Is that interesting? Maybe, maybe not. However, I found a
great article about the decoy maker, Elmer Crowell, with interesting facts
about Dr Cunningham (1877-1860) who married Theresa Ingersoll in 1914. It’s these little tidbits that can make our
ancestors come alive.
John studied at Harvard with his friend (and later, Best
Man) Dr John Phillips. They spent many weekends studying, hunting and fishing
in the “crystal clear waters” of Lake Wenham in Beverly where the Phillips
family had 275 acres. It is said that
Wenham Lake ice was renowned for its purity … demanded by Queen Victoria and
written about by Rudyard Kipling. (That’s another historic bygone … shipping
naturally formed ice across oceans).
A.
Elmer Crowell (1862-1951) was a master decoy carver from East Harwich,
Massachusetts. Crowell specialized in shorebirds, waterfowl, and miniatures.
Crowell's decoys are consistently regarded as the finest and most desirable
decoys ever made. Some of his decoys
have sold for over a million dollars.
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