Gone With The Wind

Manana is a companion island to Monhegan - just 150 yards apart. The cool thing about Manana is that it's home to a fog station and actually had a fog station keeper and house, but nothing else! The lighthouse is on Monhegan. The rail line on Manana was necessary to provision the fog keepers house, as the cliff it's upon is very steep. We were in the museum, reading about life on the two islands and there was one account written in the 1800's by a young girl who lived on the smaller Manana island. She talked about going to school on the larger Monhegan island. Her father would take her across in his small boat. When the weather was "kicked up", he couldn't land the boat and he'd have to THROW HER to a lobsterman on the dock! She said, "it always made mother nervous"!!!!
Now, Manana is just home to sheep, birds and a crazy man that Frank stumbled upon one morning. The island has no buildings on it except for the dilapidated fog keepers' house and this one rather attractive house that Frank couldn't figure out. It was odd that it was there to begin with, so Frank went to explore... the house has been under construction for FORTY years! This man lives a couple of hours from Monhegan and is building it by himself...in his spare time! He was working on the windows that day! Frank said he appeared to be in his sixties. House might be inhabitable for his grandkids!