Dec 23, 2018 -the little fishing shack on the shore of Lagoon Pond -taken Dec 15, 2018
This shack has a long history. I am not sure when it actually was built, but apparently back in the 1930's it was being used by a man named Anton Svenson as a place for him to build ship models.Later it passed on to a fisherman named Sam Newcombe who used it to store his fishing gear, and used it as a place to shuck scallops.
In the 1950's it was bought by a man named Stuart Bangs. He owned it until he died. Apparently at some point, his wife Dorothy had asked him to add a window box to the shack, so she could fix it up a bit. She would put daffodils in the box in the spring, along with a scallop wreath on the door, and then at Christmas time, she would put an evergreen wreath on the door, and put Christmas greens in the flower box.She continued doing this for decades until her death in 2013.
By that time, the little shack was in a terrible state from all the many storms it had weathered. It looked like it would collapse onto itself at any moment, but was saved by the Bangs' son. Pail Bangs, who had been a commercial fisherman, and had used the shack himself in connection with his work, decided back in 2013to restore the little shack that was so loved by the Island community. Once restored, Paul's wife, Maggie, has taken on the task that Paul's mother had started so many years ago,of putting flowers or greens in the wwindow box, and a wreath on the door.