My "Out and About" piece got me thinking about some old family photographs I scanned a few years ago. We've always been a beach family. In the twenties my great-great grandmother owned several hotels in a town called Wildwood on New Jersey's Cape May. These photos come from the scrapbook of her daughter Maud, she's the curly haired girl featured in most of them, Granny is wearing her hair in bun. According to family gossip Maud was a devil-may-care flapper girl. Her skimpy swimsuits scandalized the family, as did the rumors that she flirted with sailors and girls alike. Maud lived a very colorful life and these photos are a but a portion of the pile we inherited.
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