Dear Editor:

I read with delight Robert Mitchell's piece about Lusty Lobster. Our family summer home is located next door to "The Pink Cottages." As a young teen in the early 1950s, I remember them being built. We called Mary Harwood and Elizabeth Kiehn "The Pink Ladies." They were very accommodating to all the MacKusick cousins and let us use their float while swimming and boating.

At that time we also spent many an hour fishing on the Lobster Pound pier and caught lots of flounders. We cut and cleaned them right on the pier and our grandmother breaded and fried them for breakfast. 

Alfred, as a young man, lived in the now abandoned house right next to the pound. His dad and mother lived in the white house on the corner across from "The Pink Cottages" where Alfred lived in later years. Alfred was also very good to "us kids" back then, letting us have the run of the pound and pier.

In recent years, before Alfred died, I would walk up our driveway and visit with Alfred and Marlene and remember the "olden days." 

Thanks, Robert Mitchell, for taking me back to my childhood!

Meredith MacKusick

Southport