BLUEBERRY CHOWDER

About the Book

This book tells the story of how my family came to own the whale's back in the early 1920's. It all started with Rosie's grandmother & her 3 kids renting a place only to find it was a lobster shack when they arrived. The events leading up to the purchase of the whale's back & construction of the first cottage will help you understand life on the Island (especially in the winter) on the island.

About the Author

The author of this book was Rose Whitney Smith. She was born to Cornelia Frances Shepherd and Edmund Carter Whitney on June 5, 1879 and was a third generation great granddaughter of the famous inventor Eli Whitney. Rose not only wrote this book, but also wrote short stories, some that were published in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald and the Lexington Minute Man in Lexington, MA. Rose passed away in 1959 before she could have the book published, but she did send it to several publishers for review. Some were very critical, but other publishers loved it and offered her very good suggestions, even telling her it could be made into a movie. Rose met and marred George Smith who also wrote poetry. Together they had three children, Phillip, Sarah and Carole. Phillip was an inventor with Bell Telephone Labs located in Newark, New Jersey. Sarah also wrote poetry and became famous re-inventing the art of making and preserving the lost art of “Apple Head” Dolls, an old Indian tradition. Sarah was on the Good Morning America show on TV giving a demonstration of how to carve and preserve the dolls, besides giving talks and seminars all over the New England area. Her husband, Oliver Hooper, was instrumental in making the small, tiny background furniture, etc. Rose, known as “Gram” or “Grammy” to her grandchildren and would have loved to have known that some of her grandchildren and great grandchildren also became successful writers of short stories, music and poems and carry on the Whitney genes. Peter writes songs and plays music besides being a graphic artist illustrator and Betsy is an artist in her own right. Two of her great grandchildren write poetry and one great great grandchild writes poetry also.