August Reekast was a very well know lobster fisherman who lived and worked his trade off Outer Brewster Island; also was a boat Captain for Julia Arthur. Ms. Arthur (an actress in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s) and her husband Benjamin P. Cheney were the owner’s of Calf Island and a beautiful Mansion which overlooked the Harbor.

In 1908 the Reekast family lost everything in the Chelsea Massachusetts Fire, having no other option, moved their eight children to the Islands where they rebuilt their lives.

In the mid 1900s their son Gus Reekast became caretaker of Calf Island where he and his wife raised their daughter Augusta (Periwinkle).  In the early 1920’s the Reekast family relocated to N. Weymouth Mass., their home was located on Hunts Hill.

During the depression, Ida (Reekast) Knoll and Edmund Knoll brought their two children Christine (knoll) Walsh and Rosemary (Knoll) Thibodeau to live on Great Brewster.