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An Island to Call Home

From a 1985 Gazette article by Janet Bosworth:

One stormy night in May 1888, the schooner Onrust in ballast, bound from Fall River for Calais, brought up hard and fast on Schooner Reef, on the shore of Cuttyhunk. All aboard were rescued by the Cuttyhunk members of the Massachusetts Humane Society. The next day, the second mate, Tom Jones, looked around at the island, liked what he saw and decided to remain.

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