Evening star., 1929-05-20
BY LOUIS M. LYONS.
written exclusively for The Star and the
North American Newspaper Alliance.

written exclusively for The Star and the
North American Newspaper Alliance
NORTH HAVEN, Me, May 20.-Folk on
this unspoiled island are getting ready
for wedding. They are certain Anne
Morrow is going to be married here to
Charles A. Lindbergh. They have known
it all along.
Hubert Grant who takes care of the
Morrow place, knows something" they
say more than he let's on"
1t is $50 years since settlers from
Massachusetts brought the first apple
tree to this inland in washtub. 1t
stands now, great gnarled landmark.
Lief was lived here in pastoral SIM
plicity for better than a century. Fish,
ermen put out their seines for mackerel.
The scrubby fields grazed long-legged
sheep.
An hour by steamer off Rockland
Harbor, North Haven Island, with its
900 souls, was self-sufficient little
land, where men and women wrested a
living from the frontier of the sea.
Harbor Between Twin Islands.
A, handsome harbor dips between
North Haven and its twin island, Vinal
Haven, which seem to. run together
W
the chart of Penobscot Bay.
Into this harbor Sc years ago came
Gen. Grant, who was no sailor. With
his cabinet and the leading political
lights of Maine. Grant was soJourning
on q revenue cutter, bound probably for
Bar Harbor. A storm sent them seek
ing refuge So North Haven received
its first Summer visitor.
Grant and his party found lodging
NTo1r Foil - Ty1NN
Sor, H. w. c.. Crockett, preserves the
stub of Grants after dinner cigar.
1t was another 25 years before North
Haven had any Summer visitors to
speak of. These came first from Boston,
and they found the island life real and
simple and unspoiled. They valued II
so and did not change it.
New Workers have bought the choicest
part of the shorelne and established
new price levels for property now:
Charles D. Norton. banker, was one OF
The first New Workers here. He brought
Thomas w. Lamont. who in turn
brought Dwight w. Morrow. father OF
Col. Lindbergh's fiancee.
Morrow Buys 20 Acres.
Mr.. Morrow paid $21 900 for 10 acres
with farm buildings. That estaollsneo
new level of values.
Mr.. Morrow has. by local standards,
spent amazingly. He has built What Is
probably the most imposing place on the
island tearing down an old farmhouse
to erect a big gray-shingled Colonial
house, with its broad side facing the
sea to the west. The house has seven
chimneys and ten gables.
It is scarcely 100 yards from the
rocky shore. Hubert Grant has crew
Of men plucking out the spruce trees
that hide the view from the mouse.
The blue mountains of Camden seem u
rise from the ocean on the Name shore
across the bay.
Some of the spruce have been trans
nlanted to inclose a formal planting
Nurserymen are setting out perennial
garden Grants assistants are trying 70
make grass seeds grow over the IeogeS
In front of the house.
An island builder made the new Nor
row house. Islanders have steady work
arranging the grounds and smoothang
the new landing field east OF the mouse.
So these New Workers are popular on
North Haven. But the early influence
Of Boston visitors still sets the dominant
tcr1e. There is none of the gllded ele-
gance of some resorts. go
- Keeps Native Charm.
The island and its people keep their
native charm. The SpruceS are leit III
their hedgelike conical formation, JusS
as the sheep cropped them. Violets grow
sea-blue among the uncut pasture
grasses That cat spruce shades tne
water, its -dark-green masses !endinB
strong color, contrast to the bright blue
CT the bay.
1t is 2. miles out of the village to the
Morrow place, along brown dirt road
that turns into a farm lane and olps
over a hill to beautiful shore vista,
with the new home set among the
spruces. .,..
From the corners of the terrace paths
wind to lose themselves in the spruces.
Down on the rocky shore are shelterlng
clefts that offer a chance for picnlcs
lust for two. A guest house, nearly
buried in the spruce forest. would MAKE
a honeymoon cottage to satisfy poets
heart. So 1..
There is nothing of the dour humor
of the Maine farmer In the lsland VII
layers. They beam cordially and IN
ouisit1vely upon the stranger.
They are still chiefly a handlcraIV
people. They build boats and san tnem'
Fov Brown, who is town clerk ana Is,
sues marriage licenses, builds boats ana
keeps them in repair. H.,
SPLIT haddock are spread out 10 ory'
salting, in the sun on the pier next 10