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• On another beach

  August 21, 2009

  •     I was 5 when this snapshot of my mother was taken. That was just 69 years ago. We lived in a white cottage just off the beach.You had to feed coins into the stove to make it work. That was a drag on our livelihood because my mother made "Mrs. Horner's famous Key Lime Pies" to help with the finances.This was Florida. My father, who I think took this picture, was still ...
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• Banished from the beach

  August 17, 2009

  • This photo was taken by a New York Daily News photographer when my mother, Beth Hall Horner, was ejected from the beach for immodest attire.My father told me that the photo appeared on the front page of the Daily News. Because the photo isn't dated I can't go back to the old newspapers to look it up. I'd love to see the page and the caption.For his part the officer doesn't look like he's about to ...
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• Banished from the beach

  August 17, 2009

  • This photo was taken by a New York Daily News photographer when my mother, Beth Hall Horner, was ejected from the beach for immodest attire.My father told me that the photo appeared on the front page of the Daily News. Because the photo isn't dated I can't go back to the old newspapers to look it up. I'd love to see the page and the caption.For his part the officer doesn't look like he's about to ...
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• Banished from the beach

  August 17, 2009

  • This photo was taken by a New York Daily News photographer when my mother, Beth Hall Horner, was ejected from the beach for immodest attire.My father told me that the photo appeared on the front page of the Daily News. Because the photo isn't dated I can't go back to the old newspapers to look it up. I'd love to see the page and the caption.For his part the officer doesn't look like he's about to ...
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• Painting under the influence

  August 12, 2009

  • The mountains in this photo look like a prone woman. I guess I'm always seeing women in mountains.  I was taking a walk along Pontoosuc Lake in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the other night when I took this shot. It's not just the woman, and the sky that I like. I have an attachment to that railing. The state was going to put up a concrete wall when they rebuilt this section of Route 7 in the ...
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