Island Boy

“Whenever the Six Brothers entered the bay on a return voyage, when the Egg Rock came into view, and beyond it Tibbetts Island, Matthias’s heart always skipped a beat. ‘One day’, Matthias told himself, ‘I will return home.’”

Before Pa cleared the land, built a house, and brought his little family there to live, it was just an island. Then it became a home, and that is where little Matthias Tibbetts was born and raised. It was a good life, but Matthias wondered what lay in the world beyond, and “sooner than anyone expected,” he sailed away on the Six Brothers. Years passed as he sailed up and down the coast, “but despite the bustle and wonders of the cities, Matthias could not forget the island.”

This heartwarming story captures the ties of home and family.