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	Penikese Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is part of the Elizabeth Islands, which form the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts.
		Penikese was originally home to the Anderson School of Natural History, a predecessor to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.
		The two islands together have a land area of 0.397 km² (98.2 acres) and no permanent population, even though Penikese Island houses a transient population at the Penikese Island School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penikese_Island (185 words)

	Cuttyhunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cuttyhunk Island is the outermost of the Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts, located between Buzzards Bay to the north and Vineyard Sound to the south.
		Penikese Island and Nashawena Island are located to the north and east, respectively.
		It is the fourth largest in area of the Elizabeth Islands and home to the majority of the population of the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuttyhunk (1630 words)

	The tragedy of Penikese Island - The Boston Globe
		Back on Penikese, the buildings that once housed the patients were burned, then dynamited, as if the commonwealth wanted to obliterate the traces of the hospital.
		The most touching remnant of the institution remaining on the island is the melancholy burial ground which began filling up 1912 when Harvard University opened an ill-conceived research project on the island.
		Ken Hartnett co-produced a WGBH documentary on the Penikese hospital in 1994.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/11/26/the_tragedy_of_penikese_island (774 words)

	Strange Disappearance of Nesting Penikese Island Terns.
		The terns have undoubtedly iuhabited the island for many years, and thetr nsts are everywhere in the long grass.
		Penikese Island was the home of the Anderson School of Natural History founded by Louis Agassiz.
		The area of the island is from eighty-four to one hundred acres and is made up of rolling uplands covered largely with grass, but devoid of trees except a struggling group of Scotch pines planted in a sheltered hollow.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/JFO/v003n04/p0173-p0174.html (1408 words)

	New England Botanical Club – Minutes of the 970th Meeting
		Penikese is a 75-acre island owned by the MA Division of Fisheries and Wildlife in the Elizabeth Islands chain off of Cape Cod.
		Currently, it is occupied by the Penikese Island School for troubled boys as well as a large nesting colony of gulls and terns and one of the state’s two nesting colonies of Leach’s storm petrels.
		The principal change in the flora of Penikese appears to be the increasing diversity and dominance of shrubs and vines since the cessation of grazing, with 9 new species established on the island in the 50 years between 1923 and 1973.
	members.aol.com /bccci/page/mins2001/Sep01sum.htm (1072 words)

	Penikese Island outpost needs understanding, state support: 9/6/01
		The island is beautiful and still, except for the sounds of the sea and the wind and the cawing of seabirds.
		On the island, kids are brought face to face with themselves without the distraction of radio or television or alcohol or drugs.
		Penikese needs flexibility in determining when a boy is ready to leave the school; it can't operate within a framework of 90-day sentences.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/09-01/09-06-01/a12op054.htm (861 words)

	Island ideals - The Boston Globe
		If the island appears safe from the developers' predations, it is vulnerable to another threat -- high-speed wireless Internet connections, which are multiplying like guppies.
		These are stealth islands, unfamiliar to many yet unforgettable to all who have laid eyes on them.
		Penikese, owned by the state, has been home to the Penikese Island School, helping troubled teens since 1973.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2004/08/15/island_ideals (914 words)

	Mass Moments: First Lepers Arrive on Penikese Island
		On the west side of the island, or "the other side" as it came to be called, four one-story cottages were built for the lepers.
		By sharing news from the Marconi News Service and communicating with operators on other islands and on passing ships, Archie gave the Penikese lepers their only contact with "ordinary people." When Archie died in 1915, the news was slow to reach the mainland — no one else knew how to use his radio.
		Over the years, the average number of lepers living on the island was 14; the inmate population peaked at 17 in the mid 1910s.
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=332 (1105 words)

	PHOTOS: Cuttyhunk - UrbanPlanet.org
		The islands were under the control of the Dutch in New York until 1691 when they passed by charter into the hands of the English of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
		A sandy barrier beach at the eastern tip of the island is open to the public, courtesy of the Trustees of Reservations, except during piping plover and least tern nesting season.
		Another institution that was part of the Penikese heritage early in the 20th century was a leprosarium that provided patients with a secluded refuge and the company of fellow lepers, some of whom spent most of their lives on Penikese and are buried there.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=1333 (3060 words)

	Endangered Roseate Tern Statistics for Buzzards Bay
		Many of the birds on Ram Island appear to have initially relocated from Bird Island, but with total habitat area increased, the total breeding pair population has been steadily increasing during the past several years, and this trend is expected to continue.
		Penikese Island, at the southern end of the Elizabeth Island chain is the focus of new efforts to expand Roseate Tern habitat.
		To save the island from destruction, and to further manage and protect the tern population, the New Bedford Superfund trustees (managing NRDA funds for that project) have awarded more than a million dollars to protect and preserve Bird Island and implement programs to help Roseate terns expand their population in Buzzards Bay.
	www.buzzardsbay.org /roseates.htm (1152 words)

	Penikese Island School celebrates 30th anniversary: 8/ 16/ 2004
		It is located on Penikese Island, one of the Elizabeth Islands, once a leper colony.
		Although none of the seven teenagers now on the island will be attending the gala, according school officials, some alumni will be in attendance.
		They work with other boys and their mentors on the island 24 hours a day and build strong relationships with each other, according to the pamphlets.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/08-04/08-16-04/a11lo147.htm (304 words)

	Penikese Island School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Penikese Island School (Cat.'99) is the sole inhabitant of a small island 12 miles southwest of Woods Hole, near Cuttyhunk.
		It has only 6-9 students at a time; they are very troubled "last chance" teenage boys, referred by the criminal justice system, the Department of Social Services, or schools.
		It offers stable, supportive relationships between staff and students to ease the transition from the Island back to their environments, and gives graduates a place to return for strength and renewal.
	www.catalogueforphilanthropy.org /cfp/2001/penikese_island_444.htm?print=1 (215 words)

	CharityAmerica.com - Information Causeway
		Penikese is often the safest home they have known, and losing it only adds further insult to injury.
		Penikese estimates Aftercare will cost the school about $75,000 per year, an amount that must be fundraised or borne some other way since such services are not calculated into the school’s state-set tuition.
		Penikese is elated to report that it has been chosen by the Ellis Phillips Foundation to be included in this year’s Catalogue for Philanthropy, a publication promoting philanthropic causes in Massachusetts and New England.
	www.charityamerica.com /charities/infocauseway/CharityNews.cfm?CharityID=112&NewsID=6 (1377 words)

	Cuttyhunk and Penikese Islands, Gosnold, MA Findings in 1996 Buzzards Bay NEP & Coalition's Citizen Monitoring Program
		Penikese Island has a few farm animals and a summer population of less than 20.
		Cuttyhunk Island at Fish Dock and Penikese Island were monitored for oxygen in all four years of our study.
		Still, the mean summertime water transparency for Penikese (1.9 and 2.4 meters in the two years observed) and Cuttyhunk Pond (2.5, 2.9 and 2.1 meters in the three years observed) were far better than most Buzzards bay embayments.
	www.buzzardsbay.org /cutty.htm (809 words)

	Indoor IPM Plan
		This plan describes the pest management practices for indoor areas of the Penikese Island School and clearly states it’s pesticide use policies.
		Penikese Island School is situated on an isalnd which is also a bird sanctuary.
		Because of the small size of the island and its fragile ecosystem, no pesticides are used on the island.
	www.massnrc.org /data/Penikese_Island_School_in_1_2005_493.htm (832 words)

	NPWRC :: Endangered and Threatened Species Recovery Program
		The last documented record for American burying beetles in Massachusetts is a single specimen from Penikese Island in Buzzards Bay during 1947.
		More than 150 American burying beetles have been released on Penikese Island, and while results are preliminary, natural recruitment is occurring and the outlook is optimistic.
		The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife received $1,000 in both FY 1991 and FY 1992 to coordinate the Penikese Island reintroduction.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/wildlife/recoprog/states/species/nicramem.htm (332 words)

	Volvo for life Awards: Toby Lineaweaver
		The Penikese Island School (www.penikese.com) is a small school and home for boys from broken homes, located on tiny Penikese Island 12 miles SW of Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
		Moreover, today 67 percent of Penikese "graduates" who are delinquent and often serious traumatized boys who usually enter the program after involvement with the juvenile courts are arrest-free a year after graduation, and 83 percent have not been incarcerated during that year.
		Thanks to Toby Lineaweaver's efforts as director of this school, Penikese is at its most successful ever, setting new benchmarks in treatment innovation and excellence while keeping true to its founding philosophy and integrity.
	www.volvoforlifeawards.com /cgi-bin/iowa/english/heros/hero/753.html (327 words)

	summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Penikese has always insisted on not being a secure type facility with steel bars, lock downs, etc. Because of this they also reserve the right to refuse to take a boy and to expel a misbehaving resident.
		Once a boy is on the island, he will stay for two months straight with no family contact.
		Because of the primitive nature of the island the chores the residents perform are essential to their and the island's well being.
	www.viscom.ohiou.edu /robsumner/summary.html (343 words)

	Faculty Shack Article
		Penikese was founded on a deserted, windswept island off Cape Cod in 1972, a last chance for boys caught up in the juvenile justice system.
		And it comes back as an echo when Robb tries to speak to his Penikese students in a language they understand, while at the same time trying to correct their every profanity (and there is no shortage of those).
		Robb writes masterfully, often hauntingly, about the island and its place in the natural environment, and about its prior human inhabitants — early farmers, fisherman, and for many years a colony of forsaken lepers, as he and the school’s boys conduct their daily lives amongst artifacts from stone walls to headstones.
	www.facultyshack.com /article_print.php3?idnum=65 (1239 words)

	Study: Endangered Species Act effective
		The beetle once ranged in at least 34 states, but is now absent from 90 percent of its historic range, "one of the most disastrous declines of an insect's range ever to be recorded," says the report.
		Block Island has the last natural population east of the Mississippi, and the program here has helped support a captive breeding facility at the Roger Williams Park Zoo and recovery efforts on Nantucket and Penikese Island.
		Many factors on Block Island probably contribute to the beetle's survival here, Comings says, including lower pesticide use, less light pollution, good habitat - they favor grassland or mature forest - and a lack of competition with scavengers like foxes and raccoons.
	www.blockislandtimes.com /news/2006/0318/Front_Page/004.html (932 words)

	Andover Bulletin - Winter 2001 - Three Visions
		In a literal sense, the route to Penikese Island starts in Woods Hole, Mass., and winds up at the far end of the Elizabeth Islands off Cape Cod.
		The very remoteness of Penikese, once a leper colony, is seen as having a therapeutic impact on its young felons, who face charges ranging from car theft to assault, from drug dealing to breaking and entering.
		Contributing to the feeling of removal from society is the island's lack of electricity, plumbing and central heating.
	www.andover.edu /publications/2001winter_bulletin/threevisions/threevisions5.htm (1002 words)

	The Penikese Connection
		In July of that year, the state of Massachusetts purchased the island of Penikese in Buzzards Bay with the purpose of establishing there a leprosarium - or a colony for Massachusetts people afflicted with the dreaded disease of leprosy.
		They were to take the short sail to the island from Fairhaven shores by means of the "Keepsake." a sloop purchased from Allen H. Wordell of New Bedford.
		Yet, the island store-houses were well stocked with supplies and all necessities for a long period of time.
	www.millicentlibrary.org /penikese.htm (1028 words)

	[No title]
		Their topic was “The Floral History of Penikese Island.” Penikese is a 75-acre island owned by the MA Division of Fisheries and Wildlife in the Elizabeth Islands chain off of Cape Cod.
		In the 1800s sheep, turkeys, and rabbits were raised on the island, and it housed the short-lived Anderson School of Natural History, founded by Louis Agassiz in 1873.
		Currently, 80-90% of the island is covered by woody shrubs and vines but there are no ericads or grapes on the entire island.
	www.rhodora.org /Summaries/2001/Sep01sum.doc (1068 words)

	Woods Hole:Science and Education
		The Laboratory houses a public and research aquarium that is often open to visitors year round and is also home port for two research vessels, the R/V Albatross IV and R/V Delaware II.
		The Penikese Island School is a unique program for troubled teenage boys located on Penikese Island 12 miles southwest of Woods Hole in a beautiful and rustic setting.
		Penikese is also a state bird sanctuary and the nesting site of rare birds.
	www.woodshole.com /science.htm (378 words)

	Characteristics and performance of Common Terns in old and newly-established colonies. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Common Terns breeding at the new colony on Penikese Island were significantly younger (mean age 6.8 yr) and laid later (mean laying date 25 May), had higher productivity (2.2 fledged chicks/pair) and higher chick growth rates than those at the old colony on Bird Island (means 11.7 yr, 20 May, 0.8 chicks/pair, respectively).
		Feeding rates were highest and foraging trip times for all types of prey were shortest at Penikese Island.
		Although productivity of Common Terns at Bird Island was relatively low during the period in which the other two colonies were established (1992-1999), both breeding adults at Bird Island and chicks raised there have been very slow to move to the other colonies, which were colonized mainly by immigrants from outside the region.
	pole-lagunes.org:81 /DocumentPrint.htm?numrec=031931513911330 (259 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Off the coast of Cape Cod, there's a small island, but this is not a vacation hot spot - rather a life jacket for troubled young men caught in choppy seas.
		It seems ironic that an island might be just the place get these boys on the right track.
		Penikese Island School maintains a 2 to 1 student-teacher ratio.
	www2.whdh.com /features/articles_p/specialreport/A398 (562 words)

	Marooned. - 'Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys - A Teacher's Memoir' - book ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Robb sums up that elaborated answer and his own prior knowledge of the Penikese philosophy: "The plan, it seemed, was to give [the boys] a steady diet of wind, suns setting and rising, hard work, wholesome food, open space, some free time, routine, and the presence of reasonably well-adjusted adults.
		His first eighteen months on Penikese Island are rendered with an honesty and a liveliness that make the characters' struggles engage your attention, unsettle you, and leave you wanting to know more than Robb himself can provide.
		Their number is small; only eight are on the island at any given time (with four round-the-clock staffers).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1252/is_7_129/ai_84738856 (993 words)

	Alumni Spotlight: Writer Dan Robb
		One of my first questions for Dan Robb, a professional writer and Middlebury alum from the class of 1987, was what had given him the motivation to teach at a school for juvenile offenders, the Penikese Island School.
		This small, windswept island, located slightly off the coast of Cape Cod, is where Robb lived and taught, along with three other adults.
		During his time at Penikese he maintained a journal, and parts of the memoir are verbatim from the journal, whereas other moments are fleshed out memories, based on a list of daily details that he had quickly jotted down in the journal.
	www.middlebury.edu /academics/ump/majors/english/news/newsletter/2003-2004/four/alumnirobb.htm (1083 words)

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