<h3>Ice on the Sound Rocks</h3>
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<p><i>W.H. Vail</i></p>
<strong>Ca. 1900</strong>
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<p>H. Vail, a fisherman in Orient, took a group of wonderful photographs around the turn of the last century. Many were of the boat and crew of the Black Eagle, a well-known fishing boat owned by members of the Vail family. This land-based photograph shows how severe the winters could be in Oysterponds. Is that a boat spar sticking out above the enormous pile of ice? The ice dwarfs D. Milton Rackett who is shown standing nearby.</p>