The Charming and Eccentric Lives of Truxtun and Marie Beale, 1856 – 1956
Swan’s Island is a large but sparsely populated island off the coast of Maine. You can only get there by boat or helicopter. The ferry is the best and surest way to get there, which runs from Bass Harbor near Bar Harbor. The boat ride takes about 40 minutes. I just came back from a …
Read the full post →“A Visit to Swan’s Island graves – J. Tyson Lee and Catrina Beale”
I am visiting Maine this week, and I stopped by to see the graves of Harriet Blaine Beale, Trux’s first wife, her sister Margaret and her husband, Walter Damrosch. They are buried at Ledgelawn Cemetery, maybe about a half mile away from the downtown area. The graves are the first ones you will see once …