2022 Swimsuit Edition at Nutfield Genealogy

My great grandparents, Etta and Arthur Hitchings,
1930s, Wingaersheek Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts

We're having a heatwave!  For generations my family and yours have cooled off swimming! Here are some vintage photos from the family albums showing ancestors and relatives in swim suits and bathing costumes.

Gordon Hitchings and a friend, 1920s
(my Grandmother's brother) Hamilton, Massachusetts 

1947, my Dad and his friends
Misery Island off Beverly, Massachusetts

My Mom, Mexico, 1959

1965 Lynch Park, Beverly, Massachusetts
Me, Mom and little sister

1960s Crooked River, Maine
My aunt and uncle's camp

1974 Holden, Massachusetts Public Pool
on the right my sister and I

August 1975 heatwave in Holden, Massachusetts
My Dad and a neighbor with lawn chairs and the sprinkler

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "2022 Swimsuit Edition at Nutfield Genealogy", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 4, 2022, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/08/2022-swimsuit-edition-at-nutfield.html: accessed [access date]). 

2012 Annual Swimsuit Edition of Genealogy

This post was submitted for the 5th Annual Swimsuit Carnival of Genealogy blog posts.  To see all the blog posts submitted for the Swimsuit issue, click on this link: http://creativegene.blogspot.com/2012/07/carnival-of-genealogy-119th-edition.html 


These are all photos taken at Misery Island, which is off the coast of Beverly, Massachusetts.  My Dad grew up in Beverly (and I did, too, in the same house!) and these photos reflect lazy days of swimming at Misery Island in the 1940s.  My Dad, Jack Wilkinson (1934 - 2002) was about thirteen years old in these photos.

front of the photo

The back of the photo lists all the boys:
Jack Wilkinson (my Dad), Jim Hoar
Bruce Miller, Dick Woodbury, Tom Kelly
1947 or 48

"The crowd at Misery Is.
July 1949

My Dad and his dog Jeff

I blogged about Misery Island last year at this link:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/06/wordless-wednesday-swimming-at-misery.html

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Carnival of Genealogy- Annual Swimsuit Edition

Swimsuits?

I wanted to participate in the Annual Swimsuit Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy for the past two years, but my ancestors were pretty Puritan when it came to the beach.  We lived on Massachusett's North Shore when I was growing up, right where my ancestors landed in the 1620s and 1630s in Beverly, near beautiful beaches in Gloucester, Ipswich and Manchester-by-the-Sea.  But no one has any photos of my grandparents or their ancestors in bathing costumes.  More typically, when they went to the beach they looked like the photo to the right (my great grandparents Arthur and Etta Hitchings in the 1930s at Gloucester, Massachusetts).  They are covered head to toe with clothes!

And so you will have to do with a photo taken in 1965, at Lynch Park beach in Beverly, Massachusetts of yours truly, and my baby sister and Mom (who isn't even in a bathing suit!)   I think this photo is the last time I was ever in a bikini!

This post was submitted for the 4th Annual Swimsuit Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy at http://creativegene.blogspot.com/     The permanant link for the 4th Annual Swimsuit Edition is
http://creativegene.blogspot.com/2011/06/carnival-of-genealogy-106th-edition.html

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Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo