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April 18/19, 2020 – THE SCHETLIN STORY CONTINUES, PART IV

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Thanks to all our neighbors who gave donations to feed the staff at Coler. Nisi has sent many meals for the staff with these funds.  The last two funded lunhes will go to the staff this weekend..  Starting next week WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN will be providing 3 meals a day for all staffs at all municipal hospitals and nursing homes. (Municipal hospitals are Bellevue, Kings County, Elmhurst, Queens, Woodhull,Metropolitan and more.  Coler is a municipal nursing home). Thanks Bloomberg Philanthropies for funding these meals.

THE SCHETLIN STORY CONTINUES, PART IV

When Eleanor was a child this was the ambulances used.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, APRIL 18-19, 2020

29th in our FROM THE ARCHIVES series. 

A RECOLLECTION OF FAMILY LIFE ON
BLACKWELL’S / WELFARE ISLAND
ELEANOR SCHETLIN
2002
PART IV

Mr. Adams, The City Home Watchman
 
The House on Blackwell’s Island – 1939

Mysterious Mansions

Cottage Row in back of the quarry. Can you spot the watchman’s shack on the bottom photo?
The lighthouse with its original top
The quarry after it was closed and covered over
The neat and tidy appearance of the penitentiary
The title page and illustration 
Inside the cover of MYSTERIOUS MANSIONS showing City Hospital in the distance with the Penitentiary in the foreground
Inside the cover of MYSTERIOUS MANSIONS showing covered over quarry in foreground and Cottage Row in the distance.
Please note that the author of Mysterious Mansions was the daughter of the island storekeeper that hired
Eleanor’s father.

EDITORIAL

How did this epic start. Every issue is about 4 hours work. It is fun and goes fast. Tearing the apartment apart today, I found a photo of my mom in her WWII Civil Defense uniform.

Stories, memories,  recollections seem to be a great way to escape the realities of our new life style.  Some watch movies, some read books, some are in a fog.  I get into these publications, dig out folders, files, photos and related items. (Trashy TV shows are on in the background, my favorite is “Parking Wars”).

I am lucky to sit at my desk watching the trees turn green in Queensbridge Park and the Silvercup sign in Queens.  The sun will come out tomorrow!

A teaser for Monday, we move north to Metropolitan Hospital.

Next week we start a two parter on the FDNY on the Island.

Thank you,
Judith Berdy
jbird134@aol.com
212-688-4836
917-744-3721

Ruth Berdy, my mother, a Civil Defense Volunteer during World War II

Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Dottie Jeffries

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