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Originally Posted by jrc
First of all, this is all just fun and games, killing time waiting for spring.
Well according to the movie Jaws:
Ellen: I just want to know one simple thing. When do I get to become an islander?
Friend: Ellen, never. Never. You're not born here, you're not an islander. That's it
Now equating the "anthropology, socialization, living conditions and state of mind" of living year round on Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard (Amity in the movie) with spending summers on Bear Island is a little silly. How isolated are you really on Bear Island?
Now the Broads side of Rattlesnake in a storm with high winds from the north, you may actually be stuck there for a few days. If someone had a heart attack or fell and broke a leg could you get rescued?
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I hate to disagree with an unnamed extra in a fictional 1975 movie about a fictional island but.... It has probably been over a hundred years since a baby was born on Bear Island. Great trivia question however!
It's not just about isolation. I have lived on the Winnipesaukee mainland, Cow Bear and Long. Island life is very, very different.