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The great blow in November 1950 took down at least 60 large trees, so that as late as 1959 it was impossible to walk from one end of the island to the other without crawling through dead branches.
Another 70 trees came down during the microburst of 1986, and 27 more in
July 1995.
These were
the last of the large birch, seen in the earliest photographs. They
completely covered the boathouse. It took three chainsaws and five men to
clear the paths, including Raymond and Ray, Sr., above.
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