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The influx of returning Monhegan men, many with brides, invigorated the community. Houses changed hands and businesses thrived with the optimism and confidence of these young people. After surviving the hardships of war, the beauty and safety of Monhegan provided an excellent place to make their homes.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOf course, Old Dear, I\u2019ve no statistics but there are more people on the Island this winter and I gather the harbor and surrounding waters should look like a regatta with the teaming up of lobster-men. For instance: Phon Speed and Adie, Douglas Odom and Pinkham (our neighbor) Harry Odom and Walter Davis. Then Tom Orne and Vernon Burton are on their way home. Betsy says there are seventeen children here and actually, talk of reviving the Christmas festival in the Church.<\/em>\u201d –Pierce, Betty. Letter to Warner Taylor. November 28, 1945.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.8.2″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(135,83,0,0.27)” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px|10px||10px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.8.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/WWII\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WharfCirca1946-2.jpg” title_text=”Monhegan Wharf” show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”4.8.2″ width=”66%” width_tablet=”87%” width_phone=”100%” width_last_edited=”on|desktop” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”16px||40px||false|false” custom_margin_tablet=”0px||||false|false” custom_margin_phone=”” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” custom_padding=”||10px||false|false” module_alignment_tablet=”center” module_alignment_phone=”center” module_alignment_last_edited=”on|desktop”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" War is Over: Community RevitalizedThe influx of returning Monhegan men, many with brides, invigorated the community. Houses changed hands and businesses thrived with the optimism and confidence of these young people. After surviving the hardships of war, the beauty and safety of Monhegan provided an excellent place to make their homes.\u201cOf course, Old Dear, I\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":50619,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50713","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/WWII\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/WWII\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/WWII\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/WWII\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/WWII\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50713"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/WWII\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51755,"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/WWII\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50713\/revisions\/51755"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/WWII\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monheganmuseum.org\/WWII\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}