ROBERT 'BOB' CRABTREE

Interviewed July 11, 2008

Bob worked directly for Josephine Poe-Duer in 1930 at the age of 15. His job was to set up the three tennis courts with the ropes and netting.

His father Raymond Crabtree helped John Pushaw, a rock layer, build the cesspools for the buildings.

Carl Newbert was the handyman.

Westbra Wentworth was the main carpenter plus painting and putting the floats in and out of the lake in the spring and at summers end.

Mrs. Maud Payson was one of the cooks.

2nd floor had little classrooms.

The girls came by train into the Union railroad station from Warren and in later years into Rockland.

The girls were taken up to the top of Gillette Road for camping out overnight in the fields that overlooked the coastline.

There were no horses at this camp.