Penikese Island lies off the coast of Massachusetts near Buzzards Bay. It is part of the Elizabeth Islands, which form the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts. Formerly home to a leper colony, today it houses a reform school.
Penikese provides sea and wind, the canopy of sky and clouds and stars, and the incessant daytime cawing of seabirds, the true owners of the island.
Penikese is about survival and to survive is to cope with the hard realities of life without electricity, running water or automatic central heating.
But Penikese was hardly a hopeful place a hundred years ago and it would be a stretch to call it that today, given the depth of the problems students at the school are facing today.
Penikese Island lies off the coast of Massachusetts, United States, in Buzzards Bay.
The United States Census Bureau lumps Penikese along with the smaller nearby Gull Island to the east into Block 6043, Block Group 6, Census Tract 2004 of Dukes County, Massachusetts.
The two islands together have a land area of 0.397 km² (98.2 acres) and no permanent population, even though Penikese Island houses a transient population at the Penikese Island School.
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