Mysterious Island Lady Takes a Prince

Sounds like a DH Lawrence novel.

To the Mattabeseck Indians, they were know as Kuttomquosh, or "beautiful sea rocks." Now they are the playthings of one ...woman ...

She is not alone.

It's amazing how in a matter of 400 years we've claimed ownership to everything in the natural world and simultaneously defiled it. This woman does not have any particular right to those islands just because she forked over the appropriate lot of fiat currency. Think of how absurd that scenario would look like to any creature of nature. ...

Please bury this story.

What a silly article! We should care about this event because...she is rich and white? What is newsworthy about this? This fluff piece read like a space filler in the NH Register.

"Mysterious" indeed! This is being far too soft on Svenningsen, who is widely regarded as a selfish and idiosyncratic woman who cares little for the people or history of Stony Creek.

Svenningsen is mysterious because she holds herself apart and does little for others. Meanwhile,in my book, having money only INCREASES ones' obligations to give back. (There are several wealthy families in Stony Creek who are very involved in community projects and do not hold themselves apart from others.)

Maybe Svenningsen will surprise us someday. There are any number of projects: purchase the Post Office; buy the Thimble Islands Ferry (which went out of business in part because Ms. Svenningsen bought so many islands and did not use the service and so the cost of running it for the remaining islands became untenable;)donate money to the Food Bank.

I wouldn't hold my breath however: Svenningsen has no history of ever giving back, either here or in Westchester.

Svenningsen may think she has it all with her archipelago of perfectly decorated islands but in truth she is missing out on the joy of feeling a connection to a community that has a lot to offer back -- if she would only open herself up and give something, anything. I will bet that her heart is as empty as all of those uninhabited island homes. I am actually saddened for her.

I don't understand the purpose of this article.