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As a child, I visited my grandmother’s house in Hampton Bays, Long Island. This was before Long Island became trendy. One of the best sites driving around Long Island was that of The Big Duck. It’s a 20 feet tall building shaped like a duck. My grandmother explained that it originally was used as a store to sell eggs. Then after it closed, it sat on the lot for many years and deteriorated. Finally, the man who owned the land wanted to sell it so he needed to get rid of the duck. Since many people liked it, they petitioned for it to be saved. For awhile the duck sat in Hampton Bays and then later it was moved to Flanders, Long Island. Even seeing it in pictures makes me smile. I love how the duck is decorated at Christmas time.
It must have been an awesome site to see the duck being moved down the road.
Hugs,
marlene
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July 21st, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Nice writing style. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Chris Moran
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:51 am
LAUGH! I love that giant duck.
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
So you teach junior high age too! We must both be either very patient and wonderful…or very insane:) Yeah, I taught 7th grade for my first two years teaching, they are like little itty bitty babies!!!! And I’m a little perturbed,I will be teaching 7th graders with reading levels 3rd grade and below, and these students speak ONLY English, so they aren’t behind because of language barriers. So, I’m a bit worried. What do you teach?
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
thanks!
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