For Nelson 's 21st birthday, Edward gave his son a 4 acre island that Nelson would suggestively designate as Phoenix Island. At the time of this gift, 1920, there were few trees taller than Nelson who stood 5 ' 9” due to a ferocious fire on the island around 1913. Nelson who knew the island before the fire likened the idea of the island 's recovering plants as a Phoenix, the mythological bird that cyclicly rises itself from the dead.
A significant part of Nelson 's childhood was influenced by associating with children his own age during the Blackstone summers. Either the children of other summer residences or the children of the permanent families. Of particular note are Willie Moore, Jule Woolman, Cecil Rankin, Ethel and Artie Armstrong and Horace Butler. He felt he was ”brought up” by the Jennings - John Jennings in particular. He taught Nelson about the love of the woods, some of his early stories of the lake and fishing. This, it would seem, was a big part of Nelson …show more content…
With a lot of critical background work, this experience deeply informed Nelson about Keats in unique ways allowing Nelson to become an authority on the romantic poet.
Nelson had Henry Jennings build a two room cabin with porch in 1921. Over the following years, Nelson, with help from Vernon Jacklin, added more rooms as he started to develop a family. It was decided early on not to electrify the cabin, have no running water nor phone. This was a 'back to the woods ' approach taken by several other American summer residences. By the end of the '40s they started obtaining their perishables from Oscar and Hilda Tölpt. Despite the convince and variety of goods that the Deyett 's General Store had, Nelson and family still found themselves in Parry Sound itself every two weeks.
Again Ann Bailey gives some more accounting (May 13,
A significant part of Nelson 's childhood was influenced by associating with children his own age during the Blackstone summers. Either the children of other summer residences or the children of the permanent families. Of particular note are Willie Moore, Jule Woolman, Cecil Rankin, Ethel and Artie Armstrong and Horace Butler. He felt he was ”brought up” by the Jennings - John Jennings in particular. He taught Nelson about the love of the woods, some of his early stories of the lake and fishing. This, it would seem, was a big part of Nelson …show more content…
With a lot of critical background work, this experience deeply informed Nelson about Keats in unique ways allowing Nelson to become an authority on the romantic poet.
Nelson had Henry Jennings build a two room cabin with porch in 1921. Over the following years, Nelson, with help from Vernon Jacklin, added more rooms as he started to develop a family. It was decided early on not to electrify the cabin, have no running water nor phone. This was a 'back to the woods ' approach taken by several other American summer residences. By the end of the '40s they started obtaining their perishables from Oscar and Hilda Tölpt. Despite the convince and variety of goods that the Deyett 's General Store had, Nelson and family still found themselves in Parry Sound itself every two weeks.
Again Ann Bailey gives some more accounting (May 13,