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Memories of Freeport's Waterfront from page 8 they were carrying on board and made it to the beach. The beach was strewn with liquor for miles and the boat was a total loss. • \Lindy a fishing boat built at Freeport Point in 1927, was coming in one night with a full cargo (but without fish). The captain was uneasy and did not want his crewman to get caught. He left the crewman off on the island alongside of Long Creek and the young crewman walked the marsh and then swam to the Freeport mainland, arriving home at 5 am. wet and muddy. The \Lindy\ made it safely to its dock. • Captain Jack was a seventh-gener- ation bayman. In Freeport, Captain Jack worked as an oysterman. But as Prohibition gained strength, Jack decided employment in this trade might be easier. He purchased a 32' Banfield skiff, installed a Kermath 225 hp engine and proceeded to find Captain McCoy. Bill McCoy sold only quality liquor, from his schooner, coining the term \The Real McCoy.\ Captain Jack never took a chance coming in the Inlet with liquor. He would beach his Banfield Skiff at High Hill Beach (now Zack's Bay), unload and wagon the liquor to the bayside. On the bay- side he would load it onto his 31' Garvey and hide it in a bayhouse. Captain Jack was always proud of the fact that he broke \every law in the book\ but was never caught He lived to a good old age in Freeport in a fine home he bought with Prohibition money he held onto. • \Empress Ann,\ a 42' charter boat built at Freeport Point in 1931, sailed from Woodcleft Canal. Captain Ben used this boat during the last two years of prohibition to pretend sailing a fishing party. He would take out the same five or six people every day, changing outfits daily. Captain Ben would rendezvous with the schooners, come in with his part}' and unload the boat at night. The next day it was the same routine. • \Everitt\ was built at Freeport Point in 1929. A homebuilder built two houses on speculation in North Freeport. These houses were not sell- ing and his bills were piling up. He offered the shipyard two houses for a rum-boat. A deal was consummated and the builder made several liquor trips and paid his bills. • \Anna B\ was built at Freeport Point in 1932. A 40' boat owned by the owner of a Hempstead Speakeasy. \Anna B\ was docked in Woodcleft Canal and the owner brought in his own liquor for resale at his speakeasy. • Doug Kirby was a World War I- trained Liberty Aircraft engine mechanic. Doug roamed the docks at Freeport and kept the alcohol fleets engines overhauled and tuned from 1925 to 1933. • Captain Me. had a 40\ rum-runner called \Margaret.\ Later it became it dragger. Coming in one night he hit a buoy and put a hole in the hull side large enough, as Captain Me. said, \You could walk through\. When he met my father 40 years later. Captain Me. remembered and said you fixed it for me for $55.\ Freeport novelist ( | gets Irish residency = Freeport novelist Tom Phelan was awarded a writer's residency at the Heinrich Boll Cottage in Dugort, Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland, which he undertook earlier this summer. Heinrich Boll, the German novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, lived in Achill Island during the 1960s and 1970s. His memoir \Irish Journal\ recalls his experiences in Achill. For the last 15 years, Boll's cottage has been used as a residence for writers and artists. Tom Phelan is the author most recently of \The Canal Bridge,\ a critically acclaimed novel of Irish soldiers serving in the British army and fighting in the trenches during the Great War. I c OQ VI r*- \o to I THE OLD SOD: Tom Phelan outside the Heinrich Boll Cottage in Dugort, Achil Island. Tom Phelan will be one of six partic- ipants in a \Summer Gazebo Reading\ on Monday, August 13, starting at 7 p.m. at Schoolhouse Green, on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road in Oceanside.
