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Great Duck Island Cemetery

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Location	:	Frenchboro, Hancock County, USA
Coordinate	:	44.1555800, -68.2478400
Description	:	"Great Duck Island, isolated light station off this storm swept coast, has its Memorial Day observance when the light-keepers lay a hand-fashioned wreath upon one of the strangest cemeteries in America. "The burial plot is no more than 10 feet square, with cedar posts at the four corners upon which are nailed rude rails, split from the spruces of the nearby forest land. At one end of the inclosure stands a plain, home-made cross. "An odd, inconspicuous little burying-ground, but it marks a tragedy of years agone, now seldom recalled except by the light-keepers at the opposite end of Great Duck.... Read More	"Great Duck Island, isolated light station off this storm swept coast, has its Memorial Day observance when the light-keepers lay a hand-fashioned wreath upon one of the strangest cemeteries in America. "The burial plot is no more than 10 feet square, with cedar posts at the four corners upon which are nailed rude rails, split from the spruces of the nearby forest land. At one end of the inclosure stands a plain, home-made cross. "An odd, inconspicuous little burying-ground, but it marks a tragedy of years agone, now seldom recalled except by the light-keepers at the opposite end of Great Duck. [...]" Associated Press. "Memorial Day Brings Wreath to Odd Graves on Lonely Maine Isle." Troy Times. May 29, 1929: 6 cols 5-6. [includes photos] "The terrific gales of last Winter rolled huge seas up over a high embankment on Great Duck Island a few miles south of Bar Harbor on the Maine coast and did their best to reclaim human prey the sea had lost 43 years ago. [...] "Every Memorial Day the keepers and their wives and children have assembled at the strangest grave in Maine, read a few lines from the Bible and placed wild flowers on the cross. "This year, however, they were obliged to lay their floral offering on the ground. Exactly 43 years from the time of the tragedy, the heavy seas, for the first time on record, broke over the top of the high embankment, carried away the fence and cross and tried to wash the soil from the grave of three luckless sailormen. But the bones were buried too deep for the sea to take back the victims of its violence." "Weird Story of the Sea's Attempt to Rob Triple Grave." American Weekly. July 16, 1933. 2. "1970s - [Dr. E. George] Cloutier constructed an airstrip across the island, tearing up the cemetery in the process." "Great Duck Island timeline." Bangor Daily News. July 13, 2006: A5: cols 1-2. In addition to the above-described cemetery: "On several occasions, [residents] would find the drowned victims of shipwrecks washed up on the island shore. When the ground was too frozen to dig graves, the islanders would weight the bodies down and sink them in the bog" (Blanchard 1999 4). "[George Cloutier's] ashes were scattered on the island" (Blanchard 1999 9). Blanchard III, Peter P. "Great Duck Island - At Sea and on Memory's Horizon." Cebacco: The Magazine of Mount Desert Island Historical Society. 1999. http://www.mdihistory.org/assets/Great-Duck-Island.1999.pdf

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