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...Stonington, Conn...
Sheila J. Dolan North Stonington, Conn...
...like the death of a favorite grandmother. A season whose life was beautiful and full and gave everyone from Southie to Stonington, Connecticut to Groton to Charlestown, New Hampshire a year they will reminisce about until old Fenway calls them back again...
...reader first meets Peter as he returns after several years' absence to the New England village of Rocky Port to spend the summer with his twice-divorced mother. It is 1964. The village, which seems hard by Stonington, Conn., where Mary McCarthy once lived, is much changed. In vain his mother, who believes in old-fashioned cookery, harangues local grocers for tapioca and fresh fish; she also scours local shops for real jelly glasses. She regards the changes only as part of a dreadful decline in traditional American virtues. What his mother mourns, Peter misses too. But he suspects...
...variety is dazzling, further enhanced by the almost universal adoption of the braless look. Manhattan's lively East Village is another showcase for the undershirt underground, but the shirts are no longer the exclusive property of the kids. In the swank summer resorts of East Hampton, Southampton and Stonington, Captain America shirts are showing up. At the America's Cup races in Newport, Mrs. David Rockefeller Jr. wore a gold Superman tank top; Brooke Hayward, Jill St. John and Raquel Welch (with an explosive "POW" on her version) are into the undershirt scene...