Holiday Closing, Thankgiving Weekend

The Society will be closed for the Holiday weekend:
Wednesday, November 26 through Saturday, November 29.

Happy Holiday, and take a stroll by the water!

This is what you would have seen in November of 1940 in the Southfield Point area (Whitman Bailey Sketch)

Complete Newspaper Clipping of November 3, 1940 (PDF)

This Hopkins Map of 1879, the only one we found online, gives an idea of the location (use the zoom)

We add the usual warning: "At times, the accompanying vignettes are mostly folklore passed on to Mr. Bailey by residents of the areas where he was sketching.  In those instances he had no way of determining the truth of the story.  Nor have we.  It is presented as a sidelight to the sketch.  Therefore, researchers are cautioned to regard these tales as local color, interesting, thought provoking, but sometimes not entirely factual."

(Reference file Bailey 352.jpg)