↑現在
ニューヨーク州の南東部にロングアイランドという島があるのはご存知の通りです（文字通り「長い島」）。富裕層の別荘があったりして、ケネディ大統領の別荘があったことは良く知られています。いまはマンハッタンに通勤する労働者が多く住む一大高級住宅街だそうです。彼らのことをロングアイランダーと呼ぶそうです。
ロングアイランド
そのロングアイランドの南にさらに島があるんですね、ファイヤーアイランドという島です、東西に細長い島です。避暑地として知られ、マンハッタンの人たちが夏になると良くやってくる場所なんだそうです。
そう言われると映画「7年目の浮気」の冒頭シーンが思い起こされますね。
1955年の夏、マリリンも来たことがあるんだそうです。リー・ストラスバーグ一家と一緒に来たんだそうです。
マリリンはスーザン・ストラスバーグと部屋をシェアしたそうです。
↓一家がステイしたコテージ
左からリー・ストラスバーグ、息子のジョン・ストラスバーグ、娘のスーザン・ストラスバーグ、妻のポーラ・ストラスバーグ
バドミントンをするマリリン
この動画があります
(YouTube) Rare footage of Marilyn Monroe playing Badminton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHUtjP5GWE0
↑うん？このキャプチャーではノーマン・ロスティンの一家と一緒のとき、という解説になっていて、場所もアマガンセットになってますから、ファイヤーアイランドではないようですねえ(+_+)、少し混乱が生じているようです。こういったところがモンロー学の難しさですねえ苦笑
(ｳｨｷﾍﾟﾃﾞｨｱ) ﾛﾝｸﾞｱｲﾗﾝﾄﾞ
マンハッタンからは橋やトンネルで繋がっている。西からニューヨーク市の一部を構成するブルックリン、クィーンズ。そして独立行政を行うナッソー郡、サフォーク郡となっている。
島の東部はインディアンの居住区であった。
世界史で習う「プリマス植民地」（＝最初の独立13州になってゆく）とは、このあたりのことを言うんですね！
(wikipedia) Fire Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Island
このホソい島がファイヤーアイランド↑
こんなふうに細長い島なんですね
参照記事
ミルトン・グリーンがイタリアに行ってて不在中だったときの出来事だと書いてあります↓。
Marilyn Monroe on Fire Island, 1955
While the Greenes visited Italy in the summer of 1955, the Strasbergs invited Marilyn to their rented house on Fire Island, a long and narrow outer barrier island adjacent to the south shore of Long Island. During summer months, many Manhattan residents escaped from the city to the quiet beaches of Fire Island or Long Island.
The Strasberg family arrived with Marilyn by ferry on Friday afternoons and spent the weekends. As no private vehicles were permitted on the island, Lee led the caravan of Susan, John, and Marilyn pulling little red wagons filled with books and food along the boardwalks to the cottage near Ocean Beach. Under a black umbrella, Paula wore a large hat and sunglasses for protection from the sun. Marilyn ran around barefoot with no makeup and shared a room with Susan. On occasion, she’d cook for the family.
Despite having lived in Southern California all of her life, Marilyn achieved a bronze tan for the first time. James Haspiel noted that her skin glowed the entire summer. Marty Fried, an orphan and former boxer who drove a cab while he studied acting, and who later became a successful director, joined the Strasbergs and Marilyn. They also welcomed Delos Smith, Jr. from Kansas, who later co-starred with Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). Marilyn frequently gave Delos strange gifts, like a makeup mirror or bootie socks from an airplane. With Marty, Marilyn
shared stories of her experiences in foster care, prefacing them by saying, “Please stop me if you’ve heard this one before.”
One morning at dawn, Susan awoke to the sound of sea gulls. She opened her eyes and noticed Marilyn’s bed was empty. Lifting her head from the pillow, Susan saw her standing nude in front of the window. Rather than interrupt Marilyn’s pensive mood, Susan simply watched and admired her friend’s beautiful body from behind. Sensing eyes upon her, Marilyn turned. Susan felt embarrassed and gushed, “Marilyn, I’d give anything to be like you.” “Oh, no, Susie,” Marilyn whispered in horror, her brow furrowed, “Don’t say that. I’d give anything to be like you. People respect you.”
A few weekends later, Marilyn prepared dinner. She began by unwrapping a chicken Paula had brought from a market in the city, and burst into tears at the sight of the carcass. It took the entire Strasberg family to calm her. Afterward, Marilyn explained she had always purchased poultry already butchered into pieces so that she could not recognize it as a bird that had been killed for human consumption.
During weekend escapes to Fire Island, Susan brought along her sketchpads, paints, brushes, and pastels and allowed Marilyn to experiment with the pastels and watercolors.
Marilyn sketched a little African American girl in a raggedy dress with one stocking falling down and titled it “Lonely.” In long, quick strokes, she drew a full-figured female with catlike eyes and wrote beside it: “Life is wonderful, so what the hell.” Susan considered the pieces Marilyn’s self-portraits.
John Strasberg enjoyed confiding in Marilyn during the laidback jaunts to Fire Island. She was one of the best listeners he knew. When Marilyn was able to relax, she changed into a “soft, lovely” woman with a “sweet smile and good, full laugh.” Strasberg most remembered her wide, frightened eyes.
COPYRIGHT 2014 Gary Vitacco-Robles
ICON: The Life, Times & Films of Marilyn Monroe, vol. 1.