[Leica] Closed for the winter - Nantasket Beach

[ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)]

nice pics

even better story

ric


On Dec 28, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Jim Hemenway <jim at hemenway.com> wrote:

> Nantasket Beach in Hull, MA used to look like '50s Coney Island in the 
> Summer... until folks discovered Cape Cod and other far away spots.
> 
> Some folks walk the beach in the winter to find vary large, almost one 
> pound clams.  They look for small holes in the wet sand about the width of 
> their finger, and then dig out the clam from under that hole.
> http://www.hemenway.com/NantasketBeach.jpg
> 
> Since it's owned by the State of Massachusetts, there's no fence as in the 
> nearby town of Cohasset, which I showed here yesterday;
> http://www.hemenway.com/Cohasset-Closed-til-summer.jpg
> 
> 
> My father went to a racetrack with some of his co-workers in 1945... the 
> only time at a track in his entire life.  He won the Daily Double for over 
> $2,000.00, a lot of money back then.
> 
> He arrived home tipsy and tossed $100.00 bills all over the floor of the 
> vestibule, shouting "Look Frances, look Frances"  My mother gathered it 
> all up and put him to bed.
> 
> The next morning she got us kids into the car and dragged him out of the 
> bed with his triumphant hangover.  We went to Cohasset, Nantasket, 
> Hingham, and last Weymouth where they bought a small two story summer 
> cottage, mounted on posts for $1,000.00...
> 
> At any rate, our little neighborhood had a rocky beach which was almost 
> useless at low tide, so often my folks would bring us to nearby Nantasket, 
> which being right on the ocean, had plenty of water when the tide was out.
> 
> Here's our rocky Wessagusset Beach;
> http://www.hemenway.com/WessagussetBeach.jpg
> http://www.hemenway.com/WessagussetBeach-2.jpg
> 
> The Fore River Shipyard where the USS Massachusetts BB-59, and aircraft 
> carriers USS Wasp CV-7 and the USS Bunker HILL CV-17 were built and 
> launched during WWII, is off to the left, so they all would have passed by 
> this beach on their first voyage.
> 
> My folks kept the cottage until they sold it in 1977 after we had all 
> gone... my brother to San Francisco, my sister to nearby Marblehead, MA 
> and myself to Jonesboro, TN.
> 
> We had wonderful times there every summer, learning to swim and to sail 
> and to go camping on the various small islands in Boston harbor.
> 
> Several times a year I drive to the South Shore to visit my old haunts and 
> take photos, these were shot this past October with my Leica R8, Elmarit 
> 19mm and Provia.
> 
> Hope that you enjoyed my little story.
> 
> Jim
> 
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