SHHS Proudly presents:
Sawyer Island by Members of the Farnham Family
Friday, May 6, 2016 at 7PM
at Folsom School in Julie Pidgeon’s Room
Stratton’s book titled “History of The South Heroe Island” informs us that back in 1786, Col. Ephraim Sawyer settled on South Hero’s west shore near what are still referred to as Sawyer Bay and Sawyer Island. About 100 years later, John J. Wright bought the nearby farmland and (“evidently” according to Stratton) they also bought the little island from Orange Phelps. Join us Friday evening May 6, 2016 as members of the Farnham family, who have owned the little island since the 1970’s, share more recent accounts of life and (in the case of some waterfowl) death, on Sawyer Island and Sawyer Bay, portions of South Hero’s “West Coast of New England.”
Our website is www.southherohistoricalsociety.blogspot.com
Our meetings are held at 7 p.m. in the Folsom School on South Street usually the first or second Friday of each month. Check the Islander for confirmation. If you prefer not to climb the stairs, enter the building from the original front door in the brick half of the building.
All ages are welcome!
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