Kelleys Island School - Emerald Isle Yearbook (Kelleys Island, OH)

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Interviews Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brown are one of the elderly couples of the Island. Mr. Brown is 90 years of age. He and his wife, Helen, were both born and reared on the Island. Mrs. Brown was born in Ed Sennish's home. Mr. Brown was born in the house in which he now lives. He was a fruit harvester. The main occupations on the Island were quarrying, fishing, and the wineries. Supplies were brought across the ice in horse and bob sled. Mr. Brown served on the Water Board for 38 years. Mr. and Mrs. Brown said that the Island hasn't changed much, except things are modern now. They rember that steamboat rides were 25 cents. They also remember the first car was owned by the school principal. Mrs. Brown's graduating class consisted of 13 students. The school rooms were filled. They had school dances and school plays. They felt that there was better entertainment on the Island. Bands and orchestras used to come over to play that the people would have a good time. Mrs. Brown was the treasurer of the Literary Society. Miss Jean Dwelle and cousin 28 Sherry Brown Miss Jean Dwelle was born in Sandusky in 1902. She moved to the Island with her family when she was three years old. They moved to Cleveland when Jean was five years old. She came back to the Island in 1914 and attended Estes High School for one year. She was taken out of school by the doctor. She then helped her grandmother run the Dwelle Hotel. Her grandmother ran it until the 192O's. Jean recalls that the Moysey and the Ward families also ran boarding houses. Mr. John Himmelein also ran a hotel. There was a dance hall in his hotel. They invited bands to the Island to play for them. Actors and actresses came to the Island and put on plays in the Town Hall. They used to study their parts on Jean's front lawn. At the Dwelle Hotel they served meals to the boarders every day of the week. A baseball team came to the Island once, and Jean can remember going to the market and buying 12 steaks to feed them. When Jean re-opened the boarding house in 1948, a couple came and wanted to rent a room. Jean found out that they had stayed at the boarding house when her grandmother ran it. Marie Feyedelem

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Mrs. Frank Hamilton Lloyd was born in Bay Bridge, Sandusky County on August 11, 1903. Lloyd, his brother Jim, and sisters, Helen and Mary, came to the Island to visit during the summer. They stayed at Dawn KekeIik's house. They moved to the Island in 1924. Lloyd and his brother Jim, grew grapes and fruit for a living. One year they had 10,00 bushels of aof school for a day or two to help pick fruit. Sometimes it was as long as a couple of weeks. Lloyd can remember when more than 1,000 people lived on the Island. Lloyd said The difference on the Island now is that little land is cultivated and that there are no more grape vineyards. The main occupations were general farming, quarrying, fishing, and raising cattle. He said, Almost everyone had a cow. Many people raised cattle. Lloyd used to give sleigh rides. Sometimes he have as many as 25 a year. He drove the last horse across the ice in 1929. He has also crossed the ice in a Model T Ford. For entertainment, they had masquerade parties. LIoyd's father was the leader of them. Every Sunday afternoon people would gather in front of Matso's Bar - the Lodge - and talk. Downtown was only for men. Women and children were rarely seen downtown. Sherry Willis Mrs. Frank Hamilton came to Kelleys Island in the year 1922, or 1923, lshe can't rememberj. She had gone to business school. After graduating she came to the Island because she heard that the quarry was looking for a girl to work in the office. Mrs. Hamilton can remember that there were many people living on the Island then. The quarry was the main industry. There were also fisheries and wineries. She recalls that her husband, Frank worked in one of the wineries before they were married. Mrs. Hamilton said that there was always some sort of work to be done. Whenever people had some spare time, they went to parties, dances, and other events. One such sport was the baseball games. Many of the people on the Island got together and played. She liked it when she first came to the Island because she got to go dancing quite often. The Island had their hometown orchestra. There were also plays to watch. The Island had their own theatrical company. There were more businesses then on the Island. There was a library, a Red Cross Society, which was formed in 1919, an ice cream parlor, a liquor store, and a boot and shoe repair shop. At one time, she and her husband owned EIfer's Grocery Store and also ran the Casino. lThe store the Hamiltons owned is now Frank Pohorence's warehouse.J Sherry Willis .g -Q . . : I Mr. Lloyd Marchky 29