Forest Glen, Early 1970s
2015.01.20
Dawn Rosenblatt, with either Nashopa or Willow, in the house in Forest Glen, an old farmhouse that they fixed up and lived at until they separated in the late 1970s. It had a simple handpump for water, an outhouse, and no phone or electricity. This property was the one that Lexie O’Hare and Maggie MacKinnon, where two women who grew up in Forest Glen during the early 20th century lived. Maggie and Lexie lived in Big Intervale until they died in either the late 1980s or the early 1990s. Lexie’s O’Hare was interviewed in Cape Breton’s Magazine, around 1986. George and Dawn came to Cape Breton from Greenwich Village in New York City. George was a photography and Dawn was a model; both had been influenced by Helen and Scott Nearing’s Living the Good Life and the Whole Earth Catalog. George worked Fraser’s sawmill in Margaree, while Dawn cared for their children. In 2014, this house was almost exactly as George and Dawn left it.