Cottage Park Yacht Club is hosting a showing of an award-winning documentary about the last full-time resident of Peddocks Island in Boston Harbor and his fight to save their family home. The event includes an opportunity to meet the film maker, Joe Berkeley.
“The Last Islander” was selected for inclusion in the New Bedford Film Festival and won Best Subject. The film also won Best Short Documentary at the Big Apple Film Festival in NYC. It was recently selected for the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival.
Berkeley was inspired to make the film through his work on “Humans of Nantasket Beach.” It highlights the story of Mike McDevitt, who grew up on the island. Following the death of his sister, Chrissy, is threatening to tear down their family home. The state took the island by eminent domain decades ago, but allowed residents to remain…