Generations: 1891 -1940 Living on the Islands of Boston Harbor

This book documents the life of August Reekast from Prussia Christina (McKinnon) Reekast from Nova Scotia and three generations of lives living on Calf Outer Middle and Great Brewster Islands in the Boston Harbor from 1891 to the 1940s. August Reekast was a very well know lobster fisherman who lived and worked his trade off Outer Brewster Island; also was a boat Captain for Julia Arthur. Ms. Arthur (an actress in the late 1800s to early 1900s) and her husband Benjamin P. Cheney were the owners of Calf Island and a beautiful Mansion which overlooked the Harbor. In 1908 the Reekast family lost everything in the Chelsea Massachusetts Fire having no other option moved their eight children to the Islands where they rebuilt their lives. In the mid 1900s their son Gus Reekast became caretaker of Calf Island where he and his wife raised their daughter Augusta (Periwinkle). In the early 1920s the Reekast family relocated to N. Weymouth Mass. their home was located on Hunts Hill. During the depression Ida (Reekast) Knoll and Edmund Knoll brought their two children Christine (knoll) Walsh and Rosemary (Knoll) Thibodeau to live on Great Brewster. The Reekast and Knoll family left a legacy of knowledge pictures and documents which fill the pages of this book.