
There are some piles of brush that look like they will either be chipped or perhaps burned, once snow comes. When they are finished, the land around Don and Mary's house will be open for the first time in at least 60 years. This is a picture of that hillside about 1910. The set of buildings you see behind the big island was the Will Somers farm, later Wilbur Ewen's, and now where Pupino's house is, directly across from the Encarnacion's. Helen Morrison's is a little left and up the hill slightly, and our house would be just out of the picture on the right. You can see the railroad tracks at the right of the picture, close to the water. The picture was taken from the road that is now Route 15. The hillsides were hay fields and pastures. The trees along the ridge would have belonged mostly to the Bolton farm. The big island was called Richaradson's Island, now belonging to Kitty and Abel Toll, and just to the right of it is Sim Whittier's little island, now Pearl Island. If you click on the pictures you'll get a better view.
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