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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A Vision of Paradise: Robertson Ward and the Mill Reef Club

A Vision of Paradise: Robertson Ward and the Mill Reef Club

Ballantine, Elizabeth

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 1586670921
ISBN13: 9781586670924
Publisher: Derrydale Press
Published: Dec 4 2001
Pages: 144
Weight: 1.83
Height: 0.67 Width: 9.34 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
For more than half a century, the Mill Reef Club in Antiqua, West Indies, has been the premier private resort in the Caribbean. It began in 1946 when Robertson Happy Ward, a Connecticut architect, led a hearty band of adventures in search of a vacation haven free of the cras commercialization that spoiled many enterprises. On the eastern shore of the island they saw their vision of paradise: 1,300 acres of scrub brush and abandoned sugar fields overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Without the aid of many modern conveniences such as electricity or running water, the first members of the Mill Reef Club transformed the property into a community of private homes with a hotel, clubhouse, tennis courts, and expansive golf course.

A Vision of Paradise: Robertson Ward and the Mill Reef Club presents an illustrated history of their dedication to realizing their dream. It is a tale of unique experiences: the establishment of Pan Am's weekly Mill Reef Special flight from New York, and learning to contend with the mishaps and misadventures of this rough land--hardships that would be unheard of in their other lives. It is also a story of people, many of whom built America's great corporations, creating a diverse community devoted to forging the good life in a place where it always required a lot of work. But come what may, they loved it all. As poet laurete Archibald MacLeish wrote at age eighty-five when frail health finally forced him to withdraw: You don't resign from the Mill Reef Club more than once in a lifetime and not then if you can help it.

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