Recreation

  Outdoor Movies in Omena? What a great idea! But it was not just for the fun of it that the Kimmerly’s and John Putnam decided to try outdoor movies one summer in Omena. Bea and Myles Kimmerly took over Anderson’s store in 1947 and for the next eleven years they lived over the store and worked hard, carrying a little bit of everything, from potatoes to kerosene, catering to everyone from resorters, and cottagers, to migrant workers who came to town to harvest cherries and apples. It was a short season that could “make or break” the store. But… Read More »

There was a fascination with the idea of German escaped prisoners and spies that might be hiding out on Omena Point during both of the World Wars. Mary Louis Vail remembered a play the cottagers of Ingalls Bay put on back then using a blanket strung between two trees behind the Saxon house for the curtain. Elizabeth and Betty Saxon played the leading roles in the spy thriller which took place, of course, on Omena Point. However all that Mary Louis remembered about this play is one line: the heroine is strolling down a path through the woods when she… Read More »

The 6th Fairway of the Omena Golf course looking east toward the sand green Courtesy Omena Historical Society Omena lacked for almost nothing in the 1920’s. It had “swimming, sailing, fishing, motoring, dancing, and tennis” according to an old Sunset Lodge ad. What it did not have was a golf course. Several Omena men wanted more than boats and model T cars to tinker with on warm summer afternoons. So they got permission in 1924 from John Santo, owner of a scrubby pasture between Mougeys Lake and the property line of Smiths Orchard to build one there. After the first… Read More »