Shelter Island
Green, Louise Tuthill![Shelter Island](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/202/20259147/CHSBZCOP0320259147.jpg)
In the spring of 1962, Captain Nathaniel Sylvester and his young bride, Grissel Brinley, stepped from their boat onto the narrow shore along Gardiner's Creek. Nearby, in a clearing, stood a sturdy house, newly built of white oak timber from the surrounding forest. Shiploads of tiles and chimney bricks from Holland and household furnishings from England and Barbados had arrived during the preceding months. The Sylvesters would make Shelter Isla...