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"The Snook" is the name given by locals to the guest cottage on the Roosevelt Estate. It was next to James Roosevelt's rose gardens and just down hill from the Henry Miller place. It is far, far from Mordor. I lived here for one year.

Here are two views from the interior of the Snook when I lived there:





And from the deck:







Sitting in the place on the Roosevelt estate that Mary called the Ansel Adams spot, because Ansel Adams was reputed to have placed his camera on this spot to take a picture up the coast:



My cousin Roger, Tim Wren and myself at Nepenthe. Nepenthe is about a mile and a half north of Partington Ridge on Highway 1 :

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