The Island Inside the Island
The Hastings family had owned the summer house on Deer Isle since 1891, when Ephraim Hastings, the patriarch who had made his fortune in New England textiles, purchased the land from a fisherman who did not understand what he was selling. The house was a sprawling Victorian with seventeen rooms, a wrap-around porch, and a widow's walk that looked out over Penobscot Bay. For four generations,...
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