The Deeper Dig

The Deeper Dig


The star-studded history of a small island in Lake Bomoseen

October 09, 2023

Neshobe Island is a small island located on the Castleton side of Lake Bomoseen. It has two houses, a barn and some surrounding woods, and that’s about it.


In the 1920s and ‘30s, though, the island hosted a who’s who of celebrities and intellectuals most summers. These included Noël Coward, Thornton Wilder, Irving Berlin, Margaret Mitchell, Dorothy Parker, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Walt Disney and Harpo Marx.


Host Sam Gale Rosen toured the island with its current owners and talked about some of its surprisingly star-studded history.