Article from Newsday April 6th 1955 issue
The writer took a lot of writer’s License in writing this story and got
some of the facts wrong. Botz did not live on Carlton (Carleton) Ave, but on
Bordette Place. We did not bring the rowboat around to the cabin and it was
not washed out to sea. We did lite some grass torches, but had been spotted before
we lite them and it was day light when we lit the torches. We had spotted the
Coast Guard they heard our yells for help. Another thing is that Rex Botz’s dog
was not with us this time. They did get some of the facts right
It was my luck
that in April when I was talking to a couple of friends Botz and Woody who also
lived near us. I told them about the hunter's cabin and they decided that they
wanted to see it. So we took a row boat out to the first island and walked
across a sallow between the islands finally getting to the hunter's cabin after
looking around we returned to the boat only to find that someone had taken our
oars and anchor it was getting late so we went back to the cabin. We started a
fire in the potbelly stove found some canned soup and went to bed in the
cabin's bunk beds. Our families of course became alarmed, it seems that Woody's
Father took his cabin courser out to look for us and came up to the cabin, but
we were all asleep. So not hearing anything he left. The next morning, we
decided to walk back to the boat when a Coast Guard boat picked us up. We
almost got a helicopter ride but it couldn't land for the island was just
marshland, a helicopter ride would have made it almost worth it. My father said
he wasn't worried because he could see our row boat and he figured that we were
on the island. Actually we should have
taken the boat around the islands to the cabin, but we didn’t so I go my second
adventure of the year. All the Newspapers came for more pictures and stories.
The Herald Tribune also did a human interest story with pictures of kids
jumping off the docks.
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