" —------------------------------------_———>— ^ But when you burn it all, Very little room it takes. I guess this is all I have to say, I hope this takes in it all, If you are ever through I would appreciate your call. The Island is running out of tourists, Last year a lot of people came, Just ask for the Baltic Dump, And Amy Bryanton is my name. - SECOND BEST PLACE ON THE ISLAND — THE DUMP WITH A GUEST BOOK by Claire Vreeland August, 1977 of <TnRINCv If°WARD ISLAN° ~ "What Can l *ive ya?" A^ Canton off SI uY g«etS m° St Visit0rS t0 the Refuse DisP°sal area with this MB 1 ^e offered us on a sparkling, blue and gold August day was a blue Rubbermaid sink mat, with a miniscule tear in one corner. "It could be mended with a bit of tape," she suggested. Pushing a yellow construction worker s helmet back from her forehead, Amy revealed more of her genial face, framed with white hair. Walking along the perimeter of the land fill excavation, she picked up a blue dish-drainer. "Here you are. This goes with it, that makes it better." We declined her kind offer, telling her we had promised one another not to till our small car with things on the return trip to Connecticut . "Too bad it wouldn't take up much room." Amy then took us on a tour of the area, the cleanest landfill operation we had ever seen. Amy was concerned about the size of the trench excavated a couple of weeks prior to our visit "It's too wide. I kept telling them. We have to be careful of our land. Pretty soon were won't be any more land, less we're careful how we use it " The ex¬ cavation was extraordinarily wide, because of an encampment of 17 000 Boy Scouts in the area during July. What with Amy's careful sorting and ourning, only a small section of the area had been filled when the Boy scouts had left. "We won't use that much area in three months," Amy told us. bne was concerned about conservation of earth and water, and with the aesthetics at the land fill area. Amy posed for her picture in a tiny park she had created near the en¬ trance to the dump. Red, white and blue painted bleach containers uecorated with flowers hung from an umbrella tree created from a hay rake ihe umbrella tree, a small lemon tree, and a decorated artificial Christmas 35