7357-R2_LSLA_2020_WinterNewsletter

When the cottage was built, they insisted that the Great Room be fully paneled (including the corbelled ceiling) to accent my grandmother’s social graces - (China Cabinet for her Limoge, Dining Buffet for her Silver Service, & large Dining Table for Family gatherings [(Thanksgiving particularly)] , plus a piano for their love of music. They departed LSL for their Winter home in Florida after Thanksgiving ( when the floorboards were too cold for their bare feet, thanks to Mother Nature), and returned in April or May. And, yes, they were a wonderful pair of grandparents. The camp road was closed in the Winter (no snow removal plowing) then! During the time that they escaped Maine Winters, we (left behind) enjoyed skating on the frozen lake which entailed ski/snowshoe & tobogganing to the cottage from “the top of the hill”, and building a nice, warm, campfire on the beach. The Summer, next door, neighbors during “camp season” (through to 30’s & 40’s) were especially wonderful, sharing many happy family times - Everett & “Lottie” Bartlett on the South, at “Hi-Lot “, and “Jack” & Hannah Burns on the North.

Corbelled Ceiling

To date those properties have changed ownership at least three times: “Sunny” (Mildred) & Grant Paige; Farnham; Guido Pardsi; Rob & Laurie Lawrence on the north and Cook, Ed Goodrich; Nate & Fran Johnson; Scott & Christine Johnson on the South. The only non-neighborly surprise was rendered by Farnham , who tore down Burns’ 10’ X 10’ Great Room with small kitchen, bath, and dirt cellar, and quickly constructed an existing shell, which was purchased by a very good neighbor, Guido Pardsi, and refined into the mansion, It was later enlarged by an equally large garage with loft. It’s a shame that shore regulations no longer improve additions on the small 1930’s bungalows. Other LSL neighbors names that I recall during the era coming out of the WWI and “20’s” Depression Days, the “Spanish Flu, and smack into WW II’s Days of Anxiety ) were Vosburghs, McLeods, Sandborn, Bohnson, Cole, Close, King, Townsend, Pinkham, Skillings, Richter, Bowen, and LSL and bolstered by lake “luminaries” - The Whiteheads (on “Battleship Island”, built the first mansion type building that I remember seeing on LSL soil & covered the entire island ), Curtis School of Music Professor & Philadelphia Philharmonic, 1 st Chair, Flautist, Bill Kinkaid ( on Lyons Point ) and way-up-the road on the East

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