For many in the community surrounding Walker’s Point in Kennebunkport, Maine, the former President George H.W. Bush was much more than the leader of the free world — he was their beloved friend and neighbor.
No matter where in the globe former President Bush’s pursuits took him, he circled back every year, as if tethered, to Walker’s Point — the estate his ancestors established more than a century ago on a windy promontory off Kennebunkport.
“It’s where my family comes home, and it’s our anchor to windward,” Bush told reporters on a Kennebunkport golf course in 1991. “It has great meaning in terms of family and we are blessed. The Bush family is blessed.”
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