[... The history here is tangled and dense. The land has been built up, torn down, seared by countless plane crashes (two of which remain submerged off the shoreline), and poisoned by radioluminescent paint run-off. Radium-226, cesium-137, and strontium-90 are a few of the contaminants cited in a report by the state in 2011, after a recovered blueprint showed one of the rooms in active use to be labeled “Radium Room”. Despite all this, the land remains and life continues to grow here...]

                                                -excerpt from the photo book Skippy Synchronicity (2022)