Sandy Madison Gaffett
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background of name, family history and where they lived, mystery of where grandfather was born, ancestors owning produce market and farm
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school system, parents’ college educations, father building museum exhibits in Cleveland and other jobs, went to school for library science
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last farmer of family, summers on Block Island, meeting husband and having children
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Block Island brought stability to life, bought land on Island, DAR
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DAR and importance to grandmother, desire for genealogy, descendant of Roger Williams
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life for children, what makes a Block Islander, children going to kindergarten, tourism and locals on the island
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living on the farm in the summer, electricity and running water, telephones and operators, doctor on Island, airline, fishing industry wiped out by hurricane
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fishhouses, visited island once during winter, Block Island in the winter, Block Island during the war
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housing shortages, thoughts on the year-round population and the island government, building rules and regulations
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older family members not on the island, Great Britain, rules on the island