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Someday someone will come knocking at the door and offer me a pot of money and I’m going to sell it!’ And darn, that’s exactly what happened! “Richard [Rockefeller] had flown over it and identified it by air, and he had to have it.” Did he come to the door himself? “No, he sent someone over with an offer Verner couldn’t refuse.” T he Reeds moved on in 1982. For the next two years, the Town of Fal- mouth assessors’ department lists 71 Foreside as the property of “Nancy C. An- derson” (Dr. Rockefeller’s first wife). Then it’s “Nancy C. Anderson &,” followed by “Richard G. Rockefeller” beginning in on August 13, 2004. On December 28, 2012, it changes from “Richard G. Rockefeller” to “71 Foreside LLC.” As for the acreage in the early 1980s, “When we owned it, it was 18 acres I think,” Deborah Reed says. “Maybe the rest [of the land] was owned by the Pew family.” Mysteries unfold to more mysteries: “The guest house was built for Mrs. Pew. She lost her sister and her husband in the Bermuda triangle. “I believe the Pews are the family [from the Sun Oil Company (Sunoco)], from Phil- adelphia. The son stopped by one day and asked me if he could go through the house so he could remember his childhood.” And did she invite him in? “Of course,” she laughs. “I love that sort of thing.” Clearly, Verner wasn’t the only charmer in the family. If the son is who we think it is, he is James Edgar Pew. During the 1960s, internet re- cords reveal he was a member of what must have been a ham-radio club as a teenag- er, crossing invisible airwaves with his sig- nals, connecting with other radio intuitives across great distances from this quiet spot at the still center of the world. 10 Today, the world barks at Edgar’s door- step. Edgar Pew is at the top of the funding universe as Vice President and Deputy Gen- eral Counsel at The Sun Products Compa- ny. A Yale grad and Columbia School of Law alumnus, Pew was also General Counsel for Global Drinks at the $4B Mars company. Before that, Clorox. If some undiscovered power drew a fig- ure like Edger Pew back to Maine for a vis- it, you have to wonder, just how enchanting is this slice of land? There’s a word in Span- ish that centers on the power of dearness of place, a place where you feel like your real self: querencia. While writing this story, I’ve pondered over the nostalgic boy who visited the Reeds in the early 1980s. He’s at the top of the “The first reason that moves me [to recommend Federal Estate Tax] is a personal one and has to do with my own children and my grandchildren. I care about their inheritance of course, but I don’t look upon that inheritance as a purely material thing. The quality of the world they grow up in will contribute as much or more to their well-being as any amount of money and possessions that I could bequeath. That is to say if the world I leave them is one of gated communities and growing inequal- ity and misery among the have nots and downward mobility for the middle class and the degraded environment and a rotting social and physical infrastructure, then their inheritance will be a shabby one no matter how much money they get. I don’t see any way around that argument unless people like living in gated communities.” –Dr. Rockefeller, former Chair of the Rockefeller Family Fund, speaking at Responsible Wealth’s Estate Tax Teleconference, 12/12/2012. Conscientious Commentator property photos as reported by zillow online. 9 Photo Key: 1. Aerial of the expansive property. 2. Side view looking out toward Mussell Cove. 3. Airy kitchen with marble counter tops. 4. Confer- ence room with wood paneling 5. Bird’s eye view of the property. 6. Kitchen/dining area. 7. Verner with Mary on the stone wall 8. Verner Reed photo of the view. 9. Yoga studio, also good for ballroom dance lessons! 10. Natural landscaped yard.