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Custer's Head Road

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                                            Custer's Head Road, oil on canvas, 40" x 90", Steven Rhude Other than me, who happens to be absent from the picture (because I'm busy contriving it), there is a woman with a standard bucket containing god knows what. The only object to connect us with in 2023 would be the power pole providing electricity to the fishing sheds. Other than that, it could be 1688 when the village was destroyed during the King Williams war. Later the missionaries came and, predictably spread the gospel .The Salvation Army also arrived and built a citadel there. The village remained small and probably peaked at around seven hundred and fifty people. Today it's more like three hundred or so. But what we should be asking is what really constitutes a community beyond resources, time lines, religious and societal conventions?    Timeline 1697 – Abbe Baudoin reports that there are four houses at Hant's Harbour. 1801 – Five families are listed a