33049. Crafts, Frederic A. Jr., Remembering Monomoy. Crafts. 2015
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33049. Crafts, Frederic A. Jr., Remembering Monomoy. Crafts. 2015
- Crafts, Frederic A. Jr., Remembering Monomoy. Crafts. 2015. 234p. Soft wraps. Signed by the author. Fred Crafts 50 was six when in 1935 his father first took him hunting on Monomoy, which juts into Nantucket Sound “at the elbow of Cape Cod some 70 miles southeast of Boston,” as he puts it in the introduction to his first book, Remembering Monomoy. The sometime island(s), sometime peninsula, now a National Wildlife Refuge, “has been my second life,” he writes, and the future lawyer, land planner, and developer began collecting information about the spot in 1950. In 2012, staff members at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service headquarters in Chatham, Massachusetts, asked him, as the last surviving hunting-camp owner on Monomoy, to share his recollections. That “simple request turned into a very enjoyable project”: his 230-page omnium-gatherum contains personal reminiscences and photographs; copious reprints or summaries of related newspaper and magazine articles; copies of relevant maps, charts, and official documents; reproductions of duck stamps from 1939 to 1971; and even a 15-page memoir of Monomoy Point “circa 1900” written in the 1980s by another one-time resident. Besides fishing, hunting, and camp life, Crafts covers the Coast Guard on Monomoy and tells how, geologically and historically, the wildlife refuge came to be, recalling now-vanished places like Wildcat Swamp, a songbird haven with abundant high bush blueberries, “the healthiest and…best flavor I have tasted. ”Fred recollects his time spent on the Island from his first hunting trip with his father in 1935 to the final burning of the camp house in 1991. The Island’s transformation from fishing villages, hunting camps and U.S. Coast Guard station into the beautiful wildlife refuge of today is complete. (M). $16.95.