Seventeenth-century pottery, horn buttons, and a burial ground have been found at Sylvester Manor, on Shelter Island. So have a stack of mint 45s from the golden age of the American teen-ager.
A few years ago, a man was helping to clean the basement of Sylvester Manor, on Shelter Island—a major undertaking, since the house was built in 1737 and had for generations been occupied by people who didn’t throw anything away. He bumped into a wooden box near a chute still piled with coal. A platter on the top of the box began to spin.
Then she opened the oak doors of the Victrola to reveal a stack of 45s from the golden age of the American teen-ager. There was “Don’t Worry Baby,” by the Beach Boys, with “I Get Around” on the flip side.
Barnes, who is sixty-seven, said, “I used to write ‘Donnie loves John’ on the labels of mine.” She had on a loose linen skirt and wore her hair in golden-gray dreadlocks. She’d found the 45s in a basement closet, and said that they’d belonged to Susan and Lissa Ray, Alice Fiske’s daughters from her first marriage. In 1952, Alice married Andrew Fiske, the last lord of the manor, and became “Lady Ali,” known for driving around the island in a white Cadillac convertible.
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