This photograph is identified as Louis Bigelow.
Louis and Beth Bigelow who found Guana Island, British Virgin Islands
in 1934 and owned it until 1975
Children of William R. and Mary L. (Bigelow) Bigelow, all born in Natick,
MA:
15591.8C31t William Francis, b 06 Feb 1900; d 16 Jan
1980 Rockport, MA; m Mary Locker; 2 daughters;
15591.8C32t Louis Kimball, b 30 Jan 1904; d 16
July 1987 Deland, FL; m 07 Jan 1934 Mary Elizabeth (Beth?) Gillis; 2 children?
(see below)
15591.8C33t Robert Mansfield, b 12 Oct 1906; d ___ 1970;
m 23 Mar 1929 Hellen Lucille Miller; 2 children;
Sources:
Bigelow Society,The Bigelow Family Genealogy, Vol II, pg 400;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America; page 337-338 child;
Records of Bigelow Society historian/genealogist.
Obit, William F.: "Boston Herald American" 17 Jan 1980;
Bigelow Society files;
personal contact with family member.
This photograph is identified as Louis Bigelow.
Louis and Beth Bigelow who found Guana Island, British Virgin Islands
in 1934 and owned it until 1975
Louis Bigelow painted what he saw as the
magic of his island Utopia. Although he and his wife Beth arrived in Guana
in 1934, he didn't start to paint until the 1950's. By then, they were done
with the major work of constructing what they called the Guana Island Club
and he could take the time to express on canvas what he had found and what
they had created. Today the paintings still grace the walls of the living
room and guestrooms. Reminders of Guana in those eary days.
In 1935 Beth and Louis Bigelow of Massachusetts searched
the world and found Guana. They spent their first year living in a tent, rowing
themselves and their supplies to and from Road Town. With the help of local
men they built six stone cottages and developed a reputation as creative
pioneers. Their guests: professionals, intellectuals and world travelers-
came for months at a time, attracted to the simple but rich life on this special
Island. Where, as one guest has said "there was no electricity and no hot
water, but we all dressed for dinner"
Louis signed his watercolors "L.K. Bigelow". So
I think this is the Louis K. Bigelow, son of William Reed....................ROD
2007
(see link below for more photos and watercolors).
"Louie and I met in the Soviet Union
in the early thirties. We came to believe that there was no form of government
we wanted to live under. After we married, we decided to find our own Utopia,
for ourselves and our friends. We traveled the world looking for it -- and
we found Guana."
--- Beth Bigelow, Guana Island 1976
http://www.guana.com/then_now/watercolors/watercolors.html
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