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"My parents rented the Cahill cottage on Gurnet Point in August 1950 with option to buy. My parents were close friends of Leon and Ethel Cushman, Leon\'s uncle being Frank Davis who was once lighthouse keeper.  My father fell in love with the Gurnet immediately. We of course bought it. My memories are numerous both good and bad.  I acquired friends, growing up with   Richard Booniser, Kathy Cahill, Bill Bennett, Fred Holmes and Ken Graham.  We watched the Mayflower II come in from England on June of 1957, waving and sending up baloons. We had Gurnet cook-outs on the front beach with Bill and Daisy Jacobs, the Cushmans, Miss Bessie DesLearner, the Davis family, Ms. Ames, the Coast Guard, the Grahams, the Ruphrects, the Barnes family, the Edie family and most all of the Gurnet families on Saturday nights. Each family would contribute to the cookouts. My father\'s life ended   in July of 1974 after our cottage burned to the ground in March of that year,  but my life continued there to bring up my children Ray, Larry and Michele Abreu when the Anderson\'s on the east side of the Gurnet sold their little cottage to us in 1975 which was once owned by the government, and stood between the Keeper\'s house and the lighthouse. We still hang on to it after years of erosion now that my son Ray owns the cottage and has put in a sea wall. He has done this mostly for me and I am very appreciative of him and love him very much. I am greatful for the friends I had, my children had, and all they learned from being at the Gurnet, especially from the Richards boys and the Moore family who knew so much about boats and the ocean."