Enemy Planes! mother, Dorothy Kirby, remembered that she and Lois Sullivan, from her 1942 graduating class, used to go to a little ‘outhouse’-size building, in the field area behind the Trappe School, with binoculars as spotters. So maybe there were many of these little buildings where people also went on a voluntary basis, or the school one was to get the students involved in the war effort.” Fortunately, the war ended successfully for our side and the obser vation posts were abandoned and mostly forgotten, except, in one instance at least, for a yellowing newspaper clipping in a drawer of a side table next to the sofa in my
grandparents’ living room, decades after they’d sold Ingleside. W hen Ing le side c a me on t he market in 2009, I attended an open house there and got permission from the realtor (who maybe kinda sorta somehow got the impression that I was there to buy the place) to climb three flights of steps up to the widow’s walk where my grandparents had proudly stood guard so many years ago. Ingleside is a formidable and beautiful house, one of the half-dozen or so manor houses built by the Hughlett family. William R. Hughlett was rolling in money in the pre-Civil War economy. He ran a shipyard at nearby Jamaica Point, and every time one of his children got married, he gave them a farm
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