Some of my fondest childhood memories are of summer vacations spent at the beach with my family…after a rigorous morning of body surfing and rock collecting, I remember gathering for lunch atop a sandy blanket, hands down the best tasting meal ever! When I happened upon these vintage photos, all of these wonderful memories came flooding back…moments in time as seen through the eyes of the late William Kendall Dingledine ~ Watch Hill, RI, summer of 1946
1946 ~ My parents were teenagers, Harry S. Truman was president of the United States, songs by Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole topped the charts, the musical film Ziegfeld Follies starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland was in movie theaters, Pablo Picasso painted Woman-Flower while Henri Matisse painted L’Asie and Aaron Copland composed his Symphony No. 3…
photography by William Kendall Dingledine
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