Updated May 9, 2011.
September 17 2010. Comment Janet Grimstead Simons: The privately owned hunting lodge was built in 1920 by Ogden R. Reid, owner and editor of The New York Herald Tribune. The lodge overlooks the Currituck Sound where it meets the North Landing River. The original lodge was destroyed by fire in 1958, but a new building was constructed soon afterwards. The Flyway is now owned by Ogden R. Reid family of New York. Reid was publisher of the former New York Herald Tribune and the ambassador to Israel during the John F. Kennedy administration.
Russell Harvey Grimstead was caretaker and guide until his death in 1983. He was born on Knotts Island in 1924, served in the Coast Guard and Navy during World War II. He served with his brother William on the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter George M. Bibb. Following WW II, he became the caretaker and guide at the Flyway Club. Robert Halstead today serves as caretaker and the lodge is used as a vacation home by the Reid family.
May 9, 2011. Janet Simons: My cousin (Beverley Dixon Rainey) and I worked with our other cousins, Linda and Butch Grimstead, during high school holidays at Flyway Club during the early 1960's. My Uncle Harvey and Aunt Rosa were caretakers then. Beverley and I earned our first "real" money: cleaning, cooking and helping with the Reid children. Daddy took Grandma Grimstead, Aunt Frances, Beverley and I downtown Norfolk shopping. We each purchased a camel hair coat with a raccoon collar and brown high-heel shoes! We were "styling!" Beverley later also went to New York during summers to work at the Reid's home in New York.
October 27, 2010. ROBERT HALSTEAD obituary