send their college transcript to the Fish-
ers Island School superintendent each year.
All students must be enrolled in "an
academic, engineering, professional, voca-
tional or technical program that is fully ac-
credited and recognized by the Federal or any
State Government or Agency or by a duly
functioning Licensing Board or Agency."
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The Ugly Du<<:L:ling
Silent and serene, the elegant beauty of
swans, often seen in Island waters, epitomizes
every mother's admonition not to judge a
book by its cover.
Naturalists who study the ecology of
New England's ponds and saltwater marshes
say that swans-particularly the common
mute swans-are nasty, territorial and de-
structive.
Given near-mythic status by the ballet
"Swan Lake" and stories such as "The Ugly
Duckling," mute swans are actually aggres-
sive predators that drive off smaller birds and
then take over their territory, say ornitholo-
gists. Swans upset pond and marsh ecology
by swallowing four to eight pounds offoliage
per day, roots and all; they foul their habitat
with their droppings and have been known to
attack dogs and humans.
During the last 10 years, the mute swan
population has increased 93 percent in the
Atlantic Flyway, which stretches from rhe
Maryland to Maine and from the Atlantic
Ocean to Michigan's eastern border, accord-
ing to scientists.
"They are an exotic species. They are not
native to this continent-and their potential
to do harm is very, very great," said Jim
Cardoza of the Massachusetts Division of
Fisheries and Game.
In Rhode Island, environmental offi-
cials are reportedly addling, or shaking, the
nests of mute swans to prevent eggs from
maturing.
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John O'Shea was kind enough to write about
hi, ftmilyJ return to Fi,hers bland after 50
years. (See 5lory on page 3) He o./fired the fol-
lowing p.5. for Gazette readers who are curious
about the connection among Island families.
About Aunt Maggie: Dr. O'Shea's firsr
cousin, Margaret O'Shea, also born in ire-
land, came to America, married a Shea (no
relation), settled in New Jersey, raised her
only daughter Mary Shea, and was widowed
at a relatively early age.
She spent a lot of time with the O'Shea
family, was a great favorite and became known
to us as Aunt Maggie. Maggie had a heart of
gold and after her cousin Dr. O'Shea died.
she spent even more time with us, helping
Anne with the five youngsters. She taught us
all to play poker, bridge and many other card
games. She also made the best meatloafin the
world.
Maggie summered with us on Fishers
Island and her daughter Mary would visit on
weekends. On one of these weekend visits
Mary met Herb Ahlgren on the Fishers Is-
land Ferry. Herb, along time Islander, courted
and married Mary Shea, and they had two
sons, Tom anoJohn. (l understand that our
cousin John Ahlgren is one of the Island's
most avid and talented fisherman.)
Maggie, who also loved Fishers Island,
lived to be 96, and all who came in contact
with her, especially her cousins, her son-in-
law Herb Ahlgren, and her grandsons re-
member her with love and affection. -].0'5.
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Doheny, Beals & Banks, P.c. (DBB) last
October celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of
its founding. The New London accounting
firm has provided audit, tax preparation and
accounting services for Fishers Island busi-
nesses and individuals for many years.
Anthony F. Doherty and his son, Robert
A. Doherty, formed Doherty and Company
Oct. 1, 1948. and today DBB is one of the
largest local firms in the area, with 16 full and
parttime employees.
Evelyn Cooke, Carl Banksor Dave Miceli
of DBB work upstairs at the Fishers Island
Utility Co. every Wednesday morning. "Fish-
ers Island businesses and individuals are an
important parr of our client base. "We are so
proud of reaching the 50-year milestone and
are grateful to our many Fishers Island clients
for helping us to get there!" Ms. Cooke said.
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Kaitlin Deming, Sarah Evans
Dragan Gill, Cory Hollis, Martin Karpel
Matthew Neilson, Roseann Randall
Clare Rowland. Jane Sawyer
Darren Seel
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. Hotel Munnatawket Dock (west of the Three Sisters), 1914.
Photo Courtesy of Tom Armstrong
Museu... Prepares Su......er ExLiLilion
H.L. Ferguson Museum, spurred
by the tremendous success of its 1998
Ft. Wright Centennial exhibition, is
already planning next summer's exhi-
bition: Great Hotels of Fishers Island.
The museum is looking for photo-
graphs, artifacts and memorabilia docu-
menting the great hotels of Fishers Is-
land: the Mansion House; the
Mononouo Inn, and the Munnatawket
Hotel (originally rhe Lyles Beach Ho-
rei). The Pequor House (originally rhe
Elliot House) will also be featured.
Objects for donation or temporary
loan include menus, stationery with let-
terhead, advertising brochures,
matchbooks, postcards, pennants, china
and silverware (especially with name or
logo), and hotel furnishings suitable for
exhibition.
"We especially want reminiscences
and anecdotes relating to the hotels and
their guests," said Pierce Rafferty, mu-
seum hoard member and exhibition
curator. Me. Rafferty also curated the
Ft. Wright Centennial exhibition.
Reminiscences can be taped over
the phone or sent to the following
address: Pierce Rafferty, PO Box 988,
Canal Street Station, New York NY
10013. Anyone wishing to contribute
to the exhibition should write Mr.
Rafferty or call him at 212-675-2448.
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