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  • Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Carrie Richardson Folding Bed
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Furnishings, Bed, Folding Bed
  • Object, Furnishings, Sleeping & Reclining Furniture
  • Cranberry Isles
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Carrie Richardson Folding Bed
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • gcihs-2023.653.3143
Type:
  • Object, Furnishings, Bed, Folding Bed
Subject:
  • Object, Furnishings, Sleeping & Reclining Furniture
Place:
  • Cranberry Isles
Description:
This bed was a feature of the schooner ‘Carrie M. Richardson’ and was used by the ship's namesake, celestial navigator and later owner Carrie Stanley Richardson. Island legend has it that Carrie didn’t like to sleep in the bunks as the rest of the sailors did and so when the schooner was stopped at a dock, she went hunting and found this unusual folding bed. After she passed away, it was left in the boathouse at the Lew Stanley boatyard. Bob LaHotan-who co owned the boatyard with John Heliker-would sleep in the very same bed! [show more]