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Subject: [Leica] Closed for the winter - Nantasket Beach
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 10:19:56 +0100
References: <50DE4910.4060505@hemenway.com> <AF8C8EC5-ACF7-42AB-A958-F36452BFCA9D@embarqmail.com>

I like the story a lot too :-)

the beach looks a little sad in this light, but must be gorgeous in  
the warmer season :-)

Amiti?s
Philippe

Le 29 d?c. 12 ? 03:09, Ric Carter a ?crit :

> 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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