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     machines raised great clouds of dust that traveled for miles, ruined the | 
     
     freshly laundered clothing on the clotheslines, and caused much injury to 
     
     the health of farm animals and damage to crops. For an.:;hour or two after 
     
     a fleet of cars had passed down the Tryon Road, following each docking of 
     
     the car ferry at Borden, the area, in the words of a New Haven farmer, | 
     
     "was like the Lust Bowl in a high wind." Highway reconstruction began in 
     
     the early 1930's. Today, the Island roads are the equal of the best in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     nation, but many complain -- with good reason -- that they have been turned 
     
    
   
   
    
     into automobile raceways. 
     
     Saber