SOUND BEACH AND THE AA 
rather than north of it. We note with 
pride the activities of other real estate 
agents in this town. They have been 
good friends of The AA and they de- 
serve a share in the increasing business 
that our efforts have brought here. 
Frequently in our daily paper and 
otherwise we hear of the pressure upon 
the Sound Beach school. We are glad 
of it because we know that the present 
disadvantages mean a larger and better 
Sound Beach, mean that our efforts are 
rapidly bringing forth fruits. 
We, of The A A, recognize that our 
next door neighbor, the golf club, has 
also been a factor in the upgrowth of 
Sound Beach but similar good efforts 
in such other local institutions as our 
high grade Greenwich Inn and other 
summer hotels are circumscribed with- 
in their own clientele. In all these 
eleven years the great, general publici- 
ty agent, larger and more influential 
than all other Sound Beach influences 
combined, has been The Agassiz Asso- 
ciation, its magazine, The Guide to Na- 
ture, and ArcAdiA, its beauty spot. 
Our eleven buildings, some four to 
five acres of ground, our hundreds of 
big trees, small trees, shrubbery, flow- 
ering plants, our miniature formal gar- 
den, our wild Nymphalia, our majestic 
Agassiz Grove, our great experimental 
apiary, our astronomical observatory, 
the best in this part of Connecticut, 
have all along been the show place of 
Sound Beach. Here is where the resi- 
dents bring their friends and rightly 
say with pride, “This is our Ar- 
cAdiA.” 
But how has all this been brought 
about? When that administration 
building was first butted against that 
little lunch wagon post office we did 
not have a half dozen subscribers in 
this community. Now The Guide to 
Nature reaches regularly most of the 
homes that are of literary or public- 
spirited tastes. Large numbers of our 
Sound Beach citizens have been liberal 
contributors to ArcAdiA and its work 
and some score or more have enrolled 
as regular Members. When we think 
of some of those early misunderstand- 
ings, and perhaps some of them were 
justified, we are proud of the cordial 
welcome that Sound Beach has given 
and grateful for it. But Sound Beach 
is growing. Hardly a month goes 
by without bringing new families to 
the place. To these newcomers and 
to all the older residents who have not 
yet come with us we extend a cordial 
invitation to become a Member or at 
least a subscriber. No institution is 
more altruistic and none more gener- 
ously devoted to the public good than 
is ArcAdiA. That fact is generally rec- 
ognized. 
Those were great days when on Sep- 
tember 19, 1909, and two days follow- 
ing, the original buildings were open 
THE SOUND BEACH REAL ESTATE OFFICE AND GARAGE. 
