Lord Whimsy::Mammal of Paradise

In George Washington's diary of Long Island, after the Revolution, he referred to the "Bald Hill" as a "mere trifling" which, however, was where besides a signal hill (beginning with the natives also allegedly buried there) where one could see to Fire Island on the Atlantic and to the invading Narragansetts from across Long Island Sound in Rhode Island and Connecticut, once Brookhaven Town wanted to make a Town Hall there (former ski bowl on a glacial moraine about 300 feet above sea-level, a Vietnam War Memorial is there a red, white, and blue steel sculpture that looks like the tail fin of a 747) and had a campaign for "Bald is Beautiful" and bumper stickers, too I think. I worked for their Parks Dept. the summer of 1976, won a lottery for a summer job, lining and raking a baseball field in North Bellport 4 days a week. They had the lottery to show they weren't nepotists, giving summer jobs just to Republican's kids. I worked with an electric guitar player, Pete Pellicia, whose brother used to find Biblical scenes in rocks he found on Shelter Island. George Washington was a big fan of John Milton, who said he "see's a trifling" going blind as he did.