[Redcoat LI]

In case you are wondering,you cannot visit Naushon Island,private means private,peasants!

Unexplained pre-historic statue on Naushon Island.

[Redcoat LI]

"the Forbes family became known in China during the Opium War in the 19th century as the 'Opium Dynasty' or 'Poppy Dynasty' and also by a poetic turn of phrase: 'The House of Forbes - Rests on Water - Dreams of Opium'."

[SpinyNorman]

"Naushon Island has been a Forbes family retreat for some time, where the opium trader John Murray Forbes and his family summered for more than a century."

Boy, the parallels with the Kennedy Crime family just keep popping up!! The Kennedys only ran whisky out of Canaday during Prohibition though. Got them a few compounds though...

[2banana]

The island is owned by the family and they pay little or no property taxes as the use of the island is deemed agricultural by the local authorities.

Taxes are for the "little people."

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Weird. I'm guessing that if Steve Forbes ever captured the GOP nomination, this would be the central theme of the press coverage of his campaign.

It really shouldn't reflect poorly on Kerry, since he's a self-made man.

[cake_crumb]

"His first cousin, Brice Lalonde, an ecologist, is a French politician who was a candidate for [President] of France."

Well THAT 'splains his new, dorky look...and why Queen's Bicycle is running through my head. And just lookit those toothpick-like arms and legs!

[Redcoat LI]

I hope I am not disturbing you while you are composing one of your epic threads,but I thought you may like to see this.

[ladyjane]

To get to the island there is a ferry from Woods Hole but it is private and only available to the family. If you have your own boat you may drop anchor in one of their harbors. Fishing is fabulous. Bass and bluefish. Accomodations on the island aren't luxurious and there are lots of deer with ticks. Lyme disease is all over the area.

[metesky]

Word on the Cape is that although they couldn't stop him from coming, the other Forbes who summer on Naushon hate to see JF'nK coming.

[Cicero]

Boston Brahmans. I have several hundred Paine cousins by marriage; also Perkinses and Forbeses. The Paine money comes mostly from General Paine, who was the youngest general in the Civil War and served as governor of New Orleans. He was involved in railroad mergers. Two of his sons were the Paines who won the Olympic rifle and pistol events back in the early 20th century and were portrayed in that movie about the Olympics.

Many of these people were involved earlier in the Chinese Clipper trade. I have heard it mentioned that opium was probably one of their more profitable cargoes.

Most of these people are perfectly decent and some are good friends, but living on inherited money is not the best recipe for the good life as prescribed by Aristotle. Fortunately I never saw any Paine money myself.

[DoctorMichael]

Rumours that John Forbes Kerry, Presidential candidate and Gigilo is descended from the illegitamite offspring of Karl Marx and Rosa Luxembourg are yet to be disproven.

LOL

[erdy2015]

It always amazes me how much obfuscation and ignorance still exists in this world. Google is still not rocket science. That being said, I’m really surprised to see anyone making comments or presumably write “facts” regarding something they obviously no nothing about. John Forbes Kerry is not a direct descendent of John Murray Forbes, but of his uncle. J.M. Forbes amassed much of his fortune investing in early railroad development. Naushon is taxed as agricultural, because Naushon is a working farm. That’s not Rocket Science either. It’s obvious to me that you and your redcoat cohorts are envious with the families of Naushon, and the stewardship of the land they love. Oh, and by the way, there are three beaches the forbes so generously open to the public, as well as Bull Island. Although I can’t understand why, since they end up cleaning the garbage the public so generously leaves behind. By the way, redcoat is not capitalized, unless you’re talking about the actual “Redcoats”, and we all know about how they ended up, penniless and slaveless. The only peasants I see here are you and your co-horts.