More about Lloyd's Neck, LI, NY

This is the mansion bought by Matheson around 1900, it's a "T", wings are not too visible. It is on a bluff overlooking North Shore of Long Island Sound and CT on the far shore about 5 miles across.

Fence made of concrete.

Barn made of concrete

This building behind "our" cottage has a concrete roof, too. Building was either a chicken coop or a dog kennel.

This is the cottage Holly and I stayed, was probably built for farm manager and also concrete exterior walls.

This post is more about Lloyd’s Neck, once Qeensland settled before the Revolutionary war and a information about a man named William John Matheson who bought about 330 acres (about 1/3) of the Southwest part of Lloyd’s Neck in 1900. Born in Wisconsin, later moved to South America with his family, educated in Scotland. He studied and worked with chemist at the Royal College of Science learning a lot about Aniline and it’s use in dyes. Came back to America and secured a job with a chemical company. Founded his own company, later sold to Allied Chemical. He discovered Karo Syrup and became successful. Good friend of Teddy Roosevelt which came in handy when the US Agriculture Department wanted to name Karo “Glucose”, Matheson simply drove over to Teddy’s estate in Oyster Bay nearby and got Teddy to call the US Agriculture Dept and got the name Karo to stick.
Matheson later owned most of Key Biscayne Florida. He had a winter home in Coconut Grove, FL, Summer home on Park Ave, NYC and a “country" home (Shown in one of the pictures in this post) on Lloyd’s Neck, LI. He had built a number of farm houses (pictures above) on Lloyd’s Neck, most built of concrete, including the fences. One of the cottages is where Holly and I are staying during this visit whch is also concrete walls.

VERY HAPPY FAMILY

Page Kellershon, now 10 days old, with Mom (Ellie) and Dad (Joe) Kellershon. A very happy family and healthy!!

And now, a few days later!

And now, a few days later ... here is Ms. Page Kellershon ... a beautiful Granddaughter of my best friend, Holly Page.

Historic Lloyds Neck, NY

This house was completed in 1767 for Joseph Lloyd a descendant of James Lloyd from Boston. The map you can find by clicking on the link below is of Lloyds Neck where the whole peninsula was deeded to James Lloyd by the English. This home is thought to have been barracks for Loyalist. Also the home was rented by Charles Linburg before WW II. Restored to it's post-revolutionary state, it was opened to the public as a museum in 1982. It was given to the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiques.

Map of Queensland today. We are staying in a private home across the road from this museum.

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=1055

This entire peninsula was the original grant, I could not find the number of acres, but I would guess well over 3,000. Marshall Fields built a mansion on this land mass and it is now Caumesst State Park and about 700 acres alone.

Page Kellershon, 3 days old

Here is Page Kellershon, two days old being held by her Mom. Click on the picture to enlarge.

Trip to Huntington, NY

My best friend, Holly, has a daughter in Huntington, NY expecting a baby on December 7, but unexpectedly, she delivered Thursday, November 13, 2008. So, since Holly and I had planned to be there, we rushed around packing clothes and stuff and departed my house about 1:00pm Thursday, November 13th. We drove to Rocky Mount, NC for overnight at a Hampton Inn (very good service!). Then next morning had about a eight hour drive to Huntington. Took about nine hours due to drizzle and periodic rain showers, as well as, traffic on the loop road around NYC and into Long Island. My God, there a lot of people around these parts and on Friday they drive to work so they can bank and shop with paychecks that day .... bumper to bumper for about 20 miles!

We arrived at the hospital about 5:30pm to be greeted with much love from Ellie (the Mother), Joe (proud Father), Joe's Mother and Sister. Holly was awed and was in heaven as she was able to hold this lovely one day hold Page Kellershon as shown in this picture!

For family and friends who read my blog, I will be posting on here some historic North Shore Long Island pictures and text in the next week or so, comeback and read what a really nice place this area has and always has been!

The General Election

While I am a Republican and voted for McCain, I have to admire Obama and his coming from no where to defeat not only Hillary, but also McCain. Suspect many voted against Bush when they voted for Obama. McCain did well considering his challenge!

That's too bad while Bush has made some mistakes, he has kept terrorist out of USA, he really can't control nor effect the economy as President even though keeping interest rates low has helped. The crunch in the housing market was brought about with Congress not taking action when they should have taken action, so I read. With Congress's rating even lower than Bush's rating, it's no wonder we are in the mess we are in today.

It appears we should vote ALL of them out of office and maybe put Libertarians in office. Or, put someone in that will return us to the place where the Constitution intends for us to be put.

The media continues to affect peoples thinking, maybe we should un-plug the TV, stop buying newspapers and magazines.

Oh well, yesterday the stock market lost a lot as people started selling for fear of more taxes on Capital Gains .... it may get worse as more taxes loom.

I wonder if it's cheaper to live in isolation in Mexico!??!!!

Halloween at The Landings

There is a resident at The Landings, a very large residential gated golf community in Savannah, who puts up a really great halloween display of all kinds dummy's in the act of horror or ghostly acts. Holly and I went to this area to view the displays and here are some still photos and a couple videos. The cameras video stopped before the skeleton on the skeleton horse fired his pistol at the end of this movement. The other video is a dummy being electrocuted and at the ends says "Is that all you got?".

One picture of a gray faced bald headed guy, I thought reminded me of my friend Ed Jewell ... sorry Ed if I offended you!